Yeah, preprints are becoming more common in bio too.
oyfrog
joined 2 years ago
Not always—it depends on the publisher for sure, and possibly the field (e.g., physics, chemistry).
In biology, you have several models for peer review. Completely blind reviews where both reviewers and authors are anonymized. You also have semi blind models where the reviewers know the identities of the authors, but the authors don't know reviewers' identities. You also have open reviews where everyone knows one another's identities.
In completely blind and semi-blind models, you occasionally have reviewers that reveal their identity.
I've got the ai search bullshit turned off for my Google searches.
I occasionally use chatgpt to write awk scripts for me for work because I find awk difficult. The one liners it spits out are wrong 7/10 times, but it puts me in the right direction, so it's not completely useless. Now that I type this out, I wonder if it's hindering my awk-learning...
It is pretty good at annotating code that already works, which is pretty convenient.
Yeah, I wanted to go and learn more shit, didn't matter what (and my parents didn't care either), I just wanted to learn more. Eventually landed on biology and got a BS. I still wanted to learn more so I got a PhD in biology. I'm a postdoc now and still learning and discovering cool things.
Relative to my qualification i'm paid like shit and nothing about my position is permanent, so it's stressful. I love my job though, and don't regret my path through higher ed...except maybe that I'd like to have learned skills to be able to fix my own car.