Christy Caldwell

This really encapsulates why I’ve had such a hard time categorizing different tools. The distinctions aren’t really that distinct. For instance Scite seems to use both lexical and semantic plus its smart citation feature.

We love our Qobuz. It’s popular with the audiophiles.

Our tests have found little overlap in the top 50 results between tools even if Semantic Scholar is the primary source. Algorithms are doing something. Too bad SS truncates abstracts. The AI tools can’t extract the entire ab if long. We haven’t done IR tests

Yes here’s hoping! Sounds like we can look at it next month but without any of our customizations unless we do that ourselves. Comparisons could be tricky without it.

And about to tell a roomful of college students that it’s a completely valid source despite what their high school told them

Me!

He seems to enjoy calling people sociopaths.

Datacite via Zenodo uses a doi system within a versioning system.

In over 20 years, I’ve never had any bad experience with having a different last name from my children, so not everyone is treated differently.

I loved the hummingbird feeder at this place. I could sit there for hours

Today was a 1/6. My 3rd starter word. New starter word tomorrow!

It wasn’t approved for the US until 1995. I know because I caught it in 1997 as an adult and - barely - could have avoided it.

A major reason to use GS was skipped: I haven't found a better tool for finding access to the full text (outside of pirate sites). GS sees itself as an access provider, not just a search engine. The AI RAG tools don't do this...yet.

Most of these tools use a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) together with LLM. The papers exist, and even much of the information will be generated correctly. But the papers may be fringe, & the llm will invariably get something embarrassingly wrong.

Semantic Scholar. It’s what the vast majority of them use.

A short stoppage of grant funds will have devastating impacts to my small UC. We don’t have lots of funding streams and are too young for deep-pocketed endowments. So infuriating and self-destructive.

For four decades, ecologists Daniel Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs have routinely set up light traps in a protected Costa Rican rainforest to attract moths & other insects. Same sheet, same lights, same spot, same time of year.

This is 1984 (L) vs 2019 (R)

From: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Judging from my highly educated in-laws, sadly no. It didn’t take much to make them see the problem, but it was chance the subject came up and chance they said their opinion (“less insects seems better, no?”)

I really don’t want this teaching example but I’ll take it 😖

Trump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act now The Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump too...

I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC:

lookout.co/trumps-escal...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…

“She said, ‘I think this is going to be the last time I get to visit you,’” Öztürk’s friend recalled. “I told her, ‘No, no, you’re going to be able to come again, don’t worry, and I’m going to come visit you.’ That all turned out to be wrong.”

By @hannahallam.bsky.social

You mean i don’t need to go to Alaska?

There’s a bill in California that would require the community colleges and Cal State campuses to set up space for students to live in their cars. Not the UCs tho.

Together with grant cancellations, federal money and tanking student loan reform, this administration is clearly targeting university funding streams.

All along the California coast to SF we have these moss and lichen covered woods. It’s a vibe for sure.

I dunno. They seem even more risk-averse than the private sector, which makes standing strong even less likely.

Mine has a $150M deficit and is cutting expenses deeply. They won’t be doing much. And many R1s are in a similar position. A time for this would never be good, but this is especially poor timing.

Lesser bittern seen in HMB if you’re as close as I think

Among the other obvious problems, this “journal” doesn’t follow any guidelines that would ever allow it to be indexed. And that bar is pretty low.