Nature : "More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review"

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

"GPT-5 could mimic the structure of a peer-review report and use polished language, but that it failed to produce constructive feedback and made factual errors."

Yep, that matches the recent review I had, on the basis of which my manuscript was rejected. Vague criticisms that sound bad but are not actionable.

Bigger picture: Nobody has time to do peer review, so many reviews are shoddy. Now shoddy reviews can have AI help, but they're still shoddy reviews.
AI's making it worse, but the fundemental issues here are around workloads.

#academicchatter

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance

A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.

^{Naddaf, Miryam}

On old Twitter, there used to be a pretty vocal and thriving community of academics in various disciplines, as well as people who were learning from them and current grad students when it comes to applying for grad school & prep programs.

Things seem more silent here (with the exception of EECS and physics, perhaps).

Unscientific poll: How many of y'all grad school seekers are here?

#AcademicChatter #GradSchool

• I want to apply to a Masters program (8%, 18 votes)
• I want to apply to a PhD program (14%, 32 votes)
• I haven't found a way to afford grad school (20%, 44 votes)
• I have no interest in grad school (56%, 121 votes)

Between #Matlab and #Python, which one would you recommend to learn, for a student who wants to learn programming (from scratch) to do data analysis? And why?

I am conflicted because I think Matlab is maybe slightly more straightforward to learn, but Python should be more useful in the long term (I know both and need to decide which one to teach my student).

I think answers might differ depending on whether you're in academia or not so I'm also asking about your occupation in the poll:

#Academia #AcademicChatter #Coding #Programming #Neuroscience (in this case)

• I recommend Matlab (as an academic) (1%, 3 votes)
• I recommend Python (as an academic) (54%, 90 votes)
• I recommend Matlab (as a non-academic) (0%, 1 vote)
• I recommend Python (as a non-academic) (38%, 64 votes)
• don't know / see results (4%, 7 votes)

Currently teaching lm/glm.

Does anyone know a real life (publicly available) dataset for which the fitted value vs residuals plot would look like this? (quantitative response y; as many predictors as you want, here it was generated with a single one but if there are several, it's ok)

🔁 welcome

#stats #lm #dataset #rstats #teaching #academicChatter

Trying to read a paper related to my research. I have access to it through my university's arrangements with the publisher, meaning that the uni pays (several £100k per year) for the access.

Publisher website (#Elsevier): error "there was a problem providing the content you requested"

#Scihub website: here you go, read this PDF for free and with no hassle whatsoever

#AcademicChatter

Edit: I wasn't sure that it was really paying "millions per year" so I looked it up. Couldn't find current numbers but I found this list from 10y ago saying most UK unis pay an average of ~£800 000 per year just for Elsevier journals:
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