Brain Labs Submission Guidelines

Cheat sheet to pitching your ideas on Brain Labs

Public domain.

Thank you for checking out Brain Labs! We’re excited to publish your submissions!

But first …

We’re getting a lot of submissions with AI-generated text. We will not publish any article that uses AI to generate text. We use online tools to check suspicious text. Using an API costs big 💰. This means we need to cut and paste. 🤮.

Be kind. Don’t make us waste our time. Avoid AI-generated text.

A request to writers

Before we get into the deets, a request.

Please read this article carefully!

We sometimes get submissions articles in which it’s apparent writers are not reading these guidelines carefully. Don’t be that writer!

Also, on that topic …

Please read the private notes thoroughly, especially the ones left by “Automated Inspector”.

We run a Python script called Automated Inspector on all submitted articles. It flags some low-hanging fruit, like titles in the wrong case. This script saves our editors hundreds of hours annually, so they can spend more…