Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

By way of a quick follow-up to yesterday's post, here's another Euclid Q1 product. This one is an updated version of the famous "Tuning Fork" representation of galaxy morphology: Credits: Diagram: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Diagram by J.-C. Cuillandre, L. Quilley, F. Marleau. Images alone: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi You can click on the image to make it (much) bigger.

Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the...

JWST has revealed a stunning population of bright galaxies at surprisingly early epochs, $z>10$, where few such sources were expected. Here we present the most distant example of this class yet -- MoM...

This morning's arXiv mailing presented me with a distraction from examination marking in the form of a paper by Naidu et al. with this abstract: This paper has been submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics. I usually feel a bit conflicted in situations when a paper has been submitted for editorial review. I am posting it here for two reasons: one is that I am not the Editor responsible for this paper; the other is that the…

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This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full traini...

By Ava Polzin, Andrey V. Kravtsov & 2 more. An argument that the universality of observational estimates of star formation efficiency per free-fall time can be plausibly explained by the turbulence-dr...

By Andrey Kravtsov. Discussion of the implications of measured velocity dispersions of ultra-diffuse galaxies for models of galaxy formation

The exponential growth of astronomical literature poses significant challenges for researchers navigating and synthesizing general insights or even domain-specific knowledge. We present pathfinder, a ...

This morning I published another paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics, taking the total number of publications for this year to 115 and the total altogether to 230. This means that we have now published as many papers this year as we have in all previous years combined. Here's a table showing the sequence of papers published over the last six years and the series formed from the aforementioned sequence:

As (both) my regular readers know I have a strong interest in innovative publication methods. I am therefore grateful to have found out about a very intriguing one. I think this approach might help us at the Open Journal of Astrophysics cut our running costs still further. Gold Open Access journals have an incentive to publish as many papers as possible to increase revenue from Article Processing Charges, whereas we Diamond journals have an incentive in the opposite direction.