RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116273984980325701

Great advice not only for devs but for early career scientists.

"That means that you can take risks. You can ignore the prior art. You can push further and discover what your tastes are and how you might make better software, and differently shaped software. Use those new powers to build the future, not to another piece of the past."

Too many find a niche early on where they can publish lots of papers and get grants and then never leave or stray too far.

#AcademicChater #AcademicFedi

Making the present: Designing with communities of the land

lovely interview with Sergio Bravo Josephson, PhD student at Umeå Institute of Design, about his research, by Jens Persson

https://www.umu.se/en/umea-institute-of-design/about-us/newsroom/stories/sergio-bravo-josephson/
#design #AcademicChatter #AcademicFedi #makers

Hey #AcademicFedi I need your opinion on something 🙏

I was recently asked to review on a platform I did not know: https://www.qeios.com

Anyone knows about it? It did not seem too fishy at a glance but their economic model and who is behind it is not entirely clear to me so I'm a bit wary of potential link with people with an agenda (almost got bitten before).
So I'm not sure I want to encourage people to use that can of platform instead of, say, @PeerCommunityIn until I know more about them and the guarantees that all the content will not be lost five years from now...

All opinions, feedbacks, or boosts are welcome 🙂

#academia #academicChatter #ESR #helpESR #askESR #review #journal #publication #scientificPublication #scientificPublishers

Phew, managed to read through the proofs of an article today. Was a bit tight, only had 15 mins of working time left. It always tends to take longer than expected.

#proofs #publishing #AcademicChatter #AcademicFedi #manuscript #science #research

Talking in the research group about how to go about revising a paper. How many and which of the requested changes should you do? How do you prioritise?
How much can you change before it is not the same paper anymore?

So, is this paper still Theseus et al.?
#phdLife #academicFedi

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00347-9
Researchers can deploy the cheap and transparent model on their own computer system.

Read full paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10072-4

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RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165

I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd

Quick question for the #AcademicFedi: I was recently reminded that I have a #ResearchGate account that I haven't updated in such a long time that I was still supposed to be doing a postdoc in Germany...
So I try to log in, discover that it's using my old German address, switch to the backup address, log in, update the affiliation, and then think "wait, but why am I keeping this"?

So I ask you: is there any good reason why I should not delete this account?

Opinion or boosts welcome 😉

#academia #research