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European research grant applications surged in 2025. MSCA success rates below 10%, ERC grants at 8-12%.

Not "too" competitive—just funding funneling away from the US due to budget cuts and instability.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Research #SciencePolicy
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
Ethan Mollick's late 2025 AI guide: Use Pro models for fewer hallucinations. Choose model/mode deliberately. Prompt engineering matters less now. Also paid versions opt out of data training.

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
What AI to use in late 2025
www.oneusefulthing.org
The evolving nature of AI has question the relevance of our roles/workflows. There needs to be a role shift: we should be supervising AI and validating its results.

‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics
A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever.
www.nature.com
Agents4Science 2025 starts next week — a conference where all papers and reviews were created by AI.

Stanford AI researchers are behind this experiment in fully automated scholarship.

Nature coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Conference: agents4science.stanford.edu

#AI #AIinScience
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
www.nature.com
Humans are more energy efficient than birds and horses. And we hit even greater efficiency when you are on a bike. Fascinating!

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
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AI bots attacking library systems could push users away from libraries and toward AI vendors themselves - compounding the problem of people stopping at AI overviews. Kate Dohe's Scholarly Kitchen post: libraries need urgent investment to survive.
The GAMER checklist ( ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...) is a great guide for researchers using GenAI in writing. Along with the GAIDeT framework and statement generator, it forms a trio for responsible AI use in research writing. GAIDeT Generator: panbibliotekar.github.io/gaidet-decla...
I find the concept of AI tools being able to decrease the "price" for research interesting. If we argue further, the quality might be predicted to be lower (or more variable). The oft-ignored aspect of AI is that it is leveler and helps ESL researchers and ECRs more.
Three takeaways from Ian Mulvany on AI & publishing: Publishers must engage with AI and license content. Some think AI could eliminate publishers entirely. Human cognition is like token processing—but LLMs operate at impossibly large scales.
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