Post by @regehr@mastodon.social

2025-07-30 23:04 UTC

maybe this could be avoided if academic papers came with some sort of short summary. if this were provided by the authors, then we wouldn&#39;t need to rely on expensive and unreliable tools to generate them. think how convenient it would be if the authors put these summaries right near the start of the paper!! https://www.sigarch.org/the-role-of-llms-in-academic-reviewing/

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@ricci@discuss.systems 2025-07-30 23:13

@regehr@mastodon.social just imagine if we actually valued people taking care in their peer reviews and put effort into reducing the amount of other bullshit they have to do so that they could spend actual time on important activities instead of trying to automate away the important stuff

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@horenmar@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 07:03

@regehr@mastodon.social obviously what we need is a tl;dr in abstract 🙃

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@noodlemaz@med-mastodon.com 2025-07-31 08:10

@regehr@mastodon.social perhaps we stop teaching people to write in the most obscure way possible in science I say that despite having been quite good at it - it's inaccessible to most people, including many other scientists. Make the 'lay summary' (don't like the word) actually normal language. That almost everyone can understand. Stop hiding scientific results behind layers of academese, shibboleth and obscurity. We could have started doing this years ago but no (yes I got the joke)

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@xameer@mathstodon.xyz 2025-07-31 09:13

@regehr@mastodon.social how s that different from abstract section?

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@csgordon@discuss.systems 2025-07-31 11:59

@regehr@mastodon.social my head wants to explode, LLMs are legitimately not good at assessing correctness or correspondence between code and natural language... I have the privilege of being able to just not submit to a venue that asks LLMs to assess correctness of submissions, but that's going to be a mess for junior people if they actually do that

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@mio@shrimp.mio19.uk 2025-07-31 12:25

@regehr@mastodon.social maybe better abstract?

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@stuartmarks@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 19:25

@regehr@mastodon.social Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz#/media/File:Agassiz_in_the_Concrete.jpg

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