Prepare for Trump, Europeans, pleads @DaveKeating
“Europeans preferred to do nothing rather than confront uncomfortable realities… They now have nine months to prepare for [Trump leaving NATO and causing domestic chaos]”
#Trump #NATO #EU #EuropeanUnion #StrategicAutonomy #EUDefence
As a PhD student it's embarrassing, but I still find journal articles intimidating. Something to overcome, surely. But the more I read, the angrier I get, because it shouldn't be like this.
Like, I'm a smart guy. I actually understand the topics I'm studying pretty well already. I learned by hands-on experience, pop sci books / articles, and thinking. But when I encounter familiar ideas in a journal, it's like they're written in code! The ideas aren't hard for me, they're just obscured by arcane jargon and math.
This style of writing is both lazy and disrespectful. Technical language is often necessary in science, but it comes with a responsibility to help the reader understand.
I realize scientists mostly write for each other, but where do you think new scientists come from? If we don't make an effort to invite people into our world, then we're keeping them out, making science an elitist domain where only the privileged few may enter. That's deeply harmful to society, and to science!
#TalentsCNRS Les travaux de Sandra Lavorel viennent régulièrement éclairer les politiques d'aménagement et de gestion de la biodiversité des territoires. Son terrain de jeu favori : les Alpes. 🏔️
Son portrait dans #CNRSleJournal ⤵️
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/sandra-lavorel-une-ecologue-au-sommet
Récompensée pour ses travaux pionniers en écologie fonctionnelle, Sandra Lavorel reçoit ce mercredi la médaille d'or du CNRS lors d'une cérémonie à Paris. Son obsession : le fonctionnement des écosystèmes et des services qu’ils sont susceptibles de rendre aux sociétés humaines. Son terrain de jeu favori : les Alpes, où elle mime les effets du réchauffement climatique sur les prairies d'altitude.
🎉 Good news! The newly published paper ‘Dispersal from Africa to the Neotropics was followed by multiple transitions across Neotropical biomes facilitated by frugivores’ in @AnnBot by Jenifer Lopes et al. is now #free for a limited time.
AbstractBackground and Aim. Plant disjunctions have fascinated biogeographers and ecologists for a long time. We use tribe Bocageeae (Annonaceae), a predominant
Today we’re talking to Robert Cabane, who helps out in LibreOffice’s Quality Assurance (QA) community: Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m now retired (aged 71), living in Bordeaux, France. Formerly mathematics teacher, successively in Paris and Bordeaux, and as such involved in the teaching of computer science (named “informatics” in Europe). Since my retirement, […]
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So anyway, if you liked my incendiary toot the other day, then you might also like the long form version.
In summary:
❎ AI isn't reliable, and even if it was
❎ AI does real harm in the real world, but even if it didn't
❎ AI hypesters are not acting in good faith, but even if they were
❎ AI can't know things or understand your complex system
Even if all that were true, making ourselves into reviewers for AI written code is still selling out ourselves and our futures
https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/
I am very pleased to share with the mastodon community the first part of my PhD work:
High prevalence of Prdm9-independent recombination hotspots in placental #mammals
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.17.567540v1
This work was done in collaboration with @djivanprentout Alexandre Laverré, Théo Tricou and @duret_lbbe. (1/8)
Akshay
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Annals of Botany
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