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2026/01/28
On January 1, 2026, Science, the flagship journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, banned AI-generated text outright. The policy is unambiguous: "Text generated by AI, large language models, or similar algorithmic tools may not be used in papers published in Science journals." In marked contrast, Nature...
2025/12/12
We will be open until 18:00, December 26th (Friday), and will resume normal business from January 5th (Monday) in the New Year. If you have an urgent request for English proofreading during the holiday period, please email us at [email protected], and add 'URGENT’ in the subject field. Please note that...
2025/11/26
Of all the problems AI introduces into scientific writing, the most dangerous may be one researchers are little likely to notice. A study published in Royal Society Open Science compared AI-generated summaries of research papers against human-written summaries of the same papers. The finding: AI-generated summaries were 4.85 times more...
2025/07/29
We will close from Aug 13th (Wed) to Aug 15th (Fri) for the Obon holiday. For urgent requests, please email [email protected] with ’URGENT’ included in the subject line. For translation requests, we are unable to deal with these during the holiday - please contact us from Aug 18th (Mon)...
2025/07/23
Data now confirm the shift in biomedical publishing in 2023. A vocabulary analysis of 15 million PubMed abstracts by Kobak et al. in Science Advances found that the word "delve" appeared at 10 times its historical frequency starting in 2023. "Pivotal" and "meticulous" showed similar spikes. The researchers concluded that...
2025/05/01
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2025/02/17
We recently experienced the most alarming thing I have encountered in thirty years of working with scientific text. We were revising a paper on lab automation which was technically demanding with dense quantitative data. The revision involved an AI-assisted workflow. The AI was given the existing manuscript and asked to...
2024/12/18
We will be open until 18:00, December 27th (Friday), and will resume normal business from January 6th (Monday) in the New Year. If you have an urgent request for English proofreading during the holiday period, please email us at [email protected], and add 'URGENT’ in the subject field. Please note that...
2024/12/10
Pre-publication peer reviewer has so many problems. Here's something new - financial fraud.
2024/09/06
Nature recently published a survey on AI in research. Asked about the impact of large language models on scientific publishing, one respondent offered a memorable phrase: "Well-formulated crap." That, the respondent said, is what AI produces when applied to scientific writing without adequate human oversight. Text that is grammatically flawless...