The RIA is delighted to announce the continuation of the Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Network Grants, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. All details of the scheme are available here: www.ria.ie/grants/irela...
Andrew Jackson
@yodacomplex.bsky.social
Professor. #Zoology, Theoretical #Ecology & #Evolution, Trinity College Dublin.
This is one of the big successes of the last few years for me. Working with a wonderful, global group of researchers on a topic that fascinates me! Now's the chance for you (or your students) to get involved. It's MSCA, so there must be mobility. Will be a fantastic opportunity for those who can!
ReDiLEEP@redileep.bsky.social · 3w agoMeet ReDiLEEP – a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network! We bring together 13 doctoral researchers to explore response diversity – how different responses to environmental change can make ecosystems more resilient. Recruitment is now underway! redileep.eu
A great thread. Jumping here to the middle
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w agoAs microchips plummeted in price, all kinds of devices and services acquired these "access controls," so that it became *a crime* to refill an ink cartridge, fix a tractor, or connect your insulin pump to your glucose monitor. 59/
Free PhD positions!!! Cluster of Excellence NaviSense -> Sensory Basis, Mechanisms, and Impacts of Animal Navigation -> is looking for curious and motivated individuals from resource constrained countries to join NaviSense as Doctoral Researchers. #NaviSense #ornithology uol.de/en/job/docto...
Rather cool - researchers at the University of Exeter describe how estate agents in the 19thC used ‘cosmoramas’ to give immersive views of high end properties. Large paintings with special lighting had to be viewed through peep show style convex lenses www.thetimes.com/article/1318...
‘Victorian Rightmove’ offered immersive peepshows of lavish homes
Estate agents in the 19th century created elaborate displays of homes for prospective buyers long before the video walkthrough, researchers have found
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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
As if we needed another reason to tear down academic publishing houses
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew from 404 Media: ICE plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for data to investigate what it calls 'voters fraud'. News comes day after Trump laying the groundwork to undermine the midterms. ICE says Thomson Reuters can continuously track millions of people. www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-t...
1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo agoWomen’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻♂️
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Sorry we're late, we're in a different time zone at the moment, one where it's 1996 (SOB, TAKE US BACK). Ahem. Sorry about that.
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
One of three rare opportunities to work on natural history collections with a great team at National Museums Northern Ireland. Curator for vertebrates, closing 21 June, £37,694 to £38,990 per annum #museumjobs #curator #vertebrates #zoology ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...
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Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.
Lana Sinapayen@sinalana.eurosky.social · 4mo agoIf you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
It's strange how just a little information like this makes a tragedy of long ago seem so much more tangible.
Isabel Picornell Garcia@picornell.eurosky.social · 4mo agoA doctor caught while trying to flee the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, carrying the tools of his profession. The finding is the latest extraordinary discovery at the Archaeological Park of #Pompeii, made more than sixty years after the excavation of the Orto dei Fuggiaschi. #Archaeology
This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the #TracyArm landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in @science.org. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.
NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology to calculate how much power #birds need to fly, and how power varies among species and speeds: buff.ly/oS56wm1
TIL there are venomous flies. And they are beautiful.
Erica McAlister@flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 5mo agoGO BIG, GO BOLD Its #WorldRobberflyDay - a celebration of the most attractive predators on this planet (no bias) Here is the aptly named Heligmonevra forcipata (Meijere, 1916) - an impressive terminalia club with formidable 'pincers' Mostly an Oriental & afrotropical genus (69 spp)
My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever
New paper led by @keithlnotions.bsky.social showing that the ability of a venom to paralysis prey scales isometrically with its ability to kill prey in spiders www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paralysis efficiency (PD50) scales linearly with lethality (LD50) in spider venoms
Historically, venom potencies have been assessed using measures of lethality, such as the median lethal dose (LD50). However, venoms may be selected p…
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Snipe update! Lots more tagged Snipe have flown from Ireland to Iceland Please read linked thread. Data from @tomasgunnarsson.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social #ornithology
Graham Appleton@wadertales.bsky.social · 5mo agoSnipe news! 1/4 Two Snipe tagged in Iceland by José Alves left Ireland at dusk on 5 April and reached Iceland 17 hours later. See map. Averaging 80 and 87 km/h @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #ornithology
In which life imitates not just art, but Bob Mortimer art youtu.be/-MjWcBX3A8w?...
Did Bob Mortimer install a toilet in place of one of his car seats?
YouTube video by COVID Eddie
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Andrew Jackson@yodacomplex.bsky.social · 5mo ago
This is the great WWF / WWE cop-out clause that lets you get away with steroids and lies. Exactly the same.
Prof Mike Yearworth@mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 6mo agoI thought this was an April Fool’s joke but seems to be the genuine Microsoft ‘Terms of Use’ for Copilot. Many thanks to @lifewinning.com for finding this. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
