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Stephen Heard

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Evolutionary ecologist & Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle. He/him. Also @[email protected]

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New paper dropped: 'Asymmetrical insect invasions between three world regions' led by recent PhD grad Rylee Isitt. Why so many more insect invades from Europe to N. America/Australasia than the reverse?

neobiota.pensoft.net/article/110942/

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Seeing a whole lot of folks the last couple of days arguing that 'self-plagiarism' in Methods should be allowed and we should do it even if it isn't and 'there are only so many ways' to describe a Method.

So I guess it's time for this again: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/are…

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New blog post: On being newly retired! 'What retirement offers me, I tell people, is the chance to still do the things I love about my job, while not doing the things I don’t love. Who wouldn’t take that deal?' scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/met…

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Two minutes ago I got an email from someone responding to something in one if my footnotes! (But I still can't really disagree)

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New blog post: On being newly retired! 'What retirement offers me, I tell people, is the chance to still do the things I love about my job, while not doing the things I don’t love. Who wouldn’t take that deal?' scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/met…

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14 hours from now I will be retired. This is both good and also quite weird...
Spent quite a bit of time the last few days cleaning out my lab space. Found a few quite puzzling things!

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If you spend much time online, or with extended family, over the holidays you’ll know that many non-linguists love being “pedantic” about language. 1/

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New blog post: on the frustration, and the joy, of not knowing things. Complete with beetles (but not Beatles) and Elton John... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/the…

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New blog post: on the frustration, and the joy, of not knowing things. Complete with beetles (but not Beatles) and Elton John... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/the…

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I just read this paper and I'm gonna do a thread about what it says and what I think it means.

tl;dr: this is cool, I love it, and also I don't think it really says very much at all about, for example, if ChatGPT can make new discoveries or act autonomously or be AGI.

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