The NYT cutting loose one of their most talented book reviewers over a *repost* that critiqued an article from another section of the paper is absurd and a wildly bad judgement call. Shameful and infuriating behavior.
BREAKING: The New York Times has terminated their contract with romance columnist Olivia Waite after she reposted @markjacob.bsky.social 's repost of @marisakabas.bsky.social criticism of the Times’ coverage of new rape allegations about Trump.
That is a sentence I didn’t think I’d type today.
That is a sentence I didn’t think I’d type today.
The New York Times Terminates Contract with Romance Columnist Olivia Waite After Bluesky Repost - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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November 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The NYT cutting loose one of their most talented book reviewers over a *repost* that critiqued an article from another section of the paper is absurd and a wildly bad judgement call. Shameful and infuriating behavior.
5: Aloe from interspecies reviewers
November 3, 2026 at 8:56 PM
5: Aloe from interspecies reviewers
It's complicated by the journals who have no incentive to remove bad reviewers from the pool.
November 2, 2026 at 6:07 AM
It's complicated by the journals who have no incentive to remove bad reviewers from the pool.
This is terrible and should be explicitly against the policy of every peer reviewed journal. Reviewers can’t be feeding people’s unpublished work to theft machines! Come on now!
And yes, Im really angry after a peer reviewer likely fed my unpublished manuscript into an LLM to generate a review and didn't disclose it to the press. Dishonest and unethical behavior is what gAI encourages and breeds.
November 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is terrible and should be explicitly against the policy of every peer reviewed journal. Reviewers can’t be feeding people’s unpublished work to theft machines! Come on now!
So they're even worse than edgy 90's reviewers, nice
November 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
So they're even worse than edgy 90's reviewers, nice
Postdoc and I decided we have all the data we need for a manuscript. Reviewers may think otherwise, but we are going to go for it!
November 3, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Postdoc and I decided we have all the data we need for a manuscript. Reviewers may think otherwise, but we are going to go for it!
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November 2, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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oh of course this is an english magazine lmao. so many dogshit edgelord reviewers trying to be the funniest cunt in the room
November 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
oh of course this is an english magazine lmao. so many dogshit edgelord reviewers trying to be the funniest cunt in the room
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November 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Reviewers/writers, check this out.
Describe your account in four words:
Posting for wholesome perverts 💕
#Anime- Ishuzoku Reviewers
#Oppai #Ecchi #CuteAnimeGirls #lol
Posting for wholesome perverts 💕
#Anime- Ishuzoku Reviewers
#Oppai #Ecchi #CuteAnimeGirls #lol
November 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Describe your account in four words:
Posting for wholesome perverts 💕
#Anime- Ishuzoku Reviewers
#Oppai #Ecchi #CuteAnimeGirls #lol
Posting for wholesome perverts 💕
#Anime- Ishuzoku Reviewers
#Oppai #Ecchi #CuteAnimeGirls #lol
Jesus Christ why were reviewers like this? 😬
November 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Jesus Christ why were reviewers like this? 😬
Finding out who your reviewers are feels quite boring
October 30, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Finding out who your reviewers are feels quite boring
I think a lot of reviewers would unironically want this
October 30, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I think a lot of reviewers would unironically want this
Perhaps you should restrict your predictions of revolutions to your own fields. Because all I see in my field so far: students using gAI to cheat on a catastrophic scale; AI destroying trust between faculty and students; and reviewers feeding unpub work
into LLMs out of sheer laziness.
into LLMs out of sheer laziness.
Two things are true:
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
October 31, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Perhaps you should restrict your predictions of revolutions to your own fields. Because all I see in my field so far: students using gAI to cheat on a catastrophic scale; AI destroying trust between faculty and students; and reviewers feeding unpub work
into LLMs out of sheer laziness.
into LLMs out of sheer laziness.
Who doesn't love conflicting reviewers?
November 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Who doesn't love conflicting reviewers?
Academic progress is made by people telling you your work is no good. (I’m not talking about you, peer reviewers.)
November 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Academic progress is made by people telling you your work is no good. (I’m not talking about you, peer reviewers.)
Reviewers call these sheets the “best decision” they’ve made.
‘My Favorite Sheets That I’ve Ever Owned’ Are Only $17 Right Now
Reviewers call these sheets the “best decision” they’ve made.
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November 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Reviewers call these sheets the “best decision” they’ve made.
but i think we all know and have known for a very long time that even the reviewers who manage to beat a game in time for embargo don't always end up agreeing with their own opinion that they crammed in a fugue state. the best critical work happens in the weeks & months following that wild-ass rush.
November 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
but i think we all know and have known for a very long time that even the reviewers who manage to beat a game in time for embargo don't always end up agreeing with their own opinion that they crammed in a fugue state. the best critical work happens in the weeks & months following that wild-ass rush.
Boosting fellow book reviewers! 💙📚
Rites of Extinction review #RitesofExtinction #books #reading #booksky #horror #horrorbooks #horrorsky #MattSerafini
November 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Boosting fellow book reviewers! 💙📚
A right-wing dork tried to attack my book but instead provided these wonderful blurbs:
"[I]t hit the Times bestseller list immediately upon release and has been hailed as 'stunning,' 'transfixing,' and much more by reviewers."
"I haven’t seen a single negative review."
🤡💩😆
"[I]t hit the Times bestseller list immediately upon release and has been hailed as 'stunning,' 'transfixing,' and much more by reviewers."
"I haven’t seen a single negative review."
🤡💩😆
November 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
A right-wing dork tried to attack my book but instead provided these wonderful blurbs:
"[I]t hit the Times bestseller list immediately upon release and has been hailed as 'stunning,' 'transfixing,' and much more by reviewers."
"I haven’t seen a single negative review."
🤡💩😆
"[I]t hit the Times bestseller list immediately upon release and has been hailed as 'stunning,' 'transfixing,' and much more by reviewers."
"I haven’t seen a single negative review."
🤡💩😆
Surprise! C.B. Cebulski, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko are your portfolio reviewers at Lucca Comics And Games #lucca
Surprise! C.B. Cebulski, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko are your portfolio reviewers at Lucca Comics And Games #lucca
Surprise! C.B. Cebulski, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko are your portfolio reviewers at Lucca Comics And Games
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November 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Surprise! C.B. Cebulski, Frank Miller and Peach Momoko are your portfolio reviewers at Lucca Comics And Games #lucca
so pleased that a long process of understanding male elephants and their personalities has just been published. Many reviewers' comments helped! Animal Behavior & Cognition. doi.org/10.26451/abc...
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November 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
so pleased that a long process of understanding male elephants and their personalities has just been published. Many reviewers' comments helped! Animal Behavior & Cognition. doi.org/10.26451/abc...
It wasn't always this bad. Of course you had youtube reviewers back in the day churning out horrible criticism but at least their was a modicum of effort you had to put in to make a video, which naturally limited the amount.
Now EVERY take immediately gets blasted into your feed nonstop.
Now EVERY take immediately gets blasted into your feed nonstop.
November 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
It wasn't always this bad. Of course you had youtube reviewers back in the day churning out horrible criticism but at least their was a modicum of effort you had to put in to make a video, which naturally limited the amount.
Now EVERY take immediately gets blasted into your feed nonstop.
Now EVERY take immediately gets blasted into your feed nonstop.
Journal editors in political science: what say you? ORCID-based cap of only 3 paper submissions per year? Higher quality work, less demand on editors & reviewers, a way to cut down on AI slop? @benansell.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social
Just had a similar conversation with JEPP’s Berthold Rittberger. We must get serious about the attentional externalities of submissions. I’d favor an ORCID-based cap of three submissions per year, which would force fewer and better papers. If top-50 journal editors got on board, it could happen :)
November 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Journal editors in political science: what say you? ORCID-based cap of only 3 paper submissions per year? Higher quality work, less demand on editors & reviewers, a way to cut down on AI slop? @benansell.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social
Your reviewers volunteered their time for an intellectual conversation. Sending their comments through a machine and returning the output is not quite holding up your end.
October 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Your reviewers volunteered their time for an intellectual conversation. Sending their comments through a machine and returning the output is not quite holding up your end.