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The Selection of Curiosity: How Modern Scientific Systems Shape the Questions Researchers Pursue

She is sitting by a lake, watching ducks. Not for a class assignment. Not for an exam. Not for a publication. Just because she finds them interesting. She studies biology and has always been fascinated by living systems. By patterns. By exceptions. By things that do not fit quite as neatly as they should. She enjoys those moments when something resists immediate explanation—the small anomalies that make people look twice. Why does this animal behave differently from the others? Why does a seemingly reliable rule suddenly stop applying? Why do exceptions appear where none should exist? Most of the time, she does not know the answers. Sometimes she is not even sure whether her questions make sense. That is precisely what makes them compelling. When she decides to pursue a degree in biology, her understanding of science is remarkably simple. Science, in her mind, is where people follow questions wherever they lead. It is the place where curiosity is not treated as a distraction but as a s...

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From Quantification to Datafication: How Numbers Begin to Structure What We Take as Reality

How Academia Became Socially Supportive Yet Epistemically Narrowed Without Anyone Intending It

Seeing Van Gogh Through Data: The Hidden Limits of Scientific Methods & AI in Art Research