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Scientist Sees Squirrel

Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting.

  • By Stephen Heard
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly one post per week
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Most recent posts

There’s no best way to write something
What’s the best way to write your next paper – or, to ask a simpler question, the best way to construct your title, write the opening sentence of your Introduction, or plot the pivotal data …
On , by ScientistSeesSquirrel, 63 words
Buffon’s eulogy, Pliny vs. Newton, and is science a big pile of facts?
A couple of months ago, I reviewed Jason Roberts’s new book Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. It’s the story of two eighteen-century naturalists, Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis Leclerc, …
On , by ScientistSeesSquirrel, 69 words
ChatGPT has become Nickelback
In our new book on teaching and mentoring scientific writing, we’ve included a chapter considering the use of so-called “AI” tools in scientific writing. (“AI” writing tools such as ChatGPT are better called LLMs, or …
On , by ScientistSeesSquirrel, 60 words