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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who at Radio 2, over many years, as decided that weather and traffic people deserve airtime alongside professional presenters. Cos you’re wrong and I hate it.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'The strike action, planned for 22 September, marks the first time staff have organised to walk out in The Lancet’s 200-year history. The Lancet Group, now owned by the Elsevier publishing conglomerate, comprises 29 monthly specialty titles, in addition to the flagship weekly medical journal'.

timeshighereducation.com

Staff at prestigious medical journal set to strike over pay

For the first time in The Lancet’s 200-year history, union members plan to strike over “unacceptable” pay offer

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One for the money Two for the show Three to get ready Four for any other problem Nine to hear these options again

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'll be speaking on this panel about the impact of AI on open access (and indeed, traditional subscription titles) and asking if OA is still the imperative it once seemed.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/08/2026

Right now what researchers care about is publication; review is just an obstacle in the way. But actually human review is the scarce commodity. We need a world where ~anything can be published, but if it’s careful and potentially important, it gets expert human review and a second draft.

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New pub quiz team name incoming:

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 20/08/2026

A study of private grant proposal submissions and publicly released awards from NSF and NIH finds a sharp rise in LLM use since 2023. At NIH—but not at NSF—proposals created with LLMs are more likely to be funded and to yield more publications. In PNAS: ow.ly/5zHM50ZBWoP

$Corpus-level estimates of the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in private and public NSF and NIH grants from 2021 to 2025, computed using rolling three-month windows (points).$

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I feel like the debate over AI in academic journals is way too focused on where the capabilities of AI are today (or even where they were a couple years ago) and not nearly focused on where they will almost certainly be in the coming years… … and publication & research takes many years.

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Michael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is science beginning to feed on its own AI-generated output? “Epistemic autophagy” describes a self-reinforcing loop in which generative AI helps produce scientific manuscripts and citations. Future researchers and AI systems then treat them as part of the knowledge base.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The most important book of the year -- get out the pitchforks. LIMITARIANISM: THE CASE AGAINST EXTREME WEALTH by INGRID ROBEYNS

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’ve just woken up, but it took me a while not to see Andy Burnham’s robot arm tickling this woman’s breast.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Very worried about this sort of thing hitting more broadly:

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Looking up the lyrics to Being Boiled, and Google's AI summary helps me yet again.

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Commentator on the England game the other night said Jude Bellingham was "worth his weight in gold". Assuming he is around 75kg, that's around £10m. Not really close to his value. He should have said "worth his weight in crystalline osmium" - £200m.

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FIFA presidents are like UK Prime Ministers - somehow each one is worse than the previous one. Imagine yearning for the days of Sepp Blatter and Gordon Brown as some kind of halcyon days. Looking forward to Voldemort and F**age next.

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Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"I know it's not the sort of thing you usually do Mr Havelange but speaking as a nuclear power we'd appreciate Gascoigne's yellow being overturned and the match result annulled"

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Mural in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgain...

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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“The result is a horror show for US science research. Not only is peer review made a secondary consideration, but the new rules would allow any federal agency to cancel any grant at any time based on the vague assertion that it isn’t in the “national interest.” 1/2 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

arstechnica.com

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

GPT-5.5 Pro is the model producing many of the novel math proofs, and also the model you should have reviewing any technical or academic paper for flaws.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

PERFECT STORM: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Submissions are up, mostly written by AI. The peer reviews are also written by AI. This is clearly demonstrated in universities involved in a particular ranking. So here we go again. Thanks university rankings - remind us again what they are good for?

forbes.com

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In other news: the number of AI-assisted grants being submitted is already overwhelming funding agencies. We need a new model of research assessment. It's becoming difficult to tell who's actually got intellectual ownership/command of whatever's written on the pages. bsky.app/profile/time...

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Best evidence yet that LLMs can match human capabilities in doing science.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 01/05/2026

"Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, submissions to Organization Science have risen 42%, roughly double the bump the journal saw during COVID. The editors attribute nearly all of that increase to AI. Submissions judged to be human-only actually declined."

forbes.com

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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Brian @beerandrockets.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Something clicked for me while reading this @scottsantens.com piece: This is why I value getting my summers off so much as a teacher. I can work on my art projects. I can play games with my kids. I can see my family. All the stuff that gets squeezed to the margins when I'm earning a living. UBI now!

scottsantens.com

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

nytimes.com

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 17/04/2026

The number of submissions will only increase and I believe their solution is a poor fix. But my friends and I disagree about better solutions. To make resubmission intervals longer for people who get a low rating acts as a penalty for low ratings. If these ratings reliably evaluated quality: good.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Chris Gaffe: “Scientific Reports has an in-house team who are dedicated to ensuring that the journal operates with integrity. They are an excellent team who care enormously about the journal and the research it publishes." "oxygenaonol", "cen̈rifiugation", "Cos aspe-9" pubpeer.com/publications...

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Anyone else frustrated with Claude’s search functionality for chats? Only seem to search on chat title, not the body. Is there a simple fix or do I have to export my chats to something else?

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Can you justify using (and paying for) a service that generates a ready to submit paper with just one prompt? 🧵

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

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Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Greenland and Denmark should sell it to China.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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