Question you never asked but will get an answer to anyway: yes, use of hallucinated references should be considered a misconduct #OverlyHonestEditor #ResearchIntegrity Resnik & Hosseini tackle this in their fresh paper
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
Very good outlook at the future of science, and publishing, from an outgoing editor @seva.bsky.social : hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
I just want to cynically note that many papers were sound, narrowly useful, and wildly uninteresting already before LLMs #OverlyHonestEditor
Ever since the rise of the machines, so many people suddenly "completely understand the many demands on my time" #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky In true academic fashion, this is usually followed by asking to hurry tf up.
Ok, if you thought gold standard of science EO was bad, wait until you read this one #OverlyHonestEditor Is almost like an AI wrote it. Is so bad is hard to know where to start to pin down why it's bad... 1/
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Or, you know, they use em dash a lot because we already do, too.
Every time you say "this review/paper/comment was generated with LLM BECAUSE EM DASH YOU FOOL!" a little editor-fairy dies #OverlyHonestEditor
This. Also, an extremely unpopular opinion: it is ok to retract papers for that #OverlyHonestEditor Saying "our claim is wrong, but it's okay because we warned you it's wrong" is not a cheatcode. (What it is, is the evidence of the lack of a spine.) #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity
Hard agree w/prediction.
Wd also point out that publishing replications studies, as defined here, but also those that escape this definition, is a solved problem (it's only not solved if you want it in glam journal but that is a diff't category of problem) #OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing
Screengrab of Transport for London announcement of partial suspension of a subway line caused be the leaf fall on tracks.
We apologise for delays in #PeerReview due to a shortage of editors caused by a significant leaf fall. Leaves, famously, are editors' kryptonite #OverlyHonestEditor In other words, the autumn is here.
To be fair, I'm genuinely worried about a flood of trivial and false findings before we even move to trivial and true or true and interesting #OverlyHonestEditor
What a doozie of a retraction notice: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...!
Hard to know where to look #OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing
(H/t @mattjhodgkinson.bsky.social)
Editor Cat-mondo receives an email with the line:
"I fully appreciate the many demands on your time and the complexity involved in coordinating the peer review and editorial processes."
which then proceeds to accuse editor/reviewer of use of AI #OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing
Editor Cat-zhang just saw a manuscript with v57 in the name, and felt its conscience pang so so hard (then realised this is first submission, which lessened cat's guilt but still sucks for the authors) #ScientificPublishing #JoysOfPeerReview #OverlyHonestEditor
Academia but also many of its supportive industries are places dominated by learned helplessness. We simply just forgot how to actually fight for those things we like to proclaim we believe in #OverlyHonestEditor 8/8
Missed this piece of news earlier this summer: AAAI starts experimenting with AI reviews 4 their #AAAI-26 conference. As always, this is meant to assist & be with supervision #OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview #ArtificialIntelligence Don't be mistaken 1/
aaai.org/aaai-launche...
New @everythinghertz.com episode covers an interesting idea of a pop-up journal. Or, you know, a monograph. You guys discovered a monograph #OverlyHonestEditor
I have some boring thoughts, too...
Excellent thread from former Science EiC about arsenic life paper #retraction. We also often ignore how the role & perception of retractions changed this century, & diversity of views on retractions between & within different communities #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #OverlyHonestEditor
I think every paper should start with authors expounding on their view on the essence of knowledge #OverlyHonestEditor Otherwise, why are we even here? #ScientificPublishing
Saw this, and before realising the context immediately thought, that's one sassy (or/and corrupt) editor... #ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor
Editor Cat-mondo is yet again exasperated with papers that say "we claim X and effect on Y" only to then list limitations that "we collected the data in a way / used analytical approach / did something else naff that makes claims on X completely uninterpretable, esp. wrt Y" #OverlyHonestEditor 1/
Nice. Now do data and code please #ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So, since next week is the favourite time of the year of all editors (not), re-upping this important thread #OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
Super fun new post from @mastroianni.bsky.social. I will say tho, Study 3 doesn't suggest coming to Experimental History meetup is fun. It suggests coming may involve being roped into taking part in a study that might just kill you #OverlyHonestEditor #DumbScience
open.substack.com/pub/experime...
The strain on publishing is not because there are too many journals.
It's because there are too many papers. 3/3
#ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor
In which we revisit the tired argument that journals are to blame for strain on publishing #ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor (all due respect and all that) 1/
@everythinghertz.com I saw "empathy for editors" and immediately assumed this will be about not having any #OverlyHonestEditor
The more I think about those results, the more I feel a follow up survey would be interesting. Some ppl already pointed out it's just a question of time that orange turns blue. #AcedemicSky #ScientificPublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #OverlyHonestEditor 1/
Editor Cat-zhang is expanding a mental list of violently divided fields where ppl seem to love arguing in a way that makes me want to take cover even if just watching: to physics & paleontology (sorry not sorry) I'm adding metascience #AcademicSky #OverlyHonestEditor Not sure why it took me so long
Editor Cat-ski votes for haiku voice to be the new default #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
Your periodic reminder for navigating editorial disgruntlements: if everyone is upset with you, it usually means you're doing things right #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview
This may well be irrelevant given job cuts at ORI #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky
