A big part of my job as a physics professor — emphasis on the professor part here — is training my early career group members and colleagues in the craft of writing scientific papers. And that means paying attention to how they write so I can talk to them about what will help them do it better.

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But your voice should be evolving. Your sensibilities about how to phrase things should be dynamic, changing in time. But also how will you learn about the early career scientists you are working with if you don’t do the work of actually editing their writing? How can you teach them?

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I’m not naming the person because I don’t have any interest in sending a mob after them. But since he put the blog entry out there, I’ve been thinking a lot about what troubles me about it. The first piece is that if you offload the editing, you treat your voice as something that is static

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If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic

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Congratulations to David Breslow of Yale University, recipient of the 2026 ASCB Innovation in Research Award recognizing groundbreaking research in cell biology. https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

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