The 7 deadly sins of AI in medicine 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

50% of AI generated responses to health questions were ‘problematic’ 🧪

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Intentionally fabricated study gets published and is retrieved in LLM searches - Humans and AI are both deceived and the disinformation is perpetuated www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Intentionally fabricated study gets published and is retrieved in LLM searches - Humans and AI are both deceived and the disinformation is perpetuated www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A nap can recalibrate homeostatic and associative synaptic plasticity in the human cortex Nighttime sleep renormalizes net synaptic strength (homeostatic plasticity) and the inducibility of long-term potentiation (LTP)-like plasticity (asso…

Don’t feel guilty about napping - it’s good for your brain 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

AI errors are Inevitable 🧪 www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Development and Use of AI Chatbots for Health Behavior Change: Scoping Review Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are technologies that facilitate human-computer interaction through communication in a natural language format. By increasing cost-effectiveness, inte...

Recent review of the literature on AI impacts on health behaviour change 🧪 www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79677/

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Hallucinated citations are polluting scientific literature 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...

People have variable skills in using AI to search for a diagnosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Authorship, titles and open access as drivers of citation performance in orthopaedics: a scientometric analysis - Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Background Bibliometric analyses are increasingly used to explore how scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, and perceived. In orthopaedics, research output has expanded rapidly over the past ...

What increases citations? More authors, longer titles (not with more or longer words or question marks but with colons and dashes), avoiding all caps, doing Network MAs and SRs 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media | CBC Radio It's been 25 years since Wikipedia first launched, but what does its future look like in a world where traditional media is on the decline and AI is on the rise?

www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday... AI crawler use rising at the expense of local media 🧪

Where should SocArXiv draw the AI line? A case that helps sort out the questions for an AI policy at SocArXiv.

Where do we draw the line in AI use for manuscript writing? 🧪 socopen.org/2026/02/22/w...

Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Student Stress Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear, has students on edge.

Students stressed by potential AI detection of plagiarism 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Journal of Physiotherapy on X: "🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor" / X 🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor

Predatory journals “As predatory journals continue to thrive, the burden falls on researchers, institutions and policymakers to safeguard the credibility of scientific literature” 🧪x.com/jphysiother/status/20203...

“Beginning February 11, 2026*, arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation” 🧪 blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/u...

AI output depends on AI input. More open access for science is needed 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

Is Wikipedia needed now more than ever? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte....

Publications - what languages are most prevalent? 🧪
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When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.

The delay in publishing corrections to manuscripts 🧪 theconversation.com/when-science...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

“analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles “ 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

What Should I Cite? A RAG Benchmark for Academic Citation Prediction With the rapid growth of Web-based academic publications, more and more papers are being published annually, making it increasingly difficult to find relevant prior work. Citation prediction aims to a...

What should i cite?
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Strategies to Support Ethical, Safe, and Effective Use of Generative AI/Llms in Healthcare Research Activities | Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation

Find out how to support the ethical, safe & effective use of generative AI & large language models in health care research. Join the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation on Feb. 9 for a session with Alison Hoens & Pascal Bolla: https://ow.ly/JXxk50XXpGG UBC Department of Physical Therapy

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

Wikipedia data used to train AI 🧪 apnews.com/article/wiki...

Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!

Public domain ebooks 🧪 standardebooks.org/blog/public-...

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Color Engineering The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.

Color engineering for science communication 🧪 www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...

Safeguarding Open Science from exploitative practices Open research and data transparency are a bulwark against unethical activities, but can also introduce integrity risks. In this Perspective, Danny Maupin, Matt Spick and Nophar Geifman argue that free...

Are open access datasets the solution to the risks of open access science ? 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...