This morning, Punya Mishra sent me a gift: an AI-generated profile of my scholarly work, drawn from my Google Scholar page. The LLM had called it The Spiral Curriculum, after the first paper I ever published (on Paul Rolland and the violin). Reading my own career as AI had condensed it from the citation record was both strange and revealing. I was particularly impressed by the figures at the end that provided visual representations of various aspects of my academic work (publications and themes, authors, etc.).
I had wanted to try Claude Fable 5 since it came out (a whole 2 days ago), and Punya’s gift gave me an excuse to use it. I also had something I wanted to test. Plus, it’s just plain fun to see how much I can create with AI while in boring meetings!
The original summary, The Spiral Curriculum, was built from what Google Scholar tracks: titles, author lines, citation counts. That leaves out a lot of what I care about–how my work can impact more than just academic research. Public scholarship–revealed through blogging, the equityinai.net project, workshops, talks–are a large part of why I do scholarship at all, and I wanted them in the picture.
So I asked Fable 5 to build something that included all of it. The result is an interactive page you can navigate by chapter. The Google Scholar data Punya started with is in there, alongside the rest of the trail: a map of every place I have presented, a diagram of how findings travel from paper to tool to classroom, the Five Spaces for Design framework turned on my own career, and the full publication record with filters and search.
The front of the page is its own small story. While Claude was helping me with a grading task, it hallucinated a result. The hallucination suggested a AI bias research approach I had not thought to try, and Claude was useful in designing an experiment to test it. I ran the experiment for real, with two models and fifty trials per condition. The effect sizes turned out to be larger than I expected. You can see the numbers on the opening of the explorer.
Open the research explorer →