In case you needed another one, I just found a great example why you shouldn't use LLMs for researching stuff.
I came across a citation of an article in a journal that seems a little ... off.
First I googled "[name of journal] legit" and the "AI overview" confidently confirmed "Yes, that seems to be a legitimate journal, and here's why."
Then I googled "[name of journal] sketchy", and the "AI Overview" confidently confirmed "Yes, that seems to be a predatory paper mill, and here's why."
> How Russia is waging a shadow war against the West. Data analysis
> Russia has significantly intensified its campaign of sabotage, subversion, and other hybrid attacks against European countries. These actions aim to destabilize European governments, undermine public support for Ukraine, and weaken NATO's and the European Union's collective ability to respond to Russian aggression.
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We are right now moving into a brand new building and the project will have a pretty decent dedicated compute server, so the facilities are fantastic! :tada: The project is located in Jena, Germany. :de: Contact me in case of questions. Please forward (somehow) to people who might be interested, thanks!
https://bio.informatik.uni-jena.de/mitarbeiterin-erc-bindingshadows/
The Chair for Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena offers the following positions: Multiple postdocs and PhD students as research associates (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) These positions are part of the ERC advanced project BindingShadows, funded by the European Union through the European Research Council. Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) is the predominant experimental
*PhD and postdoc positions as part of the ERC project BindingShadows*
If you are skilled in bioinformatics and/or machine learning and want to work on mind-boggling new computational methods for analyzing small molecule mass spec data, please apply! The project is running for 5 years, there are 2 postdoc and 2 PhD positions, minimum.
Here's how censorship is starting to work in US universities:
"A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum."
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/
PS: Watch the video. The student didn't say to the prof, "I think you're teaching something untrue. Can you say more about the evidence?" She said, "You're teaching something that Donald Trump says is untrue." When the student brought her "documentation" to the university president, he fired the prof and the dean of her school.
h/t @lschiff
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
We just solved a problem that I never wanted to solve: That is, transferable retention time prediction of small molecules. They say that the best king is someone who does not want to be king; so maybe, the best problem solver is someone who does not want to solve the problem? Not sure about that.
Now, that number deserves a celebration: Our web services have served a billion queries! In detail, the CSI:FingerID web service processed 759 million queries, the CANOPUS web service 228 million, and MSNovelist has 17 million queries. During the last 12 months, 3816 users have processed their data using our web services. Excellent! Remember when Gangnam Style
Metabolite identification remains as one of the major challenges in non-targeted metabolomics. Here, we describe the story behind our paper about MCheM, which enhances metabolite annotation through post-column derivatization reactions, integrated into a multiplexed mass spectrometry data framework.
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