1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions
of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
Amazon and eBay give star ratings for seller trustworthiness — but should we trust eBay?
Institutions that publicize reputations, from e-commerce to religious authorities, benefit from user participation.
Hiro Okabe studied how such institutions will behave.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Had a chance to present our new work on literary evolution at @ces2026.bsky.social conference. What you see on that slide is a dynamic network of influences between genres of fiction
More @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference talks! @babeheim.bsky.social on norm psychology, and in particular escalator standing norms in Japan
Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.
I just received my copy of the latest book by my @sfiscience.bsky.social colleague Douglas Erwin. A fascinating exploration of how innovation and novelty emerge in evolution. Looking forward to reading it. @multicellgenome.bsky.social @sfelena.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social @brigan.bsky.social
🚨New paper alert!🚨 In our new paper with @oliviermorin.bsky.social, Rowan Hall, and Marie Halo published in the Journal of Language Evolution, we explored the relationship between word length and ambiguity on a large-cross linguistic dataset. 1/6
