iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/08/2026

‘In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or permanent bans on data centers, many adopted in emergency meetings. That brings the nationwide total to more than 500.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/dat...

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 08/07/2026

Mayo Clinic’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.

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Former executive accuses Mayo of cutting corners on AI research

Mayo’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I use DuckDuckGo and would *never* consider using ChatGPT as a search engine, as it often finds crappier pages and is prone to hallucinations, as well as using electricity and water unnecessarily. (Re-)Learn how to search and use an alternative search machine.

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thanks to AI, one can generate SEM images in full color now! Sabet, M. Halogen-free polymer composites: advancing sustainable and high-performance flexible electronics. Iran Polym J 34, 599–624 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s137...

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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Photo of the Dark Horse Workers United statement.

For ALT TEXT readers, the statement is too long to fit into ALT TEXT. Please find the full statement on the DHWU website, linked in our bios

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

RA: There are many problematic papers, and correction mechanism are too slow. Shoutout to the Richardson 2025 PNAS paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Malicious actors, science deniers, and politicians can use the reports on science misconduct for their own agenda. #WCRI2026

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PNAS

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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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Um, the conference is in Canada. No "Native Americans", but the indigenous people in Canada are known as "First Nations". And in Canada it is traditional to acknowledge land use and indigenous ways of knowing at conferences and even presentations given at non-Canadian conferences.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

PhD Theses may also be bulk-downloaded to look for plagiarism or other issues, not just training an AI. There is no half-open, it is either open or closed.

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Nick Wise @nhwise.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Everything is for sale

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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 04/03/2026

"Zwischen der Erde und der Sonne ist die Atmosphäre. Und wenn die immer dünner wird, dann wird die Sonne immer heißer. Und der Grund dafür sind Abgase, CO₂ und und und" - Manuel Hagel, CDU Spitzenkandidat für die Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg zu Schülern, ARD Mittagsmagazin vom 2. März 2026

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/11/2025

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

ChatGPT ignores retractions of scientific papers — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @mikethelwall.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u... has a copy

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

How should scientists – including Nobel Prize winners – respond to allegations about their work? Practices to avoid or embrace, by @retractionwatch.com ‘s cofounders. Retraction Reactions | American Scientist www.americanscientist.org/article/retr...

americanscientist.org

Retraction Reactions

Scientists’ responses to published errors provide case studies of practices to avoid or embrace when engaging with the research community.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Meaning your slides, talk and the discussion will be sent to Microsoft, who will presumably use it to train further AI-slop machines? Better get informed consent from all participants in your course.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Nope. LLMs are just stochastic parrots. They roll the dice to choose the next word. *We* think we see something in what they do, and project all our desires onto the machine. You can't automatically detect plagiarism or AI use because it is not that simple! You can only find stupid plag or AIuse.

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A new open-access Springer journal brand Discover, has absolute resemblance to MDPI and its strategy. A shocking new analysis by @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and other members of the Strain Team the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post... HT: @deevybee.bsky.social

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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 22/05/2025

welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops (this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

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If it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral, for example, like faking data in a pharmaceutical trial, it will use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you are an EU citizen, please sign this petition about a ban on (homosexual) conversion practices in the European Union! Yes, it is 2025 and this is still a thing some folks want to bring back. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... Another 500.000 signatures needed by Saturday! Please boost!

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European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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BuddyBoy @buddyboy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Travel poster that says:

VISIT
CANADA
WE WON'T THROW YOU INTO AN EL SALVADORIAN GULAG WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

In the UK they pretty much have a monoploy, as at least England, if not the entire UK, purchased a country license many years ago. I don't know if this is still current, but I assume that it is so. There are still a few other systems around, but after any test I do Tii buys up the good ones...

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

To be clear, AP said it would accede to Trump changing the name of Denali back to Mt. McKinley because it was within the US, whereas the Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water not subject to the US's exclusive control. This is what you get for meeting an authoritarian halfway.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy to answer questions, but I am seldom here. I'm on Mastodon as @WiseWoman@fediscience.org Feel free to email me, too, if you have questions about how VroniPlag Wiki works.

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Okay, it looks like the federation is partially working. Still, I tend to be on Mastodon and not here.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2024

I want to highlight this stupid fucking bullshit because literally EVERY TIME an AI writing company has a website, they always have a screenshot that looks good until you read the words that are on the screenshot.

Screenshot from ProWritingAid’s website: Generate writing ideas, improve readability and save time writing with AI SParks.

The screenshot shows that AI has suggested that the paragraph “It was a bright sunny day, the kind of day that made everything feel possible. Sarah woke up early <not visible> because she <not visible> the day’s <not visible> needs to have sensory detail added, and has changed it to “The morning sun cast a warm golden glow, illuminating the world with endless possibilities. Sarah, filled with anticipation, rose prematurely from her slumber, unable to contain her excitement for the day’s thrilling escapade.”

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 01/08/2024

Another day, another AI-generated, Cronenberg nightmare published in (then retracted from) a scientific journal. 🧪🐡 Alternative title: Gout gives you flippers? (Don’t tell JD this.) There are artists! Amongst us! Who know phalanges from flippers! Call them! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

An AI-generated image for a journal article, in which the legs plagued with gout have more than tibia and fibia but phalanges!

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