Fuck Nuance (2015)(crookedtimber.org)
25 points by bariumbitmap | 4 comments
Crooked Timber blog post by Kieran Healy introducing his ASA paper draft "Fuck Nuance" arguing against demands for nuance in sociological theory, with reader comments.
#academia on Hacker News
20 stories tagged academia, newest first.
Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
162 points by jruohonen | 155 comments
LSE Impact Blog post by Helen Choi arguing that academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems such as Wikipedia.
What should we tell our students?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
129 points by sajid | 173 comments
A Terry Tao blog post titled "What should we tell our students?"; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial instead of the content.
Incentives in Academic Research(msoos.org)
43 points by zero_k | 39 comments
A blog post on the SAT solving and cryptography blog 'Wonderings of a SAT geek' discussing how incentives shape behavior in academic research.
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)(cs.cmu.edu)
54 points by nicoraga | 20 comments
Manuel Blum's talk notes at CMU offering advice to beginning graduate students on reading, studying, research, and writing during a PhD.
A misalignment of AI in mathematics(mathandai.org)
1171 points by meredydd | 1120 comments
A declaration by mathematicians arguing that AI companies' use of math problems as benchmarks harms mathematics and the mathematical community, inviting endorsements.
U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators(science.org)
390 points by ceejayoz | 241 comments
Science magazine news article on new U.S. restrictions on researchers publishing with foreign collaborators; the capture shows a Cloudflare bot check.
The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing(ergosphere.blog)
814 points by zaikunzhang | 550 comments
Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)
825 points by JaimeThompson | 332 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.
The average college student today(hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)
563 points by Jyaif | 680 comments
A Substack essay by a longtime professor describing how the average college student today differs from students of past decades.
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD(matt.might.net)
343 points by chii | 217 comments
Matt Might's illustrated essay explaining what a Ph.D. is using a series of circle diagrams representing the boundary of human knowledge.
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements(science.anu.edu.au)
339 points by zsrobinson | 78 comments
An ANU College of Science news article exploring the unexpectedly poetic and personal nature of acknowledgements sections in PhD theses.
The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs(writingruxandrabio.com)
392 points by jseliger | 416 comments
A Substack essay by Ruxandra Teslo arguing that academia should tolerate unconventional 'weird nerd' researchers and take human capital more seriously in science.
'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó(thedp.com)
463 points by happy-go-lucky | 311 comments
Daily Pennsylvanian article on how the University of Pennsylvania treated mRNA researcher and Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó, including demoting her.
My Caste(cs.toronto.edu)
473 points by bsnnkv | 322 comments
A personal essay by a University of Toronto computer science academic about belonging to India's Other Backward Classes (OBC) caste category and his path into academia.
We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)
355 points by Georgelemental | 848 comments
Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.
Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)(blog.everydayscientist.com)
537 points by dongping | 320 comments
A 2021 Everyday Scientist blog post arguing that traditional peer review should be replaced by "peer replication," where independent labs reproduce published findings.
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers(stanforddaily.com)
1408 points by dralley | 730 comments
Stanford Daily news article reporting that Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned over manipulated research and will retract at least three papers.
PhD Simulator(research.wmz.ninja)
678 points by Smith42 | 230 comments
PhD Simulator is a retro-styled browser text game by Mianzhi Wang where the player navigates life as a new PhD student, managing hope, items, and status.
Cookie Clicker saved my PhD(advaitsarkar.wordpress.com)
373 points by azhenley | 124 comments
Blog post by researcher Advait Sarkar recounting how his online gaming addiction, including Cookie Clicker, ended up helping him complete his PhD.