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research ethics
6 posts tagged research-ethics.
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Should a language model review your paper?
A 2025 preprint by Sebastian Porsdam Mann and colleagues argues large language models should take over narrow, supervised parts of peer review, and stay away from the human judgment that makes it legitimate. My take, with a preprint's caveats.
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Is the paper you're reading even real?
A November 2025 Royal Society Open Science Perspective, the Stockholm Declaration, argues fake and low-quality science is now produced at industrial scale, with hundreds of thousands of paper-mill articles a year.
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How does your work end up cited on Wikipedia? Not by you.
Getting cited on Wikipedia is an AI-visibility asset, because Wikipedia is one of the most heavily weighted sources behind large language models. But you can't add your own work: self-citation is a conflict of interest. The way to get there runs through other editors.
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The most effective visibility work doesn't look like self-promotion
If self-promotion feels gauche to you, good news: the highest-payoff visibility work isn't self-promotion at all. It's discoverability infrastructure, aimed at the reader, and you can do all of it without ever bragging.
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Findability isn't spray-tweeting: the honest case for promoting your work
A 2024 randomized trial showed that tweeting your paper buys downloads, not citations. So here is the honest version of the case for promotion: be findable, don't broadcast.
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Is it ethical to use AI to promote your research?
Is it ethical to use AI to promote your research? The case that it is unethical not to — because if careful researchers stay quiet, the reckless inherit the microphone.