Well, they are called "Palantir"

I want to believe that, but unfortunately the paper has at least one similar paragraph in the results. So truly a poor review and editorial job was done on this one.

This begets a serious question though... The paper is retracted the authors (maybe) got a slap on the wrist, but what are the consequences for Scientific Reports and involved editors?

At least we know it wasn't written by GenAI?

🫂 I feel your pain

Cry

MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs

Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 !

Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species

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Is it a fox? Is it a fawn? No! It's a teenage-mutant-ninja-deer!

Shaping the future of computational ecology and ecological data science: An editorial perspective from Ecological Informatics

This editorial is giving me the creeps:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AI generated figs with poor "author curation" and many with paragraphs of "apparent" substance, that when read carefully are completely superficial.

Thank you for your submission Thank you for your submission.

And if you don't really know what the Canadian public service does for you, here's some enlightment:
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Dismantling the expertise our country needs - iPolitics You cannot rebuild expertise overnight. When we lose it, we lose not just knowledge, but memory, mentorship, and mission.

The undermining and slow destruction of public service has NOT worked elsewhere... Don't try it here, please.

This!

Wait, no... Blue is negative. Then only those will get presents?

Am I interpreting correctly that southern-most populations will get no gifts from Santa this year.?

What about all the water streams you didn't help warm up? Fish are cold too!

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figure 2 from the linked paper, showing model performance in successfully predicting language ranges in North America

Demographic shifts, inter-group contact and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification | Coelho et al. Proc B

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#ResponseDiversityNetwork Seminar starting in 10min! Happy to host Prof Dominique Gravel today!
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Expert‐led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology Response diversity describes variation in ecological responses to environmental change. Response diversity is expected to drive ecological stability since a wider variety of responses to one or more ...

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Maybe too late but try Ben Blonder? He's work on leaf trait spectrum -- not sure about biochem.

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Thank you. We need more (well-established) labs and people leading by example. In my case, I feel like I'm being pushed against a wall and if I don't use AI I'll be doomed to be less productive, less competitive, less etc etc etc.

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