Professor of Applied Data Science at Modul University Vienna, Austria. Interested in all things Information Retrieval, AI, Data Science, Digital Libraries. Also FC Schalke 04 & Electronic Music. English & Deutsch.
Generative AI and the Threat to Thinking by Martha Larson and Zhuoran Liu:
"The proliferation of content created using generative artificial intelligence can overwhelm the ability of people to
process information." Larson and Liu consider a model of human thinking to unpack this threat.
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop – first-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author.
https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop
This is an interesting policy change regarding author attendance. Much more inclusive, but will authors struggle now to justify their travel expenses? Would be interesting to see how this affects author participation.
From the ICML 2026 CfP https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026/CallForPapers
Deadline extended to January 31!
Deadline extended to January 31!
Still a few days to go to submit to our SCOLIA workshop at ECIR 2026! If you're interested in scholarly search and recommendation, scholarly document processing, the intersection of bibliometrics/scientometrics and information retrieval, this is your place!
Still a few days to go to submit to our SCOLIA workshop at ECIR 2026! If you're interested in scholarly search and recommendation, scholarly document processing, the intersection of bibliometrics/scientometrics and information retrieval, this is your place!
I was honoured to give a keynote on Information Overload in Academia, and the role of Information Retrieval as a remedy, at FIRE 2025 in Varanasi, India. We need to look at the quality, not just topical relevance, of scientific publications. And think out of the box!
Met lots of great people. Great event and great memories of a very intense and amazing city.
Slides are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18045565.
I was honoured to give a keynote on Information Overload in Academia, and the role of Information Retrieval as a remedy, at FIRE 2025 in Varanasi, India. We need to look at the quality, not just topical relevance, of scientific publications. And think out of the box!
Met lots of great people. Great event and great memories of a very intense and amazing city.
Slides are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18045565.
Academic #InformationOverload hitting the news.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers
This is terrible for students and staff alike and, unfortunately, not the first or the last of such cases in #UKAcademia.
We’re inviting submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026 @ ECIR) — April 2, 2026 in Delft. Focus: IR, NLP, bibliometrics, GenAI, RAG, academic search, integrity of the scientific record.
More info & CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026
@djoerd When I read “AI scientists” I initially thought about non-humans. 😀 Too much talk about “AI researchers” (AIs that do research) these days.
Simple conclusion: don’t use it unless you want to be deliberately misled.
Probably everyone I message with has received a scrambled message from me once in a while. Seems I’m not the only one who has to constantly autocorrect their autocorrection, and it’s not always because I keep hitting the wrong keys with my “Wurstfinger”.
For the sake of arXiv not just being a pool of research articles, but also to provide basic quality assurance, this decision is understandable. I don’t think just accepting everything and letting the reader sort it out is feasible, given we are already overloaded.
Uncertainty is an integral part of scientific research. How can we automatically detect it?
