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Elise Cutts
Elise Cutts is a science journalist and ex-scientist. She writes a newsletter called Reviewer, too.
Monday Edition
Academics in Germany and Austria are stuck in job limbo
Also: Montana's "right to try" law for experimental cures, UK science gets reshuffled, a university sues Anthropic over patents, and more from last week
Monday Edition
It is not science journalism's job to improve trust in science
Also: The "Science: A New Golden Age" report, layoffs at National Geographic, and studies on the consequences of AI adoption in research
Monday Edition
Is peer review at Science sexist?
Also: Attention as a class issue, an anti-AI editorial containing AI links, and a Thiel-backed journalist-rating startup
Monday Edition
"The bullets we've dodged have hit someone else" — UK science cuts largely spare physics and astro, hit projects and labs
Also: AI conflict of interest disclosures in philosophy, PhD admission down 15% at US universities, an AI "humanizer" tool for science, and more from last week
Monday Edition
In the last 2 weeks, 4 science magazines shut down, sold, or lost funding
Also: Avi Loeb to head White House UFO committee, overworked ERC peer reviewers, Anthropic's push for AI in science, and more from last week
Monday Edition
Is the NSF slashing research to fund a tech initiative?
Also: SciAm sold, two Max Planck papers retracted, a big study links AI to skill atrophy in schoolkids, and more from last week
What determines how science is done — and how it matters?
The newsletter is back with a new focus on the systems, instincts, and incentives that shape what's discovered, what's believed, and what happens when science hits the real world
Rant
Pluto is MAGA's favorite "planet" for a reason
Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism
I want to do more than write science entertainment
Let's talk about science, science communication, and how knowledge matters
TLDR
Who gets the job? Here's how computers could help catch unfair rankings
I am weirdly hopeful that it could be easier to notice biased AI than biased humans?
Science Communication
About "to" and "around" the Moon
Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm