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@sundogplanets I’d bet they’re using some AI to scan papers and automatically generate these. AI definitely can’t tell the difference.
@Chigaze I get these all the time for papers that I've actually published. Which... doesn't make any sense. But it's way funnier when even the paper title is an obvious silly joke!
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets I wonder where the  comes from
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets artificial-not-intelligent, or A!I
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets
Good to see you can laugh as well as scream!Must be being back with the goats.
Spherical goats do deflate!
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@sundogplanets I wonder where the  comes from
@winniehell @sundogplanets It's often a stand in for fonts that don't have the emdash, —.
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets with bonus text encoding errors!
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets Feeling slightly unappreciated because it's been ages since I got an invitation to submit to a fake journal that starts with, "Dear Esteemed..."
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
Looks like a solid nominee for an Ignobel Prize.
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@sundogplanets I wonder where the  comes from
@winniehell @sundogplanets These mails have tons of broken unicode characters, they also love to replace usual characters with obscure ones that look similar. Probably to avoid spam filters, take a look at the words "published", "reviewer" or "journal". And you get this spam the moment your first paper with a publicly scrapable mail address hits the internet
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets
Seems like a simple solution: Publish it. Teach them a lesson.PS: Not surprised they're clueless. They can't even get punctuation correct in the message they sent you.
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
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@sundogplanets
Seems like a simple solution: Publish it. Teach them a lesson.PS: Not surprised they're clueless. They can't even get punctuation correct in the message they sent you.
This is more of a sales pitch than opportunity.
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@winniehell @sundogplanets These mails have tons of broken unicode characters, they also love to replace usual characters with obscure ones that look similar. Probably to avoid spam filters, take a look at the words "published", "reviewer" or "journal". And you get this spam the moment your first paper with a publicly scrapable mail address hits the internet
@gnarf @winniehell @sundogplanets Arxiv sometimes surprises browsers with encodings as part of their pipeline. I don’t know if they preserve the author’s encoding on the entry form or parse it from the LaTeX submission.
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Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
@sundogplanets reminds me of @ZachWeinersmith 's BAHFest
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@sundogplanets
Seems like a simple solution: Publish it. Teach them a lesson.PS: Not surprised they're clueless. They can't even get punctuation correct in the message they sent you.
@sloanlance all these sorts of journals charge Big Fees, pretending it's a great opportunity.
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