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Surrey Metascience Group @surreymetascience.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This paper suggests that over half of scientific papers in 2025 show signs of AI use. This does not surprise me, because submitting papers is a PITA and cleaning up logic and prose is something LLMs can do quite well. The pace of AI normalisation in science is spectacular. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Surrey Metascience Group @surreymetascience.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A lot of our work in metascience at Surrey is on the ability of AI and AI-assisted pipelines to mass produce scientific papers on health and biological science. Interesting to see the same problem in another data-rich field. www.psu.edu/news/researc...

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AI can mass-produce finance research papers indistinguishable from human work | Penn State University

A new study, co-authored by a Penn State Smeal College of Business professor, demonstrated that AI can mass-produce academic papers that look nearly indistinguishable from human-authored research, rai...

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Surrey Metascience Group @surreymetascience.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Meeting Open Science requirements can be a pain, and not every researcher wants to expose their data to post-publication scrutiny, creating incentives to cheat. Which is why 11.5% of Dryad DOIs fail to resolve. www.octopus.ac/publications...

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