David Crotty
@dacrotty.bsky.social
Executive Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Head Chef at The Scholarly Kitchen. Ex-Publishing Consultant, Ex-Editor-in-Chief, Ex-Scientist, Ex-etc. All opinions my own.
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
Funny story: Academia for some reason thinks I authored a paper called "Disclaimer". Yes, they made an AI-generated podcast from it. www.chronicle.com/article/an-a...
An AI Bot Is Making Podcasts With Scholars’ Research. Many of Them Aren’t Impressed.
The product by Academia.edu, authors say, deceives listeners, mangles facts, and draws its own conclusions. Many have left the popular platform in protest.
www.chronicle.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Funny story: Academia for some reason thinks I authored a paper called "Disclaimer". Yes, they made an AI-generated podcast from it. www.chronicle.com/article/an-a...
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“No we can’t ‘just do [X]’. It’s more complicated than that”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Where are your citations?"
"Where are your citations?"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"No, you can't leave that here."
"No, you can't leave that here."
February 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
“No we can’t ‘just do [X]’. It’s more complicated than that”
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"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
February 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on transposable elements in pancreatic cancer, genomic evolution in living fossils, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on transposable elements in pancreatic cancer, genomic evolution in living fossils, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
Bittersweet to see a new issue of @brieferyet.bsky.social out today without my participation but as always, the newsletter offers something really interesting, here an analysis of just what's behind the sudden drop in value for publicly traded scholarly publishers www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/pl...
Plunge | Clarke & Esposito
Professional publishers lose $50B in market value as investors see AI risk
www.ce-strategy.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Bittersweet to see a new issue of @brieferyet.bsky.social out today without my participation but as always, the newsletter offers something really interesting, here an analysis of just what's behind the sudden drop in value for publicly traded scholarly publishers www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/pl...
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"Writing papers is rarely (probably never) the rate-limiting step in scientific research"
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
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Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺—𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗧𝗲𝗫 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀.
But this isn't about LaTeX. And it's not about training data.
They could get… | Adam Hyde | 25 comments
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺—𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗧𝗲𝗫 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀.
But this isn't about LaTeX. And it's not about training data.
They could get papers from arXiv or partner with Overleaf for that.
So w...
www.linkedin.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
"Writing papers is rarely (probably never) the rate-limiting step in scientific research"
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
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"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry."
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry."
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph/ya78V
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The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on transposable elements in pancreatic cancer, genomic evolution in living fossils, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
February 3, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on transposable elements in pancreatic cancer, genomic evolution in living fossils, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
Amazon Music www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJSR2QW...
www.amazon.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Amazon Music www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJSR2QW...
Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/rod...
Rodentia - EP by Paper Street on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 5 Songs
music.apple.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/rod...
On YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Rodentia - YouTube
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February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
On YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
My new favorite band/record. Yes, I may be related to one of the band members, but my opinion that this slaps is entirely objective. Spotify link below, other services in replies open.spotify.com/artist/7C35A...
Paper Street
open.spotify.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My new favorite band/record. Yes, I may be related to one of the band members, but my opinion that this slaps is entirely objective. Spotify link below, other services in replies open.spotify.com/artist/7C35A...
No surprise here www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions
A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
No surprise here www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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It's been 25 years since the publishing of the human genome project.
I'd like to commission a review article for CSH Protocols on how the sequencing methods have evolved and where we might be headed. If you're interested, let me know!
I'd like to commission a review article for CSH Protocols on how the sequencing methods have evolved and where we might be headed. If you're interested, let me know!
January 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
It's been 25 years since the publishing of the human genome project.
I'd like to commission a review article for CSH Protocols on how the sequencing methods have evolved and where we might be headed. If you're interested, let me know!
I'd like to commission a review article for CSH Protocols on how the sequencing methods have evolved and where we might be headed. If you're interested, let me know!
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Updating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!
#Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Actin
#Actin
January 29, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Updating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!
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85% of AI music tracks are “played by bots rather than humans in order to siphon off royalties” - replacing listeners as well as creators…
Deezer says up to 85% of its AI-music streams are now fraudulent
Deezer says it is now receiving more than 60,000 fully-AI tracks every day, and that’s 39% of total uploads.
Deezer says it is now receiving more than 60,000 fully-AI tracks every day, and that’s 39% of total uploads.
Deezer says up to 85% of its AI-music streams are now fraudulent
Deezer says it is now receiving more than 60,000 fully-AI tracks every day, and that’s 39% of total uploads.
musically.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:49 AM
85% of AI music tracks are “played by bots rather than humans in order to siphon off royalties” - replacing listeners as well as creators…
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1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
As Stein’s law has it: “Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:11 PM
As Stein’s law has it: “Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Meanwhile, every social platform dumps your post in the garbage if it includes any links anywhere else. So definitely a good spot for anyone actually making anything on the World Wide Web!
Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Global publisher Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025
Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Meanwhile, every social platform dumps your post in the garbage if it includes any links anywhere else. So definitely a good spot for anyone actually making anything on the World Wide Web!
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'How has AI affected your life?'
Well, I click about four thousand Cloudflare prompts a day, so that's great.
I mean, I PRESUME that's what's happening.
Well, I click about four thousand Cloudflare prompts a day, so that's great.
I mean, I PRESUME that's what's happening.
January 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
'How has AI affected your life?'
Well, I click about four thousand Cloudflare prompts a day, so that's great.
I mean, I PRESUME that's what's happening.
Well, I click about four thousand Cloudflare prompts a day, so that's great.
I mean, I PRESUME that's what's happening.
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It’s worse than ever what else would you expect from 2025 dadadrummer.substack.com/p/revisiting...
Revisiting the Pyramid of Inequality that is Streaming Music
2025 annual totals are worse than ever
dadadrummer.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
It’s worse than ever what else would you expect from 2025 dadadrummer.substack.com/p/revisiting...