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A label nobody checks
What happens when the control experiment misbehaves badly enough to become a paper of its own.
Rational stupidity, or why nobody is actually being stupid
On Rieck's razor, and why academic frustrations are rarely about the people involved
The Wave: Logitech's ergonomic keyboard reviewed
On touch typing, ergonomic keyboards and a recent upgrade
When reviewers read what they assume, not what you wrote
On the gap between what is on the page and what ends up being reviewed
Thesify – the wrong tool for the right job
On Thesify, mushrooming AI platforms and what happens when you skip the small print
Impressive is not the same as useful
On AI manuscript review tools, what they can do and what they cannot
The billion-pound misunderstanding
On peer review, academic time and a calculation that does not add up
A moment of recognition
It was heart-breaking to fail the student. But there was nothing else I could do.
When theory overrides data
How the criticism of one figure out of six became grounds for rejecting an entire manuscript as 'artifactual'.
When students take "Cut and Paste" too literally
Why even today students need to experience work in a lab, and not in a virtual reality environment