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Posts by Brandon Schamp

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Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers The papers’ watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.

At a conference ABOUT AI, this happened...👇

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"...organizers detected the illicit AI use by hiding watermarks in research papers distributed for review."

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This seems like a Trump kind of investment when gas prices are soaring.

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I read economics stuff as an ecologist, assuming that what I'm doing is natural economics. It has been helpful. Because I study competition, I read stuff on sports analytics, which has also helped. So I guess no resource, but how I try to look for those opportunities.

Good question!

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I'm glad to see these types of articles showing up. It's notable that the title of the article doesn't use the words "Climate Change". That signals how much one side of the political spectrum has politicized the science of climate change.

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Still more evidence that #edtech harmed American education: Across states, the year that the state imposed mandates requiring computers/tablets is the year that test scores stopped rising and in most cases started falling.

By Jared Cooney Hovarth:

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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

This is amazing.

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Researchers studied who’s spreading the most conspiracy theories in Canada. Here’s what they found Canadians are becoming more exposed to conspiracy theory content in their social media feeds, but only a certain number of accounts are responsible for promoting the vast majority of it, a new study s...

Who's spreading conspiracy theories? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art... @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social

"...about 100 very active Canadian users who account for nearly 70% of conspiratorial content"

"...small, highly active & visible subset of social media users who exert disproportionate influence"

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I wonder if those models would require steadily increasing tax inputs from the declining population. I can't imagine that would be popular, or the alternative of reduced service.

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Re-upping this one...

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Agreed. But is there anywhere in the world that has a useful non-growth-based, democratically run economic model in play that doesn't rely on non-renewable resources? Genuinely curious.

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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Where are all the Republican free speech crusaders on this? Mostly nowhere.

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Probably the most negatively consequential Supreme Court decision I've seen in terms of impact on American democracy.

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Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

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Scientists need to step up to the plate on this issue immediately. We've ceded too much ground to anti-science.

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They're doing everything they can to stop the killing from being properly investigated. Criminals are generally the ones who do anything they can to stop investigations, because they know they're guilty

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Scientists would do well to recognize that the strength of theories is not in isolated studies, but in more cycles of deduction and induction that accumulate in support of an increasingly refined and accurate theory

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It's also a great way to explain why scientists have such confidence in theories like evolution and human-induced climate change. The number of cycles of deduction & induction these theories have undergone is the reason we have confidence, and allows us to ignore critiques focused on single studies

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Each year when I teach science's use of cycles of induction and deduction, I wonder how it's possible that the concept wasn't a critical part of my own scientific education. It's not new...Aristotle knew about it. And looking around, people use the approach naturally without realizing it.

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Opinion | Trump, the Economy, Immigration, Venezuela: 11 Republicans Discuss The group discusses the economy, immigration, President Trump’s recent actions in Venezuela and more.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is...unexpected and depressing

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Not that taking Greenland alone would be okay anyway...

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Imagine the mental contortions to convince yourself or others that they'd stop at Greenland when they've already talked about making Canada the 51st state. Wild.

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Now that would get me into the theatre.

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Kids Deserve Better Than Goody Bags They’re wasteful and impersonal—and tend to deprive children of the joy of thoughtful giving.

Goody bags send the message that celebrations are about the accumulation of stuff, Mandy Len Catron argues—and they’re not the only type of treat that children can offer their guests:

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Just a little on-the-nose.

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I have always thought this, and I've seen this kind of leader before. It's not an admirable trait, although I understand how people can convince themselves it is.

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Hi Plant Ecologist Friends! I'm looking for a postdoc to nominate for this grant (two years at $70,000 CDN; either International or returning to Canada). If you know recent PhD grads or Postdocs who might be interested, direct them to me.

Topic: Plant competition/community assembly

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Reaffirming my faith in the possibility of human rationality...just a little.

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Written by Professor Steven Salzberg about the RFK crew.

It's a question many of us are asking. They're not ALL crazy. What is their motivation? Power? Infamy? They're not all getting crazy rich, so it's not money.

Do they ALL have brain worms?

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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

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