When we talk about the rate of adoption of technologies and compare AI to smartphones or the internet, I don’t recall large swathes of the population absolutely hating either. AI is something different.

"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!

ArXiv making me check all my citations because of woke.

Can't wait to see how arXiv plans to police this.

Ouch.

Here's a stellar example of holding authors accountable for hallucinated references. LLMs may have hallucinated, but LLMs didn't submit a paper with hallucinated references. The authors did. Kudos to ACL leaders for taking this action even after original acceptance. 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/

Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake? A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.

New from me today in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social , a look at the many workarounds researchers take to get what they need out of publishing their results, regardless of their funder's agenda scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/14/a...

Dr. Johnson knew three centuries ago

“Both companies are privately held and do not publish their financials”. Worth recalling that for all the ire directed at Elsevier (and now Nature) for profits that go to shareholders, that’s probably us (via pension funds). Not true of privately held publishers… 2/2

The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on single-cell CRISPR barcoding, Drosophila immune response enhancers, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...

ON THE COVER: Excitable neurons plugging into and controlling tumor cells. Artwork by Sheena Gingerich. In this issue, David Gutmann and colleagues model pediatric brain tumors using organoids to identify dependencies. Learn more here: ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/9-10/638.full

people ask "ryan why do you get to the airport so early" and the answer is simple: i can stress at home or i can relax at the airport. easy peasy. plus at home there's nobody watching a video without headphones disturbing everyone else, and at the airport there is, and i get to judge them

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The Mets are the Knicks’ portrait of Dorian Gray.

Yes, I reacted to the phrase “producing a piece of PhD-level research in an hour or so, with no serious mathematical input from me” - because the main “product” of a PhD is the RESEARCHER not the articles.

Hurray for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social & @lyconrad.bsky.social in particular! Who doesn't love a good style guide!? 👏👏👏

“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts. By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”. [futurism.com]

Note: All @cshlpress.bsky.social research journals (Genome Research, Genes & Development, RNA, Learning & Memory) provide no-cost NIH policy compliance for funded authors.

Sampling suggests that approximately 100% of the increase is AI:

Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

Well, well. A science publisher (Elsevier) decides to sue an AI firm over copyright infringement. Lawsuit with other publishers (Macmillan, Hachette etc.) vs Meta for training Llama models on copyrighted content, in Common Crawl and then from Sci-Hub among others. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Major publishers sued Meta for pirating millions of books to train its AI qz.com/publishers-m...

You can make a long, LONG list of technologies that were supposed to make stupid brick and mortar institutions of higher education obsolete. Printed books. Radio. Television. Personal computers. CD-ROMs. The Internet. MOOCs. Write the story once, and you can re-use it every five years!

Our May issue is here! Read about maternal behavior impact on offspring neurogenesis, nanoscale structure and energetics in mitochondria, actin flow regulating cytokinesis, plus much more: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/5

🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! 🚨 New Research articles online now at Genes & Development! Also in this issue, an Outlook on target-directed miRNA degradation, and a Review discussing the recent advances in optogenetics! Click here to learn more: ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/9-10.toc

Still my favorite imaging protocol -- A revolutionary new microscopy technique makes it possible to achieve subatomic resolution levels with standard copying machines. improbable.com/airchives/pa...

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social The cover image highlights the work by Salazar-Vidal et al., who provide a practical framework for staging #maize plants throughout the season, enabling meaningful comparisons between different lines and populations. 🌽 ⬇️Links below

Been training for this moment my whole life.

Ask Jeeves has officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending its 25-year run

Just use CSH Protocols 😊

Some experiments are really hard to do scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/05/24/r...

This is an important point and I'd argue there's further complexity. A paper is a narrative that essentially says "We have a scientific claim/idea about the world and here is a series of connected data to support our claim". The data =/ the paper. The paper > the data. The data > the paper. 1/n

A paper is not just its underlying data but also the narrative the authors have decided to use. How authors interpret and explain their results is important. Different readers can then read and interpret differently, but that initial narrative is relevant.

I’m just floored by the contempt than many in tech have for the humanities. They don’t even try to understand or appreciate what it is we do before arrogantly assuming they can do it better with a non-human machine.

We're pleased to feature a recent Special Issue of RNA showcasing advances in system-level RNA biology—from epitranscriptomics and RNA damage to deep learning–driven structure prediction and beyond. A strong snapshot of where the field is heading. bit.ly/RNAspecialis...

From the ongoing and I must emphasize *super valuable* series on Reproducibility from my colleagues at @jcb.org doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

I still remember a conversation years ago with a colleague who was doing a project on the history of archives. Me: are you doing a database? Him: no, we're doing a book so it will last

Stephin is extremely honored to be included in the @nytimes.com list of the 30 Greatest Living Americans Songwriters. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vW3zKS #nyt30greatest #americansongwriters

Even though “virtually no one thinks open access is a bad idea in principle, it is becoming clear that the APC model creates more problems than it solves, and that non-APC OA models tend to be unsustainable”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/loss-fa...

'In a social media post on 27 April, UKRI said that from 2028 to 2029, “funding will focus on fully open-access publishing and will no longer be available for hybrid open access”.' If releasing such major changes on LinkedIn is @ukri.org 's new comms policy, we need to talk about 'open' comms.

I'm very afraid to read this piece because it might not say that the reason to write a lit review is to digest and ultimately assess your field-- and the reason to read one is to know how a colleague worked through that process and how they came to conclusions that may or may not reflect your own.

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Bad idea, as this creates selection bias for those researchers better connected to journal editors (most likely those from well-known Global North labs and those with enough funding to attend meetings), and grants editors even more power in who gets hired.

A vast new online resource: The Velvet Underground Myth Archive: A free, publicly accessible database of hundreds of rare press clippings documenting the rise of The Velvet Underground, methodically organised month by month. Enjoy thevelvetundergroundmyth.com #thevelvetunderground

I think we, at CSH Protocols, should do more to cover areas within the fields of #ecology and #evolution. What areas do you think would benefit from a curated, high-quality collection of methods-centered reviews and step-by-step protocols? I'd be happy to explore and discuss!

This is why I have trouble when people ask me "Why isn't your impact factor higher?" Because we don't do this kind of garbage???