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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 3d

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 3d

Recent MDPI paper including diagram of a bacterial cell with a mitochondrion 🤦‍♀️ The authors propose a mechanism for the toxicity of silver nanoparticles: "Ag+ ions in AgNPs bombard the bacterial mitochondria’s electron transport chain, resulting in cell death".

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 3d

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 4d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations! 🥳

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 4d

Show us the last four albums you listened to. 😉

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 4d

Rush is good. 👌🏼

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. 🙂

Yeah, I haven’t found anything that really works either. But with all the hype and promises, this is one thing I’d love to delegate.

Fishing for insider secrets. 😉

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

Which AI do you find best for refactoring/optimising code?

Any grand success stories?

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 8d

First we created a culture where you don't have to understand basic statistical ideas and methods to analyze quantitative data from samples. This was a wonderful innovation, as it removed barriers to publishing whatever the fuck you wanted. Using "AI" to just invent the data is the next logical step

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

Such a good girl. 🐕

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

Impressive productivity. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

Latvian excellencies have also discovered the address of the local Statistics Bureau. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Apparently, feeding their models with unconsented personal data now passes for science.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 11d

One thing to consider is that the only good reason to manipulate an image is to make it show something that it didn't show in the first place. Perhaps what was there originally was not background? A defect? A particle? Someone's watermark or label from another paper.

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 11d

As Fabian says - some people are compulsive fiddlers, manipulators, and (frankly) liars. They would change the data simply for the sake of changing it. Because it is their habit. I have personally met people who lie even when it damages their own credibility. I suspect the same is true of data.

Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 5d

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For everyone doing this:
#DefundAcademia

Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 5d

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 5d

Winter-cyclists: you sure are familiar with the issue of a cold belly in the front and sweat-soaked back.
I am looking for special shirts/jackets which are warm/wind-proof in the front and thin/breathable in the back.
Any advice?
#winter #cycling

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 9d

Looks very nice. 🌵

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 10d

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 10d

No matter who you are or what your problem is, please consider that the last thing you need is to conduct yet another dog-shit survey. Thank you. You're welcome.

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 10d

Distinguished panel of luminaries ✨ in research integrity. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10d

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 10d

Coming from Java, I still structure my R code with the MVC pattern. Not sure it’s correct; mathematicians never write like that. 🤷‍♀️

Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 15d

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do.

Tell me the rules you break!

I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 10d

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Stephen Senn @stephensenn.bsky.social · 14d

Well. I get exasperated about this. The problem is that many expect statistics to be easy. Some then get annoyed when it isn’t. Mathematics gets a free pass it seems. I am still learning statistics after more than 50 years.

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 12d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 14d

Try it yourself. 😀

For example, take this piece of plagiarism and try to archive it:
dspace.lu.lv/dspace/bitst...

Sure, we can timestamp the documents, but if crawling is prohibited, then it all comes down to manual labour.

I haven’t noticed the excellencies doing much of this work.

Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 15d

The University of Latvia has shut down archiving in its repository.

I assume this was done so that artificial intelligence can now rewrite past plagiarism without any credible external source left to dispute it. ☝️

#KāKļūtParProfesoruLatvijā

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 17d

I remember you mentioning this. It’s truly incredible. 😊

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