“After thoroughly re-evaluating the video…and consulting with our judging panel, Nikon has determined the winning video did not comply with the competition rules” Hard to see this as anything other than the correct decision ht @christlet.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s...

“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.

‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

nytimes.com

The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis risk variants, Caenorhabditis telomere-to-telomere genomes, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...

I should probably turn this into a LinkedIn post when I have a little more brainpower, but here we go. Some quick thoughts/speculation on the announced Taylor & Francis-Informa split alongside the £2.24bn Clarion Events deal, after a quick browse of the numbers and reports 🧵

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

“This guy’s cursing me up. I better reconsider my decision”, said no editor ever…

Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 5d ago

Editors and reviewers, just like authors, are quite busy and are trying their best. Being rude with us editors helps no one. Being understanding, on the other hand, goes a long way. Thank you for your patience.

Other strategies not recommended: citing work by Galileo, Prusiner or Watson & Crick as comparable scenarios.

And finally any version of “Do you know who I am?”. Really no answer to that benefits you in the face of a rejection, and worst-case scenario the retort will be “yeah and you’re lucky we didn’t factor that in to the decision”. 🤣

the tech industry is about to invent books

Informa in strategic shift with Clarion deal and review of academic business: Group doubles down on the live events market with the £2.2 billion purchase of Clarion and the separation of Taylor & Francis. #INF #B2B #liveevents #UKstocks #investing sharesify.com/informa-in-s...

Informa in strategic shift with Clarion deal and review of academic business

Informa announces a strategic shift with the Clarion deal, focusing on B2B growth and reviewing its academic business.

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A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

Informa buys Clarion; spins off Taylor & Francis www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

Informa to buy Clarion for £2.24 bln, plans to separate Taylor & Francis business By Investing.com

Informa to buy Clarion for £2.24 bln, plans to separate Taylor & Francis business

investing.com

arXiv rate limiting submissions in face of AI deluge blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social The cover image highlights the work by Zimina et al., who summarize various approaches for examining meiosis & meiotic recombination in maize, & introduce a set of accompanying protocols to study meiosis in this species🌽 ⬇️Links below

Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest. Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

bbc.co.uk

I thought this weirdness about copyright needed to be pointed out dadadrummer.substack.com/p/rough-music

Rough Music

Chalking the line between music that uses machine learning, and GenAI

dadadrummer.substack.com

They do. But they also say authors should submit their own work, declare funding and COIs, etc. So, you know. 🤷🏼‍♀️ As long as we look to journals to catch bad behavior rather than the field to deal with it (shame, censure, expulsion, etc), well, 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Journals should now probably be requiring peer reviewers to sign statements that they will not upload submissions they're reviewing into any external AI platform; wondering if any editorial boards are discussing this currently

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

nyti.ms

These sound like non-trivial problems.

On similar lines, if we’re not careful: A. Scientific journals will only accept submissions from established researchers working within institutions. B. Data we’ve spent ages making open will be hidden to avoid the expense of continued download by bots.

Daniel Knowles@dlknowles.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal." buff.ly/pykYN6f

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

buff.ly

On craft, AI, and what gets lost when we skip the slow part (gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

nytimes.com

I'm shocked, SHOCKED! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging fees

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years.

nature.com

For those who attended Silverchair's #strategies26, the articles I mentioned during the panel I was on are as follows: AI and reading and Foxes and Hedgehogs here: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/23/a...

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs - The Scholarly Kitchen

Some readers are foxes, and some are hedgehogs. What kind of reader is AI, and how will that impact both the practice of science and the business of journal publishing?

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

"one can’t help but think there’s perhaps an unsubtle critique of the academic career and funding system inherent in a prolific researcher publicly stating that their own publications are both too abundant and not worth reading even for their own students" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/23/a...

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs - The Scholarly Kitchen

Some readers are foxes, and some are hedgehogs. What kind of reader is AI, and how will that impact both the practice of science and the business of journal publishing?

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

"The author would like it to be made clear that this is not an AI-generated image, rather it is a poorly photoshopped collage of separate stock photos." Hell yeah, brother.

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs - The Scholarly Kitchen

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs - The Scholarly Kitchen

Some readers are foxes, and some are hedgehogs. What kind of reader is AI, and how will that impact both the practice of science and the business of journal publishing?

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

A little bit about reading, a lot about how in scholarship the process should be as important as the output. Unfortunately, we were already in a world where output was king way before the AI wave came along and exacerbated all these problems. (500 papers not worth reading!!)

The Scholarly Kitchen@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/23/a...