23 February 2026
Artificial intelligence agent takes your class for you
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Making the rounds on socials today is a new generative A.I. agent that logs into your class website and takes the course for you. I have no ...
19 February 2026
Case dismissed against academic publishing
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I’m not going to pretend I’m a legal scholar, but I did call this one from the beginning . Over a year ago, a lawsuit was filed against seve...
16 February 2026
Limitations to scientific progress
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As a comparative biologist, I appreciated Nanthia Suthana’s new opinion piece about how neuroscience research is relatively divided by what ...
06 February 2026
Politics and pendulums
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A lot of people, and organizations, assuming the status quo is immutable. So they talk like politics is all swings and roundabouts. Some day...
27 January 2026
No more H1-B visas in Texas for a year
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Reuters is reporting that Texas governor Greg Abbot is telling Texas’s public universities and other agencies to stop asking for new H1-B vi...
08 January 2026
How retractions happen
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We all have mental models of how we think things work. And it6s always a shock to learn how those models are wrong. For a long time, my ment...
18 December 2025
The academic slop collection is ready!
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“Slop” is Merriam-Webster’ s word of the year . This lines up nicely with my previously announced project of collecting generative AI slop g...
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