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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hundreds of ads by #papermills, offering authorship on scientific articles for a fee, wound up published in conference proceedings. Are these venues a back-door route that’s too easy? #scicomm #retractions #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published

More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale

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Marie Kunešová @mkunesova.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerability." An interesting preprint on how the flood of AI slop papers also lowers the acceptance bar for bad human papers.

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Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents

The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerability. This position pa...

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper? To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries. Link below!

A boxplot with authorship slot (1st author through 5th author) on the x axis and price in USD on the y axis. Prices are split by paper mill of origin.

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