Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org
Senior lecturer at the Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE) and Edinburgh University.
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.
Joined Oct 2022
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An experience of time tracking as a scientist https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00806-1
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I just did some primary-school level investigative work using Google Scholar to find out whether the use of generative #AI is genuinely a widespread issue in #AcademicPublishing and, within five minutes, I have cause for despair... 😲 #AcWri #AcademicChatter
@ElenLeFoll @academicsunite Yes, last time I had a little python project for the weekend it turned into a two year long still unfinished tour de force... but still, I've been wanting to learn a bit more about text mining from articles and this is as good an excuse as anything 🙂
@ElenLeFoll @academicsunite And that's my little Python project for the weekend 😍
@adamshostack @ElenLeFoll @academicsunite I think there is a legitimate use in polishing writing or in helping drafting an initial structure. This particular example for me is an extremely worrying sign that the authors, the reviewers and the editors did not actually read the paper though...
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"If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell [scientists] they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bullk of their time competing against each other to convince you they already know what they are going to discover." - David Grabber, The Utopia of Rules.
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Exploring @eb's blog and oh my god how does this post have less than a hundred visits
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Were #hiring! We're looking for a #postdoc in #machinelearning for unsupervised learning of large-scale high-dimensional biological data. Know anyone who would be interested? Last day to apply is March 31, 2024. https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoctoral-position-2-years-in-machine-learning-for-analysis-of-large-scale-high-dimensional-biological-data_707668/
@PhilippBayer @biorxivpreprint works for me... maybe was just a temporary glitch?
ComPromptMized: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered Applications
https://sites.google.com/view/compromptmized
Paper here https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02817
#generativeAI #worm #virus #attack #chatgpt #gemini #ai #adversarial
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Covid vaccination markedly reduced blood clots, heart attacks, heart failure, stroke and other adverse cardiovascular outcomes, as seen from over 20 million people, about half of whom were vaccinated https://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2024/01/24/heartjnl-2023-323483
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Folks this #LexisNexis risk assessment product that vacuums up all automotive data and uses it to raise your insurance rates is none other than the offspring of #RELX, parent of #Elsevier. Far from being an isolated product unrelated to scholarly publishing, year after year in their promotional material they boast how these are integrated systems at both a technical and operational level - your prestige publications fund this, and your professional metrics sold via SciVal are part of the same pool of data.
Who wants to bet that funders wont blink at an "aggregated funding risk score that draws from our proprietary analytics data for a whole-researcher productivity profile." We're beyond surveillance conspiracy theories, these products are here today, and every prestige publication makes us complicit and digs the grave for our own profession.
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Administrative staff increased by 17% from 2005 to 2012, while permanent scientist positions increased only by 0.04%. Total teaching staff did not match the increase in students of 25% and the precariously employed scientists increased by a whopping 50%: for every permanent scientific position, about 10 fixed term positions were created, increasing the already unhealthy competition among the academic precariat to insane levels.
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@BorisBarbour @moritz_negwer this is something I always find bizarre. Whenever universities investigate some misconduct (whether data fraud, harassment, or anything else) they're default position is to hide everything because it would be reputational damage. I have seen this many times and often students are the one who get the worst out of it. I for one would applaud a university who would actually engage in a proper investigation and take action if necessary. That would increase the university reputation, pretending nothing happened doesn't. 🫤
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Short-term and short-sighted reputation management.
@gringene The problem is not with the dog (who probably got scared as well), but rather the owners, who should not leave a puppy off lead, especially if they know they like fast moving things. And yes that is very much normal puppy behaviour. They should have put the dog back on lead when they saw you approaching. Yes it's a pain having to do that whenever someone swings by, but having a dog is a responsibility and proper training is as well. It takes a lot of time, effort and treats, but it's worth it.
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“the difference between a significant p-value and a non-significant one is not necessarily significant.”
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As #MothersDay approaches in the UK, it would be great if pubs/cafes/restaurants/etc offered their deals to all women and not just mums. For many, the exclusion just makes a crappy day that bit harder. Remember, it isn’t always by choice.
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Pre Self: what fraction of a journal’s papers are preprinted?
https://quantixed.org/2024/03/09/pre-self-what-fraction-of-a-journals-papers-are-preprinted/
@tamiel I am soooo waiting for that to happen to us and for someone to suddenly realise that relying on external companies like that is not a viable solution. Luckily we have independent university servers so it really won't be a problem, but I particularly loath the whole Office365 suite...
Senior lecturer at the Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE) and Edinburgh University.
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.
Joined Oct 2022
