Research in CTS (formerly CROW) Meeting: March 6, 2024

 

Present:   Juvena Hitt, Emily Houston, Amanda Kennedy, Jerry Landau, Ben Littenberg, Charlie MacLean, Emma Rose McCadden, Gail Rose, Liliane Savard, Connie van Eeghen (10)

 1.                   Warm Up:

a.       Forbes article: overstated or not? Different opinions noted…

b.       Take a look at the New England Journal of AI

c.       ChatGPT4 is $20/month

                                                   i.      Also a Team access: $25/month for each team member: protected from sharing with the public

                                                 ii.      All other material becomes public property for training the LLM, as with everything else that is on the Internet

                                               iii.      ChatGPT4 has image generation; version 3 does not

2.                   How to use AI in research

a.       Journal’s are requiring disclosure

                                                   i.      Liliane discovered that she could replicate a paragraph in a manuscript by asking ChatGPT for the same thing, including citations (which she needs to check out)

b.       Use as a writing coach

                                                   i.      Prompt: “How would you write this in the context of that”

                                                 ii.      Helpful in generating outlines

                                               iii.      Can provide writers’ feedback, instead of going to a writing center

                                               iv.      Know its limits: hallucinations in an authoritative tone

c.       There is skill in developing prompts

                                                   i.      COURSERA: https://www.coursera.org/learn/generative-ai-for-everyone

d.       NIH: NIH study section peer reviewers may not use AI: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-149.html

e.       Use for creating an abstract from a previously written manuscript, or a lay language summary

f.        Scholar GPT will access PubMed and other scholarly sources, e.g. “write a paragraph about Bayesian statistics and why medical journal editors are not fond of tis type of analysis. Please include citations and references.”

3.                   For developing a poster: develop a poster, attach two files – and see what you get! (But cannot use proprietary software, like PPT)

a.       Trial of creating an academic conference ready for submission poster based on a previously published article: result was a bit hallucinatory

b.       Google “how to create a poster with ChatGPT”: result was a marketing poster

4.                   Many other uses: not completely accurate but a great starting point

a.       A spreadsheet of the 251 towns in VT

b.       Assessment of patient stories: do they need a hip replacement or a banister for their stairs?

c.       The development of trust in how we use this new tool, and how we talk about setting expectations and the transparency of its use

d.       AI guidance on behavioral management of ADHD: https://goblin.tools/ - describes all the tasks of a possibly overwhelming project

5.                   Next meeting: March 14, 2024: write a paragraph using ChatGPT 3.5 (OpenSource); make sure it is a writing product that is valuable to you. Scrutinize the result; don’t make any assumptions.

 

Recorded by: CvE

FW: EPSCoR Live! ~ Open Science Session

	Dear Colleagues, The U.S. National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) team is excited to announce the third EPSCoR Live! event (formerly known as EPSCoR Office Hours) of 2024. When : Wednesday, March 13, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EDT). Audience for March 13 th Session : This EPSCoR Live! will be of particular interest to researchers and leaders within research administration in EPSCoR jurisdictions , who would like to learn more about the topic of open science. Summary of Topic: In this session, Dr. Martin Halbert and other NSF staff will discuss the emerging landscape of open science, including upcoming federal public access mandates and related open science matters. Their discussion will be followed by a Q&A session. How to Attend: Advance registration is required. Register here to receive the Zoom link for the session. Please use an institutional email address for registration. How to Submit Questions: EPSCoR Live! participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance through the registration form or by sending an email to epscor-live@nsf.gov . ? While real-time captioning will be available, requests for additional accommodations may be sent to epscor-live@nsf.gov by Wednesday, March 6. If you missed previous events or would like to review past presentations, please visit our EPSCoR Live! webpage .? We would be grateful if you could also forward this message to faculty and other PIs within your institution who might be interested and invite them to sign up here for our mailing list to receive notifications of events (such as EPSCoR Live!) and solicitations from EPSCoR. Regards, The NSF EPSCoR Team

 

How to find great funding opportunities - posted from Emily Houston's email

 Emily put together the following list that could help many of us - thank you, Emily!

Last week we talked about locating funding opportunities for our projects, and here are a few links to the website mentioned:

 grants.gov -the federal government's central resource for funding opportunities

 Pivot-RP (proquest.com) -federal and private funding database; you can create an account to save searches

 Candid | Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid -philanthropic grants

 https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndexMobile.cfm?WeekEnding=02-02-2024 -subscribe to receive NIH-funding weekly updates

 https://www.uvm.edu/ovpr/resdev -UVM Research Development website and location to subscribe to their weekly funding opportunities email

 UVMMC Fund Grant Program (sharepoint.com) -You may need a medical center account to access this, but currently there are two UVMMC grants open for applications, a $10-25K one and a $25-100K grant.

 Home | RePORT (nih.gov) -Curious what has been funded federally? This website includes abstracts of funded research, the funding opportunity announcement, names of the PIs, how much was awarded, and the study section that reviewed the grant proposal.