Nicola Jones

Chatbots and large language models are being used to fact-check scientific work, but how effective are they? And is this a good idea? My article for the Foundational Questions Institute. https://qspace.fqxi.org/articles/280/the-ai-paper-proofers 

I will be speaking at this upcoming panel event in celebration of the anniversary of UBC's school of journalism: https://jwam.ubc.ca/events/event/ai-in-our-world-shaping-media-education-and-science/ Oct 9 6-8:30pm UBC downtown, Robson Square Theatre

I have been working to coach a set of amazing researchers to give fascinating public talks at this upcoming event, Sept 17 at the University of British Columbia: https://biodiversity.ubc.ca/events/biodiversity-research-centre-symposium-and-open-house Highlights will include: - how understanding the social lives of viruses gives us new tools to fight them - how animals have shifted to be more nocturnal in the face of scary humans - how bringing biodiversity to agriculture can help solve the global food crisis  - why sturgeon are eating themselves to death  - how gut bacteria might help save polar bears from climate stress  - what heat stress does to plants, and the global limit we shouldn't cross  - the kingdom of life you never knew about - and... the sex lives of guppies  See you there!