One of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
Searching for Wikstroemia spp. in the mountains of Kauai, sampling for systematics, popgen, and the genetics of sex-determination 🌿
Fieldwork in some of the roughest terrains and with some of the prettiest views. Permit struggles notwithstanding, Maui island treated us well.
Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...
"Quick and easy" roadmap to finished paper. If I do two things per week I'll be done in no time... It's fine if I don't do anything else the coming three months, right?
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years this year! Sending some love today to (arguably) the best source of knowledge in the world.
From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history. wikipedia25.org/en/twenty-fi...
Richard Sever
Dep. of Ecology, Environment & Plant Sciences at SU
If I have to log into the cluster, let me do it from here ⛰️🌴
Back in Honolulu, gearing up for fieldwork on Kaua'i and the Maui Nui islands. Doesn't look like hard work you say? Well... you may be right. Hopefully it is coming, with all the permits in place, next week!
Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...
