Marie Kunešová
@mkunesova.bsky.social
Researcher at Uni of West Bohemia (@zcu.cz).
I do speech processing (speaker diarization, TTS).
Sometimes I dabble in scientific integrity too.
I do speech processing (speaker diarization, TTS).
Sometimes I dabble in scientific integrity too.
Reposted by Marie Kunešová
Hundreds of ads by #papermills, offering authorship on scientific articles for a fee, wound up published in conference proceedings. Are these venues a back-door route that’s too easy? #scicomm #retractions #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
www.science.org
August 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Hundreds of ads by #papermills, offering authorship on scientific articles for a fee, wound up published in conference proceedings. Are these venues a back-door route that’s too easy? #scicomm #retractions #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
"The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerability."
An interesting preprint on how the flood of AI slop papers also lowers the acceptance bar for bad human papers.
An interesting preprint on how the flood of AI slop papers also lowers the acceptance bar for bad human papers.
Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents
The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerability. This position pa...
arxiv.org
May 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
"The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerability."
An interesting preprint on how the flood of AI slop papers also lowers the acceptance bar for bad human papers.
An interesting preprint on how the flood of AI slop papers also lowers the acceptance bar for bad human papers.
Reposted by Marie Kunešová
May 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Marie Kunešová
How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper?
To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries.
Link below!
To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries.
Link below!
April 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper?
To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries.
Link below!
To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries.
Link below!
Reposted by Marie Kunešová
Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences?
New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵
New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵
Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...
arxiv.org
April 27, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences?
New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵
New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵