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How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

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My last #PhD paper, on how historically stable climates have allowed divergent lineages of pygmy perches (incl. cryptic species 🐟🧬) to persist, was published this week in Heredity : nature.com/articles/s4143…. Also incl. some pretty bleak projections under climate change!

I've also been pretty busy with some #scicomm for it this week: first, with a blog post summary as part of the Nature Springer Research Communities "Behind the Paper" series... communities.springernature.com/posts/from-sta…

...and today, with an article in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand about the work (and some of the ongoing #conservation efforts to protect our threatened aquatic #biodiversity): theconversation.com/things-started…

One more media release (Flinders University) for my latest paper on freshwater🐟🧬 in the SWWA biodiversity hotspot (this one featuring some landscape shots from yours truly): news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2024/07/0…

HI all-my new book on the 465 million myr history of sharks is out TOMORROW in all of North America! Woo hoo!! Doing a special public event-sharky book launch at the United Theatre in Westerly, RI, on Saturday- check out Bank Square Books web for tickets...

Our lab (PEARG) is hiring a bioinformatics/genomics researcher! This is for a range of very exciting projects at the cutting edge of weird invertebrate biology. In collaboration with CAMEL lab Michael Kearney jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/917668/…

There are 3.2 million people in Mongolia and roughly the same number of horses. «A Mongol without a horse is like a bird without wings». Even at a rave party.

What I'm reading this week in synthetic biology, population genetics, AI in genomics/bioinformatics, pangenomes, and more 🧬🖥️ Trying something a little different this week. I posted a longer summary of a few of these at Paired Ends (updated URL): blog.stephenturner.us/p/what-im-read…

If the Brisbane Olympics don’t recreate the Succulent Chinese Meal incident at the opening ceremony I’m gonna be so fckn disappointed.

A small fraction of the people whose lives Louis Bernatchez touched united at #Evol2024

Out in Australia in less than 2 weeks- can be ordered now from your fav bookshop or on line!

Hunter Valley Operations coal mine, once beautiful farmland.

For those who care, it’s estimated that for $7.3 billion per annum for 30 years, most extinctions could be prevented, and degraded landscapes and waterways restored. wentworthgroup.org/2024/07/bluepr… That’s $219 billion. Albo and co. are spending > $360 billion on submarines and AUKUS.

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers." They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech

RT the hell out of this, please, & sign it! People across Australia are calling for the federal government & Tanya Plibersek to pass strong environment laws, *this year*. Will you add your voice? 👉 environmentvictoria.org.au/action/speak-u… There are links for other states & territories too

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We first saw evidence for this ~ 2019. We were super surprised & skeptical. After 5 years of quintuple cross-validation, we feel confident to share with the world.