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Mary Kelaita

@marykelaita.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at St. Philip's College, Fulbright Scholar at MPI-EVA (primate genomics), gaming enthusiast, dog mom, human aunt...

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Mary Kelaita @marykelaita.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Thrilled and grateful to find out that I just received the Leakey Foundation Grant! I'll be continuing the work I started during my Fulbright with Genevieve Housman on "Comparative genomics of gut epithelium: Insights into human digestive evolution"!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/01/2026

I can't remember any kind of statement like this ever coming out of the Fed. I am over half a century old. Impeach the president immediately.

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 08/01/2026

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do. Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess I have a few predictions... 1/n

AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature

Dear editors,

I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them.

I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal.

It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about.

In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction.

But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

You don't need to be a coder to figure this out. Simply type: tab age You'll discover a smattering of 99 year olds, a few 100 year olds, a couple of 101 year olds, and a pileup of 150 year olds, but no-one in their 130s or 140s. That's a clear sign you've discovered a coding issue rather than fraud

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Dictator for a day has gone full Napoleon.

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