Debora Weber-Wulff

First off, a sincere thank you for actually reading the PNAS article.

For those interested:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Maintaining research integrity in the age of GenAI: an analysis of ethical challenges and recommendations to researchers - International Journal for Educational Integrity Background This paper is a practice‑informed rapid review that maps the complex ethical challenges arising from the growing use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools across the research ...

Maintaining research integrity in the age of GenAI: an analysis of ethical challenges and recommendations to researchers

@sonjabjelobaba.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social et al.

edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u... has a copy

Putting the Hindawi Nonsense into perspective: it broke the vertical scale of yearly retractions.

Retraction Reactions Scientists’ responses to published errors provide case studies of practices to avoid or embrace when engaging with the research community.

How should scientists – including Nobel Prize winners – respond to allegations about their work? Practices to avoid or embrace, by @retractionwatch.com ‘s cofounders.

Retraction Reactions | American Scientist

www.americanscientist.org/article/retr...

Meaning your slides, talk and the discussion will be sent to Microsoft, who will presumably use it to train further AI-slop machines? Better get informed consent from all participants in your course.

Nope. LLMs are just stochastic parrots. They roll the dice to choose the next word. *We* think we see something in what they do, and project all our desires onto the machine.
You can't automatically detect plagiarism or AI use because it is not that simple! You can only find stupid plag or AIuse.

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

A new open-access Springer journal brand Discover, has absolute resemblance to MDPI and its strategy. A shocking new analysis by @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and other members of the Strain Team the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
HT: @deevybee.bsky.social

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Tweet by Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat If it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral, for example, like faking data in a pharmaceutical trial, it will use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above.

welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops

(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

If you are an EU citizen, please sign this petition about a ban on (homosexual) conversion practices in the European Union! Yes, it is 2025 and this is still a thing some folks want to bring back.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Another 500.000 signatures needed by Saturday! Please boost!

Travel poster that says: VISIT CANADA WE WON'T THROW YOU INTO AN EL SALVADORIAN GULAG WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!

In the UK they pretty much have a monoploy, as at least England, if not the entire UK, purchased a country license many years ago. I don't know if this is still current, but I assume that it is so. There are still a few other systems around, but after any test I do Tii buys up the good ones...

To be clear, AP said it would accede to Trump changing the name of Denali back to Mt. McKinley because it was within the US, whereas the Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water not subject to the US's exclusive control.

This is what you get for meeting an authoritarian halfway.

Hi, I know. You must get tons more than I do. I send a polite "No" email and link to my ancient page: copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-...

Happy to answer questions, but I am seldom here. I'm on Mastodon as @WiseWoman@fediscience.org
Feel free to email me, too, if you have questions about how VroniPlag Wiki works.

Okay, it looks like the federation is partially working. Still, I tend to be on Mastodon and not here.

I want to highlight this stupid fucking bullshit because literally EVERY TIME an AI writing company has a website, they always have a screenshot that looks good until you read the words that are on the screenshot.

It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.

An AI-generated image for a journal article, in which the legs plagued with gout have more than tibia and fibia but phalanges!

Another day, another AI-generated, Cronenberg nightmare published in (then retracted from) a scientific journal. 🧪🐡

Alternative title: Gout gives you flippers? (Don’t tell JD this.)

There are artists! Amongst us! Who know phalanges from flippers! Call them!

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...