there's a "warning fatigue" effect as well: all emails have this CAUTION banner, which makes them unreadable unless we open them; most emails have other spurious warnings, like looking like they didn't come from where they claim. All these drain our attention, before getting to the sender contents

Finally, people with mobility issues or pain don’t want to make a fuss. They might still be able to walk, just not stairs or long detours. But they don’t want to chase organizers to ask “Is there a step-free way to the bathroom?”
Good accessibility means they don’t have to ask.

Yep - The problem is that these can be self-fulfilling prophecies. If you have a group of super-talented people and select one person to give better opportunities to and they do really well, it could be that you are good at talent spotting or just that people do better with more resources...

For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain: bit.ly/43gJPUM), and AI will make it worse.

It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so.

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I like this obit better...