Report: Unscrupulous scientists are using AI to flood journal editors with junk letters, inflating publishing tallies as a result

"If academic publishing is integral to institutional autonomy, what happens when this ecosystem is repeatedly undermined, financially and politically?"

Publishers use new book label to tout human creativity as a selling point.

We hope to see you at #MLA26! The online program is live, registration is open, and more information is available at www.mla.org/Events/2026-....

"US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of expression is at best uncertain."

Typos, tricks and misprints Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology by Arika Okrent aeon.co/essays/why-i... English language -- Dictionaries at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #dictionaries

For funsies: A history of the Latin alphabet courtesy of UCLAB's ARETE project: uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

"When dominant language excludes or flattens, new forms emerge."

Womp, womp: The trombone emoji can’t arrive soon enough for my husband’s terrible dad jokes. Here’s a peek at some of the other emojis expected to debut next month.

Check out @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's advice essay on what scholarly writers should focus on when preparing to send their work to publishers in @insidehighered.com, and learn more in her new book Make Your Manuscript Work (out now!)

Suspicious edits, and even entirely new articles, with errors, made-up citations and other hallmarks of AI-generated writing keep popping up on Wikipedia. The site’s stewards are now toiling for long hours to find them and stamp them out.

Those who read our style tips often are good communicators. Does that mean if you frequently read our tips, you are a good communicator? Or that those who read our tips are often good communicators? Can both be true? Of course. But be careful where you place a modifier if it can lead to confusion.

Should ideas be owned like physical objects, or are these property rights different? How can societies encourage innovation while making ideas accessible for the greater good? Watch this animated TED-Ed short examining philosophers’ perspectives on intellectual property rights through history

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