Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.

But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.

And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!

Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.

And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get

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https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)

I saw this elsewhere and thought I’d repost here. One lab’s policy on AI use in academic writing.

“The only reason you’ll ever need to not write with AI”

https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai

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Rhizome Function Anagram Random Generator

preprint | https://zenodo.org/records/21551292

doi | https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278

Herein are described principles and a scheme of random number generation styled as, pangrandomonium, or ‘pangrand’. Pangrand is a anagrammatic random number generator that uses rhizome functions as chaotic indexing and shuffling instructions to reorder and sum perfect pangrams. Brief descriptions are given for the principles of pangram summing and rhizome indexing functions, Source code of the random number generator is included herewith. The source code is attached to the PDF file.

Sections:

1. Pangrams (Holoalphabetic arrays) ;
2. Rhizome Functions ;
3. Rhizome Hardness Problems ;
4. Random Generator Methods ;
5. Errata ;
6. Source Code.

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THE authoritative review on science tracking, data cartels and all the other shenanigans corporate academic ex-publishers (now surveillance capitalist "data brokers") are up to:

"People Farming in #Academia: #Tracking, #Surveillance and Control in Higher Education"
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-25564-8_24

by the expert in the field @RenkeSiems

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"What is described by the term surveillance publishing outlines a development in which major scholarly publishers, but also other suppliers like database providers are mutating into data cartels that are not satisfied with the exploitation of the publication as data model but are expanding into ever more areas of the research life cycle as well as service and administration processes."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-25564-8_24

by @RenkeSiems

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A student who puts their name in the file name of a PDF they send me instead of just calling it thesis.pdf is clearly a genius and I almost don't need to read the thesis. 😛

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