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fromLGBTQ Nation
28 minutes ago

Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it - LGBTQ Nation

Publisher demanded censoring scientific descriptions of animal homosexuality under Russia's expanded 'LGBT propaganda' law, reportedly using AI to flag content.
Science
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Scientific journals are increasingly filled with fabricated references and AI-generated low-quality content, undermining peer review and trust in published research.
fromNature
1 month ago

'A serious problem': peer reviews created using AI can avoid detection

A research team based in China used the Claude 2.0 large language model (LLM), created by Anthropic, an AI company in San Francisco, California, to generate peer-review reports and other types of documentation for 20 published cancer-biology papers from the journal eLife. The journal's publisher makes papers freely available online as 'reviewed preprints', and publishes them alongside their referee reports and the original unedited manuscripts.
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fromNature
2 months ago

AI is saving time and money in research - but at what cost?

AI adoption among researchers has risen substantially, boosting efficiency, output, and quality, with early-career and physical-science researchers leading adoption.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

A high-volume, pay-to-publish mega-journal compromised scientific quality, enabling irregular studies while generating large profits for major publisher Elsevier.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

AI Likely Driving Surge in Letters to the Editor

Researchers and scientific journals can add a new possibility to a growing list of artificial intelligence-generated horrors: letters to the editor. Two days after researchers published a paper on the efficacy of ivermectin as a treatment for malaria in the New England Journal of Medicine this summer, the journal received a letter to the editor from another researcher criticizing the paper's findings.
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fromBig Think
4 months ago

Ask Ethan: What is the true purpose of scientific peer review?

Passing peer review indicates a paper met publication standards, but does not guarantee that every method, analysis, result, or conclusion is correct.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics overwhelmed' by the millions published

A scientific paper gained unexpected global attention due to an AI-generated image of a rat with exaggerated anatomy, leading to its swift retraction.
fromwww.nature.com
7 months ago

Author Correction: Spatial immune scoring system predicts hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence

Tony Kiat Hon Lim's additional affiliation was corrected and the first author's affiliation was amended in the published article.
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fromNature
8 months ago

How to spot suspicious papers: a sleuthing guide for scientists

A new toolkit aims to help researchers identify suspicious scientific papers and uphold integrity within published literature.
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fromwww.nature.com
8 months ago

Publisher Correction: Metalsupport frontier orbital interactions in single-atom catalysis

The article underwent corrections to clarify graphical data for better accuracy in representing findings.
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fromNature
8 months ago

Illustrators call out journals and news sites for using AI art

AI-generated images are increasingly used in scientific publications, raising ethical and quality concerns.
Professional artists are facing economic challenges due to the rise of AI in art production.
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