“The result is a horror show for US science research. Not only is peer review made a secondary consideration, but the new rules would allow any federal agency to cancel any grant at any time based on the vague assertion that it isn’t in the “national interest.” 1/2 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

GPT-5.5 Pro is the model producing many of the novel math proofs, and also the model you should have reviewing any technical or academic paper for flaws.

PERFECT STORM: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Submissions are up, mostly written by AI. The peer reviews are also written by AI. This is clearly demonstrated in universities involved in a particular ranking. So here we go again. Thanks university rankings - remind us again what they are good for?

In other news: the number of AI-assisted grants being submitted is already overwhelming funding agencies. We need a new model of research assessment. It's becoming difficult to tell who's actually got intellectual ownership/command of whatever's written on the pages. bsky.app/profile/time...

Best evidence yet that LLMs can match human capabilities in doing science.

"Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, submissions to Organization Science have risen 42%, roughly double the bump the journal saw during COVID. The editors attribute nearly all of that increase to AI. Submissions judged to be human-only actually declined."

Cactus Communications Supports the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity with Peer Review Assistive Checks

Something clicked for me while reading this @scottsantens.com piece: This is why I value getting my summers off so much as a teacher. I can work on my art projects. I can play games with my kids. I can see my family. All the stuff that gets squeezed to the margins when I'm earning a living. UBI now!

Cactus Communications Integrates Imagetwin to Advance Image Integrity Across Research Workflows

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

The number of submissions will only increase and I believe their solution is a poor fix. But my friends and I disagree about better solutions. To make resubmission intervals longer for people who get a low rating acts as a penalty for low ratings. If these ratings reliably evaluated quality: good.

Chris Gaffe: “Scientific Reports has an in-house team who are dedicated to ensuring that the journal operates with integrity. They are an excellent team who care enormously about the journal and the research it publishes." "oxygenaonol", "cen̈rifiugation", "Cos aspe-9" pubpeer.com/publications...

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

Anyone else frustrated with Claude’s search functionality for chats? Only seem to search on chat title, not the body. Is there a simple fix or do I have to export my chats to something else?

2026 basically

This piece really nails how I have been feeling in the last couple of weeks. fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...

Can you justify using (and paying for) a service that generates a ready to submit paper with just one prompt? 🧵

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

Greenland and Denmark should sell it to China.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Wow Amazon prime video sucks. I pay for Prime, and then I get to watch stuff packed with adverts?

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

The importance of scientific sleuthing (although, why was this paper published at all?) Apple Cider Vinegar For Weight Loss - A Study That May Never Have Happened At All open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

EASE have contributed to an @editageinsights.bsky.social article for #OpenAccessWeek Read comments from @ivagaeditor.bsky.social, @dnjournals.bsky.social @roohighosh.bsky.social @rachinams.bsky.social and @hoohar.bsky.social on the meanings of community impact www.editage.com/insights/ope...

Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence They consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook. How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't? scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

My co-author Lennart Meincke had GPT-5 Pro look over a paper before we submitted it to a journal. It caught a tiny error in the citations that we missed (apparently it estimated the volume) A big difference from constant hallucinations, especially GPT5 Pro; though not error-free.

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

This is why I say patience is key when working with language models. If the output is directionally correct, or even just wrong in an interesting way, let it keep iterating and see where it goes! scottaaronson.blog?p=9183

We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/

#PredatoryJournals just look different. But the biggest difference in #GraphicDesign was that PDFs from legitimate journals were much more likely to be made with Adobe apps. PDFs from predatory journals much more likely to be made with Microsoft Office. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

Partnership Alert! Cactus Communications has partnered with CSIRO Publishing, Australia’s leading science publisher, to support authors with access to expert language and writing services through our flagship brand, Editage. Read the full announcement here: cactusglobal.com/media-center...

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

I'm going to be in Chicago the first week of September - come and find me and talk peer review, the ethics & implementation of AI, and turning submission backlogs into $$$.

💯 This is exactly what I've been trying to say in like 100 workshops and videos on research posters. State a conclusion, then defend it. Versus working up to it over 500 words that people won't spend the time to read.

My conclusion from this is that preprint servers (and journals!) are entering a new phase of cat and mouse trying to contain AI slop (n.b., not mundane AI use, but nonsense generation). Peer review as a filter scarcely does better to ID this stuff. We need new & better tools to ID trustworthy works.

Can anyone recommend a book which acts as a lay persons guide to anaesthesia? My understanding is that large parts of it work, but we don’t know why and I’d love to find out more. Thx

Could hidden AI prompts game peer review?

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

@camsell59.bsky.social congrats on the success of your book. 13 million sales is quite something.

"Book publishers, especially those of nonfiction and textbooks, also told me they anticipate a massive decrease in sales, as chatbots can both summarize their books and give detailed explanations of their contents."

📢 Webinar Alert! AI is reshaping the future of scholarly publishing, but how do you implement it responsibly and effectively? Secure your spot now: www.airmeet.com/e/9fc043b0-4...

If you send me a "hi john" on Teams without a follow up of what you're needing... I'm not responding... the conversation will stay at "hi john" for eternity. Please stop doing this people

It’s that time of year again to cross reference DORA signatories with press releases about impact factors (*sigh*)

Been thinking a lot about academic journals and their Editorial Boards recently. Specifically, how useful they could become in the age of AI… 🧵 1/9