- I serve on a review committee for an accelerator that has this problem too. Applicants are submitting ~a dozen pages of AI content they've often not fully read. The solution in my opinion, is to SHORTEN submission requirements, and I think the solution for scientific publishing is similar. 1/
- Scientific papers even a few decades old are almost letters-to-a-friend — clear & succinct... Watson & Crick's "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids" was barely a page. Modern academic "omnibus" papers are long and arduous in part because it's a status symbol to be able to produce this. 2/Jan 28, 2026 23:43
- Granted, science papers are also longer because science has evolved since 1953... But much of that is due to our publishing environment. 3/
- Pascal (that's right! Not Twain!) was the first to say, «Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.» ~This is longer than usual because I didn't have enough time to write you a shorter letter. 4/
- >100-page manuscripts are no longer a status symbol — thus, we get to do a hard-reset on scientific publishing. SHORT, POLISHED communications not only avoid AI slop-science; they are also a return to how science SHOULD work. Maybe this is an ad for @kordinglab.bsky.social's new tool, I dunno.... :)
