I feel so hopeless about this, it really feels like it’s just bringing down the whole enterprise. Science publishing is a nightmare industry but it’s how we share our work, and it’s the currency we use to advance. Generative AI is a plague.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I feel so hopeless about this, it really feels like it’s just bringing down the whole enterprise. Science publishing is a nightmare industry but it’s how we share our work, and it’s the currency we use to advance. Generative AI is a plague.
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ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes!
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
September 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes!
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
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Hegseth: We'll need to figure out a solution to the kurdish territory with Yurkey
Hegseth: *Turkey
Vance: Yurkey
Waltz: Yurkey
Jeffrey Goldberg: Get his ass
Hegseth: *Turkey
Vance: Yurkey
Waltz: Yurkey
Jeffrey Goldberg: Get his ass
March 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hegseth: We'll need to figure out a solution to the kurdish territory with Yurkey
Hegseth: *Turkey
Vance: Yurkey
Waltz: Yurkey
Jeffrey Goldberg: Get his ass
Hegseth: *Turkey
Vance: Yurkey
Waltz: Yurkey
Jeffrey Goldberg: Get his ass
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January 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The ed board of the Journal of Human Evol resigned. “Elsevier’s response to our repeated concerns about the need for a copy editor has been to maintain that the editors should not be paying attention to language, grammar, readability, consistency, or accuracy of proper nomenclature or formatting.”
reposting with #alttext -- the Note Two folks are talking about is on page 2, not the #2 in the second paragraph, so a couple skeets down from this
December 27, 2024 at 12:35 PM
The ed board of the Journal of Human Evol resigned. “Elsevier’s response to our repeated concerns about the need for a copy editor has been to maintain that the editors should not be paying attention to language, grammar, readability, consistency, or accuracy of proper nomenclature or formatting.”
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
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The Atlantic has done tons of great work. Works with some great writers. But it is compromised by an editorial vision that basically equates to: violence and oppression is when important accomplished people like me suffer, virtue and pragmatism is when important accomplished people like me dominate.
December 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The Atlantic has done tons of great work. Works with some great writers. But it is compromised by an editorial vision that basically equates to: violence and oppression is when important accomplished people like me suffer, virtue and pragmatism is when important accomplished people like me dominate.
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the big bad wolf, writing for the Atlantic: building brick houses might be popular with insular academics afraid of intellectual debate, but in practice they are a stifling barrier to free speech
November 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM
the big bad wolf, writing for the Atlantic: building brick houses might be popular with insular academics afraid of intellectual debate, but in practice they are a stifling barrier to free speech
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“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”
Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion)
Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.
www.insidehighered.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:06 PM
“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”
I’ll never forget having lunches with visiting faculty during grad school where they’d dispense career advice like “you shouldn’t wait to start a family, you just need to find the right balance!” And to a person they all had spouses that had paused or left their careers to do all the care work.
Academia runs on volunteerism that presumes everyone has a full time stable job and ideally a spouse that either is non-working and does all the care work OR is in a highly lucrative field of employment.
It ain’t that way any more.
For many, maybe most, it never really was.
It ain’t that way any more.
For many, maybe most, it never really was.
May 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
I’ll never forget having lunches with visiting faculty during grad school where they’d dispense career advice like “you shouldn’t wait to start a family, you just need to find the right balance!” And to a person they all had spouses that had paused or left their careers to do all the care work.
People complaining about “skeet” while saying “the bird app” and “elmo,” c’mon man
Skeet: funny, charming, has the mandate of heaven
The bird app: please stop, they can’t hear you why are you code phrases, Merlin is the bird app
Skeet: funny, charming, has the mandate of heaven
The bird app: please stop, they can’t hear you why are you code phrases, Merlin is the bird app
July 2, 2023 at 9:14 PM
People complaining about “skeet” while saying “the bird app” and “elmo,” c’mon man
Skeet: funny, charming, has the mandate of heaven
The bird app: please stop, they can’t hear you why are you code phrases, Merlin is the bird app
Skeet: funny, charming, has the mandate of heaven
The bird app: please stop, they can’t hear you why are you code phrases, Merlin is the bird app