bahome

@bahome@mastodon.social

Genes, brains, and dad jokes. Professor, UC San Diego School of Medicine. Associate Editor at PLoS Genetics. Opinions, sarcasm, and flat-landing jokes here are mine alone. Lapsed drummer. #Genetics #Academia #cerebellum #SanDiego @bah_lab on the other site.

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Reflective sunset, 2023

bahome, to writing

Don’t let your abstract make promises that your data can’t keep.
#academicchatter #writing

bahome, to Bloomscrolling

California poppies, Diamond Valley Reservoir, 2023

bahome, to science

In any experiment, clear documentation is a love letter to your future self.

bahome, to Bloomscrolling

California poppies, Spring 2023

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No, “thanks for doing that” does not qualify as Institutional Support.

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Not sure what those who advocate for the use of ChatGPT in scientific writing have in mind. It is the very act of writing that helps us think about the connections and implications of our results, identify gaps, and devise further experiments and controls.

Any science project that can be written up by a bot from tables of results and associated literature isn’t the kind of science that I’d want to do to begin with.

Can’t imagine completing a manuscript not knowing what comes next, because the writing was done automatically instead of me putting extensive thought into it.

And why would anyone bother to read it if the authors couldn’t be bothered to write it. Might as well put up the tables and figures into an archive online, stamp a DOI on it, and move on.

bahome,

@albertcardona
I quote David McCullough often:
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

bahome,

@albertcardona
That said, I do understand where AI tools can help people be understood when writing in a language in which they lack native fluency.

ct_bergstrom, to Birding

Caption this, New Yorker cartoon style.

bahome,

@ct_bergstrom
Oh he wants you to think that, but we all know he gets them from that market on 12th and B.

Popehat, to random

German word for mixed feelings when you create a satirical document but a whole bunch of people took it literally but they shouldn’t in part because there are several typos

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@Popehat schlocktenfeude

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How decisions by physicians are affected by left-digit bias (like retail pricing of $7.99 instead of $8.00)
—ED diagnosis of heart attacks age <40
—Decision to do heart surgery age >80
—Opioid prescription for age <18
From Random Acts of Medicine by Jena and Worsham

bahome,

@erictopol Another lesson in Don’t bin a continuous variable to make it categorical.

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If you'd have told me 2 or 3 years ago that a real-time wastewater surveillance algorithm would become the primary way to detect Covid on the rise, I wouldn't have believed it. But it is now:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216021120

bahome,

@erictopol yeah, searchcovid.info dashboard has been very useful for San Diego county.

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Today in Administration. Apparently not even department chairs had advance notice. Ironically, I was first exposed to dystopian literature as a freshman at UCSD.

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He’s So Fined
— The Chiffons


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Abbey Ruh-rohed


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Open data or it didn’t happen.

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