20 March 2024
The precarious nature of scientific careers (inspired by Sydney Sweeney)
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I recently read this article on actress Sydney Sweeney: https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places (I liked you in Madame Web...
18 March 2024
Contamination of the scientific literature by ChatGPT
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I’ve written a little bit about how often notions of “purity” come up in discussions of scientific publishing . I see lots hand waving about...
12 March 2024
Scientists will not “just”: Individual scientists can’t solve systemic problems
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Undark has an interview with Paul Sutter about the problems of science . Now before I get into my reaction, I want to say that this intervi...
11 March 2024
How Godzilla movies reflect scientific research
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I have a very specific memory of film critic Leonard Maltin on Entertainment Tonight reviewing Godzilla 1985 (the first American release o...
10 March 2024
How can we fix Daylight Saving Time?
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I’ve mentioned this on social media before, but I might as well get it into the blog for archival purposes. We just switched to Daylight Sav...
21 February 2024
I told you transcript changes didn’t affect grade inflation
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Way back when, I blogged about a Texas proposal to include average course grades next to a student’s earned grades on the student transcript...
19 February 2024
Rats, responsibility, and reputations in research, or: That generative AI figure of rat “dck”
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Say what you will about social media, it is a very revealing way to learn what your colleagues think. Last week, science Twitter could not s...
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