I like theory 🦠 | project leader at University of Bern | PhD grad from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência 🏳️🌈🍁🇷🇴
Hermina Ghenu (they/them)
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Thanks to some great comments and suggestions, we've updated TADA!
Read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Transferable, Available, Documented, Annotated.
Want to know how biology students' math confidence impacts their learning performance?
Our ethics‑approved, controlled study explores exactly that peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
We’re at a stage where we need more participants!
📧Contact me for the survey link to share with bachelor students.
Cool #OpenData and #reproducibility webinar coming up.
SORTEE + Dryad = 💘
"Data all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communication"
📅 Thu, 12 Feb, 5–6pm WEST
🆓 Free registration: events.humanitix.com/love-data-we...
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
Do you want to help advance the profile of #ecology, #evolution, & #conservation in Canada? Do you want to be part of a team that gets things done on behalf of a broader community? Run for CSEE Council! Nominations due April 26. Learn more here: csee-scee.ca/elections/
In a "Jeffrey Epstein and the scientists" podcast w/ @iansample.bsky.social of The Guardian, we delve into the ugly world of Epstein and the scholars hurt by the misogyny in science that the files reveal:
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
New paper out today, 'Global North-South science inequalities due to language and funding barriers'
We highlight how language and funding barriers can compound inequity and offer practical recommendations to bridge these gaps.
Read the Open Access paper here! 👉 tinyurl.com/654ztk3w
The release of the latest batch of documents relating to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shed further light on his close relationship with the world of science. To find out why he cult...
🎉New preprint!
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
Michael Bertram
Hetan Shah
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
