james stevenson
@jsstevenson.bsky.social
Bioinformatics and municipal politics. Radicalized by parenthood in Columbus, Ohio. Views ==(=) my own.
https://jsstevenson.github.io
https://jsstevenson.github.io
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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It is fun to go to the movies
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It is fun to go to the movies
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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a civilized society cannot just let a platform like xshitter exist without heavy social sanctions
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
a civilized society cannot just let a platform like xshitter exist without heavy social sanctions
Sighing wearily as I install the Chik Fil A app on my phone
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Sighing wearily as I install the Chik Fil A app on my phone
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When are they gonna let John Wilson do a Criterion Closet episode?
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
When are they gonna let John Wilson do a Criterion Closet episode?
First returns in Columbus, OH!
- Contested city council race is going to be a nailbiter
- Tax levies out to a comfortable lead
- Southwestern BoE incumbents all behind
- Things not looking great for Columbus BoE outsider candidate Mounir Lynch
- Contested city council race is going to be a nailbiter
- Tax levies out to a comfortable lead
- Southwestern BoE incumbents all behind
- Things not looking great for Columbus BoE outsider candidate Mounir Lynch
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
First returns in Columbus, OH!
- Contested city council race is going to be a nailbiter
- Tax levies out to a comfortable lead
- Southwestern BoE incumbents all behind
- Things not looking great for Columbus BoE outsider candidate Mounir Lynch
- Contested city council race is going to be a nailbiter
- Tax levies out to a comfortable lead
- Southwestern BoE incumbents all behind
- Things not looking great for Columbus BoE outsider candidate Mounir Lynch
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Hello, Meowlets! Early Voting for the 2025 General Election starts today. I'll be at 1700 Morse Rd to cast my Meowlot soon, and the BoE will be waiting for you 8am-5pm weekdays, with more details on their website. More details in the newsletter. See you there!
October 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Hello, Meowlets! Early Voting for the 2025 General Election starts today. I'll be at 1700 Morse Rd to cast my Meowlot soon, and the BoE will be waiting for you 8am-5pm weekdays, with more details on their website. More details in the newsletter. See you there!
the Green New Deal was pretty clearly doing “abundance”
August 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the Green New Deal was pretty clearly doing “abundance”
This is an astounding piece of work — the authors employ metadata signatures to suss out entire academic publishing fraud networks. A small subset of PLOS One editors, representing 1.3% of articles accepted for publication, accounted for 30.2% of retracted articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is an astounding piece of work — the authors employ metadata signatures to suss out entire academic publishing fraud networks. A small subset of PLOS One editors, representing 1.3% of articles accepted for publication, accounted for 30.2% of retracted articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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“Folks say “I don’t like kids,” as casually as they’d say they prefer Pepsi to Coke. When people say things like “kids are okay, but I just don’t want them around me,” we don’t generally question that. I think we should.”
Children's Spaces With No Children
Have we lost our very minds?
open.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Folks say “I don’t like kids,” as casually as they’d say they prefer Pepsi to Coke. When people say things like “kids are okay, but I just don’t want them around me,” we don’t generally question that. I think we should.”
Today I learned that “Frontiers of Computer Science” and “Frontiers in Computer Science” are two different journals, but maybe they’re actually kinda the same
August 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Today I learned that “Frontiers of Computer Science” and “Frontiers in Computer Science” are two different journals, but maybe they’re actually kinda the same
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A classic in the genre (link to details www.peri.umass.edu/publication/...)
July 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A classic in the genre (link to details www.peri.umass.edu/publication/...)
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Free the Spokane 9
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch
Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.
www.inquirer.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Free the Spokane 9
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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June 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Highlights of 1-star French letterboxd reviews of RESURRECTION (2025):
"Je ne suis pas venue au festival de Cannes pour souffrir." ("I didn't come to the Cannes Film Festival to suffer."
"Ohlala j’ai dormi" ("Oh la la I slept")
"non"
"Je ne suis pas venue au festival de Cannes pour souffrir." ("I didn't come to the Cannes Film Festival to suffer."
"Ohlala j’ai dormi" ("Oh la la I slept")
"non"
June 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Highlights of 1-star French letterboxd reviews of RESURRECTION (2025):
"Je ne suis pas venue au festival de Cannes pour souffrir." ("I didn't come to the Cannes Film Festival to suffer."
"Ohlala j’ai dormi" ("Oh la la I slept")
"non"
"Je ne suis pas venue au festival de Cannes pour souffrir." ("I didn't come to the Cannes Film Festival to suffer."
"Ohlala j’ai dormi" ("Oh la la I slept")
"non"
Last night my wife Vibe Cooked (prepared a recipe provided by ChatGPT)
May 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Last night my wife Vibe Cooked (prepared a recipe provided by ChatGPT)
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This study on automated traffic enforcement is now 15 years, pretty modestly framed.
Automated enforcement changes behavior over time but notably (in this study of red light cameras) it meant fewer accidents with injuries and more rear-end collisions. Intuitive!
isr.unm.edu/reports/2010...
Automated enforcement changes behavior over time but notably (in this study of red light cameras) it meant fewer accidents with injuries and more rear-end collisions. Intuitive!
isr.unm.edu/reports/2010...
May 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This study on automated traffic enforcement is now 15 years, pretty modestly framed.
Automated enforcement changes behavior over time but notably (in this study of red light cameras) it meant fewer accidents with injuries and more rear-end collisions. Intuitive!
isr.unm.edu/reports/2010...
Automated enforcement changes behavior over time but notably (in this study of red light cameras) it meant fewer accidents with injuries and more rear-end collisions. Intuitive!
isr.unm.edu/reports/2010...