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Kathryn Palmer
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs12/17/2025·Read paper
Abstract
A fresh college graduate who now works as a machine learning engineer recently launched a website designed to make reading and sharing research more fun and accessible. Anuja Uppuluri used to spend a lot of time scrolling social media apps dictated by algorithms designed to keep users glued to their screens no matter how mind-numbing the content. “I always had something else that I could be doing or wanted to be doing, but I was choosing to watch TikTok videos for five hours,” said Uppuluri, who completed a bachelor’s degree in information systems at Carnegie Mellon University in May. “And then by the end of it I couldn't remember anything that I had watched.”
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