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Slides that present themselves: The assertion–evidence approach
Your slides are not your talk.
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Claus Wilke
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Are AI papers now written by AI?
Are AI papers now written by AI?
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Claus Wilke
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A paragraph is longer than a sentence
Dear writers of the internet:
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Claus Wilke
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When should you stop doing science and start writing a paper?
Start writing as soon as you have at least one result.
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Claus Wilke
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"I asked the AI" is not research
You can't reliably fact-check or research obscure topics by asking an AI. It may know less about the topic than you do.
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Claus Wilke
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July 2025

NIH-funded researchers can't catch a break
Changes appear to be underfoot in how the NIH pays out awards. It may seem a minor technicality, but it will likely have far-reaching consequences.
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Claus Wilke
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No replication crisis in fruit-fly immune system research
A large-scale, systematic review shows the majority of research claims in this field holds up to further scrutiny.
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Claus Wilke
Limitations of protein language models applied to viral data
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
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Claus Wilke
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Read out all of the text on your slides
I have a simple rule for better public speaking: If you’re using slides that contain text, you must read it out, word-for-word.
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Claus Wilke
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No one reads your paper anyway
In 2013, I wrote a blog post about why it’s important to publish scientific results that nobody will read.
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Claus Wilke
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No, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein folding
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
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Claus Wilke
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PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell
AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards…
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Claus Wilke
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