Signal processing researcher and research integrity sleuth. Commenting on PubPeer as "Nerita Vitiensis".https://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3mfagtc24ds2gHow not to show the publication years of prior works. #IEEE19 Feb 2026 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfagtc24ds2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lolkib72f22gThis was a tricky one. Not surprised the reviewers hadn't noticed. #ImageForensics07 May 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lolkib72f22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lnu7sqd3ts2eIt's actually kinda creative, in a terrible, fraud kind of way... [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2025 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnu7sqd3ts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lnhq4zn67c2dHonestly, I've been worried about this for a while. There's so much pollution in the literature, it's only a matter of time before people start picking up nonsense like "profound learning" and "irregular woodland" because they *think* it's an accepted term. It's probably happening already... [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2025 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnhq4zn67c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3llqqiijjts2iTortured phrase of the day: "221B Pastry specialist Road in London"01 Apr 2025 11:12 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqqiijjts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lk4d2n6ids2jI knew the ICCCNT 2024 conference proceedings were full of papermill nonsense, but seeing the actual number in the PPS still shocked me. 346 (!!) papers with tortured phrases! Does #IEEE really have zero quality checks? Brief proceedings-level report here: https://pubpeer.com/publications/579C86A846D8A096B62635E8D7302A [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4d2n6ids2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3liwjlncsps2i [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Feb 2025 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwjlncsps2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3liwak5nfnk24Hey #IEEE, can you explain where your "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at IEEE" page went?! Last week, it was still linked on the front page. Now: It's gone, and the old link goes to "We are sorry, the page you are looking for has been moved or removed." https://www.ieee.org/about/diversity-index.html24 Feb 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwak5nfnk24https://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3liohjhseok23I think this is one of the worst cases of machine-"paraphrased" nonsense I've seen yet. This goes beyond #TorturedPhrases and straight into incomprehensible gibberish. (Springer conference paper; not posted to PubPeer yet since the site's having some issues)21 Feb 2025 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3liohjhseok23https://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3li2cimue6s2eSadly, this one doesn't even stand out from the rest. IEEE publishes some of the top conferences of several fields (CVPR, anyone?), but they are drowned out by a sea of papermill nonsense. Infuriating. In related news, IEEE still hasn't done anything about this: https://pubpeer.com/publications/DF1AAE8A2CEA3C77EBA8D75D3EF41E [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2025 08:47 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2cimue6s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lbrqrp3i4c2dI see the reviewers have been reading this article very carefully... https://pubpeer.com/publications/6C35044BDB081EF8A1546D6190BC7D25 Nov 2024 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrqrp3i4c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lba5je4d622lFor now, let's start with some of my favorite tortured phrases. These were found in "scientific" articles on machine learning, signal processing, and medicine. Can anyone decipher them without context?18 Nov 2024 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lba5je4d622lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nvitiensis.bsky.social/post/3lba5fvxhbc2lOh! Hi everyone! 😲 I guess I should start actually posting here, huh?😊18 Nov 2024 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:oclut4chcha4ez6bdpwpajbm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lba5fvxhbc2l