wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
anil oza
I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
Exciting to see our new paper exploring how human activities reshape predator–prey interactions featured on this month's cover of TREE!
A big thanks to @predator-smarts.bsky.social and the team, and to Angus Emmott for the fantastic cover photo!
Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Our paper about how resource variability shapes the ecology of social information is out in this issue of TREE! This eco-evolutionary lens helps explain why collective sensing has evolved across such a wide range of lifeforms, from microbes to blue whales.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
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If you’re getting shitty about arxiv penalising obvious AI slop that the authors have not checked then maybe you should rethink academia as being a place for you. As an EIC of a journal I can tell you that this stuff is ridiculously pervasive and takes time away from reviewing actual human work.
Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵💫
The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
