Applying for grants, writing papers and reviewing works from our peers sure makes scientific research a lot about writing! I myself always think that I'm either forgetting something or haven't read some super important paper that would help me or simply destroy my thesis

Sometimes people aren't as excited about doing research as they are about talking about it, exploring other works and communicating about them. And that's absolutely fine! I hope this career path for PhDs is more valued in the coming years!

Let's not forget that some papers have written instructions for AI reviewers on how to review the paper. These were found in either white text or ridiculously small fonts so human reviewers can't see them and would give stellar reviews if didn't do their job and just used some LLM for review

analog stick histogram!

Some of the stuff here may seem obvious, but actually committing on making some of these changes to our lab life go a looong way on preventing stress over many small things at the same time!

Nature comment showing how the phrase "ah, everyone is autistic these days" is absurd in all possible levels

One thing is applying AI to engineering problems, but in scientific research we don't want to just predict stuff. We want to better understand how our universe works, and for that we need to formulate theories. This "AI craze" may unfortunately be hindering that in the name of direct applicability.

Superconductors and other exotics
Self-learning networks and nanorobotics
Various planets surrounded by rings
These are a few of my favorite things

“My Favorite Things,” physics edition physicstoday.aip.org/letters/my-f...