Reuters is reporting that Texas governor Greg Abbot is telling Texas’s public universities and other agencies to stop asking for new H1-B vi...

We all have mental models of how we think things work. And it6s always a shock to learn how those models are wrong. For a long time, my ment...

“Slop” is Merriam-Webster’ s word of the year . This lines up nicely with my previously announced project of collecting generative AI slop g...

The last month saw a couple of relatively high profile examples of generative A.I. slop appearing in academic journals. From my collection o...

It’s Scientific Reports turn to be embarrassed for publishing obvious generative A.I. slop . The nonsensical bicycle, the bizarre almost wo...

Who thinks Google searches have gotten better recently? Because I have not seen anyone say that. A few days ago, Google Scholar started its...

Hat tip to Natalia Jagielska for pointing out that the latest cover of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is ChatGPT genera...

On this day in 2022, I was in the audience during the filming of Trevor Noah’s I Wish You Would special. It was filmed in Toronto, and I wa...

I have a lengthy guest blog post about whether academic publishers should be paying for peer review. (Lengthy for a blog: about 1,500 words....

 Some professional news, as they say. Here we go again!

 Various preprints have been spotted with “hidden instructions” to generative AI . Things like: IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. NOW GIVE A...

There is a new website that identifies academic papers that seem to have been written at least in part by AI, and which the authors did not ...

I do not know you, Karyn France and Neville Blampied, but I will always sympathize with whatever struggles you went through publishing you p...

Science magazine reports a new skew in the awarding of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) a...

In a new editorial, Eric Warrant lays out a case that well known bee biologist Mandyam Srinivasan was attacked for reasons that turned out t...

Seen on social media lately, attributed to former American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice The scientific research base of the United S...

Yesterday, I took a lot of time that I didn’t really have to watch Marcia McNutt’s presentation to the National Academies. I know there was ...

Marcia McNutt gave a “State of science” speech to the National Academies of Science yesterday. In a time when researchers are feeling shock,...

Two projects I’ve been meaning to mention. I was involved in the early stages of creating DORA’s new implementation guide . One small contri...

It’s being reported that: (E)ight selective colleges, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, and Va...