Les Sutton

PhD Student @ WASHU DRSCB | Iowa State Alum🌽 | she/they | 🏳️‍🌈 | views are my own

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

What do you consider to be "good research"? High impact publications? Work that translates well? Are you considering smaller projects that can be given to undergrads that helps inspire them to pursue a career in your field? Do you see the things that inspired you in your program?

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Hey WashU friends! I'm presenting Emily Dawson's work, looking into how we define in and out groups in science communication participation and what we can do to counteract the exclusive language and behaviors we see currently (social reproduction).

Stop by if you get a chance!

[motif of harmful sensation @Ink_the_artist_]

"Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak."

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

That feel when an exam question is just explaining an assay you spent a year doing and writing about in your old lab

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Find me on the other place too before this one implodes

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Challenge: impossible, why am I getting a thesis defense with a student's dead name on it???

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

WashU Med stop dead naming trans students challenge

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

You wanna do animations? Duplicate the slide. Please. Please please please please please.

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Can we make PowerPoints that easily convert to pdfs without animation problems if we're teaching classes? Having to edit the PowerPoint to make it pdf friendly for import into my note software is really not excellent

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

In Summary,

1. SciSpace
2. Research Rabbit
3. Jenni
4. SciSummary
5. Julius
6. Scite

Link to all the AI tools:
https://t.co/oBHMxoJNiQ

[WashU Medicine Endocrinology @WashUMedEndo]

It's not too late to make a plan for voting. @WUSTL's Hub for Election information has everything you need to know, from early voting, to voter education and polling places: https://t.co/Eqch7qRYVp. #WashUVotes

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Just voted! Reminder #washuvotes if you're a STL city resident, you can vote @ McDonnell Sciences on the med campus, right next to shell cafe!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

ChatGPT generates fake references to papers that don't exist.

So, researchers at Stanford built Storm.

It's an AI-powered app that generates well-researched articles with references to published sources.

Here's how to use it:

[Dr. Robert W. Fernandez @latinodeciencia]

After listening to the stories of several 1st yr grad students in academia, systematic changes needs to be done on the university's end to support incoming grad students financially in their critical first year of graduate school.

[B. Duygu Özpolat, Ph.D. @biyolokum]

"It's a worm's world" a lovely article by Maddy Frank about our lab's work! https://t.co/y0sOQlLvjE

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

I get that we want to be trendy and know the student lingo but if I see another Dall-E image of an easily Googleable object (or something you can find at home and take a picture of) I am going to start sending people how much water they've wasted via email

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Whyyyyy are we using AI to generate images that are a free Google search away. Let's not waste water and energy reinventing the wheel, yeah?

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Oh add an exam in there over the weekend and redoing my pilot experiment bc it overheated in mailing

[Les Sutton @LesSutton_]

Finishing my rotation today, retreat I'm presenting at Mon + Tues, next rotation Wednesday got me feeling like my cat this morning

[Pröf-like Substance @ProfLikeSubst]

Hot take with AI playing a major role in the Nobels this year: I think NSF and NIH should make people proposing AI projects to submit an energy usage estimate. How much energy will you burn on this and where does the data center you’re going to use draw power from?

[Josh Dubnau 🇵🇸 @joshdubnau]

Now that the Nobel prizes for biology, biology, and biology are announced, I can’t wait to see which biologists win for peace and literature!