After Posting a NeurIPS Meme, She Got 4 Papers Accepted, 1 Spotlight

AnkaReuel · x · 2026-09-25

AI researcher Anka Reuel joked that two minutes after posting a NeurIPS meme, she got 4 papers accepted to a NeurIPS track, including one spotlight.

She added the result feels bittersweet: given the state of peer review, many great papers get rejected with questionable reviews, so it's hard to know how much to celebrate.

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