Introducing the *DELUXE* paper mill package: 🤖 bots to mimic extra downloads 🫯 2 grad students to have a vindictive Twitter debate about the paper's methodology 📈 1 postdoc to get memorably drunk at a conference, clutching your paper, shouting "they've done it again, those brilliant bastards!"

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🚩 New research published in @pnas.org by @baptscc.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, David Causeur and @aidybarnett.bsky.social has identified suspicious citation numbers as a red flag for paper mill-generated research, with fake cancer papers garnering many more citations than genuine papers.

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“This short, spirited work is a love letter to the written word, penned with the heartfelt and passionate language of a jilted spouse.” Nice review by David Adam in Nature of James Marriot’s new book on reading. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline

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A major Australian funder will now use a conditional lottery to award funding. I think this is a great policy change and lotteries are likely to become more common as AI-driven application numbers grow theconversation.com/some-austral...

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