Reposted by @bradinfsp.bsky.socialAmanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026“Dieting has too low a benefit and too great a risk of harm to be recommend a treatment option.” #ICML2026 082
Reposted by @bradinfsp.bsky.socialAmanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Lucy Aphramoc’s talk is Blowing My Mind! #ICML2026 001
bradinfsp.bsky.social @bradinfsp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Interesting talk comparing published search strategies with CHatGPT-generated ones for the same research question by Sulaiman at #ICML2026; ChatGPT is worse, partly due to hallucinating subject headings and partly because it doesn't understand contexts (so can do synonyms but not widening keywords). 041
bradinfsp.bsky.social @bradinfsp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Tools I didn’t know about from Jasmin Schmitz’ s talk on paper mills and hijacked journals at #ICML2026: Problematic paper screener www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.C... , Retraction Watch hijacked journals checker retractionwatch.com/the-retracti.... (Think Check Submit also got a call out)dbrech.irit.frPPS – Problematic Paper Screener 044
bradinfsp.bsky.social @bradinfsp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Just heard about the first ever genuinely useful thing AI could do for me, John Barbrook from Lancaster did a talk at #ICML2026 with suggestions on generating synonyms for a search to increase sensitivity and reduce bias bt finding more diverse terms 050
Reposted by @bradinfsp.bsky.socialRachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026'Librarians and drug dealers are the only people that call our clients users' observes Dina McElvy dryly at #icml2026, leading to a serious point about focusing on collaboration and humanity in a world of AI bot scraping. 071
