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Are submissions really driven by "supersubmitters" or mostly by more people submitting? Conference data has mostly shown the latter to be the majority driver of increase. I'd be very interested what arXiv data shows!

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point "I know how openreview and paperplaza work" should be the qualifications for instant hire as a faculty.

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Reposted by Claas Voelcker

I’m annoyed by all the academics stressing “quality over quantity” as a tonic for the LLM deluge of results / crap. People have been saying this for years. Either setup a compact with some language on putting this in hiring documents/recommendations/etc. or stop saying it.

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The major open question of our times remains: will we go down the Path of Dune, or the Path of 40k? Either way, expect more and exciting confrontations between the Catholics and AI

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We always stop at the boring ones! Why not Guncle of AI, weird step-brother of AI, 2nd Cousin twice removed of AI, my great-aunt's lady friend who lived with her in the same room in the 50s of AI

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why do people submit a paper to be presented at multiple workshops, even after the paper has been presented before?

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are academics because we reject the bourgeois oppression of office clothing styles! (This is brought to you by the postdoc who gets called overdressed because he always wears a shirt and refuses to put on shorts)

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Why is university teaching always structured badly? None of the faculty resources I have access to have any tips and lessons learned on actually running the classes! It's only about the bureaucracy!!!

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I'd love to DM you a secondary piece of evidence that I'm relying on here that I can't share too publicly, but you can't be DMed ;)

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Tenure and grant considerations just don't seem like sufficient explanations for the surging number of people pushing into this system. They are definitely also a part of this, but I don't think there is enough professors for this to explain the largest pieces of the puzzle

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I also really want to stress that I am not judging anybody for any of this! I'm simply trying to come up with a coherent hypothesis where our current paper submission numbers come from, and an economic hypothesis is the most convincing to me. I'm not saying anybody is wrong in doing this!

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I actually think "high paying industry job" is the primary driver, visa questions are often just a necessary secondary component to those as high-paying jobs are concentrated in a few countries. Still, having a reliable pathway to PR is a massively important factor for many non-westerners.

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Obviously this is going to be impossible to get numbers on, but absolutely, a lot do. People have consistently told me that this is a significant factor in the decision making process for them.

I should have said a primary pathway for immigration, not the primary pathway, I don't have sufficient numbers to support this. But I regularly advise students on where to do a PhD and job market and immigration questions pretty much always come up.

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Immigration has been a primary driver for PhD applications in NA universities for a while, it was openly discussed 5 years ago at the University of Toronto for example.

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H1B is defunct, J1 and F1 are only student visas, and Ls have secondary requirements like already working for the company that moves you. Higher education _is_ the primary pathway of immigration for smart people into the west and has been for years now. This isn't even a US specific phenomenon.

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I mean, I also tell that to all the students, but I'm not sure the message is sticking :D In addition, PhD is still de facto necessary for a lot of immigration pathways, especially in the US

I don't think academia is the core driver of submissions here, there are just too few tenure-track academics submitting to these conferences.

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One unstated assumption here: the vast majority of people start a PhD to get a high-paying industry research job. This has been broadly true among students and peers I have talked to in the last few years.

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Again, the volume of papers does not seem to stem from a small number of authors submitting a lot of slop, it's mostly caused by a legitimate increase in the number of people who are seeking to publish to get a foot in the door.

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While this may be true it is definitely not the perception in the student body! And a PhD position is still a door opener, both through specialized industry contacts and due to how immigration systems are designed.

I think the interesting part of the issue is that a huge part of the paper submissions are created by people wanting to break into the corpos, as this has been a semi-reliable pathway in the past. The problem is not industry submitting papers, it's hiring based on authorship.

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I'm not sure what you mean by denialism?

I'm saying they are publishing really valuable results still (because they have the resources and talent) but over the years have become less willing to share their insights. This was acknowledging that we still want their papers, but that we are also seeing that these papers are becoming more rare.

Pretty much this, people make bad unsubstantiated vibe-based suggestions in the reply. Almost all of them are some flavour of "limit contributions per author" which wouldn't really move the needle much

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