u/Substantial_Math4939

One of my junior lab mates is presenting her first paper at a conference. She's a broke PhD student with no budget to buy "fancy" clothes. She ran her wardrobe by me, asking if her plain black (non see-through) leggings would do. My first response was "hell no!". But maybe I'm a bit conservative? I just feel that as a woman and POC in our field (healthcare), she'll already have to work extra hard to be taken seriously.

Also, I'm much shorter and heavier than she is so she can't possibly borrow any of my pantsuits. Same applies to her other good friend in the lab. She moved recently to our area and spent some years in foster care, so she doesn't have family or people she could borrow from either.

ANyone else have a toddler like this? My daughter (almost 2) doesn't like cheese in any form, in anything. Mac n cheese, pizza, you name it and she won't eat it. Devours yogurt. Drinks plain milk. But no cheese.

She's also weird with fruit. Doesn't like berries but adores bananas. Loves bread, especially French toast. Has a few bites of chicken or scrambled eggs if she's in the mood.

I've a PhD student in my department whose first language isn't English and who did his undergrad in another language and field altogether. So his writing skills are....kind of not there. I edited his abstract for a conference and it took nearly half a day (so many questions "do you mean X or do you mean Y" "A means B, is that what you wanted to say?"). The poster wasn't so bad as it was mostly bullet points. Now he's working on a full paper and I really don't have time to babysit him through it. Can I just tell him to find an editor to do it? I was thinking of Editage because they work a lot with non-native speakers or Wordvice.

PS: Don't suggest Grammarly or any AI tool. He uses it already for his IMs and sometimes he sounds just weird when it's a technical topic because he just clicks on whatever the tool suggests.

ANyone else have a toddler like this? My daughter (almost 2) doesn't like cheese in any form, in anything. Mac n cheese, pizza, you name it and she won't eat it. Devours yogurt. Drinks plain milk. But no cheese.

She's also weird with fruit. Doesn't like berries but adores bananas. Loves bread, especially French toast. Has a few bites of chicken or scrambled eggs if she's in the mood.

Yup, my daughter doesn't like cheese in any form, in anything. Mac n cheese, pizza, you name it and she won't eat it. Devours yogurt. Drinks plain milk. But no cheese.

She's also weird with fruit. Doesn't like berries but adores bananas. Loves bread, especially French toast. Has a few bites of chicken or scrambled eggs if she's in the mood.

I'm talking about the 100% AI slop papers: those spewed out by ChatGPT with one click.

I work with a lot of people who don't speak English as a first language and I've seen them spend a lot of time reading papers only for me to point out they're reading AI slop and they've wasted their time. In my field, AI slop literature reviews are especially common because literature reviews are very popular.

What are the ways you can easily identify an AI generated paper? One tip I already give people is to look at the images. If they make no sense or have nonsense text, they're probably AI-generated and the paper will probably be shoddy quality anyway, even if it's not AI. Any other smoking guns?