As an editor, I help people say what they mean--and not say what they don’t mean. Here are some common not-quite-right words or expressions that I often see. This is not to embarrass anybody--I've made many of these mistakes myself. Please share your favorite fixes at the end of the thread. (1/n)
it's 11pm and I've just finished a task for tomorrow. I'll play some XCOM 2 now (just a bit), I've decided
Em português: Este é o paradoxo fundamental da IA: se ela está mesmo te ajudando, não há como saber quando ela não vai mais ajudar. Ou então: se você consegue supervisioná-la de maneira efetiva para corrigir os seus erros, você provavelmente nunca nem precisou dela.
This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
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Extremely annoyed when I went to the gym earlier this morning, that it was a clear sunrise and I could have been awake to see the comet! Here is C/2023 A3 imaged over our beautiful Murriyang 💫📡 Image by the brilliant Alex Cherney. Thanks to @palomarskies.bsky.social for pointing me to this! 🔭📸
Question for y'all who work in academia: What resources do you recommend for recent doctoral program grads who want to turn their dissertations into journal articles? (I'd love your thoughts as well, #academicsky)
Slightly easier to read: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school...
Important advice for every PhD student: The importance of stupidity in scientific research I can still remember how stupid I often felt during my PhD. And I can observe my PhD students struggling with the same feeling. I find it helpful to understand that stupidity usually comes before discovery.
