#OpenAI’s New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace ‘Prism’ Raises Fears Of #Vibe-Coded Academic #AI #Slop - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/04/openais-new-scientific-writing-and-collaboration-workspace-prism-raises-fears-of-vibe-coded-academic-ai-slop/ #academicpublishing
#OpenAI’s New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace ‘Prism’ Raises Fears Of #Vibe-Coded Academic #AI #Slop - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/04/openais-new-scientific-writing-and-collaboration-workspace-prism-raises-fears-of-vibe-coded-academic-ai-slop/ #academicpublishing
I have signed up as a "recommender" (like an editor) for @PCI_StatML . Looking forward to seeing how this goes. https://statml.peercommunityin.org/about/ #academicpublishing
Early career researchers tend to think that an editor's rejection (or a revision request they can't accommodate), means they have to give up and submit elsewhere. In my experience, explaining your side to the editor (in a polite and reasonable tone) can sometimes make them reconsider. It's often worth the try, if nothing else for the catharsis.
#EarlyCareerResearchers #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
I've always found the typical "conflict of interest" statements somewhat lacking, in that they only mention (a lack of) financial conflicts. There is also a potential for non-direct professional gains, theoretical interests, supporting previous publications, researcher career interests, etc. Are there any best-practice statements to describe a wider breadth of conflicting interests?
#ConflictsOfInterests #ConflictOfInterest #conflict_of_interest #conflicts_of_interest #COI #AcademicPublishing #AcademicPublishingAccountability #AcademicChatter
I've always found the typical "conflict of interest" statements somewhat lacking, in that they only mention (a lack of) financial conflicts. There is also a potential for non-direct professional gains, theoretical interests, supporting previous publications, researcher career interests, etc. Are there any best-practice statements to describe a wider breadth of conflicting interests?
#ConflictsOfInterests #ConflictOfInterest #conflict_of_interest #conflicts_of_interest #COI #AcademicPublishing #AcademicPublishingAccountability #AcademicChatter
Nice news for open-access publication: there's now a "Peer Community In" Statistics and Machine Learning https://statml.peercommunityin.org/ #academicpublishing #machinelearning
Nice news for open-access publication: there's now a "Peer Community In" Statistics and Machine Learning https://statml.peercommunityin.org/ #academicpublishing #machinelearning
LoL. Would you expect any different outcome than this out of a industry built upon "citation cartels" where articles are made to be cited but not to be read?
"What Heiss came to realize in the course of vetting these papers was that AI-generated citations have now infested the world of professional scholarship, too. Each time he attempted to track down a bogus source in Google Scholar, he saw that dozens of other published articles had relied on findings from slight variations of the same made-up studies and journals.
“There have been lots of AI-generated articles, and those typically get noticed and retracted quickly,” Heiss tells Rolling Stone. He mentions a paper retracted earlier this month, which discussed the potential to improve autism diagnoses with an AI model and included a nonsensical infographic that was itself created with a text-to-image model. “But this hallucinated journal issue is slightly different,” he says.
That’s because articles which include references to nonexistent research material — the papers that don’t get flagged and retracted for this use of AI, that is — are themselves being cited in other papers, which effectively launders their erroneous citations. This leads to students and academics (and any large language models they may ask for help) identifying those “sources” as reliable without ever confirming their veracity. The more these false citations are unquestioningly repeated from one article to the next, the more the illusion of their authenticity is reinforced. Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations #Chatbots #LLMs #Science #AcademicPublishing
CRAFT-OA ends on 31 Dec 2025. Do you follow us to stay informed about the #DiamondOpenAccess movement? If so, please follow the social media channels for European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) on BlueSky and LinkedIn. #CRAFT-OA helped build the EDCH, which is here to stay & to unite the European #DiamondOA community.
I'd not heard of Fengkai Group before I saw their LinkedIn advert. They're offering paid positions to be a guest editor for special issues in SCI- and Ei Compendex-indexed journals (the latter is Elsevier's engineering index). That's weird, I thought.
Csaba Szabo has heard of them: he commented on his guest post on Leonid Schneider's blog about uncovering paper mill activity, at https://forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a-sting-inside-a-papermill/#comment-762891, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.
Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-up-against-unethical-research-behavior-christopher-tang-eur3c
More than 20 of my LinkedIn connections follow Fengkai Group and several are connected to the LinkedIn account that posted the advert.
We all need to be careful not to legitimise questionable organisations by associating with them.
#PublicationEthics #GuestEditors #SpecialIssues #JournalPublishing #PaperMills #AcademicPublishing
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of #Science (starting 2026-01-01)
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science
At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions
https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/
#HackerNews #hallucinatedcitations #ICLR2026 #AIethics #researchintegrity #academicpublishing #machinelearning
Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
#CRAFT-OA developed the FAIR Publishing Toolkit to help #DiamondOA publishers self-assess their data collections against the FAIR principles. Ensuring better💡discoverability of the content.
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783917
Diamond #OpenAccess academic publishers want to ensure their journals meet established technical standards & requirements - to be professional and in line with #FAIR principles. CRAFT-OA training materials can help.
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