Is ChatGPT a blessing or a curse for academic research and education? Probably (both)².
A 🧵 with my personal reflection including a set of practical examples [1/n] ChatGPT is a language model and excellent communicator. Since science is a combination of content (knowledge, creativity, serendipity) and communication, ChatGPT offers efficiency/quality gains. It allows to focus on content, while ChatGPT boosts efficient communication. [2/n]

New paper 'Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment' 🇦🇶 just came out in @PNASNews. We use 🛰️ to show structural weakening of the Pine Island and Thwaites ice shelves and its impact on the mass loss of these glaciers pnas.org/content/early/… More background and videos on the damage processes and why they matter on tudelft.pageflow.io/pig-damage. Thx also to @Sainan_Sun @bert_polar @NASA_ICE @EtienneBerthie2 @FrankPattyn @JanWuite @NASA_ICE @CopernicusEU