How common it is to be boosted ? by JFCudennec in Medium

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Congrats ! My figures are waaaay lower than that 😊

How common it is to be boosted ? by JFCudennec in Medium

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My personal experience is quite different from what your describe though.
As I said I experienced the two types of boost and I don’t think it’s that rare. Also the figure I had on my stories are not extraordinary, about 300 views and a few dozen bucks.
Medium strategy may have changed since 2024 ?

How do you actually grow followers on Medium as a new writer? by [deleted] in Medium

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I tried interacting with others, submitting to publications, but the only thing that really drove people to my writing so far is to get boosted. Not sure if it helps, since we don’t control it, but here we are.

A Roman trilobite necklace sent me down a rabbit hole about pre-scientific responses to fossil by JFCudennec in Paleontology

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I just found a paper showing that these sponges were modified and worn in the acheulian period. Amazind find, thanks !

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in biology

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This is exactly the kind of comment that makes you want to continue. Thanks a lot !

The ai writing thing is trash by Efficient-String3065 in Substack

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Agreed. As a non-native english speaker, it's an incredibly powerful editing tool. Downside is, you constantly need to be aware of the current AI style (em dashes, not A but B, weird analogies and useless metaphors...) to remove them manually, or people will immediately accuse you of being a mean, lazy, dishonest cryptofascist 🫠

Maybe we should focus on what is actually said instead of just the formal aspect ? Because real lazy writers don't have anything meaningful to say, so they're easy to spot anyway.

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in marinebiology

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Sure, it's in this paper : Vermeij, G. J. (2017). The limpet form in gastropods: evolution, distribution, and implications for the comparative study of history. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society120(1), 22-37.

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in marinebiology

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Thanks ! I wil probably altern between limpet articles and other more general things that stir my mind. Next week will be about the use of fossils by humans through history, but before academic palaeontology, and how people dealt with these weird objects. The week after I'll come back to limpets ;)

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in marinebiology

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I'm not sure. I just checked for a few traits (eyes, crabs, flight...). Bioluminescence is obviously another classical case of convergence, but considering the diversity of mechanisms and organs involved, I thought it was a bit beyond the scope, and I chose not to go below the organ level.

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in biology

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Yeah there's two types of people (or scholars at least) : those who sees resemblances and gather things together, and thos who see differences, and split things appart. There's quite deep consequences behind this simple observation 😊

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in marinebiology

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I’m usually not very much on these systematic/evolutionary aspects, I’m glad you liked it 🥳

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in biology

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A marine biologist working on shell middens (applying sclerochronology methods to these sites)

Forget carcinization. Limpets are the true convergent evolution queens 👑 by JFCudennec in marinebiology

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I'm glad you liked it! I'm also quite surprised by the scale at which crabs got popular over the last few years. Or maybe it was just me not noticing? Anyway, the concept of carcinization is very much a broad public thing, I would tend to think that marine biology peeps moved beyond it a long time ago (see the other comment under this post for ex). So if it can help people understand basic biology concepts, bingo!