If you're based in the US, UK, and EU, please do NOT start a humanities PhD. There are NO jobs for you - none, zilch, nada. Check out the jobs listed for Languages, Literature and Culture on jobs. ac .uk

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This is extremely dishonest and harmful advice for yound people. Don't do this. Stay away from a humanities PhD. The writer of this artilce, Ada Palmer, is a tenured professor at the University of Chicago and is telling folks to do a PhD in history.

People losing their minds that everyone at Harvard gets an A are missing the point that you don't go to Harvard to learn. You go to Harvard to accumulate social capital and get brand recognition. Cool if you learn something along the way. But that's not the main objective.

One of the biggest casualities of rebranding Twitter to X was that it killed consolidated communities like "Academic Twitter," "Science Twitter," and so on. Twitter was of course toxic back then too, but academics and scientists who posted regularly created really top-quality content.

ChatGPT is a sycophant, agrees with everything you say. Here's a simple prompt to convert ChatGPT from a sycophant to a straight shooter:

Genspark AI Developer can build functional apps with a single prompt. Especially useful for academics and reseachers to automate tasks. Here's how to build apps with @genspark_ai:

> top academic journals don't want to publish work by authors in low-income (read poor, third-world) countries > Nature suggests authors make an effort to cite diverse (read poor, third-world) the sources academics cite > First -world academics: this will destroy the integrity of science

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On italki you come across absolutely incredible folks like Thomas who speaks and teaches 11 lanugages. None of the pretend learning of Duolingo or the fakery of YouTube "polyglots" who memorize a few sentences and think they know a language.

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I am doing a free webinar on how to use SciSpace, an AI-powered app to make your literature discovery efficient. Register below: luma.com/lg8mantw

Watching otherwise serious researchers post studies showing extremely weak correlation between two things (one of which is often IQ). These posts surely get a lot of views and comments but seriously undermine general public's trust in science.

Don't plan. Execute. Planning is fake work. Execution is real work. Planning or no planning, you will make mistakes. Better to make mistakes doing real work than fake.

Agreed to do a 1-hour webinar for a company against my better judgement. They've spread the process over four whole months, there are five people involved, there has been nearly 100 email exchanges between us, a 10-page Google Doc has been edited like 500 hundred times, a dozen or Zoom meetings.

If you come across the word "utilize" in any post or article, it's 100% AI generated. There is a subtle distinction between "use" and "utilize," but LLMs don't understand this.

Recently came across Pat Thomson's amazing blog on academic writing. It's a gold mine of tips on academic writing. And totally free. Check it out at patthomson.net/

Until a couple years ago, there was a critical mass of academics on Twitter. The platform wasn't pefect but one could participate in interesting discussions and learn stuff. Many academics have left since.

Most people who work from office spend 90% of their time pretending to work. It's all fake work, looking busy, doing nothing.

PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databases of biomedical research, has NOT been updated for the last two weeks.

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Would you look at that! Is it the beginning of global brain drain from the US? Nobel laureats Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are leaving MIT for the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Key stats about six major academic publishers Elsevier Founded:1880 Headquarters: Amsterdam Annual Revenue: $3.9 billion Publishes 2,900 journals a year

Will be speaking at a conference on how to make science OPEN and accessible — conference is sponsored by, I kid you not, Elsevier, the biggest for-profit academic publisher that charges researchers thousands of dollars to publish their papers, puts them behind CLOSED paywalls, and then sells access

Just got a flu shot at a local pharmacy and was able to hold the whole conversation in Danish with the pharmacist including all the medical questions. She never switched to English, which means my pronunciation was quite good because if Danes figure out you’re struggling, they switch to English.

4 out of 9 Noble prize winners in STEM fields this year are from the University of California system. Two from UC Berkeley (John Clarke and Omar Yaghi) and two from UC Santa Barbara (Michel Devoret and John Martinis). Incredible concentration of scientific expertise.

Students, teachers, researchers all spend a lot of time on taking notes. Feynman AI is a great app that makes note-taking super efficient. Just open the app, talk about what you're thinking or reading, and it'll give you neatly organized notes. Here's how to use it:

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Dvoret, and John M. Martinis (all based in the US).

Over the last few months, quite a few colleagues have asked me if I could run a hands-on workshop on how to build a healthy academic writing habit that is sustainable.

ChatGPT: $20/m Claude: $20/m Gemini: $20/m No access to academic databases❌ 😃 Chat Academia: $15/m only ChatGPT + Claude + Gemini Integrated with multiple databases✅ Plus, Zotero integration. Check it out at 👇 chatacademia.com

The Nobel Prize for medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi. Interestingly, none of them seem to be part of the huge network of Nobel Prize winners. At least none of their PhD supervisors seem to have won the Nobel.

Peer reviewers sending review reports that are clearly written by ChatGPT. I mean I get it, but at least read the review that ChatGPT gave you before sending it to back to authors.

According to Nature Index, 12 out of 15 top universities in the world are Chinese in terms of research output. Chinese universities are producing more research than Stanford, MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge. In natural sciences, the top 6 are all Chinese with Harvard at number 7.

> be elsevier > make PDFs of publicly-funded research > pay researchers exactly $0 > instead ask researchers to pay $11,000 to get their papers published > put those papers behind a paywall > sell subscriptions to universities for anywher $500k to $1M > make $4 billion in annual revenue

What could be an academic equivalent of this? A service that suggests titles for papers and books and charges $$$?

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Because of a lapse in government funding, PubMed is no longer being updated. Europe PMC is a great alternative and has 8M+ more papers than PubMed. We just added Europe PMC to Chat Academia so researchers can use the most up-to-date database with AI. Check it out 👇

Gmail AI is insane. A colleagues emailed for a video recording of my webinar. Gmail suggested "Send recording." I clicked it and Gmail gave me a fully drafted email written in my style and included a Google Drive link for the recording. This is an awesome email assistant.

Nobel Prizes will be announced next week. This Nature article shows that most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network. Out of 736 Nobel laureates in science and economics, 702 are "part of the same academic family." Only 32 winners are out of this network.

Finding research gaps and crafting novel research questions take so much time. Apps like ChatGPT or Gemini can't help with it either. But Chat Academia can. It's integrated with multiple academic databases with millions of papers. And it costs less than ChatGPT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQL...

🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature. Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.

This is bad news. This is very bad news. The US government has stopped the funding of PubMed, the most comprehensive database of biomedical literature. Why would you do this? This database it literally a matter of life and death.

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Scite is one of the best AI apps for academic research. • Answers questions with real references (no fake citations) • Shows "Smart Citations" • Extracts data from papers • Free Chrome extension • Free Zotero plugin Here's how to use Scite as your research assistant:

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