I invite @acm.org to review their articles with Tortured Phrases dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p... (not the first time I'm doing so, here and on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...)

In fact, ACM is hiding behind *its own policies* that *it decided by and for itself*. Nobody is forcing ACM to refuse to comply with COPE recommendations, and publishers who do comply see better results in practice. Nothing prevents ACM from updating its policies to match other publishers'.

Just noticed that @acm.org's list of "charged terminology" now includes "binary classification" because it may be charged for "persons who identify either as binary or as non-binary", a class of people that presumably includes everyone. 🤔

this jailbreak shit too easy even on gpt-5 (i didn't even bother correcting any typos)

A CRO has been scamming academic and industry labs in the US with fraudulent data that has been published in Nature and other high impact journals. Leonid has written a great piece on my findings: forbetterscience.com/2025/09/22/i...

Swiss far-right propaganda vs Switzerland in the real world

Whichever YouTube employee decided to enable AI translations and dubs by default for videos not in the user's language apparently doesn't know people can speak more than 1 language. US folks not beating the stereotypes.

ACM is not short of a bob or two, but seem oblivious to the reputational damage that this kind of response creates

PubPeer: pretty clear duplicate publication going on here. Probably should do something. *lots of time passes* ACM: oh hi! you didn't submit the right form. Best recent example of the complete lack of proactivity you can see in research integrity. Just *chef's kiss*.

In which @acm.org acknowledges blatant plagiarism and... Decides not to do anything unless someone copies that information into the right form. pubpeer.com/publications...

TIL computer scientists aren't the only ones giving cute names to discoveries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu...

Fun fact of the day: there's a small town in Switzerland called "Fully", population <10k. According to LinkedIn, there are hundreds of job openings there. Presumably because people wrote "fully remote" in the wrong field.

This is rich: following the publication of our study, ARDA has changed its website to include a pop-up disclaimer that they do not guarantee journal publications.

Even by paper mill standards this abstract is quite something.

🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...

More IEEE-published oddities for your enjoyment or consternation. Zoo-inspired algorithms, a Chinese paper about integrating "ideological and political education" in a software testing course with AI, and a take on feminism in Africa from a conference on "AI in cybersecurity".

Fun titles from the @ieeexplore.bsky.social catalog. And by "fun" I mean "depressing given the implications for the peer review thoroughness at IEEE-published conferences". But I prefer laughing to crying, so laugh with me.

Weather report: baaaaaa. 🐑

Academics (including the journal’s founder) told Wiley to pound sand, started an open access journal, and Wiley just surrendered. I think more academics should tell academic publishers to pound sand. They are vampires.

How not to send recruiting emails, courtesy of Outlier AI: - use "Action Required" in the title for a cold email - send to many folks in To: instead of Bcc:, disclosing addresses - invite someone who deleted their account there when their terms of use ban signing up after a deletion

In which a Springer executive bravely speaks up on behalf of the underdog & defends the papermills who want to go on papermilling.

It goes without saying that these people are incredibly useful for the right wing in Israel because they give a pretty compelling case that it doesn't actually matter what Israel does, so they might as well go in hard.

Why kerning matters

I tried Outlier.AI and failed their "assessment" for... my native language/dialect. 😂

One reason I'm not optimistic on anti-Trump "resistance" is how little they know about the rest of the world. You'd think after so many years they'd have bothered to check.

I knew it was only a matter of time before we found out Pete Hegseth stopped weapons shipment to Ukraine on his own - for the third time this year. www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...

Remember that this terror is motivated by a plainly and simply childish incentive. They have already been halted in their summer offensive. They cannot beat the army, so they attack the disabled, the children, the old and those who work to keep everyone fed.

We investigated, reported and it we're very happy it had an effect! Collaboration with @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social and @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social !

The journal Bioengineered is going to pause all submissions and are currently investigating over 1000 papers they've published in the past. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We could only dream of this outcome after our investigation: arxiv.org/abs/2503.21267 1/2

US universities aren't governed seriously, episode # 42938475: Columbia's president wanted to replace a Jewish board member with a token Arab or Middle Eastern one. While forgetting said board member is Iranian. 🤦🤦🤦 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/n...

i don’t mean “fuck these people”, i mean “i cannot help people who refuse to be helped”, and they’re about to find out where the latter is going to get them, and a lot of people who don’t deserve it will suffer

Hey @princetonupress.bsky.social - I think it's a great idea to share the story of Xinjiang in English with the world. You got off to a great start when you published Sean Roberts's book The War on the Uyghurs - maybe continue in that vein: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

AI DETECTORS DO NOT AND FUNDAMENTALLY CANNOT WORK. Only models designed to be detected can be, and no such model is in mainstream use. We should all be screaming this on every rooftop until nobody uses nor pays for these heuristic-based tools anymore.

“I wanted to contribute to the stray cat adoption fund not the coyote attack prevention fund!”

IEEE now publishes nonsense not only in obscure venues but in their supposedly reputable "IoT" journal. Great. pubpeer.com/publications...

Here's the new @acm.org "demographic survey". It's funny how US-based folks assume their worldview is universal. Surely Koreans thinks they share a "race" with the Japanese, right? And South Americans think of themselves as "latinx". Also Central America + the Caribbean are the same somehow?

As headlines remain focused on Iran and Israel, Russia escalates its genocidal war—targeting apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and shelters. Despite much of the media moving on, the attacks are intensifying and growing more brazen by the day.

A million times this. Such people then hide behind the nearest "empathetic" person who doesn't realize that extreme empathy is also known as gullibility.

Good example of why publishers need to use automated tools to detect some forms of fraud. Volunteers using Ctrl+F and following DOIs doesn't scale.

the problem is that @acm.org seems to be unable or unwilling to tackle the scourge of paper mills, which makes these stats on citations etc dubious solalpirelli.github.io/2023/01/25/t...

Let me put it this way: No German organization will ever adopt the slogan "Unser Kampf", though "Our Struggle" would be a perfectly anodyne English mantra. Because some words have echoes based on their historical usage by others whether the speaker wants them to or not.

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

If you're reviewing for Wiley, stop. A publisher who explicitly refuses to even send the outcome of a registered report for review is not a serious publisher. This is nuts.

"The American regime today arrested a member of the legislative opposition, after declaring it would 'liberate' that senator's province from opposition control using the armed forces"

Some scientists claim scientific sleuths can manipulate journals into retracting (their) papers. Here's a more realistic scenario: the journal ignores a ton of concrete problems, including the authors refusing to share data, and declares they won't do a thing. www.pubpeer.com/publications...

US left: who cares about the law if it's unfair, just break it, it's the right thing to do Also US left: why is Donald Trump breaking the law? why doesn't the electorate see it's bad to do that? :(

Google's AI overview is happy to help even non-humans. This works even if you claim to be a fictional creatures from D&D or Pokémon!

Absolute unit of a spring onion. Yay for supermarket prices by unit. (Banana for scale)