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13 votes
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Dogs bring loads of joy but also perils on a leash
25 votes -
Scientists receive Ig Nobel Prize for discovering mammals can breathe through anuses
43 votes -
Greenhouse gas emissions in US beef production can be reduced by up to 30% with the adoption of selected mitigation measures
18 votes -
r/science user about long-term unemployment
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The Marshmallow Test and other predictors of success have bias built in, researchers say
28 votes -
US AI Safety Institute signs agreements regarding AI safety research, testing and evaluation with Anthropic and OpenAI
9 votes -
Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show
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What happens when influencers turn off comments
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Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life
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Does anyone have experience working as an independent researcher?
Ive been working in engineering for a few years now. Ive gotten pretty good at my job, and Ive learned a lot. But it was never really my intention to work at a big corporation my whole life. When...
Ive been working in engineering for a few years now. Ive gotten pretty good at my job, and Ive learned a lot. But it was never really my intention to work at a big corporation my whole life.
When I was a kid, on TV there were all these scientists and researchers who just had money to do research somehow. They didnt go to an office or go to meetings, they just had funding somehow to go do science stuff. There was often a big lab built right into their home so they could just wake up and tinker around with stuff. That was the dream for me growing up.
I could always just keep working where I am now, but I cant really do the kind of research I want within the normal structured environment that big companies want me to work in. I want to work on a difficult problem that I would expect to take years of experimentation before I would even hope of making any big breakthroughs.
Im wondering if anyone here has ever done any kind of work as an independent researcher. Like, living off grant money or something like that. Ive been looking at SBIR/STTR grants as a possible first step, but that would only get me 3 years, and after that Id need to find a continued income source.
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Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
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Urban birds may be spreading drug-resistant ‘superbugs’, research shows. Wild birds are more likely to be carriers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria if they live close to humans, says study.
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Activision and Call of Duty have published a paper detailing skill based matchmaking and how its presence or absence affects enjoyment of games
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How medical research is failing women. For years, the process for developing and testing new drugs has focused disproportionately on male bodies — to the detriment of female patients.
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Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: soda cans (aluminium), seawater and caffeine
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Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
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Amid a growing awareness of youth mental health, twenty schools in Denmark have pushed back their start times following a two-year trial
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Pig transplant research yields pork safe for some with red meat allergy caused by lone star tick
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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
42 votes -
‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say
25 votes -
Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
30 votes -
Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil
11 votes -
How AI revolutionized protein science, but didn’t end it
16 votes -
For many Olympic medalists, silver stings more than bronze
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Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating
24 votes -
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
17 votes -
Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial of African women
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
35 votes -
Recent French research indicates that certain food emulsifiers may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes
18 votes -
Research on Earth’s raging fever of 2023-24 is picking up
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Male birth control gel (that is applied to the shoulders) is safe and effective, new trial findings show
72 votes -
Internet addiction affects the behavior and development of adolescents
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Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
12 votes -
Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in five key points
44 votes -
Extracting interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet
13 votes -
Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
34 votes -
UNM researchers find microplastics in canine and human testicular tissue
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How much research is being written by large language models?
14 votes -
Police are not primarily crime fighters
43 votes -
Wiley to shutter nineteen more journals, some tainted by fraud
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New candidate genes for human male infertility found by analyzing gorillas' unusual reproductive system
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How do you take notes while reading? Do you have a “marginalia” process? What has helped you learn better and retain new knowledge?
I aspire to better equip myself as a researcher and writer. As part of this, for me at least, I think that developing a note-taking (or marginalia) system would be useful. I read a ton of...
I aspire to better equip myself as a researcher and writer. As part of this, for me at least, I think that developing a note-taking (or marginalia) system would be useful. I read a ton of nonfiction and have especially been into history, economics, and geopolitics lately…but my “system” tends to just “highlight” insightful stuff in my Kindle and then…everything kinda falls off the map for me. I should probably start going back, reviewing the highlights, and making notes in a separate notebook/app/document for later research and writing purposes.
I thought it might be interesting to learn more about everyone’s reading/studying routine and specifically note-taking processes. I’m especially curious about those who blog/publish writings, and how they work to gather their thoughts and information as they are reading.
If you don’t mind sharing a bit about your note taking process or systems, here are some questions for discussion:
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What is your process, generally? (Do you read print/digital/audio? Does your note taking change depending on different formats? Do you highlight with specific colors for certain reasons? What do you find yourself notating most frequently?)
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Do you use pen/paper or is there a specific app you like to use for note-taking/research purposes?
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If you use an app, what is your process for book notes? Do you take notes on paper and then transfer it to the digital app later when you’re reviewing? Do you take notes directly into the app?
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Any other advice for someone looking to improve their learning/knowledge through more focused and intentional reading and note taking?
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Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly
16 votes -
mRNA cancer vaccine reprograms immune system to tackle glioblastoma
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What cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception
30 votes -
The Homo Economicus as a prototype of a psychopath? A conceptual analysis and implications for business research and teaching.
6 votes -
‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations
18 votes -
A primer on Bitcoin cross-border flows: Measurement and drivers
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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
9 votes