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Essay
Aug 14, 2025
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14 min read
“The job of the scholar is to contribute to society, and if they are not doing so, they are not successful.” And here, we will agree but with one vital amendment.
The Digest
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The job was advertised in Nature and required an honours degree - meaning research experience proven by a thesis - and a minimum of 2 years experience for an annual salary of £155 (roughly equivalent to £8,778.18 or $11,658 in today’s money).
Jul 31, 2025
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And yet, this framing of quality science has rarely been taken up in earnest, particularly in how science is evaluated or valued in broader society. The dominant understanding of “quality” science – especially in public and policy discourse – is
Jul 24, 2025
“A paper that does not have references is like a child without an escort walking in the night in a big city it does not know: isolated, lost, anything may happen to it”
Jul 17, 2025
I wonder, will you be content to donate your labor to subsidize the salary of a Revenue Acceleration Manager?
Jul 10, 2025
10 min read
The same paper would be rejected by two more top journals before, as an act of desperation, Mojica submitted it to, and it was accepted in, a smaller Q2 ranked journal.
Jul 3, 2025
12 min read
They are a mode of academic conversation – a practice of exchanging ideas and reflections – but they enjoy the benefit of being unbounded by the constraints of the academic journal article.
Jun 26, 2025
Upon examining his critique, it was decided to be sufficiently important that Newton be sent a copy immediately - publication of Hooke’s work, however, was to be delayed.
Jun 19, 2025
For was it not academia that had given me the space-time to pursue my scholarly becoming? Academia had given me the opportunity to make this transformation happen.
Jun 12, 2025
6 min read
The para-academic works for and with others to sustain the very simple (but somehow now very rebellious) idea that thinking and learning are worthy activities with multiple values beyond the scope of any capital-driven market, and which exceed quantification in economic terms.
Jun 5, 2025
One that once claimed to ‘pursue and venerate knowledge and learning as a manifestation of faith in what it means to be a human being.’
May 29, 2025
The aim of examining the finer textures of your individual curiosity is not to categorize it, but to feel, to notice, how it shapes your scholarly life.
