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Editorial Snapshot: When AI-generated identities enter the scholarly record

Details: Published: 2026/10/21

- G.A., Senior Editor

A recent preprint published arXiv describes a potentially useful new signal for identifying AI-generated content: recurring combinations of apparently fictional names produced by large language models. The study reports that some models do not simply favor individual names when asked to generate fictional experts or researchers; they repeatedly produce particular pairs or groups. In controlled prompting, for example, one model family showed a substantial tendency to generate the same two names together, with the frequency changing across model versions. The authors then traced these name combinations into websites and purported academic records.

Science News: Chicago ranked the world’s most climate-resilient city in global assessment

Details: Published: 2026/10/21

– G.A., Senior Editor

Chicago has been ranked the world’s most climate-resilient major city in a new analysis of 72 urban centers by AlphaGeo, a geospatial risk-analysis company. The company’s Climate Risk & Resilience Index distinguishes between a city’s underlying exposure to climate hazards and its capacity to adapt to them. Chicago received the lowest resilience-adjusted risk score in the analysis, placing it ahead of Addis Ababa, Melbourne and Barcelona.

Editorial Snapshot: Research papers after the PDF: How AI, machine-readable data, and automated peer review are changing how publications are shared

Details: Published: 2026/09/16

- G.A., Senior Editor

For generations, the scientific manuscript has been optimized primarily as a human-readable narrative: structured text containing an abstract, introduction, methods, results, figures, tables, and references, accompanied by supplementary files where necessary. Although journals may ultimately convert accepted manuscripts into PDFs and other publication formats, the material submitted by authors is increasingly more complex than a document alone. Modern research can generate vast datasets, sophisticated computational workflows, versioned code, and machine-learning models, while researchers increasingly rely on AI systems to search and synthesize the literature. The manuscript is therefore becoming less a self-contained narrative and more an interface to a network of interconnected research objects. Standards such as NISO's Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) illustrate how journal content can be represented in structured, machine-readable form, while the FAIR Principles emphasize that research data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

Science News: Targeted gene editing eliminates major canine allergen in beagles

Details: Published: 2026/09/16

– G.A., Senior Editor

A New York-based biotechnology startup has reported the successful generation of beagle puppies lacking the primary canine allergen through CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. The work, detailed in a study published in The CRISPR Journal, targets Can f 1, a lipocalin protein secreted in saliva and deposited in dander that drives allergic responses in an estimated 15% of the human population. The resulting animals represent an early demonstration that precise genetic disruption of this allergen is compatible with normal canine development.

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Editorial Snapshot: When AI-generated identities enter the scholarly record

Science News: Chicago ranked the world’s most climate-resilient city in global assessment

Editorial Snapshot: Research papers after the PDF: How AI, machine-readable data, and automated peer review are changing how publications are shared

Science News: Targeted gene editing eliminates major canine allergen in beagles

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