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Elio Campitelli

There's not enough "fuck you"s in the world to react to this shit. #LLMs should be tools used in the service of people; what in the world is this proposal to make people work for LLMs?!

Any and all changes to scientific publishing needs to be for so that other **people** can access them and understand them.

And the single most important change would be for Nature and other publishers not to charge 29.99 USD for a shitty 4-paragraph essay that they didn't pay for themselves.

#AcademicChatter

Adjust the format of papers to improve description by AI The chatbot ChatGPT and other tools based on large language models (LLMs) can make scientific research more efficient, but they can also introduce mistakes when they describe scientific work (Nature 622, 234–236; 2023). I suggest that small changes to the format of scientific papers could improve the training of LLMs. Describing the research method rather than citing a reference to it, for example, would enable the LLM to summarize methods accurately. Writing in the third person would identify individuals more clearly. This would require a significant shift in conventional scientific writing style, but LLMs do not recognize who ‘we’ are. The use of in-line citations by authors would improve LLM training by reducing the chance of a disconnect between a statement and its supporting reference. These should use just the DOI, without the journal title, volume and page numbers. The DOI makes it easier to verify that a reference is genuine (T. Day Prof. Geogr. https://doi.org/k5f6; 2023). Providing papers with an extended summary written in the third person and in a journalistic style could also improve AI-produced literature reviews. This summary would be more effective than a conventional abstract at highlighting the significance of the work. It would also enhance readability for both machines and humans, helping to boost societal awareness of scientific research.
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Paul Smaldino

I totally slept on the fact that today was my book’s UK (and EU?) release date! It should be available worldwide now. Get your snarky advice about modeling right here!

From: @psmaldino
qoto.org/@psmaldino/1111713998

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Paul Smaldino

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.

PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/pape

AMZN: amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=i

Modeling Social Behavior book cover
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Paul Smaldino

I got asked to make a list of five books I like that are connected thematically with my own book. I like talking about books, so I did. Here's "The best books about (human) behavior that reward working through the math." shepherd.com/best-books/behavi

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Paul Smaldino

Neat documentary about SFI. Around 16:30 you can see a workshop I ran in May sitting in the atrium (I am behind some other people and not visible, though you can see my hat peaking out). youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ_dfzaD

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Rebecca Sear

This is lovely, if you can access BBC radio - Sarah Hrdy on the Life Scientific. A reminder of how important her work is to the evolutionary behavioural sciences, & also how recent was virulent sexism (she once didn't get a job because she was married...)

t.co/TTwSEvwhfJ

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Paul Smaldino

New paper out in Phil Trans B with Karolina Safarzynska. Simple model of a group-structured public good with externalities shifting benefits toward more inequality or more equity. Only redistributional externalities increase cooperation. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

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Paul Smaldino

For my (obligatory) lectures on consciousness in my Intro CogSci class, I assign Douglas Hofstadter's "Careenium" essay from 1982. No matter how many times I re-read it, I always find new stuff in there. What a delight.

Excerpt from Hofstadter (1982) Who shoves whom around inside the careenium?
Excerpt from Hofstadter (1982) Who shoves whom around inside the careenium?
Excerpt from Hofstadter (1982) Who shoves whom around inside the careenium?
Excerpt from Hofstadter (1982) Who shoves whom around inside the careenium?
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Paul Smaldino

@dbkrupp maybe! 🤪

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Paul Smaldino

Solid press release about my book from UC Merced. They did cut a quote I gave them where I said I hoped literally everyone in the world would read it, but I suppose we should err on the side of humility.

news.ucmerced.edu/news/2023/co

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Andrew Gelman reviewed my book, Modeling Social Behavior.

“The book has social science, it has code, it has graphs—it’s got everything… I hope it’s taught in thousands of classes and sells a zillion copies.”

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Paul Smaldino

@UlrikeHahn @avehtari thanks!

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Andrew Gelman reviewed my book, Modeling Social Behavior.

“The book has social science, it has code, it has graphs—it’s got everything… I hope it’s taught in thousands of classes and sells a zillion copies.”

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Philip N Cohen

Survivorship bias: The "High-Rise Syndrome in Cats" (1987) paper has come up again recently. Here is the finding on fall distance and injuries. Assuming dead cats are excluded, I would expect a plateau - I don't see how the bias would lead to *fewer* injuries from higher floors. #statistics
(Full paper: terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/temp/)

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Paul Smaldino

@epower For whatever reason, the UK publication date is November 28. Shenanigans if you ask me.

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Paul Smaldino

I listened to this and realized that, in reference to disciplinary structure in the human sciences, I yelled “Burn it all down!” not once but twice. I stand by it.

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Paul Smaldino

Good times on the BJKS podcast. If for whatever reason you want to listen to me ramble about career trajectories, modeling social behavior, and the state of academic science, have a listen.

buzzsprout.com/1390924/1368976

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Paul Smaldino

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.

PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/pape

AMZN: amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=i

Modeling Social Behavior book cover
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Erol Akcay

We are hiring in Ecology at UPenn Biology! The search is open to any area of Ecology. We are a integrative, collegial department, supportive of junior colleagues, and are located in the great city of Philadelphia. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/133155

View of Leidy Labs at the University of Pennsylvania, where the Biology Department is located.
View of the Schuylkill River and Philadelphia skyline, from a high vantage point.
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Paul Smaldino

My book, Modeling Social Behavior, comes out in just 5 days in North America and the EU. Zounds! I think it's very good and you should get it, but you don't have to take my word for it -- the 1st chapter is free on the PUP website.
PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/pape
AMZN: amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=i

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