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The Nature article's motivation seems not very well thought out to me, considering the fishing industry is among the most unsustainsbly and polluting industries on earth. It's even an especially large source of ocean plastics.

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Positing that your research could contribute to sustainability/DEI/etc. is sort of the researchers equivalent of describing the pile of if statements in your software product as AI. Meaningless but largely harmless box checking to make sure that someone who might give you money doesn’t decline to give you money because someone else did a better job of looking trendy. That’s not to say the research isn’t useful; you’ve just finished reading the interesting part of the abstract. If this were a resume, this would be the obligatory “proficient in Microsoft Office” item.

Used to be, anyway. Now it’s a sure fire way to not get any gov’t funding in the US anyway. It’s going to be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

Yeah, I wasn’t going to get into the current politics around it but that’s actually what made me think of this.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about-40-of-the-cruz-w...

You list a tenous military application instead.

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