Supporting science does not automatically mean supporting universities. While universities present themselves as the guardians of scientific progress, modern academic institutions increasingly act as bureaucratic gatekeepers that slow innovation, misallocate […]

Quadratic Funding (QF) is widely promoted as a fair and democratic mechanism for allocating funding to public goods. It is especially popular in open-source software, crypto ecosystems, and decentralized science […]

Modern academia presents itself as a merit-based system: publish strong research, earn recognition, secure funding, and advance. In practice, this idealized narrative rarely holds. Academic success is far less correlated […]

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, […]

Yesterday, I’ve deployed the first version of AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) app. This is the app that asks AI, how much a given user is worth, and allocates him/her the proportional […]

DeSci DAO stands for Decentralized Science Decentralized Autonomous Organization. It is a blockchain-based organizational model designed to fund, govern, and coordinate scientific research in a transparent, permissionless, and community-driven way. […]

25 Jul 2022 note: Google partly fixed the bug: Now my research does appear in search results (however, not yet for more general search phrases such as “general topology”). Google […]

The Nobel Prize in Physics is often associated with spectacular experimental confirmations or headline-friendly theoretical breakthroughs. Yet many of the most transformative advances in physics begin far from the spotlight […]