Notices by Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)

Ah yes, the nefarious TikTok stoking fear among the good people of New York City.

A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.

I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.

“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324001298

Partially disenshittify google:

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-get-more-accurate-google-search-results

@the5thColumnist I guess you missed the second post in that thread.

A long shot but let's try.

When I was photographing birds with a very long lens on the empty beach south of #Barcelona's airport, this magnificent gentleman waved to me, pointed to himself, and immediately struck a pose. I fired off this frame, we shared a laugh from 50m apart, and went on our respective ways.

I'd love to get it to him. Anyone know him?

My beloved Barrow's Goldeneyes will be heading back up to Alaska soon, so it was very good to get in the water with this them afternoon. The waves were up today, and I was working on capturing a sense of the ever-shifting, endlessly-dynamic environment that these wonderful birds inhabit.

#birding #birdphotography

Frames within frames, Barcelona.

#photography

It takes, er....big balls, and lots of them, to publish AI generated nonsense art in a scientific paper.

Also I don't ever want to hear that Frontiers is not a predatory publisher.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

Hold on.

I'm being told it's actually kind of a dck move.

Yes, this brings the CDC guidelines for COVID into line with guidelines for RSV and influenza.

It's not just that is COVID more severe. The guidelines for RSV and influenza are not right either. We need universal paid sick leave, not permission to return to work while still contagious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU0.jViR.n7R1fvDM_WEv&smid=url-share

Crows at play

#birdphotography #corvids #crows

"Cognitively speaking, we metabolize mistakes."

I've been reading William Wimsatt and he expresses a core component of my teaching philosophy better than I ever managed.

Is there a comprehensive graduate-level text or review on the application of linear algebra to graphs and networks?

@NathanHarvey Thank you! This looks like almost exactly what I was looking for.

Douglas Allchin, Jonathan Osborne, and I have a new paper out about teaching science in this age of online misinformation.

The idea is simple: we tell people to trust the science, but we rarely teach students about the social processes that make it trustworthy.

https://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2024JCST.pdf

Willet borrowing Andrew Wyeth's pallet.

#birdphotography

@cobalt Grackles are fascinating. Ecologically, they are very similar to corvids. My friend @CorinaLogan studies their cognitive abilities compared to corvids and the bottom line is: it's bleak.

Still, I love them.

Also roadrunners and woodpeckers — what fun!

SANTA BARBARA, CA: After an intensive seventeen-year search spanning all seven continents, scientists located and captured high-resolution photographic images of the world's roundest round-borb.

#birdwatching #birdphotography

Meanwhile on Instagram, what the actual fuck?