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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I also think that a lot of the most important parts of writing happen at the revision stage. That’s where you figure out the distances between what you thought you were saying, what you actually said, and what you should be saying. And that’s an active thinking process. GenAI can’t do it for you.

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I'd convinced myself that keeping (almost at all times) on top of emails by actioning/clearing/filing them would reduce the stress of a long full inbox. I was wrong. Both ways, it's really abt changing how we view the inbox from a source of personal validation to an impersonal product of our times.

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What makes a university a university?

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Bravo @erc.europa.eu 🙄

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