Uwe Schnepf

@SchnepfUwe
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PhD student in environmental pollution working on #microplastics at University of Stuttgart. #boardgame geek. #OpenScience advocate. Views are my own.
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ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3955-4484
Homepagehttps://www.bio.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Schnepf/
Uwe SchnepfFeb 14, 2023
As a #ProjectManager in #academia, I quickly had to learn, that getting funded is not easy. But in recent times, I also learnt, that spending money ain´t easy, too.
Uwe SchnepfFeb 13, 2023

Fellow scientists out there: how can we use #ChatGPT in #academia?

Me for like the tenth time in several weeks: #ChatGPT is at capcity right now.

Uwe SchnepfFeb 10, 2023

Ten simple rules for sound #laboratory work:

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1: Label your samples.
2 - 10: Use the exactly same labels from the start of the experiment until the end of data analysis.

Why is it so hard to follow?

Uwe SchnepfJan 30, 2023

#replicationcrisis reached #ecotoxicology 🫣

Especially the very low statistical power might also question the reliability of attempts to assess the risks of #microplastics (NOEC -> PNEC´s for chronic toxicity).

Any thoughts/opinions on this, #plasticpollution community?

https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/4966/

More Than Half of Statistically Significant Research Findings in the Environmental Sciences are Actually Not

Uwe SchnepfJan 30, 2023
I am gonna finish the writing of my 2nd PhD chapter until the end of February. You heard it first here!
Uwe SchnepfJan 24, 2023
The hardest part of #academicWriting is when you have all the content, so you can start revising to ultimately make it a concise, coherent and easily readable text.
Uwe SchnepfJan 23, 2023
Matthias C. RilligJan 22, 2023

Final version published of our review:

Ding et al. w/ Eva Leifheit from our lab, and Yong-Guan Zhu

Tire wear particles: an emerging threat to soil health

#PlasticPollution #environment #SoilHealth #pollution #soil #microplastic
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10643389.2022.2047581

Tire wear particles: An emerging threat to soil health

Tire wear particles (TWP) have caused widespread contamination in the environment. However, their behavior and potential impacts in soil remain unclear since studies have so far been mainly conduct...

Taylor & Francis
Uwe SchnepfJan 23, 2023

I am concerned that still almost all monitoring studies on the contamination of #soils with #microplastics come from China and neighboring countries.

We also need data on the exposure is in Europe, America, Africa and Oceania. Otherwise, risk assessment is simply not possible.

Uwe SchnepfJan 16, 2023

Scientists can only identify 68 % of all abstracts created by #ChatGPT and think that the remaining proportion was written by their human colleagues. Not surprising to me, but important for the ehtical implications of #ArtificialIntelligence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00056-7?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=09f1bfe714-briefing-dy-20230113&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-09f1bfe714-44126237

Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists

Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.

Uwe SchnepfJan 12, 2023
One cool thing about doing a #PhD is that you "have" the time to dig really deep into a topic of interest. For instance, I have learned so many important methodological aspects about particle size distributions of #microplastics the last couple of weeks, that I wasn´t aware of.