Ling Wang

PhD in Higher Education (HKU), MPhil in Education (Cambridge), MSSc in Public Policy (CUHK)

[Xudong Han @Xudong07452910]

最近读到一篇很喜欢的文章：Zen and the Art of AI Research。

它最打动我的观点是：

做 AI research，很多时候拼的不是天赋，而是一种研究气质。

能不能长期泡在一个问题里，能不能接受实验失败和对好的结果保持怀疑，能不能在别人发了好 paper 之后，不只是焦虑，而是反过来问自己：我有没有在同样的深度上思考？

文章里有个很好的类比：做研究有点像打坐。

有灵感的时候，继续坐。
没有灵感的时候，也继续坐。
很多真正重要的想法，不是刷几篇热门论文就突然冒出来的，而是在反复阅读、动手构建、失败、debug、重新理解里慢慢长出来的。

这篇文章还提醒了一个很现实的问题：coding agents 会让研究跑得更快，但也会让人更容易失去对系统细节的掌控。

它可能帮你改了 prompt，缩短了 sequence length，换了 config，跑了一个看起来差不多、其实已经不一样的实验。

工程上这可能只是小问题，科研上就是大问题。

因为一个很小的改动，就可能改变整篇论文的结论。

所以 AI 时代的研究能力会变得更矛盾：

你要会用 AI 加速，但不能把理解外包给 AI。
你要跑得更快，但不能失去慢下来检查的能力。
你要拥抱 agents，但仍然要知道每个结果是怎么来的。

优秀的研究者需要在工具越来越强之后，依然能保持耐心、怀疑和清醒的人。

https://t.co/q5GLIVBUaZ

[Liana @lianapatel_]

🚀 Thrilled to launch DeepScholar, an openly-accessible DeepResearch system we've been building at Berkeley & Stanford.

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[Andrew Batson @andrewbatson]

Normally I would never say that there is just "one weird trick" that you need to master to understand China, but after reading the new book *The Highest Exam* I think I might nominate the exam system (gaokao) as the key that unlocks a lot of how Chines society works.

[Professor Alma Harris @AlmaHarris1]

Full article: Loss leadership: when school leaders leave. Free to download & share https://t.co/AzwSNoJdcK @CIRLE_CMet @cardiffmet @BelmasOffice @ICSEI_ELN @ASCL_UK @JlongvilleJulia @AERA_EdResearch

[Nicola Sum(PhD, NPQH) @sumtales]

#womeninleadership #glassceiling #glasscliffs
Full article: Transnational women in globalised times: exploring glass ceilings, glass walls and other fragile metaphors of leading education https://t.co/Yr1wPBxKCU

[Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye]

The British Marxist Historians remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Harvey Kaye looks at Maurice Dobb and the debate on the transition to capitalism; Rodney Hilton on feudalism and the English peasantry; Christopher Hill on the English Revolution; Eric Hobsbawm on workers, peasants and world history; and E.P. Thompson on the making of the English working class.

[British Educational Research Journal @BERJ_Editors]

Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders - Hulsbos - 2025 - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/uOpQiowJD4

[BERA @BERANews]

📣 Abstract submission for the 2026 BERA ECR Conference is now open!

The ECR Journey: Developing Criticality and Confidence: Becoming a Decisive Educational Researcher #BERAECR @BERA_ECRNetwork
🗓️ 25 Mar 2026
📍Birmingham

Find out more: https://t.co/2m13euFFEM

[Shengqiao Lin | 林声巧 @linshengqiao]

从2020年读博期间，到现在准备入职正式成为高校教师，我陆陆续续在微博写作学术论文的介绍，累积大约有两百条。这个习惯对我个人帮助很大。我把这些内容整合在这个Notion文档里，取名《政治学的邀约》。欢迎分享，希望有用。https://t.co/znwCVHO1Y0

[Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt @jcmittelstaedt]

"Even if the United States-led West launches a cool war, a cold war or a hot war against China,..China will be able to unite the BRICS countries and a vast number of countries in the Global South to fully realize the second centenary goal" https://t.co/BL8WfEIdKv

[Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt @jcmittelstaedt]

I reviewed Philippe Major's excellent book "Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China" for Perspectives on Politics

https://t.co/3ZDHoTkmfa

[Professor Alma Harris @AlmaHarris1]

Free to download full article: Invisible leaders? Reviewing contemporary evidence about women leaders in education https://t.co/zgxmYiKoR0 @CarolCampbell4 @tegwen_ellis @JlongvilleJulia @MichelleSJones1 @CeciliaAzorin

[Rafael Grohmann @grohmann_rafael]

Decolonization is not a vibe. Excellent article by Tanja Bosch published in Media, Culture & Society. https://t.co/wn2CBBqk8Y

[Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt @jcmittelstaedt]

"we argue that the government may follow a state capitalism logic to reallocate the human capital of high-performing CEOs to political posts where it believes such human capital can better serve the public good." https://t.co/VQ62yeEmAB

[Takamichi Sakurai @TK_Sakurai]

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest work on comparative political theory!

https://t.co/9cp5NOYaJQ

#politicaltheory
#comparativepoliticaltheory

[Dr Yara Yasser Hilal @yarahilal]

Hot off the press 📣 our article @WaheedHammad2 and @gumussed https://t.co/Kre3jjW36H Exploring Distributed Leadership in the Muslim world: A meta synthesis of qualitative studies

[Centre for Global Higher Education @ResearchCGHE]

Space, Power, & Globalization: On the Geopolitics of Higher Education

This paper uses two lenses in succession: (a) geography of space making in HE, followed by & underpinning (b) a history of geopolitics in general & in HE since 1945.
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https://t.co/wWqcNBBzIJ

[Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @PaulJMeighan]

“Decolonizing language education is not a
‘one-size-fits-all’ nor a ‘catch-all’ for other movements in language education & necessarily centers the Indigenous Peoples, languages, lands & communities where education is taking place.”
https://t.co/GIqlvXAHDh
https://t.co/JabKsQmJCj

[Haohan Chen @haohanch]

When researchers label social media posts using only their text and ignore multimodal content (e.g., videos, images, links), how much do they miss? Our answer: Not much. New paper with @JamesBisbee @Jonathan_Nagler @j_a_tucker at @CSMaP_NYU https://t.co/Qb5mb8LxWj

[Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt @jcmittelstaedt]

"While it may pay to have some experience abroad, too many foreign postings can degrade a cadre’s promotion prospects." https://t.co/YvDWqZ6PG0