🧪 While getting my master's, my advisor taught me how to do scientific peer review. Weirdly, that was the catalyst for my fascination with ethics in scientific publishing, which I recently wrote about in The Confounder! ✍️ I share facts about costs, biases, and more: theconfounder.org/pitfalls-of-...
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I recommended rejection but was worried the author might claim it was all original - hopefully the editor backs me up.
The way it scanned information from tens of open access articles was weird - even though there were citations, I can't shake the feeling of data theft. Open access also comes with fees, meaning it only scanned data from labs with enough funding to choose that, exacerbating 💰 inequalities.
It seemed like a huge waste of time to me - like, why am I reading or reviewing something I could generate myself in a few seconds with the same tool?
It seems like scientific journals are "open" to the idea - asking for authors and reviewers to admit to using it preemptively rather than banning it outright - but people still don'twant to admit to using it 😬
It seemed to have scanned open access literature and predominantly information presented in abstracts - it didn't delve into results further down in the main text for anything it referenced
Interestingly, I was asked if I had used generative AI as a peer reviewer! It almost begs the question, why am I even involved when submissions are AI generated and reviews are too?
It was tough because I didn't want to make an accusation that I couldn't prove, but it very much could be described by that term 😂 it was a lot of random facts thrown together into a literary salad
🧪 Got asked to peer review a paper that reeked of "chatbot prompt". 🤖 Ashamedly, I've been fooled by AI videos before, but in the scientific literature it was easier to spot. Writing was vague, references lacked hyperlinks, and there was no clear "story". Should AI be allowed in science writing?
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Happy Caturday from the ever-annoyed Haku 😸 his middle name is Ca$hmoney because the rescue where we got him let kids name the animals on their birthdays, and we couldn't let it be his first name 😂 are you a cat person or a dog person?
Fire scars wind around a solar panel and remnant cordgrass in a salt marsh.
Recently, while maintaining a flux tower in Fourleague Bay, Louisiana, I discovered rabbit hunters had likely started a wildfire to ease their hunt. 🐰Luckily, this wetland is healthy and should recover quickly, though the process could still take years. 🔥🔥🔥 #WorldWetlandsDay
🧪 Did you know AI servers need treated freshwater for evaporative cooling? 💦 Water escapes as vapor, so recycling isn't an option. Water demand can be even higher with newer, more energy-intensive chips. Learn how communities are rallying against data centers: peatmail.substack.com/p/chatbots-e...
Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons
I love a good adventure book to escape into!
This one looks like jt will make me more fun to be around at parties - adding it to the list!
Oh snap! I didn't know that about her - learned something new today 😂 looks like a very interesting read!
I read that and her book Edge of the Sea, i really like her style of writing - it makes the pages fly by!
Sounds like a good adventure book!
It's on thriftbooks! I'll add it to my list 😊
Wow this one sounds very similar to other great books I've read like Fresh Banana Leaves, Braiding Sweetgrass, and In the Shadow of the Palms. Adding it to my list!
Ooo I think I've heard of these, they look very interesting!
Something like The Botany of Desire, In Search of the Canary Tree, This Changes Everything, Remarkable Creatures, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, The Quickening, The Beekeeper's Lament, Invisible Women, The Nature Fix, Lab Girl, Swamplands, Where the Water Goes. Those books I will never forget.
Thanks for the suggestion- seems like this would be a good break from the heavy environmental topics I typically read about that lean towards "climate horror"
Adding it to the list!
I'll read anything - if it's got data it's nerdy enough for me!
What is a great nonfiction environmental book you have read recently? 📚🤔 Looking for suggestions on books to read in the new year from my fellow friends on ScienceSky 🧪👩🔬 even better if it is something optimistic, or an oldie (cheaper to get on an ereader and more likely to be at the local library!)
🧪 Meet the Fluxers Season 3 is now available for listening on Spotify! Transcripts & audio of the science podcast are also on our website (meetthefluxers.github.io) We chat about methane emissions from crab burrows, the net cooling effect of solar panels, REUs and more 🎙️🎧🦀 tinyurl.com/mtfseasonthree
