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How hard can it be? – Part 4: Three machines and a question they could not answer

14 August 2026
Tags: enigma Bletchley Park encryption critical thinking AI critique AI & digital tools

Three frontier AI systems, one unsolvable problem and a lesson about what happens when the evidence runs out.

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The prompt is the tool

12 August 2026
Tags: AI critique AI & digital tools academic life research & publishing critical thinking

Why not just use ChatGPT?

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How hard can it be? – Part 3: The answer was somebody else's

7 August 2026
Tags: Enigma Bletchley Park encryption scientific rigour critical thinking

The message was solved in 1944, solved again in 1998, and I solved it in 2026 by writing to the people who already had.

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How hard can it be? – Part 2: The crib that would not stop

31 July 2026
Tags: enigma Bletchley Park encryption scientific rigour critical thinking

A fragment of known German, a machine that can never encipher a letter as itself and a Bombe simulator.

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How hard can it be? – Part 1: I thought breaking Enigma would be easy

24 July 2026
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I had a modern laptop and eighty years of progress. Surely breaking one Enigma message would be easy.

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When reviewers read what they assume, not what you wrote

22 July 2026
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On the gap between what is on the page and what ends up being reviewed

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Thesify – the wrong tool for the right job

1 July 2026
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On Thesify, mushrooming AI platforms and what happens when you skip the small print

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A full cupboard

27 May 2026
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On media, restocking and a small but persistent source of lab frustration

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The billion-pound misunderstanding

20 May 2026
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On peer review, academic time and a calculation that does not add up

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When AI helps too much

29 April 2026
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When convenience quietly comes at a cost

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The great bottle lid debate

25 February 2026
Tags: academic life humorous stories critical thinking aseptic technique microbiology

Face up or face down – that is the question!

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Microbiology practical 2025

3 December 2025
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First year students in the microbiology lab

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On narrow minds and broad science

26 November 2025
Tags: academic life critical thinking critique model organisms echo chamber

In defense of model organisms such as E. coli

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Paper Wizard - between mediocracy and gold

3 September 2025
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A tale of two papers and one overzealous AI

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Glycerol – the Halloween edition

1 August 2025
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When glycerol looks like a radioactive sunset

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