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What a year of testing & thinking about AI academic search taught me

The Chatbot Is the Wrong Mental Model
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Hot take: Stop calling poor search rankings necessary friction for learning
Boundary learning, adjacent literature, and why intentional design beats accidental noise.
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[Hot Take] AI Academic Search and the Missing Middle of Literature Discovery
Is overly focusing on Undergraduate information literacy and evidence synthesis making us underestimate AI academic search tools?
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Better AI Search Rubrics: Roles, Gates, and Retrieval Tests
Some suggestions on how to construct AI search evaluation frameworks
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AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start
What it looks like when the AI search conversation and understanding gets serious
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From Fixed Search Workflows to Agentic Academic Search: Promise, Progress, and the Invisible Menu Problem
Undermind's Projects features gives a taste of the promise and challenges of managing agents by users
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The Horseless Carriage of AI Search: Why Using LLMs to Generate Boolean Alone Is Likely of Little Benefit
Not exactly saying Boolean must die.....but... maybe less focus?
 • Aaron Tay
The agentic researcher - building custom, transparent and extensible workflows with Claude & MCP
Why generic LLM + academic MCP servers might be as good if not better than specalised Academic deep research
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Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship
Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship
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