Happy to share that my statistics course in Gabon has been recognized as one of the top three at the medical faculty🥳 Teaching there was an incredible experience 🇬🇦 Grateful to Philipp Berens for this amazing opportunity! 🌍📊 #AcademicLife #MedicalEducation #GlobalTeaching

Here is a lovely geometric proof that sqrt(2) is irrational. The proof begins by looking at an isosceles right triangle whose legs have length 1. By the Pythagorean theorem, this triangle's hypotenuse will have length sqrt(2).

112 years ago today, Franz Kafka captured the academic experience

We have to bear in mind that flying is an élite activity. Within a year, ~89% of the people will NOT fly. Only 0.7% of people in low-income countries caught a plane in 2018,while 40% did so in high-income countries. (Source: Stefan Gössling sciencedirect.com/science/articl…). 12/

Video from southwest Germany, ~50km from Tuebingen. Another weekend of extreme rainfall, some places saw month worth of rain in <48hrs. #climateprotest and #climateaction are more needed than ever! 🪧Climate strike Tuebingen: Friday, June 7, 1pm 🇪🇺EU elections: Sunday, June 9

Major development in important Alzheimer’s research scandal: Authors of landmark study move to retract, admitting that key images in the paper were doctored. My story in @newsfromscience 1/2 science.org/content/articl…

2327 citations, untold millions of dollars spent chasing a non-existent result based on manipulated images that were easily spotted in post-pub peer review. In addition to retraction, it would be nice to prevent things like this in the future. Can haz quality assurance plz?

One of the most ominous risks for Europe is that of a major change in Atlantic ocean currents. Recent science suggests it has been greatly underestimated in the past -including by me, having worked on it for over 30 years. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius a week ago!

A day before the EU #elections is a good time to remind everyone about this: Most of climate change is caused by the rich parts of the world. That includes Europe! Whoever you vote for tomorrow should take the responsibility for that and have a clear plan for #climate action.

Looking for the best color palette? 😔 Check the tool we just created with Joseph: 🎨 2500+ palettes 🐍 Python Library to get them 🔍 Easy-to-use application to find your perfect match python-graph-gallery.com/color-palette-… Feedback welcome, we're working hard on this right now!

Our paper is featured in the cover of the Patterns' issue this month. How cool is the illustration by Franz Stämmele (staemmele.com)? 🤩

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How many scientists use #ChatGPT to help with their writing?🤖📝 We find #LLM style words in 10% of all 2024 PubMed abstracts, and up to 30% in some subfields. And that’s just lower bounds on the actual usage! Read more in our paper or Dmitrys thread: arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016

Certainly, here is a possible tweet about your article: Over 10% of science is now, in part, written by LLMs. Let’s delve into the data economist.com/science-and-te…

Few evolutionary psychologists engage with the modern genomic literature. Brendan Zietsch is an exception and he has a new paper out, criticising explanations for heritable variation based on balancing selection. He's pulling no punches.

Excited to be in Vienna at ICML to present my work with Sam Greydanus on scaling _down_ deep learning with MNIST-1D! We show how one can study serious deep learning with n=5000 and d=40. Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=n9pru… Code: github.com/greydanus/mnis… Find me at poster session 1.

ICML 2024 (held in Vienna) registrations vs. registrations *per million inhabitants* by country. The barplot of registrations on the log scale was shown yesterday during the opening. I took a photo, digitized with WebPlotDigitizer, and normalized per capita. #ICML2024 ICML Conference

"The Harris campaign has seen a massive influx of donations, often from people who haven't donated before. This is democracy working as intended, folks!" Super happy to see donations, but "democracy as intended" is more about voting with your vote than your money, honestly.

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