Feels bad to say, but paper writing/reviewing is definitely cooked.Reviewed 4 papers recently and genuinely felt like I spent more time reviewing them than the authors spent writing them.— Vipul Gupta (@vipul_1011) September 19, 2026
Thomas G. Dietterich on Twitter / X
We are seeing a new trend in submissions to @arxiv (and presumably to conferences and journals): Authors submitting papers whose contents they likely do not understand. 1/— Thomas G. Dietterich (@tdietterich) September 13, 2026
Arjun Raj on Twitter / X
Less review, not more, please. Review can support rigor, but often stifles innovation. I fear that in pursuit of the former, we have ended up with too much of the latter. https://t.co/e8y0gEr3VF— Arjun Raj (@arjunrajlab) March 25, 2026
Adil on Twitter / X
being assigned to review AI generated slop papers is very frustrating. the way this is supposed to work is that first you take the time to write something and then i take the time to read it. if you don't do the first part then i shouldn't have to do the second part.— Adil (@adilsoubki) August 26, 2026
Minimum Queue Publishing - Wesley's notes
A strategy for writing more often without losing momentum
Gautam Kamath on Twitter / X
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. https://t.co/6CJF152u7I— Gautam Kamath (@thegautamkamath) September 16, 2026
rohit on Twitter / X
One of the most fun papers I've read in recent times. Excellent. Reminiscent of the good old days of science papers. pic.twitter.com/4a7qRTloSG— rohit (@krishnanrohit) December 30, 2024
Do we actually need to write research papers at all?
If we are going to lean on the creativity and the cross-domain thinking of human researchers, then surely that should be where the human time goes.
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get started.
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
Zachary Horvitz on Twitter / X
LLM review weirdness... Just renaming an uploaded pdf from "paper.pdf" to "paper_final_draft_pdf_ready_for_review.pdf" boosts average scores(gpt-5.6-terra) pic.twitter.com/wdsjaq9DoI— Zachary Horvitz (@zachary_horvitz) August 10, 2026
The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review
Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about…
