Scientific publishing has barely adapted to the internet ... but sure likes to profit from LLM-generated papers that bring those sweet APCs.
The publisher makes money. Thatโs the value. Why bother with actual scientists (reviewers, editors, readers) if not needed, since all authors need is tokens of progress for career progression. The papers wonโt be read anyway by any committees that will evaluate their CVs.
Some fraction of academia has fallen into a garbage gyrus.
@SciMag @news-from-science-SciMag
By their own data, the method doesn't work? Also, mesuring novelty is a bad idea to begin with, because novelty is largely unrelated to impact. But the method sure gives publishers something to point to for their decisions, offloading or even dispensing with the need for judgement. Of course Elsevier is interested ...
The past two months, I helped coordinate the "Phase Transitions..." research semester programme at CWI (https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/research-semester-programmes/phasecap-phase-transitions-in-combinatorics-algorithms-probability/). It ended last Friday, and still I feel "hungover" from the intensive blur of activities/developments/ideas. Very grateful to my team --Feri, Jop, Serte, Carla, Noela, Guus-- we did it!
In parallel, during the same two months, after the dawn of recognition of what has arrived (after a tip from Jeroen), I underwent a kind of phase transition myself. Avowed refusenik in March (see https://mathstodon.xyz/@kangmeister/115252549665766971); an "anti-Gemini" research working group in April; compulsive button-pressing in May. (And yes, I *know* it is easy to set it up for pressing fewer buttons...)
That poetic part of me (or whatever remains of it) is allured by the term, "cognitive surrender", if only to help in my search for the right words to describe the sharp changes underway in various facets of mathematical life/growth.
#CWI #combinatorics #algorithms #probability #conferences #generativeAI #formalization #lean #scientificpublishing
Dear scientific publishers:
Please ๐ STOP ๐ inserting spaces after each period and slash in a #DOI in a reference list.
DOIs are (some sort of) web links, not regular sentences. Therefore, it's doi.org/abc.de, not:
doi. org/ abc. de
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