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The Digest
Mar 26, 2026
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8 min read
While the gentleman and the scholar never truly aligned with one another, it would be a mistake to conclude that this encounter between the two had no lasting effects.
Mar 12, 2026
9 min read
Such material would have been unusual for these publications, given that only five women in the entire country would have the training and expertise to understand it at the time it was published.
Feb 26, 2026
The concern is not about the value of applied knowledge, which is self-evident. The risk lies in treating contributions to “how” knowledge as interchangeable with contributions to “what” knowledge.
Feb 12, 2026
10 min read
That would not only be an act of intellectual vandalism ... it would also have damaging consequences for the whole country.
Jan 29, 2026
One such partnership is the Raytheon–UMass Lowell Research Institute, established in 2014 to cement a multimillion-dollar collaboration between the company and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Jan 15, 2026
7 min read
In doing so he provides the reader with rich contextual information about how an academic of his time viewed problem-solving - a cornerstone of research - without speaking of research itself.
Dec 25, 2025
When addressing the possibility of a revival in independent scholarship, one of the most pressing questions hangs over those research disciplines which rely on extensive equipment.
Dec 11, 2025
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.
Nov 27, 2025
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.
Nov 13, 2025
6 min read
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.
Oct 30, 2025
Luxury conferences in the Swiss Alps, featuring cocktail parties and high profile speakers, like the secretary general of the UN, still continue today.
Oct 16, 2025
5 min read
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.
Sep 18, 2025
Three weeks ago, COPE published new guidance for how to handle retractions of published articles - highlighting just how pressing the problem is becoming.
Aug 21, 2025
4 min read
In discussing the extent to which science has met our curiosity about the university, we must remember that different minds are curious about different things.
Aug 7, 2025
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 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 10, 2025
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.
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 12, 2025
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.
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.
May 15, 2025
“The attention a scientist’s work gains from the public now plays into its perceived value. Scientists list media exposure counts on résumés, and many PhD theses now include the number of times a candidate’s work has appeared in the popular science press."
May 8, 2025
Will academics, especially early career researchers, be willing to publish in these journals; will universities recognise these outputs?
May 1, 2025
11 min read
The Early Intellectuals' Social Network
Apr 24, 2025
Scientific education that trains thinkers to stay in their grooves tends to reproduce narrow, uncritical ways of knowing.
Apr 17, 2025
If we no longer believe in the character of the scientist, then the knowledge they produce loses its public legitimacy.
