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!