Tyler Hampton, PhD

Using AI is bad scholarship; passing it off as your own work is academic misconduct.

It's stories like these that make me extremely frustrated at academics who seem to have given up, and are actively encouraging their graduate students to use genAI in their research (e.g. coding). Surely withholding customers and use-data from these companies is one of the ways we can fight back?

It's truly such an admission, that they can't bother to pay attention to speed limits.

Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands

In three months Wellington County speed cameras brought in $1.5M Since the program’s implementation in January, five cameras sent out 84,000 tickets collecting over $4 million in revenue, with about a third going to the county.

I think this article from the Record might have been close to front page, and probably is where folks got the idea? www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Agree, the Region should promote the good use of this money. The confusion might come from Wellington County which I think pays a third of fees to 3rd party? I could also see that functionally the rent for the cameras comes out of the revenue, maybe not in the actual budget but in spirit

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.

LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

Faculty Research Data Management Policy On this page, you can find the current and past versions of the Faculty of Geosciences Research Data Management Policy.   [button target=

A very cool model for developing a standard data management policy for an entire department, team, or organization!
geo-data-support.sites.uu.nl/faculty-rdm-...

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:

Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.

It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.

I knew it wasn’t for me when a colleague said “wow I can’t imagine taking a weekend off” during career week and there were nods around the room.

Idk if they were just posturing, but the fact that such sentiments are encouraged and normalized gave me the ick.

I would love to see more research teams employ data managers. While roles like data scientists and research analysts are crucial for analyzing data, those roles often don't have the time to develop standardized and documented processes that lead to better data. #databs

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Luisa's most recent argument is that we should cave to these drivers: that if they are inconvenienced, they'll act dangerously, and that's the Region's fault! We can't let policies be determined by who will be most mad when they have to follow the rules like the rest of us

VERY valuable thread for geoscientists, and all scientists who are looking for the right questions to ask their professional societies. Even after they walked back some of the advance compliance, it was still extremely troubling to see AGU damage the trust they'd built with their diverse membership.

I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/

Switched to Soundcloud, which should be sending a lot more funding to artists instead of corporate profits

It's the eighth anniversary of the shooting attack inside the Great Mosque in Quebec City.

We will never forget Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzedine Soufiane and Aboubaker Thabti.

Here's a video of the commemoration, held on Saturday.

My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity.

It can't not.

When I set out to create the Daily News podcast, my personal goal was to see if I could write, produce, edit and release something that was better than CBC's morning business report.

And it's increadible how easy that was to do with literally no resources.

All that is for a one-hour call. Now multiply that by the 55 billion hours of Zoom meetings that take place in a year. We said it above and we'll say it here too: you can reduce the footprint of your call by 96% by going audio-only. Next time you get called out for going face mute, tell your coworkers you're saving the!

A reminder of this elusive climate win win.

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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Avian influenza A (H5N1) in cats Since the U.S. outbreak of avian influenza A (H5N1) in dairy cattle began in March 2024, dozens of cats are known to have contracted the virus, including barn and feral cats, indoor cats, and big cats...

Cats should always stay indoors (it's safer for them and wildlife too) but especially right now, as avian influenza can be deadly for your cat and deadly for people too: www.avma.org/resources-to...

Inventing the whiny, entitled Millennial How avocado toast became a weapon of generational warfare that stripped Millennials of the autonomy and capacity to resist.

Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Would you mind sharing what version of the dataset you downloaded? I might like to use the data as an in-class exercise for students on data cleaning

Reminder that one of the most important times to wear a mask is right now during holiday season travel. Transits hubs are high risk as many people travel while they are sick. A high quality mask like an N95 will help protect you and help ensure you don't miss out on valuable time with loved ones.

Ready to chill out for 2 weeks