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This editorial from Nature has been widely circulated, and for good reason. PhD training (so-called) has been in need of reform for decades now. When I was studying for a PhD in the 1980s the issues cited here were already apparent, and as graduate student president for two years I did everything I did to bring to light the inadequacy of funding, supervision, and working conditions...

Should we even be using chatGPT? Thomas Telving argues that the tech giants "can't just go around launching products into the global market that disrupt something as vital and...

If you want to dive into the details of generative AI technology (and you do, you do) there are some academic papers to look at: Murray Shanahan explains large language models (...

I want to juxtapose two articles: this article, which I think of as super-introductory, addressing myths about online learning, and Ben Werduller's post on working from home, which makes very clear the case that "forcing in-person work is a sure-fire sign that...

Not that we needed it, but this story adds evidence of the danger of depending on a technology platform that someone else owns. Twitter began shutting off API access to clients like Twitterific and Fenix late last week, and according to...

My @Downes account on Twitter attracted peaked at 9700 followers and stayed there (plus or minus 25 or so) for several years (I always wondered what would change when I hit 10,000 but I never found out). My Mastodon followers number one tenth of that. For people who depend on large numbers...