Early career researchers tend to think that an editor's rejection (or a revision request they can't accommodate), means they have to give up and submit elsewhere. In my experience, explaining your side to the editor (in a polite and reasonable tone) can sometimes make them reconsider. It's often […]

I think the most masterful writing seems simple and plain-spoken, but still manages to use interesting, obscure words, whilst always neatly framing these oddballs in a little tableau with other words so the meaning is perfectly clear. This is kind of the opposite of how most jargon are applied […]

I need to prepare a 3-hour tutorial, which has to be ready by the end of next week. Therefore, I’ve spent about two hours selecting the best colour scheme for the terminal. Am I doing this right? #higerEd #academicChatter #teaching

I'm preparing a list of #MachineLearning papers with subtle and not-so-subtle errors (e.g., data leakage, non-independent training/testing set, lack of both internal and external validation, ...) to share with students. Does anyone have any favourite of their to share? Any must have? #ml #ai#ml#machinelearning…]

I'm preparing a list of #MachineLearning papers with subtle and not-so-subtle errors (e.g., data leakage, non-independent training/testing set, lack of both internal and external validation, ...) to share with students. Does anyone have any favourite of their to share? Any must have? #ml #ai#ml#machinelearning…]

I need university administrators (and probably some other people too, but definitely university administrators) to understand something: you cannot motivate your faculty to do more research or better teaching. They are already maximally motivated people. They did not get the job by being […]

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Some #professionalNews. Last week I've started a #newJob as #assistantProfessor (tenure track) in #biostatistics at my Alma Mater, the University of #Turin (#unito#turin#biostatistics#assistantprofessor#newjobepartment of Clinical and Biological Sciences. It's been tremendous: meeting new people, joining terrific research projects, and […]