Shahan Ali Memon

A two-column status table titled "Stage" and "Start Date" tracks the timeline of a manuscript submission from its preliminary data submission on October 8, 2025, to its eventual withdrawal on March 2, 2026. The log reveals a lengthy and repetitive administrative process, particularly between October 26, 2025, and February 19, 2026, where the status cycled more than ten times between "Contacting Potential Reviewers" and "Waiting for Reviewer Assignment," suggesting significant difficulty in securing peer reviewers. Following these numerous failed attempts to move into the active review phase, the final entry shows the manuscript was officially withdrawn on March 2, 2026, at 09:08:18.

My first paper had to be mailed to Stockholm, Sweden, and then mailed to reviewers around the world. Everything by mail! It was submitted, reviewed, revised, typeset, and published in 3 months. I feel bad for early-career scientists who can't find a single reviewer after 5 months. It's gotta change.

Mixed methods🖐️; tried atlas with AI coding just out of curiosity; it was overwhelming i.e. sucked imho! Maybe useful as a second pass.

Excited for this!!

#SciSci #Metascience

This kind of “news” from Anthropic always reminds me of this cartoon/meme.

“It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.”

H. Frankfurt

#AIWelfare

“It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.”

H. Frankfurt

#AIWelfare

Saw this metaphor by Terence Tao floating around about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems, and kind of have the same feeling for “vibe science” or “fully automated science” line of research in #AI4Science.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

#ScAISci

Any chance this will be recorded? 😐

Excited for this!!

#SciSci #Metascience

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.

I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.

🧵/

sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Living the metascience dream (or nightmare) with AI for science What happens when we go from replication crisis to robustness extremes?

AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default?

Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture - Communications Psychology The rush to study generative AI is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptiv...

AI and the scientific monocultures.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Check this: companion.ai/einstein

Einstein, an AI agent student that logs into canvas, watches your lectures, does your assignments, and gets your degree for you.

Keeps your brain from accidentally learning something.. 👏👏👏

I don't take issue in using #AI to help w/ writing, but is anyone else facing the issue that #LLMs are increasingly sounding so similar that you gotta actively adjust your writing to not sound like one.

Thinking if that meant my writing was average... 🤔
Maybe this is an opportunity to be unique? 🤷‍♂️

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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Have you noticed how “quietly” is quietly becoming the new “delve” of #LLMs.

Paratactic micro-sentences are everywhere.

No connectors.
No flow.
Just line breaks pretending to be insight.

Kind of cringe. Sorry🤮

#GPT

Lots of evidence though!

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

More.. 📈

Wish there was a web word count or distribution that was quietly tracking how content distribution is changing (/becoming homogeneous).

Have you noticed how “quietly” is quietly becoming the new “delve” of #LLMs.

Paratactic micro-sentences are everywhere.

No connectors.
No flow.
Just line breaks pretending to be insight.

Kind of cringe. Sorry🤮

#GPT

This is a new phenomenon and business model exploiting gaps in publishing. The cartel uses fake names to produce AI-written or plagiarised papers. Reference lists contain 100s of paid entries.If papers are retracted, no real authors are punished, and citations still count, even from retracted papers

​I don’t think using large language models is unethical. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to use a nail gun as a toothbrush, even if the nail gun company runs late night television ads that say “makes a great toothbrush!”

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking.

A very interesting read.

harpers.org/archive/2026...

Want to share this again, because what a fantastic write up by @ronentk.me!

#OpenScience

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - CAIROS Blog The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵

Hospitals here, including children's hospitals, are using AI transcription tools as well. Studies have shown they are inaccurate the majority of the time, fabricate content during silences about abuse and drug usage (what could go wrong!!!), and delete the original audio for "privacy" reasons

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?"
We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity)
📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps
📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok
📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Today, #AI has a healthy social life (www.moltbook.com), dating AI (moltmatch.xyz) and humans, are scientists (www.clawxiv.org/list), creators (www.onlymolts.app), have funding (yclawbinator.ai), are hiring humans (rentahuman.ai), and their welfare is taken seriously (arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986).

We complained about AI stealing jobs; AI has provided!