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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This response to feedback seems awfully human... Esp. if combined with unchanging claims (i.e. we have definitely invented the time machine, the only limitations is that it does not travel through time) #OverlyHonestEditor

Excerpt from the paper which reads: "The agents did not creatively respond to feedback about poor research design. We instructed the agents
to send their papers for AI review—both to a subagent and to external tools such as refine.ink— to assess the
quality and progress of their research. Across dozens of rounds of revision, the agent’s self-review never once
returned an acceptance (see Figure 3). These reviews surfaced many of the issues that the human reviewers later
raised (see Table 4). But the agents did not creatively address the feedback from the AI reviews; when faced with
negative feedback they responded by adding caveats to existing findings, and continued to pursue unpromising
research directions."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The utopia would be decentralised disruption. But we tried it with the social media - a much easier nut to crack - and ppl just couldn't get over kerflunks and bumblurts. So I unfortunately don't see that. /

Mastodon post that explains Mastodon:
"Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Whether you think situation is dire or not, the report suggests four potential ways this may go. Realistic Editor Cat-ski suspects it will be the managed evolution because, well, regression to the mean. What Editor Cat-mondo would like to see is the professional transformation... /

Graph outlining for potential paths for future of peer review: managed evolution (most likely), system strain and selective collapse (underappreciated risk), professional transformation (high effort), and decentralised disruption (a wild card).

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Found myself on the Solitude Island:

Visualisation of all bluesky accounts and networks with a red circle sitting well outside the whole network, with arrows pointing at it.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Omg, guys, I found the headquarters 🤔 #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing What should we do next?

Front of a East London building with a sign reading "Papermill Wharf" above the entrance.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Very good outlook at the future of science, and publishing, from an outgoing editor @seva.bsky.social : hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of... I just want to cynically note that many papers were sound, narrowly useful, and wildly uninteresting already before LLMs #OverlyHonestEditor

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We apologise for delays in #PeerReview due to a shortage of editors caused by a significant leaf fall. Leaves, famously, are editors' kryptonite #OverlyHonestEditor In other words, the autumn is here.

Screengrab of Transport for London announcement of partial suspension of a subway line caused be the leaf fall on tracks.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

How today feels like. And that's before we consider the weather #OverlyTiredEditor

Sea on fire during Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Sorry not sorry :P (But actually sorry for not asking permission)

A photo of pelagic cormoran saying: "Hey crow, have you just added rooster to this chat?"

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nearly missed that doozie but now that I saw it, I cannot stop shaking my head #AcademicSky #ResearchEthics Some people honestly don't know when to shut up #OverlyHonestEditor

Tweet from Jiankui He, geneticist known for creating the first genetically modified babies, without ethics approvals and to outrage of the scientific community, saying: "Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress".

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A little buddy taking a flight with Editor Cat-mondo

A pigeon busy bodying itself within a terminal of a large international airport.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here you go: post someone you've been told you look like, who you definitely don't look like.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Since we're sharing... Editor Cat-ozart finds this depressing, because that is only just about 2.5 hrs a day (massively down from 2022 and 2023) and essentially a sign of a number of meetings I'm in all the time :( #OverlyMusicDeprivedEditor #2024Wrapped

Screengrab from Spotify 2024 Wrapped which says: "You listened for 49,736 minutes this year. That puts you in the top 5% of listeners worldwide."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hey Duolingo, you little green trolling sh*t, I don't need that judgement and attitude first thing Saturday morning #OverlyGrumpyEditor

Screengrab from Duolingo which reads: "You made 0 mistakes. Unlike in real life."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Editor Cat-mondo finally read @emollick.bsky.social's "Co-Intelligence" and it's really good, for y'all fellow AI-skeptics #OverlyConvertedEditor As everyone, we test potential applications of AI in #ScientificPublishing workflows, but I've been struggling to make sense of performance... 1/

A book entitled "Co-Intelligence" by Ethan Mollick. Highly recommend (and no, it's not a paid promo)

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. Editor Cat-ski makes a point of not appearing in any photos.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

To celebrate 10M users, here is a throwback to my first act of trollship on BSky. Shout out to @stephenbheard.bsky.social for being a great sport about it. #AcademicSky ##OverlyCheekyEditor

A bio for a joke account called Ozymandias Pumpernickel Flugenholtz, which reads simply "bullied by @stephenbheard.bsky.social". Disclaimer: no one was bullied.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Editor Cat-mondo is reading Hayao Miyazaki 1980s essays about animation and cannot get over how much this 👇 fits #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #OverlyHonestEditor

A para bemoaning influx of poor quality shows and pondering what's the point of making good ones, if it's like adding a bucket of water to a flood (but then realising that even during flood, people need drinking water).

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

In which the dude with a pattern of extreme publishing behaviour again preaches about extreme publishing behaviour #Metascience #ResearchIntegrity #HyperProlificAuthors link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s…

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Would love to celebrate @aemonten hashtag #ThankYouEditor with this lovely message. Narrator's voice: Editor Cat-mondo is not a father, nor was it a Father's Day #OverlyConfusedEditor

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Spotify recommends a new genre for Editor Cat-fuentes. That constant surveillance is getting scary #OverlyFreakedOutEditor

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

If 2016 had the vibe of fin-de-siecle, 2024 has the je ne sais quoi of late 1930s. Utter confusion.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Quite an update to COPE guidance on how to deal with #ImageManipulation giving editors a way to fast track #retractions in the most egregious cases #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #OverlyCautiousEditor

Beginning of the COPE flowchart for image manipulation cases showing a new step that allows editors to progress to retraction without going to the authors if manipulation is blatant and clearly affecting outcomes.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Whereas Editor Cat-zhang is learning this useful phrase:

Duolingo translation from Mandarin: "I am bored to death"

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

And of course this one, which is very meta:

Duolingo translation: "You must translate this sentence"

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

A friend of a friend is learning Dutch on duolingo, and I find it tells us something quite interesting mostly about Dutch people (not just that Nature dislikes them) #OverlyFascinatedEditor

Duolingo translation: "The cats learn from experience that they never learn anything from experience"

Duolingo translation: "The bird that you have sold me is dead!"

Duolingo translation: "We are building a prison fir turtles"

Duolingo translation: "The glass will break if you sing"

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Editor Cat-mondo just rocked thru airport security wearing the following tee, and it's been, unusually, a breeze... #OverlyConfidentEditor

Image of a cat holding a cup of coffee, with text saying "I'm not arguing. I'm explaining why I'm right."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

This is your periodic reminder about what is the appropriate minimal sample size. Let the games commence #OverlyCheekyEditor #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing To annoy @lakens.bsky.social, @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social, and others.

Google card that states that the minimum sample size is 100. Explainer continues: "Most statisticians agree..."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I should perhaps explain that I have an allergy to "why won't we all" solutions (below the source of part of my bio:)

An old tumblr post with a title "Everyone will not just" which reads:

If your solution to some problem relies on "If everyone would just..." then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they're not going to start now.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Three years ago, the world was holding its breath and keeping its fingers crossed for a boat, probably the most since SS Warrimoo crossing the equator in 1899. How time flies #OverlySentimentalEditor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Warr...

Aerial photo of Ever Given, the container ship that blocked Suez Canal in March 2021.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

And here we go. Expect blurry photos from terrible angles from #preregistration meet at The Royal Society. First, Jacob Stegenga on the epistemic status of preregistration.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Reminds me a little of this gem (which I don't even know is true, since the original xeet does not seem to exist any longer; it is nonetheless glorious):

A tweet from user @hubertscat that reads:
"Inadvertently just signed off a work email 'Should you have any questions please don't. Hesitate to ask.' I'm sticking with it."

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Duolingo is a gift that keeps on giving #OverlyLinguisticallyIneptEditor #AcademicSky I just need "Reviewer 2 is an asshole" for a perfect trifecta.

Duolingo screenshot with the Mandarin translation of a sentence "I am bored to death".

Duolingo screenshot with the Mandarin translation of a sentence "My dog ate my homework".

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

This got Ig Nobel in 2017, for a wonderful paper published in Rheology Bulletin, with some fantastic figures

Figure from a scientific paper on rheology of cats showing cats perfectly fitting various non-cat shaped containers.

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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

And here we are... #ScientificPublishing #ArtificalIntelligence #AcademicSky Maybe Yuval Harari is finally right. Maybe this is a demise of humankind (or at least its role in shaping the future). www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... h/t @aemonten.bsky.social

Acknowledgments section in a scientific journal's editorial reads:

"Chat GPT has contributed to the conceptualization and drafting of this editorial."

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