Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Würzburg
Chaitanya Gokhale
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1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Our paper unpacking "fitness" is out doi.org/10.1093/gene.... How to define fitness depends on what question you ask. Selection acts on organismal vital rates, longer-term outcomes make sense for genetic lineages, models link them. "Invasion fitness" = speed, but sometimes probability matters more.
Such database control can help organize reality and the social contract itself.
So maybe the backlash to AI isn’t about automation per se but about the fear of losing authorship over the structures that define us.
Just my two pennies. do read/listen/watch the fabulous piece @theverge.com
Our social contract databases are the machine readable versions of our intuitions.
So the issue may not be structure itself but control.
The moment experiences, identities, and relationships become legible, new questions emerge
Who defines the schema?
Who gets to edit or delete?
Who has power?
We say people don’t want to be turned into databases.
I’m not sure that’s fully true.
Humans have always sought structure to navigate complexity. Stories, identities, social roles and such are all ways of making life legible. They are, in a sense, human-readable “schemas.”
A brilliant piece by @reckless.bsky.social on the “software brain” and the flattening of human experience required to make AI work.
I agree with almost all of it. But I think there’s a deeper tension here.
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Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions
of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
Abstract. Evolutionary “fitness” is operationalized in many different ways in models. Its role is to quantify that which is favored by natural selection. G
Our latest preprint doi.org/10.32942/X2V... explains why fitness can be defined in so many ways, and which version(s) you should use when. Fitness quantifies what natural selection favors. 1/
How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila
