Yes, that's right: some species of dragonfish - the Malacosteidae - emit red bioluminescence that neither they nor their prey have retina pigments to detect. Their eyes receive the red light and then convert it to a visible wavelength using biofluorescence. biolum.eemb.ucsb.edu/organism/dra...
OK. NotebookLM is crazy. Nefertiti Smith Christman (doctoral candidate in my lab) put one of my dissertation papers (German and Bittong 2009) on wood-eating catfishes into it, and it spat out this actually intelligent podcast: german.bio.uci.edu/images/Germa... This is scary, y'all! 🧪
We're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...
I was asked to write a "spotlight" piece for Trends in Genetics. It was fun to write about a recent paper that hits on a topic I have been thinking about for a while. Different kind of writing! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jVu2cQbJB...
According to Project 2025, wildlife only exists to get in the way of mining and drilling. I love how the authors spitefully target specific species like the Greater Sage-grouse. Better to watch them go extinct than leave a drop of oil in the ground!
Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.
