Nicola Jones

The Liberals have won Canada's federal election, taking a rare 4th consecutive term. My story for Nature on what this bodes for science. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01343-1

AI has gotten reasonably good at puns and jokes, including visual ones, and can now write pretty good captions for caption contests, create funny images for cards, and more. I tried it out on the New Yorker caption competition, and personally I like its suggestion better than the official winner.   ChatGPT: "Psst. Wanna buy some killer jokes?" Actual winner: “Tell me a joke as if your life depended on it.” - Dave Matta, Pittsburgh, Pa. I'm not the only one doing this, of course. Here's a paper on the topic from 2024 (wish I had seen it at the time!) https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18949