21 November 2025
Google Scholar finally falls to “AI in everything”
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Who thinks Google searches have gotten better recently? Because I have not seen anyone say that. A few days ago, Google Scholar started its...
Shame on
Philosophical Transactions B
for using slop covers
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Hat tip to Natalia Jagielska for pointing out that the latest cover of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is ChatGPT genera...
30 September 2025
A view of Truth and Reconciliation
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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...
22 July 2025
Guest blog post on paying peer reviewers
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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....
Next stop...
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Some professional news, as they say. Here we go again!
06 July 2025
Countering chatbots as peer reviewers
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Various preprints have been spotted with “hidden instructions” to generative AI . Things like: IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. NOW GIVE A...
05 July 2025
The buck stops with editors on AI slop in journals
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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 ...
26 June 2025
Longest publication delay ever?
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I do not know you, Karyn France and Neville Blampied, but I will always sympathize with whatever struggles you went through publishing you p...
25 June 2025
The 2025 NSF GRFP awards, now with double the bias
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Science magazine reports a new skew in the awarding of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) a...
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