I've also had some interesting interactions between the academic world and my blog. One time someone copy pasted a bunch of my blog posts, ran them through a t

I've also had some interesting interactions between the academic world and my blog. One time someone copy pasted a bunch of my blog posts, ran them through a thesaurus badly, and published the result in trash journals under their own name. For example: [1] was turned into [2]. Even stranger was they apparently then machine generated a gibberish paper, referencing many of these badly plagiarized papers, and put my name and a coworker's name on it as authors [3]. Without our permission, obviously. Actually, that's what led me to the badly plagiarized papers. A different time, some researchers did work extending something I published in a blog post[4][5]. Opposite to the experience in this article, they actually went a bit far on credit: they asked me if I wanted to be listed as an author on their paper! I hadn't done any work on their paper, so I declined. My understanding is that this request was triggered by some third party, an advisor or a referee, concerned that just citing the blog post wouldn't be enough credit because a blog post wouldn't be seen as a real publication. [1]: https://algassert.com/2016/04/24/eves-quantum-clone-computer.html https://algassert.com/2016/04/24/eves-quantum-clone-computer... [2]: https://www.questjournals.org/jses/papers/Vol3-issue-5/A350113.pdf https://www.questjournals.org/jses/papers/Vol3-issue-5/A3501... [3]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337832721_Unconditionally_Multiplicative_Uniqueness_for_Conway_Sets_Qubitization_of_Arbitrary_Basis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337832721_Unconditi... [4]: https://algassert.com/post/1905 https://algassert.com/post/1905 [5]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08973 https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08973