Jessica E Beyer
@jessicabeyer.bsky.social
Aquatic ecologist, data junkie, microbiome researcher
Research Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at University of Oklahoma
(she/her)
https://www.jessicabeyer.org
Research Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at University of Oklahoma
(she/her)
https://www.jessicabeyer.org
I usually use adonis2 and metaMDS in vegan, but I saw BEST used in a paper and I'm curious about how the two compare.
June 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I usually use adonis2 and metaMDS in vegan, but I saw BEST used in a paper and I'm curious about how the two compare.
I agree- I generally use vegan for NMDS and PERMANOVA.
I read a paper where they used BEST analysis in PRIMER-E, so I'm trying to see how that approach would compare with PERMANOVA. I'm not finding much documentation out there on the comparison between the two approaches.
I read a paper where they used BEST analysis in PRIMER-E, so I'm trying to see how that approach would compare with PERMANOVA. I'm not finding much documentation out there on the comparison between the two approaches.
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I agree- I generally use vegan for NMDS and PERMANOVA.
I read a paper where they used BEST analysis in PRIMER-E, so I'm trying to see how that approach would compare with PERMANOVA. I'm not finding much documentation out there on the comparison between the two approaches.
I read a paper where they used BEST analysis in PRIMER-E, so I'm trying to see how that approach would compare with PERMANOVA. I'm not finding much documentation out there on the comparison between the two approaches.
Yes, agreed- it's a low percentage, but only a lower boundary on AI use. Something that concerns me is the citation of these papers, too.
May 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Yes, agreed- it's a low percentage, but only a lower boundary on AI use. Something that concerns me is the citation of these papers, too.
If you're into this topic, this paper calls out examples in specific journals and estimates how common the problem is field by field:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
‘As of my last knowledge update’: How is content generated by ChatGPT infiltrating scientific papers published in premier journals?
The aim of this paper is to highlight the situation whereby content generated by the large language model ChatGPT is appearing in peer-reviewed papers in journals by recognized publishers. The paper ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you're into this topic, this paper calls out examples in specific journals and estimates how common the problem is field by field:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....