Yeah, I've noticed the last few citations some of my papers have gotten have been very off topic (architecture and engineering). After skimming some of them I think all of these have been the result of AI 🙃

As an oklahoma resident this is extremely on brand for our state.

not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...

I'm relatively new to serving as an editor at journals and this is hands down the most discouraging part. The number of reviews I've gotten that just blindly accept very flawed papers with no feedback for the authors is suprising...

A significant portion of my time as a federal scientist has been spent looking at how visitor access affects wildlife at one of our wildlife refuges, with results being pretty conclusive that it is negative for a number of species. Frustrating that we don't even listen to our own scientists anymore

This is especially obnoxious because it reinforces the narrative that the right is not responsible for their actions. This amounts to "look we took your rights away, but the left is annoying so we pretty much had no choice"

Some other prairie wildflowers from this morning.

Ladies tresses, purple prairie clover, wild bergamot and prairie genation