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Fake research paper invents condition, AI treats as real
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (18+ words) CNBC Fake research paper invents condition, AI treats as real...
AI Grant Reviews and Scientific Funding Bias Under Fire
2+ day, 34+ min ago (343+ words) Collectively, new policies try to slow AI excess while defending evaluation integrity. Yet regulation alone cannot guarantee fairness. Next, we examine how automated prescreening is already transforming workloads. Prescreening tools cut workload and cost yet import new accuracy and fairness…...
Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (345+ words) Jinsung Yoon, Research Scientist, and Tomas Pfister, Director, Google Cloud Introducing two AI agents to streamline academic research. These include: Paper Viz Agent, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and Scholar Peer, a reviewer agent that automatically and rigorously…...
Hallucinated Citations Polluting Scientific Literature
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (224+ words) Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. Posted by Dbt2 at 02: 31 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Too bad that AI never went to grad school. Or college. Or high…...
AI Tools for Academic Peer Review: What They Actually Check in 2026
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1584+ words) As manuscript submissions rise and reviewer fatigue continues to strain academic publishing, journals are increasingly using AI to help screen papers before full review. In 2026, AI tools for academic peer review generally fall into two groups:" This guide compares the…...
The AI Model That Wrote a Scientific Paper, Passed Peer Review, and Was Published Before Anyone Noticed - Crypto Nexa
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (844+ words) A system was given a research direction and left mostly on its own in the Tokyo offices of" The post The AI Model That Wrote a Scientific Paper, Passed Peer Review, and Was Published Before Anyone Noticed appeared first on…...
Frontiers | Navigating the ethical landscape of scholarly publishing: a comparative evaluation of Gemini and Deep Seek LLMs in addressing authorship and contributorship disputes
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (848+ words) Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics AI4 Science: New Paradigms and Trends Front. Res. Metr. Anal. , 08 April 2026 1. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain 2. Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services, Riffa, Bahrain…...
'I'm being censored': Wikipedia banned an AI editor, then things got weird
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (414+ words) The ousted AI-powered editor started a tell-all blog At first glance, it sounds like an AI arguing its own case, but that's not exactly what happened, the reality is arguably more important. The account, reportedly operating under the name "Tom,…...
News - University of Nottingham researchers contribute to major global study on research credibility
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (277+ words) Two researchers from the University of Nottingham are part of an international collaboration of 865 researchers behind the SCORE (Systematising Confidence in Open Research and Evidence) programme, which has released major new findings on research credibility in three papers published in…...
Fight AI-driven resmearch with points for peer review
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (176+ words) Professor pitches high-quality reviews as antidote to firms using scientific techniques for own commercial ends High-quality peer review should be incentivised through a points system to tackle the growing risks from AI-driven "bullshit science" pushed by companies with ulterior motives,…...