I didn’t address its more cautious points (a limitation of space, for which I apologise), but my reaction was to a piece that, from my reading, doesn’t engage with the deeper ethical and methodological issues around LLMs—a view I fear many, especially senior academics, share.

Hi Terry, I read it. The enthusiasm for 'AI' feels harmful, for example, by welcoming the loss of programming roles or LLMs replacing postdoctoral labour. It was likely not your intention, but your piece implicitly espouses a view where increasing individual productivity is intrinsically good.

Congrats, Oleg! 🎉🎉

Thanks for a very good few years!! ☺️

Courtship ritual of a buzzing spider – the male is the one with the larger pedipalps, doing the tapping

A questionable take with no evidence to support it. If "by making ecological data freely available [...] we disincentivize the hard work and sacrifices required to collect it", then we need to fix incentives, not hoard data to benefit individual careers.

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