Evolutionary biologist. Postdoctoral Fellow & LCF Junior Leader at CRG (Barcelona).
«Ara mateix / enfilo aquesta agulla amb el fil d'un propòsit que no dic / i em poso a apedaçar.»
xgrau.github.io & ecoevo.social/@xgrau
Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾
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Leaving aside the methodological breakthroughs of this paper for an instant, it will never cease to astound me that angiosperms only appeared in (or around) the Jurassic period.
"I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts." More reasons not to publish in Frontiers journals 🧪 #AcademicSky
Here is some weekend reading for you
👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our special green issue, chokeful of reviews and short-format introductory pieces on plant #evolution!
🌱🌿🌵🍃 #Plants
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, by Ted Chiang
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
But it wasn’t absurd for Hofstadter to entertain such a thought; at the time, it wasn’t clear what types of problems could be solved by throwing more computational horsepower at them.”
Obviously that turned out not to be the case. IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue beat the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, and no one ever claimed that it had subjective experience.
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“In 1979, Douglas Hofstadter speculated that a computer able to beat humans at chess would be so sophisticated that it would sometimes get bored of playing chess and prefer to discuss poetry; […] he was positing that playing chess would require a computer program to have subjective experience.
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Much has been written about The Selfish Gene, and few books have been both as influential and as persistently contested.
To commemorate its 50th anniversary, here are some brief thoughts in the latest issue of @science.org.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social).
We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT)
1/n 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
