Claire McCarthy

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science writer with a PhD in toxicology | views are my own

#MathOnco blog post by Prof. Thomas Hillen about #MathOnco interviews, his new project to spread the word about mathematical oncology...and mathematical oncologists!

https://mathematical-oncology.org/blog/math-oncology-interviews.html

Math Oncology Interviews

mathematical-oncology.org

No, #Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-dinosaurs-did-not-trudge-through-thick-rainforests-180984730/

Riley Black: "#Rainforests did not yet exist when the #Tyrannosaurus and #Triceratops roamed the Earth... The first #jungles dense with flowering #plants only formed after an #asteroid impact wiped out the giant creatures"

No, Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests

The first jungles dense with flowering plants only formed after an asteroid impact wiped out the giant creatures

Smithsonian Magazine

Whether Underwater or Up a Tree, Close-Up Photographer of the Year Delights in the Details https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/cupoty-6-shortlist/

"From flowing #kelp to baby #animals to itty bitty #arachnids, the images highlight the diversity of life on our planet in fantastic detail."

Whether Underwater or Up a Tree, Close-Up Photographer of the Year Delights in the Details

Close-up Photographer of the Year, the world's largest close-up, macro, and micro photography contest, has announced its shortlist.

Colossal
When was the last time you did something you really love doing?

This adorable #frog could change everything we know about animal empathy https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/frog-empathy-animals

Physiological state matching in a pair bonded poison frog: Jessica Nowicki et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240744

Poison dart #frogs have been observed sharing stress responses with their mates.

This adorable frog could change everything we know about animal empathy

Poison dart frogs have been observed sharing their mate's stress responses, but does this mean they understand each others' feelings?

On answering programming questions: "We found that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers contain misinformation, 77 percent of the answers are more verbose than human answers, and 78 percent of the answers suffer from different degrees of inconsistency to human answers." #AI https://werd.io/view/6654cee735684fb99a004842
Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong On answering programming questions: "We found that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers contain misinformation, 77 percent of the answers are more verbose than human

Werd I/O
Ask for help if you need it.
At City of Hope at my friend an #Mofitt @mathonco collaborator @conorlynch 's seminar entitled 'Bad to the bone', including our own collaboration on modeling #MultipleMyeloma with a #ABM
Just got off the phone with the producer of the documentary film crew who just arrived in Regina to film me over the next 4 days. Time to freak out entirely! AAAAHHHHH what did I agree to?!