I'm following this for sure.

ooh, thank you! looks cool!

This is a great, if dense, overall primer on hybridization and speciation academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Yelling at the TV about random, useless, absolutely spurious stats is one of my great joys in watching baseball. Isn't this why we watch?

Right? It's delightful to be surprised like this.

This sounds so weird! I love it.

I've immediately passed this on to my lab and my co-instructors. Thank you for this.

I need to say this loudly for those in the back. Shirley Chen was an undergraduate student in my lab. She is an incredible scholar, and so are many of the undergraduates that I get to interact with. Undergraduates are doing incredible research at @york-university.bsky.social.

We suggest a careful use of structural equation models to account for many mechanisms to test the relationship between the latent variables (diversity and disease) that we're really interested in.

Additionally, because there are so many component mechanisms involved in a net diversity-disease relationship, cancelling out is often considered more likely than a lack of relationship.

We found that, as they're usually stated, amplification and dilution are not falsifiable hypotheses. Often, when they're tested, there are ad hoc explanations that are brought in to protect these hypotheses. Null hypotheses are not taken as support for a lack of relationship.

What you’re describing using genAI for is basically to google faster when you’re looking for a solution to a problem you can clearly articulate, and could solve in a bunch of different ways. This does seem different (to me at least) than asking it to articulate the problem.