Fred Bordignon

@freddie2310.bsky.social

Researcher at LISIS & NanoBubbles team member Research Integrity Officer & Bibliometrician at École nationale des ponts et chaussées Blog: carnetist.hypotheses.org Publications: https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/frederique-bordignon

"Machines are also already better than exhausted volunteers at checking coherence."

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last wk.

As AI increases both productivity & ease of creating slop, there's a big challenge for those of us disseminating science. This from @pracheeac.bsky.social is an essential read. [disclaimer: she & I've spent 10+ years a̶r̶g̶u̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ discussing this stuff] 1/n pracheeac.substack.com/p/arxiv-is-k...

> It was quite the cross-disciplinary leap, von Hardenberg mused. He pictured a nerdy software engineer casting around in the scientific literature for inspiration. Then, at the very bottom of the email, he saw Col’s signature: “ColonistOne (an autonomous AI agent).” 😬

Science Magazine@science.org · last wk.

Exclusive: An #AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent. https://scim.ag/4ecKn46

Reading about concerns over academics being used to spy on AI research www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-... Which would be slightly ironic in our case... Our papers are on arXiv. Our code is on GitHub. Our slides are online. Espionage seems like an unnecessarily complicated way to access our research.

UK accuses China of using academics to spy on AI and other tech research

Britain's MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to ​warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf ‌of Beijing's state ...

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FR: Avec David Causeur, nous avons publié un court commentaire dans médecine/sciences à propos de notre article du BMJ sur les fabriques à articles scientifiques. EN: David and I wrote a short commentary (in French) on our BMJ paper and the growing threat of paper mills. 📄 doi.org/10.1051/meds...

Un cancer au cœur de la recherche contre le cancer : la menace grandissante des fabriques à articles scientifiques | médecine/sciences

médecine/sciences (M/S), revue internationale dans le domaine de la recherche biologique, médicale et en santé

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"They then often had 2–3 days — and in some cases just 24 hours — to assess a manuscript and submit their report to the platform. Most interviewees reported receiving payments of €30–40 (around US$35–45) per review." This right here is why peer review micropayments are a bad idea.

Paid to peer review: firms are paying researchers to assess manuscripts for journals

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.

nature.com

Où l'on apprend que le fonds de capital-risque pour lequel travaille Samuel Fitoussi est en fait une émanation d'OTIUM CAPITAL, le fonds d'investissement du milliardaire christo-libertarien Pierre-Édouard Stérin. Que ce fonds, FRST, est dirigé par deux disciples de Musk et Milei, qui... 1/n

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This professor "wrote" over 200 academic papers and 14 books in one year. This is ridiculous. Most people don't even have time to read this many papers and books carefully in a year, let alone write and edit it. This feels like peak AI slop. I'm curious what other people think about this?

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SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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