Jolene Phelps

@j-phelps.bsky.social

PhD in Biomedical Engineering | AlzCanada Postdoc at @UVic

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real. go.nature.com/4cQabS5

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Nature - Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

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Postdoctoral students, graduate students and other junior scientists in large research groups are more likely to drop out of academia than are their peers in smaller groups, says a study of more than one million early-career researchers. https://go.nature.com/3F8sZyV

How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success

Trainees in big research groups tend to go on to greater academic success than their small-group counterparts ― but are more likely to quit academia altogether.

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