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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...

Two weeks into the government shutdown
with no resolution in sight,
higher ed associations and researchers say
the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers
or get new grants approved
is causing harm
https://www.

Researchers, Colleges Face Federal Shutdown Impacts
Two weeks into the government shutdown with no resolution in sight, higher ed associations and researchers say the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers or get new grants approved is causing harm.

Anthropic Cowork: Claude räumt Desktop auf – Research Preview gestartet
Anthropic hat ein neues Software-Tool namens Cowork vorgestellt. Es ist Claude Code ähnlich, soll aber deutlich leichter verwendbar sein.

International postdocs: Come to Bochum for a two-week stay to plan a research project and learn how to apply for funding for it in Germany.
I'm available as a host for any topic related to my research interests: digital forensic linguistics, experimental semantics/pragmatics, emojis, (computational analyses of) harmful language, metaphors, discourse, etc.
https://www.research-academy-ruhr.de/programm/researchexplorer/

Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/next-generatio…

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

⚠️ An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
https://theconversation.com/an-important-wetland-in-ghana-is-under-siege-researchers-investigate-the-real-issues-269016<…

An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
In Ghana, the degradation of wetlands is widespread and many are in poor condition.

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.

Den här studien skrivs det om i en stor andel av alla populärvetenskapliga böcker kring psykologi.
“Alarm Bells Went Off”: New Research Takes a Critical Look at the Landmark UFO Cult Study 'When Prophecy Fails' - https://thedebrief…

“Alarm Bells Went Off”: New Research Takes a Critical Look at the Landmark UFO Cult Study 'When Prophecy Fails'
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

Outset, which develops AI agents that help Microsoft and other companies conduct customer research and surveys, raised a $30M Series B led by Radical Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Customer research startup Outset raises $30M
Radical Ventures led the round.