"Because manuscripts reflected real progress towards our field’s goals, our assessment systems began relying on them as primary metrics...which is obviously flawed...Generative AI has broken this already-flawed proxy completely" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

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”Using vibe-coded, unvalidated forensic meta-science tools to evaluate the trustworthiness of published research risks holding authors vs. tools to unequal standards. The solution is less vibe-coding and more validation.”

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The push to just chuck LLMs at papers in hopes of improving them is *wild* and is going to create so many headaches.

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I don't use GenAI because I want to be capable of doing my work. I want my work to be my work. I want my successes to be *my* successes. And I want to do the work that I can only do if I don't have GenAI getting in my way. Each author and intellectual should have this conversation with themselves.

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