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The Academy
Updated 26d
Collection of ideas to do with academic institutions, including comments on trends, innovations and new policies, and common practices
Collection
Updated 26d
Collection of ideas to do with academic institutions, including comments on trends, innovations and new policies, and common practices
modular research preprint server demo with meaningful social context
a concept preprint server demonstrating what kinds of features would be possible in the future with more modular research publishing and an open social protocol to layer in the public discourse in meaningful ways.
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
How and When to Involve Crowds in Scientific Research - The Book
This book explores how millions of people can significantly contribute to scientific research. Discover main elements, authors, and who this book is for and why.
The Young Billionaire Behind the War on Bad Science
Meet the former Enron trader and hedge fund founder who's on a quest to expose bad science
science funding and the cherry picking problem
Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…
University science in the US needs a coherent plan
The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Universities reported that graduate student enrollment in major research universities, which award half of all doctorate degrees in the United States, is down 15% compared to a year ago. And no wonder, considering the effect of recent immigration policies that deter international students and the financial uncertainties that universities are facing given the unpredictable nature of federal funding. The ability to support new doctoral students depends heavily on research grants, and any responsible administrator would be cautious about making commitments to students they can’t keep. This is discouraging to the scientific community but should be alarming to everyone.
IPFS (@ipfs.tech)
🪩 Introducing matadisco.org! — a way to discover open datasets via #atproto that doesn't depend on any single institution staying online. 🕺🏼 We have more public data than ever (satellite imagery, climate models, genomic sequences), but finding it is still painfully hard. https://matadisco.org
One thing I wish we talked about more explicitly with #earlycareer faculty is how gradually the pool of people who'll write their tenure letters develops. Impressions form slowly over the pre-tenure years, which makes visibility much easier to build over time than to manufacture later.
When students stop reading long books, what do they lose? According to one professor: the ability to follow complex arguments, think independently and wrestle with difficult ideas. theconversation.com/college-professors-face-an-em…
What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a PDF and read linearly, top to bottom. But most of us already break that assumption: results first, figures before text, abstract then conclusion. 🧵 #scisci
The release of #ClaudeDesign left me wondering what a tool like this could look like for academics (rather than designers) I then used Claude Design to mock it up for me Let me show you what came of it... 🧪🤖🧵 rafaelmbatista.com/manuscript/index.html
