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A blog about scientific publishing and academic productivity

A blog about scientific publishing and academic productivity

In this guide, we’ll show you how to write a grant proposal in 5 steps. You will learn how to develop an actionable plan for your research project, how to prepare a first draft of your grant…

A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn’t overdo it with large language models.

Science speaks with ecologist Stefano Mammola about the power of humor to enhance science communication

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

There was a discussion recently on Bluesky about reproducible data analysis pipelines.

A Claude skill to remove all the AI patterns from AI-generated text. Useful for the bureaucratic writing you don't want to write anyway.

Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.

Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence.

I’m on sabbatical this semester and in early January sat down to think of my sabbatical goals. The top one: getting lots of work done on manuscripts – we’ve collected a lot of interesting data and …

Convince a supervisor that you’re a great fit for their laboratory by preparing questions, honing your personal statement and showcasing strong team-player instincts.

Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future

“My scientific life [had] gathered there, thread by thread,” this researcher writes

Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all

Why generic LLM + academic MCP servers might be as good if not better than specalised Academic deep research

Why returning to your draft isn't evidence of failure—it's evidence of learning