ANNOUNCEMENT: I am launching a resource for students, postdocs, faculty, industry researchers and science-based entrepreneurs. I want to make a bigger change. 📍 Key reasons are: 1. Students struggle with advisors, research, presentations, visas, internships, etc. Most have no

We all know how hard it is to do a great study and write a great paper. And yet some conservative numbers are: - 400,000 published papers are fake (2000-2022). - 70,000 of them were published in 2022. - At least 10% of all PubMed abstracts published in 2024 were written with

At first, people don't believe in your ideas - and you should ignore them. Later, they start stealing your ideas - and that's actually a good sign. It's tough. Unfair. Unnecessary. But that's how life goes. Breakthroughs start with resistance and end with applause.

If you’re not ready to grow into an AI-INDEPENDENT thinking machine, you don’t need a PhD. I want to cite the article that describes the clash between today’s education and AI: “Once metrics like speed and optimization replace reflection and dialogue, education mutates into

Basically, this AI writer removes a big part of PhD education. It takes over your brainwork. Yes, it saves your time by writing for you. But you skip the essential thinking & analytical process because you don't need to write anymore. In my view, this is a dangerous road.

Scientists have no time for peer reviews. So, real AI Reviewers are taking over. OpenRxiv is integrating an AI reviewing tool to get 30-min feedback on biomed manuscripts (Nature News describes it in detail). AI Reviewers give advantages (my view): - No more Reviewer # 2. This

The dark side of academia. Thoughts on ”Should I stay in science”. And the principle of “science & students first”. When you look these insane numbers, you feel bad about academia. For example, in the field of capacitors, 2128 reviews published in 2 years, which is ~ 13% of the

UCSD Final Report 2025: https://t.co/WdAVyLphRf News articles:

Admissions disaster. And a lesson learned. 665 students (8.5% of freshmen) failed elementary and mid-school calculus at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). 80% couldn’t solve this: 10 − 2*(4 − 6x) = 0 UCSD is among the top universities in the country. Why this

Do a postdoc in a hope to get a faculty position

Postdoc is still very popular in science & engineering. Perhaps, that’s why it doesn’t get much better. 2004: 49.2% 2014: 47.9% 2019: 45.5% 2024: 45.8% This is the Postdoc Rate according to the NSF SED reports. Despite low salary, under-appreciation, anxiety and uncertainty.

Postdoc time is often harder than PhD. You have little time. Competition is higher. And you MUST stand out. + Your contract may end any moment. + Your salary is often low (for your age/education). + You’ve just relocated and prepare to relocate again. No wonder that Max

arXiv has banned reviews in computer science. Should research journals do the same? 📍For arXiv, the reason is obvious: 1. Citations = money, funding, awards. Unethical scientists want more citations. Some of them ‘order’ citations from the paper mills that produce reviews

Pressure to publish jumps. And researchers have no time to do science. (New survey from Elsevier) Survey of 3200 researchers: 1. Only 45% of scientists have sufficient time for actual research. 2. For 68%, the pressure to publish today is greater than 2-3 years ago. 3. 29% of

The more papers, the better. Keep publishing. Science needs papers. Your advisor needs papers. Your university needs papers. Quantity wins. It’s the only way to make your profile stand out. The only way to make an impact. The only way to impress everyone. If you can’t be