Frank Corso

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

I rarely advertise my business. I've been fortunate to receive most of my work through referrals. But I do currently have space for a short-term project! If you need help setting up data collection systems, wrangling a dataset for analysis, or documenting data for sharing, reach out! cghlewis.com

New preprint on aging and implicit associative memory. Spoiler alert 🚨 - older adults can bind (no, I don't plan to stop repeating this...maybe when people start listening 😂) #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence

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Issue 65 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Life After OSF: How and Where to Share Data and Materials @syeducation.bsky.social ➡️ Tidy Data @datafrosch.bsky.social ➡️ What Even Are Parquet Files? @niccrane.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Couple of circle original paintings that are still looking for a home. Info in pics

The first paper from my PhD is out in Nature Neuroscience! Aging and Alzheimer's disease reshape how the brain communicates. But not in the same way: aging vs AD related alterations follow two distinct axes of brain organization Paper → www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Alzheimers #Neuroimaging 🧵⬇️

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

Looxi is 48% off during the Steam Autumn Sale! Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/3541470/... #Steam #WordGame #IndieDev #SteamAutumnSale

But arts businesses in the AI era might end up looking like the unrecoverable devastation of writing businesses in the internet era Social media caused a total collapse of publishers' business models, leading to an 85% drop in news & book employment that shows no sign of abating

Pleased to see I've gained a few more followers through my inclusion in a Bluesky starter pack, 'Scientists Who Write Science Books.' For my followers, check out this list & find your favorite scientist authors who you might not have known are here! go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...

New preprint! TLDR: We mapped the genetic architecture of neonatal vocalization in deer mice, and found candidate genes expressed in the cerebellum that could be contributing to the evolution of temporal structure in infant cries #Bioacoustics #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠 Alzheimer’s may unfold in phases, not a straight line. This Nature review proposes inflection points that may explain pathology–symptom gaps. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #DementiaDiagnosisMatters #AlzheimerDiagnosisMatters #EarlyDiagnosisMatters #WorldAlzMonth #neuroskyence

We're hiring! 🐾 Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 About the Department of Natural History at the Florida Museum: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/ 🏛️📌 Apply by Oct. 16, 2026

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

📝 New article on Our World in Data: A never-ending childhood of malaria. Read accounts from those who have had a severe case of malaria, and many will describe it as one of the worst experiences of their life.

Incredibly proud to share our newest work where we developed a multiscale spatial transcriptomic atlas of the human amygdala using three complementary technologies! 1/12 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Solar power made up 12.1% of US electricity this June, up from 10.3% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 9.3% of US electricity, another record high!

An international team of scientists collected and carbon-dated more than 7,500 marine fossils to understand time averaging—in which organisms from different time periods are preserved together in the same fossil bed. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale... Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Thought it’d be nice to just have a simple vid without the fast editing to just show off the pots currently still available on the website. So enjoy a nice slow look at the pots and some smooth jazz 🎷 these pots are available on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

Museum Resource 🐠 Fish Families of the World Gallery NEW resource! Searchable gallery of fish families of the world, with photos of specimens, CT scans and 3D models, x-rays, and notes on characteristics, habitats, etc. Browse: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...

A large, international team of scientists has determined that one in ten butterfly species globally has shifted its distribution range, with climate change & extreme weather driving ~80% of documented movements. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/butt... Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Color trends used to come and go—but the color recession that began this century threatens to turn our world permanently gray, Amogh Dimri reports:

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

✨Its the Porcelain Pots of your dreams ✨ Avialable on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Shipped a small update this week to spf-validator, my open-source Python library for validating SPF records. Version 1.4.1 fixes 2 bugs and improves some checks related to the SPF record's redirect mechanism. Check it out on PyPI: pypi.org/project/spf-...

I sound like a broken record, but if you can only do one sanity check before sharing your data, let it be this. Check your rows. 1. Do you have the correct number of cases? 2. Are any cases duplicated or missing? 3. Are the unique identifiers valid? Thank you for your time. 🙏

Work with us! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About us: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/ 🏛️📌 Apply by Aug. 21, 2026

When sharing data, does anyone package their dataset with an actual validation script? Something that a computer can run to confirm that column level attributes are met? So beyond a data dictionary, something like a JSON Schema or maybe a YAML file with validation code?

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

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We're hiring! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About the Dept. of Natural History, Florida Museum: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/