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Aaron Tay

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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Joined April 12, 2017
Blog:
https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-013X
Google Scholar Profile:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F9_kHm0AAAAJ&inst=14102473421921925766
works at:
smu.edu.sg

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Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Feb 19, 2026

[Blogged] The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-sycophancy-fallacy-why-you-may

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Feb 19, 2026

[Blogged] Are AI Tools Killing Review Articles? Two Failure Modes Suggest Otherwise https://aarontay.substack.com/p/are-ai-tools-killing-review-articles

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 31, 2026

[Blogged] Why It's Harder Than Ever to Know What to Type Into an AI Search Bar. https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-blank-box-problem-why-its-harder

Edit: An earlier version of this included a NotebookLM generated image with 2 text sections with minor issues. I've fixed it.

Sorry about that. This is a good reminder to check properly even for low-stakes situations.

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 13, 2026

[Blogged] A 2025 Deep Dive of Consensus: Promises and Pitfalls in AI-Powered Academic Search https://aarontay.substack.com/p/a-2025-deep-dive-of-consensus-promises

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 13, 2026

[Blogged] Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era
https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/scholar-labs-early-review-google?l

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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 11, 2026

[Blogged]Model Context Servers - Wiley AI Gateway & PubMed - How Claude can now pilot test search strategies using PubMed https://aarontay.substack.com/p/mcp-servers-and-academic-search-the

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 10, 2026

[Blogged] Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do - The Agentic Illusion: Most Academic Deep Research runs fixed workflows and stumbles when given unfamiliar literature review tasks that do not fit them.
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 10, 2026

Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-references-still-haunt . I'm not too sure about this one , it's probably underplaying the role of LLMs in ghost references but still interesting.

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Aaron Tay
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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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Aaron Tay
Aaron Tay
@aarontay@mastodon.cloud

Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com

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@aarontay@mastodon.cloud · Jan 10, 2026

[Last blog post of 2025] "AI-powered search" hides at least 4 different things—post-retrieval features, semantic search, LLM ranking, and synthesis. Your concerns about one may not apply to another. New post unpacking what's actually under the hood. https://aarontay.substack.com/p/what-do-we-actually-mean-by-ai-powered

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