Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

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I find the obsession with ranking scientists from one or some of the persons who always figure somewhere in the top of those rankings to be a major ick, to be frank. I can’t think of a single reasonable use for it other than creating an exclusive boys’ club of mutual back patting.

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One thing I found a little weird is the decision to divide a person's impact for every paper by the number of co-authors linearlyl. Means that generous PIs who acknowledge the important work of RAs and students by including them as co-authors are being disadvantaged over greedy PIs.

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So, advice for potential PhD students re emailing potential supervisors to connect with them. 1) Do not use AI. Like seriously, don't. It's a Dunning-Kruger issue ... your email might look good to you, but for those of us in our fields AND getting a million of these, the generic language is OBVIOUS

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