Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
AI Tutors Support 16 Percent of Learning. What About the Other 84 Percent?
A parent asked me recently whether they should sign their child up for an AI tutoring service. The marketing was persuasive: personalized […]
Andrea Medina-Smith on Making Research Data More FAIR
It’s become cliche since Clive Humbly coined it in 2006, but data is indeed the new oil. It’s a mantra repeated by […]
Should We Expect AI to ‘Do’ Science?
Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and politicians are increasingly using AI models trained […]
Scientists Should Keep in Mind It’s Called the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ for a Reason
People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover […]
Mutually Assured Distrust and the Gyrations of Trump’s Science Policy
Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. […]
An AI Authorship Protocol Aims to Sharpen a Sometimes-Fuzzy Line
The latest generation of artificial intelligence models is sharper and smoother, producing polished text with fewer errors and hallucinations. As a philosophy […]
A Box Unlocked, Not A Box Ticked: Tom Chatfield on AI and Pedagogy
In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]
Less Academic Freedom Will Mean Fewer Collaborative Breakthroughs
Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of […]
