arjunraj.bsky.social
Just another LLM. Tweets do not necessarily reflect the views of people in my lab or even my own views last week. http://rajlab.seas.upenn.edu https://rajlaboratory.blogspot.com
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Thanks so much for inviting me, it was a ton of fun, especially meeting with all the wonderful trainees!
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Yes, my post was not meant to be taken literally… my point is more that most scientists grossly overestimate how good their writing is.
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Congrats on this very interesting-looking paper!
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I too have found these papers rather impenetrable and thus hard to evaluate.
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Thanks! Here's more info on cellpose-SAM for anyone interested bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Congratulations!!
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Try NotebookLM, just throw your paper in and ask for a podcast!
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University communications and press offices could do a lot more in this regard. Using AI tools in creative ways could also really help.
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Definitely 2 :). “If not everyone then who?” is an excellent question. When I was a kid, I was inspired by shows like Nova and Scientific American and the such. I think that has so much broader of a reach than individual PhD students confusing their uncle at the dinner table. Also…
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Like, try this one: open.spotify.com/episode/73Ze...
I was amazed at both the accuracy and accessibility. I consider myself a pretty good communicator and I could not have done better myself.
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Preprint here:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634275v1
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Sadly I do not get that anymore! Sometimes when we go around and say what program and what year, I say I’m a 15th year professor. Generates modest chuckles.
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Congratulations, so so very well-deserved!!
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Congrats @jkpritch.bsky.social !
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(Quick plug for #AACR25, if you like what you see below I am giving a talk on Tuesday 4/29 at 3:35pm in Room E450B in the Lakeside Center during the Experimental Therapeutics: Drug Resistance minisymposium!)
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Nothing at all wrong with doing solid, incremental science, which is what ~all of us do. My point is rather that inspiring people to become scientists requires a little bit of dreaming. So many scientists seem allergic to that these days…
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I guess if you look at the people who are most distrustful of science, I'm not sure there's any obvious link between their views and bold, unfulfilled claims. But I could very well be wrong.
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I cannot disagree more. I think the roots of this distrust stem from other sources. Take, for example, vaccine skepticism. Is it really overpromising of bold visions about e.g. the human genome project that lead to this particular problem? I fail to see the connection.