S. Scott Graham
@sscottgraham.bsky.social
Writing about health, ethics, COI, rhetoric, AI, and anatomy museums (usually only 2-3 in any given act of writing) at UT-Austin. https://sscottgraham.com
I think the special sauce is probably an authoritarian personality with a patina of iconoclasm. Danger vibes with institutional safety in many cases.
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I think the special sauce is probably an authoritarian personality with a patina of iconoclasm. Danger vibes with institutional safety in many cases.
It's so bad! I got an article back recently full of copy edit confusions that only a robot could make. I was driven crazy for hours by a date typo "Hu, 1983" in refs and "Hu, 1982" in text. The system demanded I add "both" citations and wouldn't take "I made a mistake" as an answer.
January 28, 2026 at 3:41 PM
It's so bad! I got an article back recently full of copy edit confusions that only a robot could make. I was driven crazy for hours by a date typo "Hu, 1983" in refs and "Hu, 1982" in text. The system demanded I add "both" citations and wouldn't take "I made a mistake" as an answer.
I wish they'd consulted the research before the proposal. There's so much good data on the benefits of modified funding lotteries to support high quality and more equitable science, with lower administrative overhead.
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I wish they'd consulted the research before the proposal. There's so much good data on the benefits of modified funding lotteries to support high quality and more equitable science, with lower administrative overhead.
Jargon is just another word for community
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Jargon is just another word for community
Very true, but all data point to less than half and growing dissatisfaction about AI use in corporate. That’s a far cry from “every single employer” and we shouldn’t buy the universal argument.
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very true, but all data point to less than half and growing dissatisfaction about AI use in corporate. That’s a far cry from “every single employer” and we shouldn’t buy the universal argument.
This seems maybe in the ballpark. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision: A Potential Account for the Backfire Effect
Recent research has shown that for some topics, messages to refute and revise misconceptions may backfire. The current research offers one possible account for this backfire effect (i.e., the ironi...
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This seems maybe in the ballpark. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....