One of the things we ask prospective PhD students to do is check out some of our recent work, so they can get an idea of what ideas we're running with at the moment, and what perspective we're taking on them. A lot of our work is open access, and/or there are recorded presos on YouTube.
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This makes me sad, a little because those papers don't exist, but mainly because it's very unlikely we'll consider a proposal from this person in the future.