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New Study Finds Average College Professor 'Only Slightly Less Left' Than Bernie Sanders

A new report from FIRE finds that the range of faculty opinions is even tighter than previously understood.…

Between tech hype and literary purity, I am trying to write

Between tech hype and literary purity, I am trying to write…

The Right and Center Are Almost Gone from Academia

That is not just a campus culture-war problem. It is a knowledge-creation problem.…

Great Idea: A New Kind of Academic Publishing Dedicated to Critiquing Academic Arguments

Introducing Peer Review articles to challenge academic groupthink and improve research integrity.…

I Made a Journal for AI-Generated Papers

One of the things that fascinates me the most about the possibility of AI-generated papers is not just that AI can do research, but that it is inviting us to rethink research insti…

The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”…

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'…

The Journal of Craptology

Office Hours May 25, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit

Crunchyroll Anime Awards: ‘My Hero Academia’ Named Anime of the Year, ‘Demon Slayer’ Takes Best Film

A stunning 73 million anime fans from around the world voted for the the 10th edition of the awards…

Why young academics are leaving academia

‘My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON’ Is Crunchyroll’s 2026 Anime of the Year

The superhero finale shared the night's biggest spotlights with 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle,' which secured best movie and best score.…

‘My Hero Academia Final Season’ Lands Top Prize at 10th Annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards

At the 10th annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, 'My Hero Academia Final Season' was named 2026's anime of the year. Here is the winners list.…

ArXiv Will Ban You for Hallucinated References

Thomas Dietterich, Chair of the Computer Science section of the preprint server arXiv.org, recently clarified the site’s policies towards “hallucinated” citations and other signs ……

China: What I Learned from the AI Labs, Robotics Startups and Academia

By Matt White, Global CTO of AI at the Linux Foundation & CTO of the PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & Data…

AI Edits a Classical Chinese Paper: Multi-Model Stress Test

本文记录了一次在真实学术工作场景下进行的多模型压力测试。任务是将一篇双语古汉语学术论文(《重读〈狐假虎威〉》)修改至可投国际汉学期刊水准,具体包括四项子任务:加固核心语义论点(补充先秦假等于借用例)、前置摘要核心发现、扩展结论方法论段落、统一Chicago Author-Date格式。 This paper documents a multi-model s…

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Can we cite Wikipedia? What if it was more reliable than its detractors? (2025)

Wikipedia, a widely successful encyclopedia recognized in academic circles and used by both students and professors alike, has led educators to question whether it can be cited as …

Academia, startups, big tech, and back again

People tell me I have a weird resume. From academia to a big company to a few startups, back to academia, and then another startup before going back to a big company.…

My Hero Academia spin-off anime short about Eri is coming sooner than you'd think

I am a hero too will premiere at Anime Expo before coming to streaming platforms a month later…

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is an unskippable spinoff that you need to watch to understand MHA

Vigilantes is an unskippable addition to My Hero Academia.…

Major Scientific Repository arXiv Cracks Down on AI-Generated Papers

If the platform finds 'incontrovertible evidence' that a submission's large language model (LLM) used wasn't checked, they could face a one-year ban, as well as long-term scrutiny …

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III

Most of us do not contribute to human knowledge—AI just made it obvious…