Category: Research

What I’m Reading This Week, April 17, 2026

I’ve been running daily Google Scholar alerts tied to my dissertation work, and I’ll probably keep them on for the rest of my career. What started as research…

This study is worse for you than screens.

I’ve seen this study everywhere the past few weeks: “More screen time = lower academic performance.” Sounds clean. Sounds simple. But the data tells a more nuanced story….

Turning Google Scholar Alerts into a Research Intelligence Pipeline

AAEL Labs #1 Turning Google Scholar Alerts into a Research Intelligence Pipeline Most researchers subscribe to Google Scholar alerts. Very few have a system for actually processing hundreds…

Moving from “Know-it-all” AI to “Source-Grounded” AI 🎓

I recently noticed that Google’s NotebookLM is now integrated into the Gemini Advanced subscription. As I dive deeper into the tools shaping our field, the distinction between a…