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  1. Tja, was macht man nun in einem solchen Fall. Ist das alles #AIslop oder sind das einfach nur sehr ungenau arbeitende Autor*innen, die hier ein paar Namen, DOIs und Abkürzungen durcheinander gebracht haben?

    Ist das ein schwerwiegender Fall von wissenschaftlichem Fehlverhalten und Verstoß gegen die wissenschaftliche Integrität und sollten die entsprechenden Autoren von zukünftigen Veröffentlichungen ausgeschlossen werden, oder nicht?

    #AcademicWriting #ScientificWriting

  2. Unlock your scientific writing potential with Bioresire’s Authorship Program. Gain real research experience, expert mentorship, and boost your academic credibility. Start your research journey today.

    #Bioresire #ScientificWriting #ResearchAuthorship #LifeScience #BiotechStudents #AcademicGrowth #ResearchSkills #PublicationSupport #STEMCareers #YoungResearchers

  3. A study published in Scientific Reports in 2024 claims that "AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writers, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts." 👀

    Huge if true.

    Here's the kicker: "For the human writing process, we looked at humans’ total annual carbon footprints, and then took a subset of that annual footprint based on how much time they spent writing." 🤔

    Of course, writing contributes to carbon footprints in the same way as all other human activities like *checks notes* heavy industry, transport, agriculture, and energy and heating. /s 🙄

    Last author Andrew W. Torrance declares holding shares in NVIDIA. 🤦

    nature.com/articles/s41598-024

    All credit for these insights goes to Higher Ed discussions of AI writing & use facebook.com/groups/6329308355

    #ChatGPT #ScientificReports #AItools #ChatBots #AIwriting #CarbonEmissions #EnergyUseStudy #CO2emissions #ScientificWriting #CarbonFootprintOfAI #EnvironmentalImpactOfAI #EnvironmentalImpactAnalysis #SciComm

  4. I'm an extrovert, and I can be a bit too loud, and yet either in spite of that or because of it... I love to write and to read. So I've been doing these Snippets at Life Science Editors (lifescienceeditors.com/snippet), shooting for 1-2 a week, where we enthuse about a recent paper.

    The goals: to point to some cool new science, to call out the authors as best we can, to comment on the writing in some way, and (for me) to feed my love of biology and of writing. We aim for diversity in topics, authors, and continents and we love nominations!

    The newest Snippet went up today. I unwisely muse about my vicarious "experience" of #pregnancy to introduce a paper about how mammals manage body temperature during pregnancy. Have a look. I'd love feedback of every kind, and suggestions for the next one!

    lifescienceeditors.com/2025/05

    #scientificwriting
    #sciencewriting

  5. I have been digging out my old copies of John McPhee's #books, dipping in, remembering what it was like to be a new #geologist, and how it has carried across into #spatial #data, #geomorphology, #geomorphometry, #hydrology, #landcover, #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience, #landuse, #massmovement and so much more......
    This one paragraph reminded me so strongly of that time,, although I cannot of course write as eloquently:
    --
    "I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. Geology was called a descriptive science, and with its pitted outwash plains and drowned rivers, its hanging tributaries and starved coastlines, it was nothing if not descriptive. It was a fountain of metaphor—of isostatic adjustments and degraded channels, of angular unconformities and shifting divides, of rootless mountains and bitter lakes..."
    #GIS #JohnMcPhee #science #scientificwriting #readingforpleasure #geology #water #landforms #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

  6. Schon interessant, wie unfassbar viele Anzeigen für #PaperMills und #EssaySpinning man bei #Instagram zu sehen bekommt, wenn man mal in der dortigen Suche den Namen einer beliebigen chinesischen Hochschule eingibt.
    #AcademicWriting #ScientificWriting #ThesisWriting

  7. Yeah!

    I got just followed by 'Microbiology Journal Club' (@MicrobioJC ) 😊

    They made a ton of cool videos about microbiology and criticizing scientific papers during the pandemic (youtube.com/c/Defectivebrayne/) .

    And it gets better: behind is a project of
    'Biotech Without Borders, a self-sustaining community of scientists committed to increasing the accessibility of scientific resources and knowledge, especially among socially and economically marginalized groups. We provide education, lab facilities, and a forum for critical discussions to support responsible innovation in biotechnology.'

    biotechwithoutborders.org/

    Isn't this amazing? These are the biotechs we need!
    :heart_cyber:

    (I probably won't come ever to New York, but in case we get this transatlantic sail crossing-thing again in place again, now I know what to visit in NY)

    #Biotechnology #BioTech #Microbiology #Bacteria #SciComm #peerReview #BiotechWithoutBorders #HackSpace #MakerSpace #CommunityLab #FollowFriday #ScientificWriting

  8. "...But I agree with Stephen that it also has the potential to mask people’s individual style in writing and, as a scientific community we’d then lose out on a lot of distinct and engaging voices."

    #ScientificWriting
    #plos
    #CSHL

    theplosblog.plos.org/2023/10/s

  9. Sex and gender differences are often overlooked in research design, implementation, and scientific reporting.

    The EASE SAGER Guidelines Checklist helps address this with a comprehensive series of items to incorporate into methods and editorial processes.

    ease.org.uk/communities/gender

    #ReportingGuidelines #Reproducibility #SexDifferences #GenderStudies #JournalEditing #ScientificWriting #Equity

  10. The 8th (!) CSHL Scientific Writing Retreat starts in a week and a half. It's an annual program run by CSHL Meetings & Courses and a great success. I'll drop ideas and tips here in hopes of establishing the #ScientificWriting hashtag. For now, check out an interview with the two co-organizers, Dr. Charla Lambert and me. #CSHL

    currentexchange.cshl.edu/blog/