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The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

À la recherche d’un poste de #postdoc? En #HumanitésNumériques? En Suisse? Ça pourrait vous intéresser:
La Section des sciences du langage et de l’information h…

Epic #semiconductors. I am part of a German-Taiwanese research collab: “Exploring Silicon Urbanism: Bilateral Workshops and Fieldtrips in Dresden and Hsinchu.” With trips to clean rooms and affected communities.
Photo-documentation upcoming! #sts

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @… et al.;

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, our independent reanalysis reveals multiple methodological concerns that raise questions about the validity of their conclusions. Specifically, our evaluation demonstrates that: (1) the reconstruction results are biased by selective reporting of only the best-performing examples at multiple levels; …

Rule of Creative Research:
(1) Never draw what you can copy.
(2) Never copy what you can trace.
(3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

If you're in #tech and struggling to figure out what your career look like now — this piece is my answer. You've heard "it's here to stay" or "it's better than nothing."
Reject these frames.
Look at the system being built around you. Manufacturing validation for "inevitable" success. Rewriting our roles from human-centered creative to featu…

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen
The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."

Have a small plane and want to get approval for a reasonable change that requires approval? It looks like #aviation

From the article: "In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent." https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/115701386822807521

Creative Flourishing
Dives into the latest creative arts research and practice and asks how engaging with this might aid in human flourishing and have a positive impact upon our wellbeing...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/creati

This one ended up being quite long… In my continuing #ThinkingOutLoud series during my #ArtsPedagogy research semester, I return to #creativity and work though some more takes on it befo…