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Prof. Sam LawlerHAHAHAHA
Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦@sundogplanets I’d bet they’re using some AI to scan papers and automatically generate these. AI definitely can’t tell the difference.
@Chigaze I get these all the time for papers that I've actually published. Which... doesn't make any sense. But it's way funnier when even the paper title is an obvious silly joke!
Winnie 🏳️🌈@sundogplanets I wonder where the  comes from 🤔
Derick Rethans@winniehell @sundogplanets It's often a stand in for fonts that don't have the emdash, —.
gnarf@winniehell @sundogplanets These mails have tons of broken unicode characters, they also love to replace usual characters with obscure ones that look similar. Probably to avoid spam filters, take a look at the words "published", "reviewer" or "journal". And you get this spam the moment your first paper with a publicly scrapable mail address hits the internet :D
Richard Penner@gnarf @winniehell @sundogplanets Arxiv sometimes surprises browsers with encodings as part of their pipeline. I don’t know if they preserve the author’s encoding on the entry form or parse it from the LaTeX submission.
Klara@sundogplanets artificial-not-intelligent, or A!I
Ray McCarthy@sundogplanets
Good to see you can laugh as well as scream!
Must be being back with the goats.
Spherical goats do deflate!
Mike Lund
Andrew@sundogplanets with bonus text encoding errors!
David@sundogplanets Feeling slightly unappreciated because it's been ages since I got an invitation to submit to a fake journal that starts with, "Dear Esteemed..."
Brent Guernsey, Artrocity StudioLooks like a solid nominee for an Ignobel Prize.
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤@sundogplanets
Seems like a simple solution: Publish it. Teach them a lesson.
PS: Not surprised they're clueless. They can't even get punctuation correct in the message they sent you.
This is more of a sales pitch than opportunity.
David JONES@sloanlance all these sorts of journals charge Big Fees, pretending it's a great opportunity.
@drj
Ah, too bad.
Ah, too bad.
Rob Carlson@sundogplanets The ’️ is just icing on the cake
Evelyn Octavia
Dustin Metzgar@sundogplanets reminds me of @ZachWeinersmith 's BAHFest
Kierkethumbs up convincingly@sundogplanets Far side astronomy