Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
Organizers of the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) used a watermarking system to catch the use…
This AI can improve your peer review — and make it more polite
A newly described artificial-intelligence coach provides feedback to make peer reviews more specific and useful.Credit: Mohd Izzuan Roslan/Alamy…
Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act…
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/Alamy More than 50% of…
how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing…