Academia

How to peer review a paper in 2026

Dorothy Bishop, a psychologist, wrote a useful list of what reviewers need to look out now that so many papers are bad science that looks good thanks to LLMs. Read her whole blog post, she explains it well, but here’s a brief […]

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Visiting scholar at the University of Chicago

I’m a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago this year, affiliated with the Center for Applied AI at Booth School of Business. I’m excited about the opportunity to learn from a different disciplinary approach to AI and machine vision. I discovered […]

My ERC interview: the full story

It seems more and more research funding is awarded in a two-step process, where applicants who make it to the second round are interviewed by the panel before the final decisions are made. I had never done this kind of interview before […]

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Academic social networks

When I saw that almost a third of researchers at my university were on ResearchGate and I’d barely heard of it I decided to create a profile. I’m not sure that was a good idea. Here are the stats for our university’s […]

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My professor application

For quite a while, I’ve been meaning to put my application for full professor online. Here it is. I had never seen an example of an application for promotion to full professor when I submitted my own application, in September 2009. The […]