Part of learning to write is learning to edit and if we don’t model editing for our students, how will they learn? Why will they think it’s worth their time? Of course you can say that my colleague was able to do this because he trained Claude on his voice first. But someone else can do that too.

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I also think that a lot of the most important parts of writing happen at the revision stage. That’s where you figure out the distances between what you thought you were saying, what you actually said, and what you should be saying. And that’s an active thinking process. GenAI can’t do it for you.

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But your voice should be evolving. Your sensibilities about how to phrase things should be dynamic, changing in time. But also how will you learn about the early career scientists you are working with if you don’t do the work of actually editing their writing? How can you teach them?

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One of my proudest days #onhere was when a white man put me on his narcissists list. I knew I had arrived.

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one of those grants let me spend a month in California visiting places, talking to people, and doing research I never would have been able to do otherwise and yes artists should get money to just go be curious and have time, it's always time, the thing always stolen from us for wages

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