Our Research Integrity Manager @mattjhodgkinson Hodgkinson spoke to Gemma Conroy at @Nature about the use of ChatGPT and other generative AI by paper mills.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02477-w

#PublicationEthics #NatureNews #ChatGPT #PaperMills #AIethics

🐋🕵️‍♂️ Mysterious appearance of alleged Russian spy Beluga in Sweden! 🇷🇺🌊
Uncover the intriguing story of a Beluga whale that has been dubbed an alleged Russian spy after mysteriously showing up in Swedish waters! 🕵️‍♂️🌍 http://ow.ly/kqnH50OFffr

#NatureNews #BelugaSpy

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

"There are already clear #authorship guidelines that mean #ChatGPT shouldn’t be credited as a co-author, says Matt Hodgkinson, a research-integrity manager at the UK Research Integrity Office in London, speaking in a personal capacity."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z

#NatureNews #AIwriting #AIethics #PublicationEthics

Essex: Fox trashes kitchen, takes a nap on counter and refuses to leave
#foxNews #news #xp #natureNews

https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/22/essex-fox-trashes-kitchen-takes-a-nap-on-counter-and-refuses-to-leave-17810480/

#NatureNews How many yottabytes in a quettabyte? Extreme numbers get new names. Prolific generation of data drove the need for prefixes that denote 10²⁷, 10³⁰, 10⁻²⁷, and 10⁻³⁰. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03747-9