Renshaw01 @Renshaw01@qoto.org

Worst fears about science in Britain confirmed

#medicalwriters #STEM #academicpublishing

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-governments-ps16-billion-horizon-clawback-breaks-rd-pledge

A summary of John Gill's (Times Higher Education) tweet on twitter today.

The rotten underbelly of academic publishing
#medicalwriters #STEM #academicpublishing

The link is to the article by Nick and Alexander Magazinov exposing authorship-for-sale networks, where someone submits a (usually plagiarised or fabricated) paper to a journal, and then sells the co-author positions on the internet.
Papers pass peer review, because that is organised by a crooked editor who is paid by the authors.

https://forbetterscience.com/2022/10/19/the-incredible-collaborations-of-renaissance-men-and-women/

Thanks to Nick Wise on Twitter for the original information.

Choosing the right outcome is key to a clinical trial.
#medicalwriters #stem

@MarionKCampbell has compiled a thread on composite clinical trial outcomes, drawing together key papers. Here is a link to the thread:
https://twitter.com/MarionKCampbell/status/1627571918613233664

Dangers and downsides of ChatGPT
#ChatGPT #LLM #medicalwriters #STEM

1. Danger of loss of meaning/cumulative 'blurriness' due to paraphrasing
2. loss of attributions/referencing

According to John Burns Murdoch: Outputs are rephrasings rather than direct quotes makes them seem game-changingly smart — even sentient — but they’re just very straightforwardly not.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Here's to celebrating The International Day of Women and Girls in Science
#STEM #STEMWomen #womenSTEM #Afghanistanwomen

The theme of this year's day is:
Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance.
I.D.E.A.: Bringing communities Forward for sustainable and equitable development

The 8th International Day of Women and Girls in Science looks at sustainable development goals (SDG): SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), SDG 9 (industry, innovation, and infrastructure), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

These SDG are some of the UN's 17 global goals, see: https://sdgs.un.org/goals International Day of Women and Girls in Science aims to link the knowledge and expertise of women to the wider International Community and its applications for the 2030 agenda and its 17 global goals.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science also demonstrates the power of women to develop communities for the better. Without education for women, communities for men as well as women are compromised. Thoughts are with the women and girls of Afghanistan.

Britain now has record-breaking cancer treatment waiting times.
#Thankscancer

"Without more treatment capacity, such as radiotherapy, this just leads to record long waiting lists. It is absolutely not okay."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/09/delays-cancer-patients-needing-urgent-treatment-worst-record/

See @RTherapy4Life on Twitter for further info. Article in Telegraph newspaper by Lizzie Roberts and Ben Butcher.

This week is kidney cancer awareness week 2023
6-10 February
The aim is to make as much noise, raise hot kidney cancer topics and bring awareness of kidney cancer to everyone, so that the first time someone hears about it is not when they're diagnosed.

Signs and symptoms of kidney cancer
- Blood in the urine
- Low back pain or pain in the side
- A lump or mass in the area of the kidneys
- Abnormal red blood cell counts
- High blood pressure or hypertension
- Thickening of the blood
- Tiredness
- Weight loss
- Temperature/night sweats

Kidney cancer can be symptomless or signs can be vague, so if you feel something's not right, see your doctor.

Using ChatGPT intelligently

#AI #ChatGPT #STEM #medicalwriters

Use it as a tool in creating your articles
-- Use it to create STRUCTURE for your writing
-- DO NOT use it to create content
-- Prompt to ChatGPT could include: topic, context, requirement (e.g. outline of presentation or article), suggestion of questions/research sub-topics, language (e.g. accessible), tone (e.g. Formal or informal)

Mustaq Bilal has done a thread on this here: https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/1621379333943083009

As Mustaq says, if you use ChatGPT's artificial intelligence with your own natural intelligence, you'll be unstoppable. A Porche with no brakes!

What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science

#AI #ChatGPT #STEM #medicalwriters

A new article from @Nature.

Many scientists are using ChatGPT to increase productivity, but others remain wary. “If you believe that this technology has the potential to be transformative, then I think you have to be nervous about it,” says computational biologist
https://genomic.social/@greenescientist

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00340-6?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675722349

[Reproduced from Nature twitter account, as I can't see it here on Mastodon yet. Apologies to @greenescientist if he got there first]

Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878764915001606
#research #STEM #stemwomen #medicalwriters

Guidelines for writing scientific papers.

[The above has been reproduced from Twitter because I have not seen it on Mastodon]

Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
#womenshealth #humanrights

FGM is an extreme form of discrimination against women, violates #HumanRights, and causes serious health harms.

It must be prevented: #EndFGM!
bit.ly/40qHLHE

[This first appeared on Twitter from WHO; I am retooting because I cannot see it on Mastodon, and it's such an important subject]

Today is #WorldCancerDay.

[Tooting this here as it was on Twitter.]

Macmillan is here to do whatever it takes to support those affected by cancer.
macmillan.org.uk

Today (and every day) if you need someone to talk to, please turn to us. Call our Support Line on 0808 808 00 00 (open 8am – 8pm) 💚

[Macmillan is a UK non-governmental and non-profit organisation supporting people with cancer; emotionally, physically, and financially 💚]

World Cancer Day
4th February 2023
#WorldCancerDay

The theme of this year's WCD is "Close the care gap". It celebrates progress that enables more people to seek and receive the care they need and deserve. It provides momentum to fuel the fight for fairness.

United we are stronger

WCD is a global initiative led by http://UICC.org. UICC aims to build stronger alliances and innovative new collaborations, mobilise friends, family, coworkers and communities to help close the cancer care gap for a cancer-free world.

Calling all young women scientists
#womenSTEM #womeninSTEM #womeninscience

I'm tooting this here as I can't see the original Springer Nature tweet on Mastodon.

The Inspiring Women in Science awards celebrate and support the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects. Springer Nature are now inviting applications for the 2023 awards: https://go.nature.com/3JmtOnJ