Modern academia is not a merit-based system; it systematically rewards credentials, institutional affiliation, and conformity over intellectual merit. While it presents an idealized narrative—publish strong research, gain recognition, secure funding, […]
How People Spend Time in Academia in Vain and How AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) Can Solve This Problem in 2026
The Hidden Cost of Academic Inefficiency Modern academia consumes vast amounts of human time while delivering far less scientific output than it could. Researchers, especially early-career scientists and independent scholars, […]
Preliminary Release of the Meritocracy App in 2026
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What Is a DeSci DAO in 2026?
DeSci DAO stands for Decentralized Science Decentralized Autonomous Organization (1). It is a blockchain-based organizational model designed to fund, govern, and coordinate scientific research in a transparent, permissionless, and community-driven […]
How Is Science Financing Broken in 2026?
Modern science is widely perceived as a meritocratic enterprise driven by evidence, creativity, and rigor. In practice, however, the way science is financed has become one of the central structural […]
Do We Need Managers in Science in 2026?
I claim that the future scientific institutions don’t need managers, they need marketers. Moreover, scientific marketing will turn to become a private business rather than big institutions. For decades, modern […]
Attack on Google SERP: A branch of science may effectively disappear from SERPs for a long time in 2026
How Google SERPs would be manipulated at institutional level to exclude an branch of science from search results. An essay written in security vulnerability report style. 25 Jul 2022 note: […]
Science Without Degrees: Why Credentials Are a Lagging Indicator in 2026
Science degrees are harmful. They are a “discrimination engine”, they fatally slow down progress and destroy innovation and science by exclusion of some smart people together with their ideas. For […]
Algorithmic Funding: Design Choices That Decide Who Gets Rich in 2026
Algorithmic choices in money-allocation systems do intersect with ideology. It could be said, they are the ideology of modern financing. The Myth of Neutral Funding Algorithms Algorithms do not emerge […]
Will Victor Porton Get the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Discontinuous Analysis?
The real issue is not whether Victor Porton will get a Nobel Prize (it’s random), but how such a random event unjustly influences world economic development. What Is Discontinuous Analysis? […]
