Monday Edition
Five takeaways from the MIT report on AI in higher ed
Also: Two AI math discoveries, unconventional science funding, and bunsen burner mythology
Science Communication
Also: Controversial changes to NIH peer review, 90% of biomedical papers show signs of AI use, and Harvard shuts down its writing center
Science Communication
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I'm on vacation for the eclipse. So instead of the usual Monday post, I have a request: tell me what you want!
Also: Two AI math discoveries, unconventional science funding, and bunsen burner mythology
Also: Controversial changes to NIH peer review, 90% of biomedical papers show signs of AI use, and Harvard shuts down its writing center
Also: Avi Loeb to head White House UFO committee, overworked ERC peer reviewers, Anthropic's push for AI in science, and more from last week
Let's talk about science, science communication, and how knowledge matters
The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.
Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning
A science newsletter about the systems that shape what's discovered, what's believed, and what happens
Also: Montana's "right to try" law for experimental cures, UK science gets reshuffled, a university sues Anthropic over patents, and more from last week
Also: The "Science: A New Golden Age" report, layoffs at National Geographic, and studies on the consequences of AI adoption in research
Also: Attention as a class issue, an anti-AI editorial containing AI links, and a Thiel-backed journalist-rating startup
Also: AI conflict of interest disclosures in philosophy, PhD admission down 15% at US universities, an AI "humanizer" tool for science, and more from last week
Also: Avi Loeb to head White House UFO committee, overworked ERC peer reviewers, Anthropic's push for AI in science, and more from last week
Also: SciAm sold, two Max Planck papers retracted, a big study links AI to skill atrophy in schoolkids, and more from last week
The newsletter is back with a new focus on the systems, instincts, and incentives that shape what's discovered, what's believed, and what happens when science hits the real world
Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism
Let's talk about science, science communication, and how knowledge matters
I am weirdly hopeful that it could be easier to notice biased AI than biased humans?
Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm
The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.