PRISMA-compliant screening, dual-reviewer adjudication, and auto-generated flow diagrams without stitching together Covidence, EndNote, Excel, and Word.

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Citations4 min read

What each citation style is actually doing

Citation styles look interchangeable. They are not. Each one encodes a different theory of what evidence is for.

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Ethics5 min read

AI-assisted writing: where the defensible lines are

A practical framework for using LLMs in research writing without compromising authorship. A working test, not a legal document.

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Workflow6 min read

From draft to publication: a workflow for graduate research

Most of the wall-clock time on a graduate paper is rewriting work that was scoped wrong in the first month. A 40-week workflow that attacks the rewrites where they start.

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Ethics7 min read

On the importance of stupidity in research

Schwartz's 2008 essay made the case that feeling lost is the texture of the work, not a sign of having chosen the wrong career. Some practical follow-ups.

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Research9 min read

Working on rival hypotheses, not a single guess

The oldest move in the philosophy of science: list two or three explanations that could fit the data before testing one. Sixty-seven years after Platt, still the most reliably under-used habit in working research.

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Workflow8 min read

On choosing what to work on, after Hamming

Hamming's 1986 Bell Labs talk asked working researchers what the most important problem in their field was, and why they were not working on it. The question still does its work.

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Research8 min read

Reading across vocabularies: how relevant papers stay invisible

The most interesting papers in a field are often the ones nobody has cited yet, not because they are hidden, but because they live under a different vocabulary in a neighboring field.

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Workflow8 min read

Living documents: what changes when the manuscript reads itself

A research document used to be a static artifact: text in, text out. The shift to AI-aware writing surfaces a different model where the document is a working surface connected to its sources, notes, and project state.

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