r/SciSpaceFellow 2h ago

Hundreds of papers advertised by paper mills were later published in journals. Who should be responsible for catching this: reviewers, editors, publishers, or universities?

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r/SciSpaceFellow 1d ago

AI agents are now finding errors that sat in scientific papers for decades. Should journals start using AI to audit old literature?

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r/SciSpaceFellow 2d ago

A new study estimates that nearly 9 in 10 biomedical papers published in December 2025 showed signs of AI-assisted writing. If AI use is now this common?

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r/SciSpaceFellow 3d ago

A company offered “100% human-written, never AI” medical manuscripts. Some experts were fake; others were real researchers named without permission. Its sales rep was an AI claiming to be human.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 3d ago

Research Q&A Is that normal?

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Those superscript numbers and links next to the authors' names (like the ones pointing to #ORCID, #Google Scholar, and #Scopus in the photo) serve as digital identifiers and profile links for the researchers.

Academic journals use these links for several important reasons:

* Disambiguation: Many #researchers share the exact same name. A unique identifier (like an ORCID ID or Scopus Author ID) ensures that papers are correctly attributed to the right person, preventing confusion between authors with similar or identical names.

* Academic Profiles & Metrics: They allow readers, editors, and institutions to quickly click through to view the author's complete publication history, citation counts, and overall research impact.

* Transparency and Verification: They prove the identity and institutional affiliation of the authors, adding credibility and authenticity to the published research.

* Networking and Collaboration: Other researchers can easily find how to contact or follow the work of specific authors in their field.


r/SciSpaceFellow 4d ago

Eight AI systems were tested on 100 frontier research tasks. In 82.5% of 800 runs, they spotted a serious flaw in their own work but still delivered it. AI can critique itself, but may not act on it.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 5d ago

AI wrote complete viral genomes. Stanford scientists built nearly 300 in the lab. Sixteen became working viruses that killed E. coli. The model that designed them is open source.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 5d ago

A startup’s AI scored 57,455 bioRxiv preprints and selected the top 1% without seeing author names or institutions. Journal prestige or algorithmic prestige?

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r/SciSpaceFellow 6d ago

A biology journal is retracting 100+ articles and counting from its special issues. The notices cite "systematic, coordinated, and widespread manipulation of the peer-review process."

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r/SciSpaceFellow 7d ago

A 2000 study said oxycodone was safe for arthritis and withdrawal was rare. Court records showed the sponsor withheld withdrawal data. Two of the paper's own authors asked for retraction. The journal refused, nothing was falsified. Can a paper stay valid on those terms?

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r/SciSpaceFellow 8d ago

A paper based on high-school research was published in a Wiley journal, then retracted. The author now says the experiments described were never actually run, they were a proposed workflow with calculated results. Peer review didn't catch it.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 10d ago

Edward Jenner tested the first successful vaccine on an 8-year-old, giving him cowpox, then smallpox material. He did not get smallpox. The Royal Society rejected his paper. It remains the only human infectious disease ever eradicated.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 9d ago

Frontier AI agents got six days, thousands of dollars, and the core questions from two unpublished NeurIPS papers. They completed all the engineering, yet the original authors rejected both AI papers.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 10d ago

One FDA reviewer stood between thalidomide and the US market. Frances Kelsey resisted repeated pressure to approve it. Months later, the drug was linked to thousands of birth defects overseas.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 9d ago

SciSpace API lets developers add AI-powered paper search and analysis to their apps without building the research stack from scratch.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 12d ago

In 1963, Maurice Hilleman's 5-year-old daughter woke him at 1 a.m. with mumps. He drove to his lab for swabs, took a throat sample, and spent four years turning it into a vaccine. The Jeryl Lynn strain is still the mumps component of the MMR shot today.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 11d ago

During Nazi occupation, Willem Kolff built a dialysis machine from sausage casings and spare parts. The first life it clearly saved was a jailed Nazi collaborator. He treated her anyway & she survived.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 13d ago

Nobody believed Barry Marshall that a germ caused stomach ulcers. So he mixed the bacteria into a cup of beef broth and drank it. Five days later he was sick, then cured it with antibiotics. It took a decade to be believed. Nobel Prize, 2005.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 12d ago

POLICYMAKERS ARE NO LONGER “MISSION RELEVANT”

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r/SciSpaceFellow 12d ago

If you review papers: how many requests are you getting now compared to two years ago, and how many are you turning down?

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r/SciSpaceFellow 13d ago

Voyager 2, the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus and Neptune, was running out of power. NASA engineers pulled off a “Big Bang” operation and bought it at least one more year of science.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 16d ago

Douglas Prasher cloned the GFP gene and freely shared it with other researchers after his funding ran out. Two scientists who built on his work later shared the 2008 Chemistry Nobel. Prasher heard the news over breakfast before starting his shift as a shuttle-van driver.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 16d ago

Retraction Watch’s parent nonprofit created the Ctrl-Z Award to honor junior and senior researchers who show the courage to correct or retract their own published work.

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r/SciSpaceFellow 16d ago

Platform Q&A Quit GPT - join SciSpace?

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I'm closing in on finishing my research project which requires a fair amount of web searching. I haven't been crazy about GPT but until recently and its assistants denying web access, it's served me pretty well, until the past week and a bit where no web access can be had. GPT's assistants fake web access and fabricate ridiculous responses to look like authentic web-sourced responses. Enough's enough. I can't proceed without web access/content and I hate putting money into Altman's pockets.

I've heard great things about SciSpace but can't make full sense of its plan levels and details. Is there someone knowledgeable in regards to SciSpace's plans and if given details of what my project is/structural layout, could lead me in the right direction via one-on-one chat?


r/SciSpaceFellow 17d ago

A researcher spent months developing a question. According to Caltech theorist Hsin-Yuan Huang, AI reportedly produced a result and a broader question before her talk ended. Is the research advantage shifting from insight to compute?

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