Biology and Life Sciences
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Is scientific writing getting better or worse?
It’s tempting, and easy, to reminisce about the good old days. The world was better when we were young (except in all the ways it wasn’t), and it was even better in the Golden Age before we joined it (except, again, in all the ways it wasn’t). You can spend as many hours as you...
Optimism
Learning
Translation
Process
Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Evaluating umbilical cord blood transfusion efficacy and safety in neonates
Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Evaluating umbilical cord blood transfusion efficacy and safety in neonates Transplantation Organs and Tissues Plasma Stem Cells Transfusion Blood Thursday, October 17, 2024 Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia is helping to train the next generation of researchers in...
Fantasy vs reality
Refined
ChatGPT, teaching, and writing style (and also, fun)
Warning: ridiculously long post – but it’s mostly the writing samples and you can skim those. In connection with my forthcoming book on teaching and mentoring scientific writers, I’ve been doing some thinking about how to harness the potential of ChatGPT and other “large language models” in teaching.* I reflected just the other week on...
