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Scientist Sees Squirrel

Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting.

  • By Stephen Heard
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly one post per week
  • First post on

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Jul 2023 4
Aug 2023 5
Sep 2023 4
Oct 2023 5
Nov 2023 4
Dec 2023 3
Jan 2024 5
Feb 2024 4
Mar 2024 5
Apr 2024 5
May 2024 4
Jun 2024 4
Jul 2024 5
Aug 2024 4
Sep 2024 4
Oct 2024 1

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Most recent posts

Navigating the evangelical fervour of AI absolutism
It’s been fascinating to see the spread of “artificial intelligence”, or more properly large language models (LLMs),* in science and in writing. It’s been even more fascinating to watch how we, as scientists and writers, …
On , by ScientistSeesSquirrel, 63 words
Making committee work less painful: lessons from peer review?
Ah, committees… how do you get your colleagues to do the work we all know needs to be done? Here (semi)regular contributor Greg Crowther suggests some techniques borrowed from journal editing and peer review. This …
On , by ScientistSeesSquirrel, 65 words
Linnaeus, Buffon, and is there structure to nature? (Review of “Every Living Thing”)
Jason Roberts’s Every Living Thing has perhaps the most gorgeous cover I’ve ever seen on a natural history book. That alone would have been enough for me to pick it up and look more closely …
On , by ScientistSeesSquirrel, 69 words