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Scholarly Crisis, New Labs, Old Preprints, and Unexpected Beauty

Scholarly Crisis, New Labs, Old Preprints, and Unexpected Beauty

The authors conclude that current cutting edge deep research models can understand the task they must perform, but are unable to search for and synthesise the information needed to complete it - not surprising to anyone who has interacted with an AI model in the context of research.

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On Academic Gatekeeping, Conceptual Thinness and Publishing Crap

On Academic Gatekeeping, Conceptual Thinness and Publishing Crap

As preprints increasingly become seen as reliable scholarly sources - particularly in fields such as physics and computer science - the value of having such articles on your CV has also increased.

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Scholars Pay Themselves

Scholars Pay Themselves

Rather than waiting around for university employment to permit them to be scholars, relying on universities as middlemen who decide how much their scholarship is worth, scholars can directly turn their expertise and skills into livelihood.

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On Living For Scholarship

On Living For Scholarship

It does not confuse the appearance of a scientific article, with its hypotheses, tests, and conclusions, all neatly laid out, with the ways in which the research was actually carried out.

Creation of Knowledge

Creation of Knowledge

These scholars took pleasure in their work, finding joy and beauty in the act of scholarship. As the months passed, Richard became ever more infatuated with them.

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On Academic Freedom, Security and Flattery

On Academic Freedom, Security and Flattery

Luxury conferences in the Swiss Alps, featuring cocktail parties and high profile speakers, like the secretary general of the UN, still continue today.

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Destruction of Knowledge

Destruction of Knowledge

We need to publish special issues, and we need to ensure that these special issues get submissions

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Should Scholars Think?

Should Scholars Think?

We have more facts than ever and we are continually adding to the stock. But what we do with them after we get them depends on our imagination.

Production of Knowledge

Production of Knowledge

You need to be able to show outcomes, by that I mean papers, that come from the research you do. My advice is to focus on building upon previous work that has been done.

Scholar, Stained

Scholar, Stained

It is difficult to deny that today we are increasingly driven by interested knowledge; it is the more sensible way to account for why knowledge is pursued and valued.

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Notes on Research, Beauty, and Progress

Notes on Research, Beauty, and Progress

You could set up a Foundation, with an annual endowment of thirty million dollars. Research workers in need of fund could apply for grants, if they could make out a convincing case.

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Visualising, Violating, and Humanizing Scholarship

Visualising, Violating, and Humanizing Scholarship

Three weeks ago, COPE published new guidance for how to handle retractions of published articles - highlighting just how pressing the problem is becoming.

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