🚨Launching a new newsletter! It's called The Third Hemisphere and the pitch is "a neuroscientist's field notes on how AI is (or isn't) rewiring our brains." First post digs into something I call the "exceptionalism trap"

Everyone from venture capitalists to doctors insists AI can't do their job because it requires some special human quality. I think this gets in the way of asking what we actually value. Read more here:

And here's the original story:

So what's up with the great alcohol health advice flip-flop? Very fun to chat with @bittman on his podcast about a @slate deep dive I wrote awhile back on whether that nightly glass of wine is actually good for you

🚨News: I'll have a monthly column on AI writing tools for the neuroscience community’s newest magazine, @_TheTransmitter My goal is to offer a framework for this fast-moving tech & cut through the hype. Read the first column & subscribe for updates: https://t.co/Q84UjMfn1q

Balanced @Slate article on ultra-processed foods by @timrequarth featuring some of our work:

Wondering if you messed up by hanging outside with your kid in the smoke this week? Me too. So I asked expert @steph_holm how worried we should actually be about wildfire smoke and kids health. @slate

"For a few carefree years, it seemed as if we could tuck into as much foie gras as we wanted so long as we washed it down with a glass of Beaujolais." @timrequarth @Slate #Longreads #EditorsPicks

Shannon is a fantastic editor and wonderful to work with! 👇

Another good read from @timrequarth, who once again does a thorough job tackling a big popular science question. @Slate https://t.co/Tqo2eVtgvU

This is great summary of how industry distorts science 1) Rig studies outright 2) Fund academic institutions to create subtle biases in industry's favor. 3) selectively amplify favorable results. Just what #BigTobacco did, too. https://t.co/JWjWMbUKC8 via @slate

Turns out, NO amount of alcohol is good for you (so they say). In a new piece for @slate, I take a deep dive into the latest evidence behind the flip-flop, and explore the historical roots of why alcohol health advice is so divisive 🍷🤔 https://t.co/C1pTosTvJd

Really finding it hard to process the "AI is about to destroy the world as we know it, meanwhile here are some great ChatGPT productivity hacks" discourse

Here's the full slide deck for additional examples as well as how to avoid the worst pitfalls. Good luck out there! https://t.co/5jioFCmHVN

The point is that very little that ChatGPT spits out can be used verbatim. BUT, AI tools can get you to that first draft muuuuuch faster - which will make you a more efficient writer

These aren’t bad! Sure, these ideas need to be vetted but they provide a starting point in less than 30 seconds. Enough to get you out of first-draft paralysis

Use case 3: Generating ideas for a discussion section can be hard. To get started, I pasted in the results section of the same paper and asked for ideas

Much better! No, this isn’t going to cut it in terms of the level of detail but the basic structure is there if you know how to look for it 👀

But then, I gave ChatGPT a little more direction by asking it to use the CARS model of writing intros.