This is how even a 2× researcher could earn far more than the median. Scaled to a billion users, even a small quality edge generates enormous differential value.
大多数人认为只有那些真正卓越的'10倍研究者'才值得超高薪酬。但作者认为，即使是只有2倍能力的AI研究者，由于其工作可以影响数十亿用户，微小的质量优势也能产生巨大价值差异，从而获得远超中位数的薪酬。
21 concrete protections drawn from 30+ studies on what AI does to your cognition.
这个引用提到了30多项研究和21项具体保护措施，表明作者基于相当数量的科学研究提出了认知保护建议。30+的研究数量提供了足够的科学依据支持其观点，21项具体措施则提供了实用的行动指南，显示了AI对人类认知影响研究的系统性进展。
Andrej Karpathy built a simple automation pipeline for AI agents to optimize training in 5-minute increments.
这个案例展示了AI系统在自动化研究中的应用，5分钟的增量优化时间是一个精细的时间尺度，表明AI系统已经能够进行快速迭代的实验。61K+的GitHub星标表明这种方法在AI研究社区中引起了广泛关注。
In such areas, it is commonplaceto make assumptions about users without always grounding them in empirical observations ortheory.
Human–computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.
a sentence that describes a concept
For example, an expert in HCI4D (HCI for development) described the challengesfaced in non-Western contexts as follows [184, p. 2228]:We need to address the everyday problems of people. Most people don’t know how to scroll, navigate.We need to do basic HCI work to make text larger. Also, time of day is the most prominent thing on [aphone’s] screen. Let’s replace that with the amount of airtime you have left. We need to improve uponwhat we built yesterday rather than doing novel interventions or focusing on the future.
How should all this computing powerbe used and for what?
old question
How can people with different goals and capabilities, and in different contexts, be able to use computingproductively, enjoyably, and safely?
current question
none explicitly account for training compute scaling being a source of software progress, so they could heavily overstate the importance of research effort.
Research effort overvalued
Most prioritize AI research effort for progress, but author shows compute scaling contributes more, potentially overvaluing R&D.
Tolerable for human readers, these costs become critical when AI agents must understand, reproduce, and extend published work.
大多数人认为人类可读的论文同样适合AI理解，但作者认为传统论文对人类读者是可容忍的，但对AI理解研究过程却造成了'工程税'，这反映了当前学术出版系统在AI时代的不适应性。
Scientific publication compresses a branching, iterative research process into a linear narrative, discarding the majority of what was discovered along the way.
大多数人认为科学论文完整记录了研究过程，但作者认为传统科学论文实际上丢弃了大部分发现，只呈现线性叙事，这构成了所谓的'故事税'。这种观点挑战了学术界对出版物完整性的普遍认知。
We make products, tools, and datasets available to everyone with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.
初学者应关注如何通过提供产品、工具和数据集来构建更协作的研究生态系统。
We regularly open-source projects with the broader research community and apply our developments to Google products.
初学者应学习如何将研究成果开放给社区，并应用于实际产品中，这是促进研究发展的关键。
Our researchers drive advancements in computer science through both fundamental and applied research.
初学者应理解基础研究和应用研究在推动计算机科学进步中的同等重要性。
We strive to create an environment conducive to many different types of research across many different time scales and levels of risk.
初学者可能容易忽略不同类型研究的重要性，以及不同时间尺度和风险水平对研究环境的影响。
Reporters may use AI tools vetted and approved for our workflow to assist with research
需要了解哪些AI工具被批准用于研究，以及这些工具如何辅助记者进行研究。
Ask ten different programmers how they use AI, and you can get ten different answers.
文章使用'十个程序员'的例子来说明AI使用方式的多样性，这是一个具体的样本数量。这个数字虽然小，但有效地说明了开发社区对AI工具的态度差异。这种表述方式简洁有力，但缺乏更大规模的调研数据来支持这一观察。
An AI researcher subsequently gifted them each a ChatGPT Pro subscription to encourage their 'vibe mathing.'
大多数人认为严肃的数学研究需要严谨的方法和深厚的专业知识，但作者使用'vibe mathing'这种非正式术语描述这种研究方式，挑战了学术研究方法论的传统规范。
Sakana Fugu models are based on our ICLR 2026 papers (**Trinity** and **Conductor**), and we have substantially further improved the methods to increase the performance and user experience
文章提到模型基于ICLR 2026论文，并已大幅改进方法和用户体验，但没有具体说明改进的幅度或基准数据。此处缺乏量化依据，无法评估从研究原型到商业产品的改进程度。
GPT‑5.5 found a proof of a longstanding asymptotic fact about off-diagonal Ramsey numbers, later verified in Lean. The result is a concrete example of GPT‑5.5 contributing not just code or explanation, but a surprising and useful mathematical argument in a core research area.
大多数人认为AI在数学研究领域仅能辅助计算或提供解释，无法独立进行创造性数学推理。但作者展示GPT-5.5能够发现并证明数学定理，这一突破挑战了数学研究作为纯粹人类活动的传统观念，暗示AI可能成为真正的'研究伙伴'而非仅是工具。
GPT‑5.5 found a proof of a longstanding asymptotic fact about off-diagonal Ramsey numbers, later verified in Lean. The result is a concrete example of GPT‑5.5 contributing not just code or explanation, but a surprising and useful mathematical argument in a core research area.
大多数人认为AI在数学研究中的作用主要是辅助计算和验证，但作者认为GPT-5.5能够独立发现数学证明，这在数学研究领域是革命性的。这一观点挑战了人们对AI在创造性思维和抽象推理领域能力的传统认知，暗示AI可能正在从工具转变为研究伙伴。
Nor does it matter, given that the modifying strains for pathogens for research purposes is what every research lab does, because that is what virology is.
大多数人认为实验室病原体研究存在特殊风险，但作者认为这种研究是常规且必要的，暗示实验室泄漏问题被过度政治化。这一观点挑战了公众对生物安全风险的普遍担忧。
The application of LLMs in science is already underway... We believe that AI will ultimately bring a fundamental big change to scientific research across disciplines.
大多数人认为AI在科学研究中只是辅助工具，而作者认为AI将从根本上改变科学研究的结构和方式。这一观点与主流认知相悖，因为它暗示AI不仅是提高效率的工具，而是会重塑科学发现、合作和发表的本质。
If public models can already do useful work inside that kind of workflow, then the story is not 'Anthropic has a magical cyber artifact.' The story is that serious AI-assisted vulnerability research is no longer confined to a single frontier lab.
这一发现挑战了Anthropic试图构建的叙事：即高级AI安全研究需要受限访问。研究表明，公共模型已经能够复制关键的安全发现，这意味着真正的'护城河'不是模型访问，而是验证、优先排序和操作化的能力。这打破了'只有前沿实验室才能进行高级AI安全研究'的神话。
Huge advances have been made in developing and building more capable models, driven by record investments—forecast by Gartner to grow to around $2.5 trillion in 2026 alone. In contrast, the investment in understanding how the technology works has been minuscule.
这一数据对比揭示了AI领域的一个令人惊讶的不平衡：巨额资金投入到构建更强大的AI系统，而用于理解这些系统如何工作的投资却微不足道。这种不平衡发展可能导致我们拥有强大但不透明的AI武器系统，而对其运作机制知之甚少。
And it’s not just office work. Multi-agent tools like Google DeepMind’s Co-Scientist let researchers use teams of AI agents to coordinate literature searches, generate and test hypotheses, design experiments, and more.
大多数人可能认为人工智能在办公室工作中的应用仅限于数据处理，但作者提出，多智能体工具甚至可以用于研究工作，如文献搜索和实验设计。
I've been doing this for many years and there are only a tiny few of us, beyond professional document examiners, who might care enough to delve into these questions.
A few things to consider:
You're more likely to find solid advice from typeface historians than you are SCM historians. You're also likely to find better advice on this topic in the more specialized fora like https://typewriter.boardhost.com/ or the typewriter discord https://discord.gg/UzaREHJnX
You're better off using the exemplars from the catalogs (several .pdfs in the TWdb when you're logged in, or on munk.org in scanned photo format). The photos and identifications in the individual galleries of the database are USER IDENTIFIED and aren't always the most consistent as a result. Knowing some of the bigger, more knowledgeable collectors on the database and who knows what best or who has studied areas the most is incredibly helpful here. (Several of your examples are via James Grooms, who is a significant collector and generally does solid identifications, provides photos of slugs and foundry marks, but still often asks for confirmations of typeface identifications in the various fora.)
The foundry marks on the numerals for most machines are very often are different from those of the alphabet so you may find that particular machines used something like Pica No. 1 for the letters but something different, but potentially close for the numbers.
The slugs and designs for the number one are often the least reliable over time as it was often left off of machines entirely until the 60s or 70s. Even when a foundry specifically designed this numeral, many manufacturers left it off their machines though they often put an exemplar for it into their catalogs. Thus when you compare, you may be comparing the lowercase letter "L" in exemplars for individual machines. In particular, I've seen examples recently for Royal who had the number 1 in their catalogs, but almost never had a key on the machine for it and either relied on the user using the "L" or in cases of double gothic faces the letter "I", and as a result, you'll never find an exact "match" between the two.
An exact determination is highly unlikely to change the value of your particular machine in the slightest.
It would be nice if the Typewriter Database encouraged people to upload photos of their slugs and foundry marks specifically and had data fields for identifying the typefaces as well as fields for which sources they used to provide those identifications.
The level of resources and knowledge in this area means that it's incumbent on you to do your own research and come to your own conclusions based on what is broadly available in terms of original catalogs and exemplars in the wild. This being said, the only way the state of the art changes is for people who do this sort of research to publish it with their lines of reasoning on their own websites, here on Reddit, or other typewriter related fora.
Reply to u/frankinreddit at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1sskes0/smithcorona_id_help_are_these_actually_pica_no_1/
In order to better complete the study, we published the previously written research protocol after peer review. We will update this study according to the research protocol in the future.
Title: The role of inflammation in depression: a scoping review protocol in mechanisms, evidence, and therapeutic potential
Author: Yan Bo
Journal: Research Connections
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rescon/vmag006
Date: 21 March 2026
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These skills act as an orchestration layer that helps scientists work through broad, ambiguous, and multi-step questions more effectively.
将AI描述为'编排层'而非简单工具，体现了AI在科学研究中角色的根本转变。这暗示未来科学家可能更像AI系统的指挥者，而非直接执行者，重塑科研工作流程。
Progress in the life sciences is constrained not only by the difficulty of the underlying science, but by the complexity of the research workflows themselves.
这一观点挑战了传统认知，指出科学进步的主要瓶颈可能不是科学本身的难度，而是研究流程的复杂性。这暗示了优化工作流程可能比增加科学知识更能推动进步。
We did not collect detailed examples of specific tasks, but these results provide an early, nationally representative snapshot of how AI is reshaping work at the task level.
研究承认缺乏具体任务细节的局限性，但提供了全国代表性的任务级别变化快照。这一坦诚的局限性提醒我们，虽然数据揭示了宏观趋势，但理解AI如何具体改变工作性质需要更细致的任务级别研究。这为未来研究指明了方向，强调了微观层面研究的重要性。
Routines are in research preview. Behavior, limits, and the API surface may change.
这是一个令人惊讶的声明，表明Claude Code的Routines功能仍处于研究阶段，意味着用户在使用时可能会遇到不稳定性和API变化。这暗示了Anthropic正在快速迭代这个功能，但也提醒用户不要在生产环境中过度依赖它。
Routines are in research preview. Behavior, limits, and the API surface may change.
令人惊讶的是：Claude Code 的 Routines 功能目前仍处于研究预览阶段，这意味着用户使用的功能可能会在未来发生重大变化。这种状态表明 Anthropic 仍在测试和完善这一自动化工作流程的功能，用户应预期到可能的不稳定性和API变更。
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
这一声明揭示了AI代理在代码优化中的关键局限：仅基于代码的优化会产生浅显的假设。通过引入研究阶段，包括阅读学术论文、研究竞争项目和后端实现，代理能够发现更深层次的优化机会，实现了显著的性能提升。这表明AI代理需要更广泛的上下文信息才能做出有意义的创新。
Meta says its rebuilt pretraining stack can reach equivalent capability with >10× less compute than Llama 4 Maverick
令人惊讶的是，Meta声称他们重建的预训练栈只需要Llama 4 Maverick十分之一的计算量就能达到同等能力。这一效率提升是惊人的，表明AI模型训练可能正在经历一个范式转变，从单纯增加计算资源转向优化算法和架构。这可能会对整个AI行业的成本结构和竞争格局产生深远影响。
GLM-5 advances foundation models with DSA for cost reduction, asynchronous reinforcement learning for improved alignment, and enhanced coding capabilities for real-world software engineering.
令人惊讶的是：GLM-5模型拥有186位作者，这表明现代AI研究已经发展成大规模协作的工程科学，而非个人天才的产物。这种集体智慧的组织形式本身就是AI领域发展的一个惊人事实。
we had predetermined that we would withdraw the paper prior to publication if accepted, which we did.
通过评审后主动撤稿——这个决定令人感到既欣慰又不安。欣慰：Sakana AI 展示了负责任的研究伦理；不安：如果换一个不那么有道德感的团队，这篇 AI 生成的论文本可以悄悄混入正式出版的学术文献库。同行评审制度目前对 AI 生成内容几乎没有系统性防御，这是整个学术界的集体盲点。
We need, like, a Manhattan Project to collect this
经济学家呼吁以“曼哈顿计划”的规模来收集各行业价格弹性数据，凸显了当前AI经济研究的底层基础设施极度匮乏。没有跨经济体的系统性微观数据支撑，任何关于AI就业前景的预测都是盲人摸象，政策制定更是无从谈起。
AB-MCTS（Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search）です。これは、推論のプロセスを「木の探索」として捉え
将蒙特卡洛树搜索（MCTS）——一个 AlphaGo 时代的博弈 AI 技术——应用于商业调研推理，这个跨领域迁移令人惊讶。MCTS 的本质是在不确定的巨大搜索空间中，通过「探索-利用」平衡找到最优路径。商业研究的本质也是如此：在无数假设和信息源中，判断哪条线索值得深挖。Sakana 用博弈论的搜索框架重新定义了研究工作流——这在学术上已被 NeurIPS 2025 认可为 Spotlight 级贡献。
AIが8時間近くにわたり自律的にリサーチを遂行し、構造化されたサマリースライドと数十ページの包括的な調査レポートを提供します。
8 小时自主研究，最终输出结构化 PPT + 数十页完整报告——这个任务时长与 METR 的「时间地平线」框架高度吻合：8 小时恰好是当前顶级 AI Agent 能可靠完成的任务上限。Sakana 选择这个时长不是偶然，而是经过能力校准的精准产品设计——他们在构建一个刚好在当前 AI 能力边界内的产品。
複雑なリサーチは、単一のクエリに対する回答の集積ではなく、アイデアの生成から、裏付けとなる証拠の探索、矛盾の解消、そして最終的なレポートとしての構造化まで、一連のプロセスを完遂する必要があります。
大多数人认为AI研究助手应该专注于提供快速、直接的答案，但作者强调复杂研究需要完整的'从想法到结构化报告'的完整过程。这与当前AI助手追求即时回答的主流认知相悖，暗示了质量比速度更重要，这是一个非共识的AI应用观点。
推論時により長く、深く思考させることでよりよいアウトプットを引き出せる。これが推論スケーリングの本質です。
大多数人认为AI应该追求更快的响应速度和更高的效率，但作者认为AI应该'长时间深度思考'才能产生更好的输出。这与当前AI行业追求即时响应的主流认知相悖，提出了一个反直觉的观点：计算效率的提升反而应该用于增加思考深度而非速度。
Contextual Drag: How Errors in the Context Affect LLM Reasoning
相关工作「上下文拖拽」（Contextual Drag）的存在，说明这个研究方向正在快速形成：不只是「无关上下文缩短推理」，还有「错误上下文拖拽推理方向」。两篇论文合在一起暗示了一个新的研究领域：「上下文污染对推理模型的系统性影响」。对 AI Agent 的工程实践者而言，这意味着上下文管理策略（截断、摘要、过滤）将成为保障推理质量的核心工程能力，而非仅仅是 token 节省手段。
the robustness of these reasoning behaviors remains underexplored
「推理行为的鲁棒性尚未被充分探索」——这句话是整个推理模型研究领域的集体盲点声明。过去两年，测试时计算（test-time compute）、长思维链（CoT）、o1/R1 类推理模型吸引了巨大关注，但几乎所有评测都在「孤立问题」环境下进行。在真实 Agent 部署场景中，「能否保持推理深度」这个最基本的可靠性问题，直到这篇论文才开始被系统研究。
two participants gave it 9/10 and one "11/10"
一个 2 小时的桌游式推演，三位顶级 AI 安全研究员给出了 9-11 分的评价——这本身就是一个信号：严肃的 AI 研究机构正在用「角色扮演」的方式准备未来。这种方法论（预演未来能力下的工作流）在其他领域有先例——军事桌游、灾难演习、情景规划——但将其用于 AI 能力演进，是 METR 独特的研究品味的体现。
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-relevant behavior.
【启发】这句话提示了一种全新的 AI 研究范式：与其问「模型能做什么」，不如问「模型为什么这样做」。把情绪作为切入口去理解模型行为，本质上是把心理学方法论引入了 AI 可解释性研究。这对从业者的启发是：未来最有价值的 AI 研究，可能不在算法创新，而在「为已知现象寻找机制性解释」——就像这篇论文做的那样。
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-relevant behavior.
这篇论文的问题意识本身就极具洞察：大多数 AI 安全研究在追问「模型会不会说谎」，Anthropic 却在追问「模型为什么有情绪」。从「行为纠偏」转向「情绪机制」，意味着对齐研究的范式正在悄然转移——从控制外部输出，到理解内部动机结构，这是从行为主义到认知科学的跨越。
We release the AURA model together with a real-time inference framework to facilitate future research
大多数人认为先进的视频理解模型通常会被商业公司保留作为专有技术，但作者选择开源模型和实时推理框架。这一反直觉的决策挑战了AI研究中常见的封闭做法，表明作者更注重推动领域发展而非商业利益，这可能加速整个视频理解领域的技术进步。
AMI Labs is not building a product for immediate deployment. This is a fundamental research effort, likely measured in years before commercial applications emerge.
在当今AI创业公司追求快速变现的环境中，作者认为AMI Labs正在进行的是基础研究，而非产品开发。这与大多数AI初创公司的商业模式背道而驰，暗示真正的AI突破需要长期投入而非短期商业考量。
AMI Labs is not building a product for immediate deployment. This is a fundamental research effort, likely measured in years before commercial applications emerge.
在当今追求快速商业化的AI环境中，大多数人认为AI研究应该迅速转化为产品。但作者指出AMI Labs正在进行基础研究，而非直接开发产品，这一观点挑战了科技行业对即时商业化的普遍期待，强调了基础研究的重要性。
Existing research often studies these demands separately: robotics emphasizes control, retrieval systems emphasize memory, and alignment or assurance work emphasizes checking and oversight.
大多数AI研究倾向于将控制、记忆和验证视为独立的问题领域，分别进行研究。但作者认为这种分离研究方法是有缺陷的，因为它们在自然系统中（如松鼠）是紧密耦合的。这一观点挑战了当前AI研究的分割方法，暗示未来的AI系统需要更综合的方法来同时处理这些相互关联的需求。
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大多数人认为Google会将其最先进技术保留在专有Gemini模型中，而开源版本会有所降级。但作者声称Gemma 4与Gemini 3使用'相同的世界级研究和技术'，挑战了'开源版本是次级产品'的普遍认知。
We are especially interested in work that is empirically grounded, technically strong, and relevant to the broader research community.
大多数人认为AI安全研究应该是高度理论化和抽象的，但作者强调需要实证基础和技术强度，这表明OpenAI正在将AI安全研究从纯理论领域转向更注重实际应用和可验证成果的方向，这与传统AI安全研究的精英主义倾向形成对比。
What are some of the challenges or barriers your institution faces whendeveloping new credentials?
Change is hard. Some barriers are more controllable than others. "Limited understanding" and "lack of standardization in credential 'currency'" are two challenges with huge influence and that could be quickly and inexpensively addressed.
31% strongly agree or agree that their institutionregularly lists alumni as a target market for microcredential programs,
If we are passionate about lifelong learning, 3 of 10 saying that we market to alumni for MCs is a big sign of disconnect in institutional strategy.
how well do microcredential initiatives align with the strategicplan of your institution?
Only 16% said that MCs have "total alignment with strategic plan." If leaders believe this is the future, and UPCEA research is that this stuff needs to be in the strategic plan, this is a key finding.
Respondents more involved in the credentialing process were generally lesslikely to say institutionally offered microcredentials are extremely or very effec-tive in competing with those offered by emerging entities, while respondentsnot at all involved were most likely to say they are extremely or very effective.
Again, the people who seem to be most proficient, are also most likely to see the reality of legacy HE thinking that, according to data here and in other reports, is not just disconnected from external audiences, but often seemingly unconcerned with asking external constituents "How do I look?" I think a prevailing vibe is that many research universities have a sort of High School Hot Girl Syndrome, assuming that they are desired based on surface-level perceptions and always will be.
How involved are you in the process of developing and implementingcredentialing initiatives, such as stackable credentials, non-credit to credit pathways,and microcredentials, among others, at your institution?
Possible indication that the people who know the most about credential innovation, who bring POV that's closer to balcony views than lane views, and who are likely of disproportional value to support institutional strategy, are under-utilized human resources. When it comes to campus strategy, leadership, implementation, and general decision-making related to credential innovation, about 50% of the people at 4-year institutions who should be at the table say they are "not very or not at all involved." Worth noting that at 2-year institutions, where credential innovation is trending in more inspiring directions, 73% are "extremely or very involved." **This could be a key metric. **
Figure 3: Decrease in Perceived Fiscal Benefits of Microcredentials by Year
Perception vs Reality disconnect. Why? My guess is huge gaps in understanding of the Fundamentals.
Notably, traditional mindsets and legacysystems are seen as far greater barriers in 2025 (61%) than in 2021 (5%), high-lighting a growing tension between innovation and institutional resistance tochange.
In 2021, the question would have been interpreted differently. 61% is probably still lower than it should be.
Comment by Janneke_Adema: Comment by postoccupant: Vote for UniverCity!
I've proposed a workshop to the Future Architecture platform, organised by the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana. The idea is that the ideas arising from the UniverCity forum can be worked through in discussion about the possibility of a future form of architectural visualisation not tied down to images of completed buildings. Renderings of unpredictability, of occupation, of diverse public knowledges. Vote online: and browse the other projects too.
Comment by Janneke_Adema: Comment by drneilfox: Hello. This is my first entry. Dario and I plan to create a podcast that has three elements:
1) A formal exploration of the podcast form using our own podcast as a case study. 2) A discussion around academic research and the podcast. 3) A discussion around the 'disruptive journal' featuring input from JMP contributors.
The aim is to construct a text that operates as a viable and valid piece of research and also is reflexive regarding the changing nature of academic research.
We will be talking in person late July following some leave and will be emailing disruptive JMP participants shortly to invite them to participate.
For now I listening to podcasts to prepare, and recommend the latest NPR Invisibilia episode on problem solving, and any episode of the brilliant Longford Podcast.
Comment by Janneke_Adema: Comment by postoccupant: Just posting here to share this content about academia and Twitter... some good links to further discussion of digital academia...
'Digital platforms, from Twitter and personal blogs to e-journals and iterative monographs, are creating new ways to publish and new publishing opportunities. In this new model of academic publishing, Twitter interactions exist on the same spectrum of activity as peer-review and scholarly editing. But more importantly, new models for scholarly publication are creating new ways to engage in public scholarship beyond traditional publication, fundamentally blurring the boundaries between publication, conversation, and community.'
http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/beyond-academic-twitter/
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Sarah Anne Bendall
Sarah A. Bendall FRHistS is a senior lecturer at the Gender and Women's History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a material culture historian whose research examines the roles of women in the production, trade and consumption of global commodities and fashionable consumer goods between 1500-1800. She has particular expertise in seventeenth-century dress and recreative methodologies, such as historical dress reconstruction.
Sarah was awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney. During her doctoral research she was a visiting research student at Kings College London. Prior to joining ACU, she held positions at the University of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. She has been awarded fellowships from The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Powerhouse Museum. She was also co-investigator on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Making Historical Dress Network grant (2023-5).
https://jaigp.org/ <br /> The Journal for AI Generated Papers<br /> "Proceedings of productive uncertainty."
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on llms in qualitative research: the only winning move is not to play
" KEYS TO THE LIBRARY " 1950s EDUCATIONAL FILM CARD CATALOGS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DEWEY DECIMAL XD71644<br /> by [[Periscope Film]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2026-01-04T15:53:51
It was my discovery of wiki technology some time in 2002 that ended this undirected search and constituted the other fundamental change in the way I dealt with information. What I liked about it from the beginning was that it allows of easily linking bits of information and favors the braking down of large chunks of information into smaller bits. This emphasis on the granularity of information reminded me not only of the old index card method, but it also convinced me almost immediately that it was a significant improvement over the paper-based system. I adopted this technology and I have never looked back.
Movement from index cards to wikis in early 2002 by Manfred Kuehn.
In other words, this is just a testimony in which I offer some personal reflections on the role ConnectedText plays in my own research, backed up by some reflections on the way this is related to the way in which I and many other scholars have used card indexes and journals during the precious century for keeping or making notes.
Some observations on digital note taking with an app from someone who'd previously spent time using card indexes.
Rugg, Gordon and Petre, Marian. 2020. The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research. 3rd ed. Open University Press.
Only three mentions of index cards here...
Put ideas on index cards – one to a card – and then arrange them in differ-ent structures. Again, you can do this in a series of passes, using a differentcriterion each time; this will help you to identify core concepts, structuresand outliers.
It's almost as if they're suggesting putting ideas onto index cards after-the-fact rather than from the start as older manuals would have suggested. This would seem to add a huge amount of work to the process.
Münster, January 13, 1968
Presumably (is there a way to check), Luhmann gave this lecture while he was teaching from 1965-68 in his position at the Sozialforschungsstelle an der Universität Münster (Social Research Centre of the University of Münster).
Nearly three in 10 American adults today identify as religiously unaffiliated — a 33% jump since 2013, according to the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
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our world and data does they do have some legitimate research because that's what think tanks do. They launder illegitimate research with legitimate research. uh and their tactic primarily is to uh set the scope of what they are commenting on or researching uh that it you know it puts forward the kind of results that they want uh that aligns with their ideology.
for - Our World in Data - discredited website - mix legitimate with illegitimate research to advance a biased ideology
one of the things that I find really interesting that's not talked about very much is the impacts of nitrogen fixing and the production of artificial fertilizers which contributed to the number one issue which is human population growth
for - progress trap - nitrogen for fertilizers - anthropocene research - releases lots of methane - climate crisis - leverage point - replacing nitrogen fertilizers
Their portability and verifiable nature make them a flexible and accessible way to recognize and communicate skills (Bowen & Thomas, 2014)
Even before they were actually portable, a key benefit was rooted in portability and verifiability (and, to what purpose: "flexible and accessible way to recognize and communicate skills"). That is the WHY. And that ethos has been lost (or never acquired) by too many. There could be opportunity to refocus and zoom way in on the why and the key benefits.
Micro-Credentials and Digital Badges: An Exploration of Definitions and Implications in Higher Education and Workforce
4.4 Limitations
Study's findings are limited by narrow participant sample, reliance on visual-only stimuli, lack of control for landscape openness, restricted environmental scenarios, and absence of true physiological baseline. Future research should include more diverse participants, multi-sensory or real world environments, and stronger methodological controls
Systolic blood pressure.
Gender and grade level had no effect on systolic BP recovery. The only major-related difference was that landscape/environmental majors showed a significantly larger SBP reduction than non-environment majors when viewing desert landscapes, but not for any other landscape type.
3.1 Physiological response of viewing different landscape types
This study shows that visual exposure to natural environments, especially forests and water, produces measurable physiological relaxation: • nature images lower systolic BP • forest images lower diastolic BP • water images lower HR Suggests that different types of natural scenes have different calming effects, and body overall responds physiologically to nature in ways that promote relaxation and reduce stress.
This study proposes the following hypotheses: (H1) Females prefer and benefit more from sheltered landscapes like forests or artificial settings, while males favor and gain greater restoration from open, functional, and exploratory landscapes. (H2) Juniors, facing higher academic stress, experience greater restorative effects than freshmen. (H3) Landscape majors, with greater awareness of landscape elements, prefer and benefit more from complex, element-rich landscapes, while non-landscape majors favor modern, simple, and functional spaces.
Hypotheses presented for study.
From a researcher's perspective, is there merit in studying how learning is accomplished in a participatory culture where young people collectively pool their resources?
Do adolescents' online literacies have implications for the research and teaching of literacy?
Why not simply accept those literacies for what they appear to be--something apart from formal schooling and best not co-opted by us, no matter how noble our intent?
genetic evidence alone is not enough to reconstruct the timing and spread of short-term plague pandemics, which has implications for future research related to past pandemics and the progression of ongoing outbreaks such as COVID-1
This is the perfect quote to use in my proposal! The top scientists at McMaster are literally saying that to understand the plague, I need the historical and social context alongside the genetic data.
The team studied genomes from strains with a worldwide distribution and of different ages and determined that Y. pestis has an unstable molecular clock. This makes it particularly difficult to measure the rate at which mutations accumulate in its genome over time, which are then used to calculate dates of emergence. Because Y. pestis evolves at a very slow pace, it is almost impossible to determine exactly where it originated.
This explains the scientific limitation that creates the big debate. Since the plague genome evolves so slowly, they can't even tell where it started!
These changes from the Y. pseudotuberculosis progenitor included loss of insecticidal activity, increased resistance to antibacterial factors in the flea midgut, and extending Yersinia biofilm-forming ability to the flea host environment.
This is the technical explanation for the famous "blocked flea" which is the key to the rat theory. The biofilm is what clogs the flea's gut and forces it to bite more.
the interactions of Y. pestis with its flea vector that lead to colonization and successful transmission are the result of a recent evolutionary adaptation that required relatively few genetic changes.
This is a great detail for my argument! The article calls the flea jump a "recent evolutionary adaptation." This suggests the mechanism might have been imperfect or inefficient in the 14th century, which actually strengthens the argument against the rat-flea model being the sole cause of the Black Death's incredibly fast spread. It provides scientific backing for why I need to seriously consider the human ectoparasite model and not just discard it immediately.
The Yersinia–flea interactions that enable plague transmission cycles have had profound historical consequences as manifested by human plague pandemics. The arthropod-borne transmission route was a radical ecologic change
This is the whole mechanism behind the classic rat-flea theory that my map needs to test. The article is basically saying the history of the plague is tied to this interaction. When I map the spread, I have to remember that this theory relies on a slow, multi-step process involving rats and fleas, which is the main reason I'm testing it against the faster human-to-human transmission idea.
Alternative putative etiologies of the Black Death include a viral hemorrhagic fever [16] or a currently unknown pathogen [19]. In part, these alternative etiologies reflect apparent discrepancies between historical observations of extremely rapid spread of mortality during the Black Death with the dogma based on Indian epidemiology that plague is associated with transmission from infected rats via blocked fleas
This is a perfect summary of the whole problem I'm trying to solve. Historians originally doubted the Y. pestis theory because the plague spread way too fast to be the slow rat-flea model. This confirms that I'm right to use my map to visually test the difference between the slow rat spread (the "dogma") and the rapid human spread (my hypothesis).
However, the Y. pestis genotype identified in our skeletons from Bergen op Zoom differed from those found in Hereford and Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, implying that Bergen op Zoom (and possibly other parts of the southern Netherlands) was not directly infected from England or France in AD 1349.
This is the crucial evidence for the second path.
Our finding of identical genotypes (based on 20 markers) in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse and Hereford thus lends support to historical evidence [2,25] which suggest that plague spread from France to England (Fig. 1) in the second half of the 14th century.
The fact that they share the exact same plague strain means I have a confirmed, solid connection across the English Channel. This established route will be my baseline when I look at the historical records and chronicles. (Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse and Hereford)
our aDNA results identified two previously unknown but related clades of Y. pestis associated with distinct medieval mass graves. These findings suggest that plague was imported to Europe on two or more occasions, each following a distinct route.
This is good for my hypothesis! It proves that the plague was too complex to have followed just one simple path. Since the scientists found two different strains, my map must show two separate main routes into Europe, which means I can directly test the differences between the rat theory and the human flea theory.
Here we identified DNA and protein signatures specific for Y. pestis in human skeletons from mass graves in northern, central and southern Europe that were associated archaeologically with the Black Death and subsequent resurgences. We confirm that Y. pestis caused the Black Death and later epidemics on the entire European continent over the course of four centuries.
This could be the best starting point for my project. It shuts down the argument about what caused the plague, so I don't have to waste time debating the pathogen itself. I can now focus 100% on mapping the how and when of the spread, which is the whole point of my research.
Figure 1 The spread of the Black Death in northern Europe, 1346–1351.
This means there is already a basic route out there. My final GIS map will be used to see if this basic picture is right or if the newer theories about human parasites make a different visual pattern.
The following year the Black Death had the entire country in its grip according to contemporary chronicles, annals, and anniversary of deaths registers.
This validates my plan to use chronicles and death registers as the primary source of my timeline data.
Rats and fleas and thus the contagion itself could also be spread by transport going in the opposite direction, carrying residues of grain and grain-based provisions that would feed the carriers of the disease on their journey.
This is a deeper detail for my map. I shouldn't only map where things were exported, but also mention/point out the return trips of ships, as they could have also carried the disease.
trade in heavy goods like timber, cloth, artefacts in limestone and lead, and not least grain over long distances rapidly gained impetus from the middle of the 12th century.
This is why my project to map the plague against trade routes makes sense. The article proves that a major trade network was already in place to carry the disease.
It progressed up through the Bristol Channel to Bristol before advancing along the Severn to Gloucester.
This confirms that rivers and major travel routes were the most important paths, which I can trace when I build the map.
it struck Norway on two fronts: in Oslo, by then the largest town in the southern part of the country,40 and Bergen on the west coast.41 From these two points the infection spread inland along main roads and pilgrim routes, both south of the Oslo fjord and all the way up north to the Archdiocese of Nidaros, where the archbishop himself succumbed in 1349.42From Norway the plague must have been transmitted to Denmark, where, in the autumn of 1349, it erupted in the port of Halmstad
Oslo, Bergen, Norway and Halmstad, Denmark. Date: 1349. This gives me key points for mapping the very northern part of Europe.
From Grimsby and Hull, both situated at the entrance to the Humber, the epidemic advanced inland along the rivers of Trent and Ouse until it eventually reached the cathedral city of York in May 1349.
Route Data: York, England. Date: May 1349. This is a very specific route (along the rivers).
the Black Death arrived in Dalkey and Drogheda, two small towns situated in the English colony known as the Pale on the east coast of Ireland, in August 1348.
Third Data Point: Dalkey and Drogheda, Ireland. Date: August 1348. This helps trace the route over the sea.
the infection spread along the Thames from east to west to reach London towards the end of 1348.
Second Data Point: London, England. Date: End of 1348. This is important for showing how the disease followed a river.
he Black Death spread from France in the summer of 1348 to the port of Weymouth on the southern coast of England
First Data Point: Weymouth, England. Date: Summer 1348.
The rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, admittedly had the most favourable conditions to do so, but research demonstrates that it was extremely sensitive to changes in temperature and humidity
This is a specific scientific detail that helps me understand why the rat theory might be wrong in places like Scandinavia. My map can visually test if the plague slowed down in colder areas.
However, there is no evidence to suggest that rats were involved in the spread of the plague in the Middle Ages. No contemporary historical accounts exist of dead rats being found ahead of an outbreak of the plague
This is a great piece of evidence for the human parasite side. It tells me to look for things in the old chronicles that don't mention rats, which strengthens the argument against the rat theory.
It is possible that the human flea Pulex irritans played a role
This supports the newer idea (the human parasite theory) that challenges the rat theory. I will use my maps to see which one looks more likely.
the hypothesis that the plague was bubonic in origin and spread along the trade routes of Europe, carried like metastases by the black rat and its parasitic fleas.
This clearly backs up the old idea (the rat-flea theory) that I need to test with my map. It gives me a clear route to follow.
The purpose of the present research is to examine various theories concerning the origin of the Black Death, to record its routes of dissemination in the Nordic countries and across the British Isles, and to compare the pattern of that dissemination with trade routes carrying grain throughout northern Europe
This is exactly what my project aims to do. I can use this quote to show that comparing the plague's spread with trade routes is the right way to study this problem.
The coins can be arranged into various layouts such as piles representing, for example, metal types, or streams visualizing the ebb and flow of coins over the centuries.
This concept of visualizing data as "streams visualizing the ebb and flow of coins over the centuries" is highly relevant to my research. I need to show change over time, specifically the sudden drop in coins or shift in material (like the debasement of currency) that occurs during and immediately after the plague years (1347-1351). This idea of "dynamic streams" helps me think past a static map and towards visualizing economic instability and recovery across Europe.
Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-
for - research further - Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-consciousness as we understand it today. - They operated through a divided mind: <br /> - one part spoke, experienced as divine command, and - another obeyed. Language did not describe consciousness. It created it.
1. How can translanguaging enhance the quality of learning by making the classroom a learner-centricplace and by engaging the students from all sections of society in the classroom?2. How can translanguaging bring creativity and imagination in a multilingual classroom?
Paraphrase: The study investigates whether translanguaging can make classrooms learner-centered for all social groups and whether it fosters creativity and imagination (p. 3). Why it matters: This defines the study’s purpose I’ll cite when I explain its relevance to inclusive pedagogy.
To not recognize this work, this labour is an exercise of privilege and power.
This means I must acknowledge the unseen labor that supports my work. I will give formal credit to the developers of all the open-source tools in my project's final acknowledgements.
The current digital ecosystem requires that people’s behaviour online (their clicks, their likes, their follows, their browsing) by monetized (and weaponized).
When gathering source material online, I must be critical/review any data or image found on sites designed purely to make money, ensuring my research is based on neutral, scholarly sources.
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.
This reminds me that my final map as well as any other visual media I create must tell a story of scholarly discovery (ex. Acknowledging how religion affected survival rates). I must not only gather facts that look pretty on the final project map.
Excel is a black box. When we use it, we have to take on faith that its statistics do what they say they are doing.
Just as people mistrusted hidden power in the medieval period, I must avoid any closed software when analyzing my historical data. I will use open-source programs (like R, QGIS, or simple text editing) to clean and process my data so the exact transformation steps are completely visible and not hidden inside a "black box".
The principles that we should follow are: make the data and the methods that generated the results openly available script the stastical analysis (that is, no more point-and-click statistics). More on this below. use version control
This is like keeping a public, perfect record of a medieval financial ledger. When I gather my Black Death data, I must immediately put it into a system (like GitHub) that records every change, so I can always prove where my facts came from and how I used them.
Further Reading For a great workflow using KoBoToolbox, QGIS, PostGIS, and LibreOffice Base (all free and open source tools), see this overview from Ben Carter.
For more information on QGIS/PostGIS etc.
Consensus, Perplexity Pro, Elicit, or STORM by Stanford—to gather peer-reviewed findings about your specific task.
AI powered research tools - built for academics
we consider dreaming as a by-product of sleep-based consolidation
for - research claim - dreaming - byproduct of sleep-based memory consolidation - adjacency - dreaming - sleep-based consolidation
issuers should track learner engagement post-launch to optimize their courses. Unfortunately, most issuers aren’t tracking engagement metrics and don’t have a sense of where learners are finding value and where they’re dropping off. Less than half of issuers track what content or courses learners are most engaged with (34%), which learners are most engaged (25%), course completion time (24%), and where learners drop off (14%) — missing out on critical insights to improve their programs
Huge analytics opportunity that supports student success and feeds future funnel. So there's ROI in retention/completion, as well as new future enrollments.
ChatGPT makes writing easier and more of a cleaner look, especially for people who aren’t native English speakers. But it also makes people worry and start thinking to themselves like “Is this really my work?” or “Am I cheating?” It can be helpful, but also very stressful to one.
for - AgroSphere Technology key research paper - carbon emissions - paper claims agriculture is the highest summary - The paper cited here is very important for AgroSphere Technology because - It shows how critical a role regenerative agriculture plays in mitigating the climate crisis - The claim of the paper is that carbon emissions from Agriculture are the biggest emissions of all
seeing the truth takes too much time and energy. It it's complicated to see the truth
for - research output - the truth requires too much energy
What comes after Roam's renaissance? — LessWrong<br /> by [[Itay Dreyfus]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T23:55:03
came to via: https://writingslowly.com/2025/08/24/use-case-for-the-zettelkasten.html
the case of pregnancy where you have two immune systems in the same system and not only you have two immune system you have a third immune system which is in the placenta
for - research - pregnancy - 3 immune systems
suggests quantitative methods wrt predicting future tech impact on behaviour/socialaspects, in contrast with the usual qualitative narrative methods (futurism, narrative inquiry, scenarios presumably) The Science Fiction Science Method as PDF in Zotero PDF available CC BY at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394323287_The_Science_Fiction_Science_Method
via Bruce Sterling (Mastodon)
Zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum richtete das Forum Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit den Blick nach vorn. Ganz im Zeichen innovativer Methoden und digitaler Zugänge zur Vermittlung jüdischer Geschichte stehend,
Can we still speak of Digital Humanties methods as "new" (or even "new" to a certain subfield)? This seems a bit weird in 2025. Digital approaches are around since at least the 60s/70s. This also perpetual state of "novelty" also does not help Digital Humanities, a certain kind of normalising would be more helpful.
English professors often assume that students can read the novels andpoetry assigned for their courses.
Assumptions like this always are based on the implicit bias that either the students share a somewhat similar social background with the professors or that the school system works well enough to establish the same reading skill in most people.
studies on col-lege reading lag behind similar research on critical thinking
Okay, both are critical skills for academia, but how do you put them in relation?
rtists and entrepreneurs share key psychological traits: intrinsic motivation, systems thinking, and comfort with ambiguity.
for - system change - role of artists - TPF - arts community - research paper - RMIT 2020 - artist traits
You can’t cut emissions without cutting inequality. New science proves it.
for - climate crisis - research study - luxury emissions must fall
companies with external partnerships that provide employee training or professional development increased from 54% in 2022 to 68% in 2023, and among those without existing relationships, 61% of companies would be interested in developing these partnerships.
Most companies have external partnerships for employee training and the majority of those that do not would be interested in having them.
Socialmetabolism encompasses biophysical flows exchanged between societies and their natural environmentas well asthe flows within and between social systems(Fig1).
Auch dieser Review-Artikel geht vom Konzept des social metabolism aus, den man als den Gegenstand von social-metabolic research verstehen kann. Der Begriff bezieht sich auf biophysikalische Flüsse zwischen Gesellschaften und ihrer natürlichen Umgebung und zwischen gesellschaftlichen Systemen. Diese Flüsse halten die material stocks, die materiellen Bestände, aufrecht.
Die Studie des Potsdam-Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung zeigt, dass Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) theoretisch bis 2050 jährlich 7,5 Milliarden Tonnen CO₂ entfernen könnte. Allerdings würde dies die planetaren Belastungsgrenzen stark überschreiten, insbesondere in Bezug auf Stickstoffeintrag, Süßwasserverbrauch, Entwaldung und Biosphärenintegrität. Unter Berücksichtigung dieser Grenzen reduziert sich das Potenzial auf nur 200 Millionen Tonnen CO₂ jährlich. Die Studie betont die Notwendigkeit, neben der CO₂-Bilanz auch andere ökologische Faktoren zu berücksichtigen und schlägt vor, durch weniger Fleischkonsum Flächen für Klimaplantagen freizumachen. [Zusammenfassung generiert mit Mistral]
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000257365/kein-platz-fuer-klimaplantagen
The usual name for this is Fermi estimation: estimating the rough order of magnitude of an unknown quantity using information that you already know.
What is the Fermi estimation? What is the quickest way to get the information needed? What information would you need?
AI is already augmenting important parts of the AI research process itself, and that will only accelerate
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at any given time, the CCP may have a better idea of what OpenAI’s frontier advances look like than the U.S. government does.
for - AI - Chinese know more than US government about latest US frontier AI research
Die Trumpadministration hat die Finanzierung für die Organisation gestrichen, die für die vierjährigen Bestandsaufnahmen zum Klimawandel in den USA hat und damit das wichtigste Dokument für die nationale Klimapolitik dort zuständig sind. Vorantragen war schon im Februar das Verbot an einem Treffen des IPCC teilzunehmen. Damit wird der Kern der Berichterstattung über den Klimawandel und seine Folgen für den Kongress und damit auch die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit praktisch unmöglich gemacht. Michael Mann spricht angesichts dieser Politik der Trambeadministration von einem Verbrechen gegen den Planeten und damit vom schwerwiegsten Verbrechen überhaupt. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf
Der neue Planetary Health Check des Potsdam Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung ergibt, dass durch die Versauerung der Ozeane möglicherweise gerade die siebte von 9 planetaren Grenzen durchbrochen wird und die Biosphäre auch hier in eine Hochrisikozone eintritt. Bei allen anderen mit Ausnahme des Ozonschwunds haben sich die Bedingungen verschlechtert. Die CO2- Emissionen treiben die Versauerung an, die wiederum die Fähigkeit der Ozeane mindert, als CO2-Senke zu wirken. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/23/earth-breach-planetary-boundaries-health-check-oceans
Website zum Planetary Health Check: https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/
"I was then interviewing young adults to understand their experience of multilingualism and it became clear they considered the mixed urban language to be their native language, with Iscamtho being a full part of it."
qualitative research
Hippocampus
What is Hippocampus? part of the brain that controls the amount of information we recall or remember .
for - Christine Wamsler - Lund University - homepage - from - youtube - Mindfulness World Community - Awareness, Care and Sustainability for Our Earth - https://hyp.is/GCUJ1APHEfCcr_vvv3lAFw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUc_0GroGM
to - paper - An Interdisciplinary Model to Foster Existential Resilience and Transformation
to - paper - Engaging high-income earners in climate action : Policy insights from survey experiments
to - paper - Revolutionising sustainability leadership and education : addressing the human dimension to support flourishing, culture and system transformation
to - The System Within : Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems change
research areas - sustainable cities - collaborative governance - city-citizen collaboration - citizen participation - sustainability and wellbeing - sustainability transformation - inner development goals - inner transformation - inner transition - existential sustainability
Code-switching
code switching - what do i need to know?
Multilingualism
What is mulyilinguilism?
mindfulness can support all five clusters of transformative capacities
for - question - what are the 5 clusters of transformative capacity? - question - what research paper discusses the 5 clusters?
Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, and Nicholas Wilson. 2025. The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26–May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713778
The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices. We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so. Participants shared 936 first-hand examples of using GenAI in work tasks. Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship. Our insights reveal new design challenges and opportunities for developing GenAI tools for knowledge work
Nach den Erfahrungen mit den Angriffen der ersten Trump-Administration auf die Wissenschaft haben Wissenschaftler:innen in den USA verschiedene Maßnahmen zum Schutz wissenschaftlicher Institutionen ergriffen. Die New York TImes berichtet ausführlich über diese scientific integrity policies, die wissenschaftliche Arbeit öffentlich beobachtbar machen, aber politische Einflussnahme ausschließen sollen. Die Biden- und schon die Obama-Administration haben scientific integrity policies gefördert. Zu den Maßnahmen gehören die Benennung von Verantwortlichen für wissenschaftliche Integrität in Behörden und Kollektivverträge, die die Disziplinierung von Forschenden erschweren.
Zum „War on Science“ schon der ersten Trump-Regierung gehörte außer Entlassungen von Wissenschaftler:innen auch die Anordnung der Verfälschung von Forschungsergebnissen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/climate/trump-government-scientists.html
Die EU bezahlt Russland für fossile Brennstoffe mehr, als sie der Ukraine an Finanzhilfen zur Verfügung stellt. 2024 bezog sie für 22 Milliarden Euro Öl und Gas aus Russland und zahlte 19 Milliarden an die Ukraine, wobei Militär- und humanitäre Hilfe nicht einbezogen sind. Insgesamt betrugen die Einnahmen Russlands aus dem Export fossiler Brennstoffe im dritten Jahr der Invasion der ganzen Ukraine 242 Milliarden Euro. Der Guardian berichtet über einen neuen Report des Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report
But fight or flight is only part of a bigger picture, according to Shelley Taylor, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues. In the Psychological Review, the researchers describe how stress can elicit another behavioral pattern they call "tend and befriend"--especially in females. Their new theories may have profound implications for understanding the differences between how men and women react to stress.
First, although the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now emphasizes the need to include women and female animals in clinical research [e.g., 57], decades of research on the topics reviewed herein have been conducted using only men and male animals.
we are all one body, though each member does its own work, to serve the others, This is because we have one baptism, one Gospel, one faith, and are all Christians alike; for baptism, Gospel, and faith, these alone make spiritual and Christian people
All people are alike and united through Religion https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html
So what is the central meaning of the word ‘reflexive’ in ‘reflexive moderniz- ation’? 4 ‘Reflexive’ does not mean that people today lead a more conscious life. On the contrary. ‘Reflexive’ signifies not an ‘increase of mastery and consciousness, but a heightened awareness that mastery is impossible’ (Latour, 2003).
for - definition - reflexive (in reflexive modernity) - not more conscious but increased awareness that mastery is impossible - SOURCE - paper - The Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme - Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss and Christoph Lau - 2003
Reflexivity has been explored on a collective societal level, for example through Ulrich Beck's work on reflexive modernization wherein the unintended consequences of simple modernity motivate a reflexive turn across society, including to science itself: ‘science itself is deconstructed by means of science’
for - further research - Ulrich Beck's research on unintended consequences of simple modernity - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
Transdisciplinary sustainability science is increasingly applied to study transformative change. Yet, transdisciplinary research involves diverse actors who hold contrasting and sometimes conflicting perspectives and worldviews. Reflexivity is cited as a crucial capacity for navigating the resulting challenges
for - adjacency - reflexivity - tool for transdisciplinary research - indyweb - people-centered interpersonal information architecture - mindplex - concept spaces - perspectival knowing - life situatedness - SRG transdisciplinary complexity mapping tool - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
adjacency - between - reflexivity - tool for transdisciplinary research - indyweb - people-centered, interpersonal information architecture - mindplex - concept space - perspectival knowing - life situatedness - SRG transdisciplinary complexity mapping tool - adjacency relationship - This paper is interesting from the perspective of development of the Indyweb because there, - the people-centered, interpersonal information architecture intrinsically explicates perspectival knowing and life-situatedness - Indyweb can embed an affordance that is a meta function applied to an indyvidual's mindplex that - surfaces and aspectualizes the perspective and worldview salient to the research - The granular information that embeds an indyvidual's perspectives and worldviews is already there in the indyvidual's rich mindplex
Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach
for - from - adjacency - post - LinkedIn - new paper - reflexivity in transdisciplinary research - Indyweb research - https://hyp.is/9j6xwNSXEe-rwrMDE36CPg/www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7285568599447015424-sckS/
New paper! For those of you just starting out in transdisciplinary research, or for those of you that have been doing it a long time and engaging in reflexive practices,
for - adjacency - post - LinkedIn - new paper - reflexivity in transdisciplinary research - Indyweb research - to - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10 - https://hyp.is/SXryuNSYEe-1zcu9-Y2ncA/www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/reflexivity-as-a-transformative-capacity-for-sustainability-science-introducing-a-critical-systems-approach/D6978EE9FF6C9B7DBB36212C2BB0B865
Sovereign Individual.
for - further research - Oligarch's favorite book - The Sovereign Individual - Author - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
Aneurin Bevan
for - further research - Aneurin Bevan - 1952 - liberal democracy's greatest paradox - How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - inequality - elites - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
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Scholars Talk Writing: Helen Sword by [[Rachel Toor]] in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017-07-31 archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722062708/https://www.chronicle.com/article/scholars-talk-writing-helen-sword/
for - from - Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 - annotation - reply to - Me2We2All -Local economic permaculture? - Research question - third search - https://hyp.is/UrdJmMHKEe-nGLd7p-JTcA/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-cosmo-local-plan-for-our-next
there were a group of scientists that were trying to understand how the brain processes language, and they found something very interesting. They found that when you learn a language as a child, as a two-year-old, you learn it with a certain part of your brain, and when you learn a language as an adult -- for example, if I wanted to learn Japanese
for - research study - language - children learning mother tongue use a different post off the brain then adults learning another language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan
wokism as a return to group collectivism that suppresses individual differentiation
for - definition - wokism - a return to group collectivism that suppresses individual differentiation - from - P2P Foundation Wiki - Somewheres, Nowheres and Everywheres - Michel Bauwens, 2022
interrogate - Do more research on this definition of Wokism - from - P2P Foundation Wiki - Somewheres, Nowheres and Everywheres - Michel Bauwens, 2022
‘factor 20’ movement can be imagined, in fact, already exists, which aims to reduce energy usage by 95%, coupled with significant savings in the use of materials. This movement is already active in various European cities
for - research further - EU movement - factor of 20 - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20
How to Study. 16mm, Instructional film. Coronet Instructional Films, 1946. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRK70kyaWOI.
his Holiness um uh his Holiness uh made the request that we investigate tokam and I believe that one of uh his interests his Holiness his interest in studying took down is because this represents a real challenge to Western science because uh uh the suggestion in the traditional Tibetan texts is that there is a subtle quality of awareness that is still present even after the conventional Western definition of death after the heart has stopped beating after the breathing has stopped there they're said to be uh this subtle quality of awareness uh this clear light stage that is still present
for - meditation - Tukdam clear light meditation at time of death - research motivation from HH Dalai Lama - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson
Summary - His Holiness Dalai Lama requested the research so that science could validate what Tibetan practitioners have known for a long time, that there is still an awareness present in the advanced meditator even after death has occurred - this is the Tukdam "clear light" meditation practice.
in our work on well-being we have formulated a framework for understanding the key pillars or the key components of well-being
for - mindfulness meditation research - 4 pillars of wellbeing - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson
summary - four pillars of wellbeing - 1 awareness - 2 connection - 3 insight (of the nature of self) - 4 purpose (intention)
very famous scientific experiment that was published about 10 years ago now that is um really a critical experiment in this area
for - mindfulness and happiness - research conclusion - wandering mind is an unhappy mind - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson
what we're finding in the fetal brain research is that mental illness especially heavy mental illness can start in utero that's why this is such a vital neurodevelopmental time
for - fetal brain research - very serious mental illnesses in adults can be traced to mental illness that begins in utero in the womb - Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Happens in Layers - Kate White
I have a great passion for the fetal brain research is that if we can really help now um how a parent is feeling it can really influence the neurod development of a child
for - fetal brain research - help with how a parent is feeling influences neural development of a child later on - Youtube - Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Happens in Layers - Kate White
What is the scientific community doing to bolster the resiliency of climate change research in the US?
for - post - LinkedIn - question - Trump-proofing climate change research in the US
employer verification
In addition, this hints at employMENT verification: this could be a light lift sort of Tier 1 entry point for organizations to be both issuing and consuming credentials. Large employers spend a lot of resources responding to requests to verify former workers' employment histories. If part of off-boarding departing workers includes VCs for official employment verification, that could lead to big savings of time and resources (as long as other employers accept the credentials), as well as accelerate hiring processes that sometimes lead to failed hires bc people find another position that starts sooner. For key HR leaders to start with badging from a place of effortlessly improving their efficiency and costs might be a better place to launch than more involved strategies that offer less immediate value propositions.
The good news comes from Joe Kelly, who investigated the large “ultrafast” response ofEarth’s energy imbalance (EEI) to a 2×CO2 forcing in the GISS (2020) GCM. Specifically,we reported in Pipeline that the initial 4 W/m2 imbalance dropped by about 30% (to 2.7W/m2) in year 1 after the forcing was imposed.
for - more research on - Joe Kelly - climate crisis - cloud behavior - Jim Hansen
For nearly half of the lower-wage employment analyzed, we identify at least one higher-paying occupation requiring similar skills in the same metro area. We also find that transitions to similar higher-paying occupations would represent an average annual increase in wages of nearly $15,000, or 49 percent.
Recognition can change the world. Signals need to be valid and trustworthy, but we're so close to making a huge difference in the world through recognition of things that are already there, just hidden in plain sight.
the whole point of the Nixon Administration was to split the Soviet Union from China and therefore win the Cold War so they're critical of the support of Ukraine and of Israel because they think that this simply disorient the United States policy
for - further research - UD foreign policy - Ukraine - Israel - China - Russia - Nixon - Yanis Varoufakis
lib-lab dynamic
for - further research - Karl Polyani - book - The Great Transformation - Lib-Lab dynamics - Kondratieff waves - cycles of political economy - from Michel Bauwens - lib-lab dynamics - Kondratiefff waves - Kondratieff cycles
the ‘harmony’ model of Mesopotamia and the East Eurasian empires, and the conflict model which started in Greece and determined the logic of the Western model.
for - further research - Harmony model of East Eurasia vs Conflict model of Greece
I think the vican barrier is not any longer a barrier
for - evolutionary biology - Weissman barrier - refuted by modern research - Denis Noble
Better understanding of what learning described by credentials prepares earners to do in theworkforce, at the skill level. This may be a reframing of competencies toward position descriptionlanguage
Employers want to know what credentials are credentialing, and they want to hear it in their own language. The temptation will be to convince faculty and others to revise descriptions, however the opportunity is in leaving that and instead seeking their consensus and comfort with interpreting their descriptions into the languages of employers.
Erstmals wurde genau erfasst, welcher Teil der von Waldbränden betroffenen Gebiete sich auf die menschlich verursachte Erhitzung zurückführen lässt. Er wächst seit 20 Jahren deutlich an. Insgesamt kompensieren die auf die Erhitzung zurückgehenden Waldbrände den Rückgang an Bränden durch Entwaldung. Der von Menschen verursachte – und für die Berechnung von Schadensansprüchen relevante – Anteil der CO2-Emissione ist damit deutlich höher als bisher angenommen https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-change-almost-wipes-out-decline-in-global-area-burned-by-wildfires/
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Paul will createa 501c3 as a RESEARCH instrument to apply for Kauffman;s research grant My hope is that IAN's 501c3 will apply for the PROJECT Grant that holds the eco-system of 501c3 fair shares commons
Indent with Intent: Fundamentals of Roam Research by [[R. J. Nestor]]
Besonders verwundbare Gruppen - Alte, Frauen und Menschen mit niedrigem sozioökonomischen Status – können vor Hitzewellen in Städten nur dann besser geschützt werden, wenn sie nicht in den der Hitze am meisten ausgesetzten Teilen einer Stadt leben müssen. Dies zeigt eine neue Studie zur räumlichen Verteilung der Verwundbarkeit durch Hitze am Beispiel Madrids. Ohne wirksame räumlich-soziale Gegenmaßnahmen werden sich die „verwundbaren Cluster“ ausdehnen https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2024/10/21/news/ondate_di_calore_in_citta_madrid_quartieri_piu_a_rischio-423568496/
Studie: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004431