The genAI listed one of my colleagues as a coauthor on one of this guy's fictional papers about fish population genetics.
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The genAI listed one of my colleagues as a coauthor on one of this guy's fictional papers about fish population genetics.
This guy with a bachelor degree uploaded 120 research items back dated since Jan 2020, covering medicine, AI, engineering, physics, pop genetics ...
All with the same awful AI template.
Researchgate already felt stagnant... but i don't see how it can survive in the academic-AI-slop era.
A colleague of mine came across this when the gen AI used their name in the coauthor list and they got a notification about it.
Hey #stats folk, I'm looking for some great (but concise) YouTube vids about likelihood functions & estimation (MLE, properties, Fisher information, std errs).
These would serve students taking my Bayesian course that didn't take the preceding likelihood course (that is taught by someone else).
John Fieberg's online text could be a nice supplement to what felix posted.
Not a youtube video... But his section on maximum likelihood is extremely beginner friendly.
statistics4ecologists-v3.netlify.app/10-maximumli...
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I've been really pleased with the reception of my Under Review podcast. Last week's episode with @elisabethbik.bsky.social has been viewed on YouTube almost 800 times as well as a good number on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Is there any way for my colleagues to express interest (other than harassing you on here :p)?
#Rstats Are there any workshops planned this year on the topic of applying JSDMs via the gllvm package?
I see @vdveenb.bsky.social hosted an online course last year.
I have some colleagues interested in using the doing JSDMs, and it would be great to point them towards a workshop.
However, for distributing this to others... your docker solution sounds like the right approach... it would be great to completely insulate the user from having to worry about wine versions.
For my own work, I only need vdat to extract the csv files and I clean up the files with bash scripts before I load them into R, so the wine wrapper approach is working fine for me.
have you asked any of them about this? I'm interested to know if there is an actual reason for not doing this... or rather they just don't do it because nobody is asking (loudly enough).
Would some of them consider at least making their DLL source code available, so we can just compile it ourselves and write our own interfaces that don't suck?
as if wine weren't confusing enough... half the time when I google an issue, I just end up with search results relating to wine *tasting* 😔
interesting! Why was dotnet 452 required here? (`winetricks -q win10 dotnet452 dotnet48`)
It didn't occur to me that I should try installing multiple versions of dot net (wine is still dark magic to me).
Does anyone have better solutions for extracting the contents of vdat files on Linux? Perhaps that don't involve a slightly finicky wine prefix?
Screenshot of the linked gitlab repository readme.
Here's my take on a Linux wrapper for Innovasea's Fathom Connect software. Seems to work fine on Ubuntu 24.04 for converting vdat files to csv.
gitlab.com/RTbecard/fat...
Shout out to @obrien.page for discovering that Fathom Connect works in wine.
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Obsessed with this journal for publishing caricatures of “prominent ornithologists,” which no academic today is brave enough to do
This looks pretty interesting!
Really nice to have our #pollack paper out 🎣 full paper here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you would like to help put pressure on the @royalsociety.org to finally take meaningful action on this issue, you can politely decline their requests for your labour (eg invitations to review or to sit on their editorial boards or grant panels), and refer to the arguments in this blogpost.
#linux users rejoice! OnlyOffice is FINALLY adding support for multi-page layouts.
It's currently the #opensource office suite that has the best compatibility with MSOFFICE docx... but has never allowed you to view more than one page of a doc at a time (which was frankly, insane).
I'm surprised R doesn't already have ternary operators... especially since they added anonymous functions somewhat recently.
Here's my prettier --- but probably an awful idea --- take on the user-implemented ternary operator.
This is a great podcast. Its very refreshing to hear senior researchers candidly discuss the (rather obvious) problems we have in academia currently.
Also, really good gossip about the RS & Elon Musk.
Anybody have a link to the clip of Feynman that Dorothy is referring to at 20:30?
Is this exclusively on spotify? It didn't show up when i searched it on my usual podcast platform.
That did work! I had no idea u could get around paywalls so easily :/
I hit my free article limit :(