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Zen Faulkes
@doctorzen.net
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Home page: http://DoctorZen.net. Biologist. Author of Better Posters book and blog. Collector of academic hoaxes.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1h
I've had at least 2-3 pop-ups on the web and in apps trying to get me to use some AI feature JUST this morning. I am tired of smashing "No" buttons in a tedious game of whack-a-mole.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 2h
Per capita consumption of beef was higher then.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-...
Per capita meat consumption in the United States
Average per capita meat availability, measured in kilograms per year. This data does not account for consumption-level waste, and therefore actual per capita intake will be slightly lower than meat av...
ourworldindata.org

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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 3h
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3h
Excellent data integrity but the search function always left something to be desired 😉

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 16h
Is that… Marmorkrebs in the middle?

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19h
I thought this resource was dead! It's great, but I'm getting Cloudflare time outs. 😕

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19h
Better than an awful lot of posters I've seen at national and international conferences!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19h
Ah! Thank you! I must have looked right at that but not seen them!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 20h
Are these movies available anywhere? I'd like to show them to my students, without having to mess around in Bluesky!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 21h
Star Wars Episode IX: Duel of the Fates
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22h
Also, you can sing "Slap the lamprey" to the tune of Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey."

🎶 Lamprey
Lamprey
Lamprey
Don't you know you're gonna slap the lamprey?
Hey, hey
Slap the lamprey
Hey, hey-hey-hey🎶

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 23h
More evidence that AI is useless: ChatGPT won't tell you to buy the Better Posters book for the researcher in your life for the holidays, and you really should! 😜

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Better Posters
Better posters mean better research. Distilling over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog, Zen Faulkes will help you create a clear and informative conference poster that delive...
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 23h
Now do Royal Crown

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 23h
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Zen Faulkes

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 23h
Just a gentle reminder to save PDFs of the work you published this year especially in digital publications because you could look up one day and find that that pub doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t archived anywhere and is just gone

Ask me how I know!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
5 (con't). Of course, the reverse is also true. Some professors expect formality and will positively flip out over an email beginning with "Hey."

6/6 🏁

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
5. This one is hard, but try to be aware of different professional cultures. Many cultures teach students to show extreme deference to an educator. To someone not in that culture, this way of talking can seem obsequious, insincere, and deeply annoying.

5/

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
4. Professors get a lot of emails.

a) Follow the "no scroll" rule for your first email. Make it easy to read and reply to.

b) Do not be afraid to resend an email if you don't get a reply. It may have drifted down from the top of the inbox.

4/

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
3. Ask about current research projects. Professors love to talk about their research, and almost nobody ever asks!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
2. Find a paper from professor that looks interesting and read it. Tell the professor that you read it and what you found interesting about it. Describe how it aligns with your interests.

Showing familiarity with the supervisor's work goes a long way.

2/

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
A thread 🧵 of suggestions:

1. Show you've done your homework. Too many people will send emails about how they are super excited about protein synthesis in yeast to me, a crustacean researcher.

I don't do yeast. I can't help you. 1/

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
Munida almost never have their tail fully extended like in the picture; quick search on Pylocheles seems to show they don't flex their abdomens as strongly?

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 1d
Mystery of how turtles read their magnetic map solved. Alayna Mackiewicz & co reveal that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the magnetism 🔁

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Read the full research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A young loggerhead turtle ‘dancing’ in a magnetic field with its head up and mouth open in anticipation of food. Photo credit: Alayna Mackiewicz.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
"You will be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Thunder, Lightning, and Rain from Big Trouble in Little China.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 1d
By mapping connections among researchers, Neurotree makes it possible to trace how the field has evolved and to visualize how shifts in lab size, training and other factors can shape its direction, writes founder @stephenvdavid.bsky.social.

bit.ly/4od0SiL

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Tracing neuroscience’s family tree to track its growth
By mapping connections among researchers, Neurotree makes it possible to see how the field has evolved and what factors shape its direction.
www.thetransmitter.org

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 1d
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
Oh, it’s so good. Get a print copy! I got an ebook version, which didn’t really capture the double page spreads.