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Principal Investigator 👉🏽 https://lmdavalos.github.io/ Editor-in-Chief 👉🏽 @qrb.bsky.social/ recent Fulbright Amazonia scholar (https://www.fulbrightprogram.org/amazonia/), news from lab and beyond

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John Timmer@jtimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have spent the last day and a half reading and considering "Science: A New Golden Age" from OSTP. My short take home: this is not a serious science policy document. My long take went about 2,300 words and should be published tomorrow.

Dávalos Lab@labdavalos.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧪🚨 🌍🦇12 years ago, we caught a Jamaican fruit bat #Artibeus_jamaicensis in the 🇩🇴 for our #NSFfunded #BatSenses research. This new preprint reveals the first DOM2014 experimental results 1/2 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pathogenesis and host response to a novel Tacaribe virus isolate in experimentally-infected Jamaican fruit bats

Tacaribe virus (TCRV) was the first arenavirus discovered in the New World and was isolated from Artibeus bats in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1950s. One isolate, TRVL-11573, remains but it was passaged...

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

10. Hard to even know where to start in commenting on this report because it's such a jumble of grievances, lies, and accelerationist fever dreams. But this paragraph floors me. Not only is it talking about AI agents doing the science, it's utterly ignorant of the information economics of science.

n such a world, experimental information becomes a tradeable commodity, and price mechanisms replace slow institutional coordination. Markets could form to support the scientific enterprise, such as prediction markets informing grantmakers about technologies on the horizon, bounty markets directing re- sources toward unsolved problems, and reputation markets tracking which agents produce reliable results. Agents would interact directly, exchanging data, hypotheses, and compute time through microtransactions. The whole system runs continuously, at speeds no human institution could match, but is guided by human judgment about which breakthroughs merit large bounties, and which questions require framing that machines cannot yet provide.
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

And guess what? Focusing on the welfare of your imaginary friends and away from the harm to actual people (and our environment, thus all living things) done in the process of building them is not improving that track record. >>

Dávalos Lab@labdavalos.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧪🚨The #shrewcrew are Consortium co-authors to the VGP Phase I pre-print by @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social presenting highly contiguous reference 🧬assemblies 🐘🦇🦎🐢🐍🐟🦜1/2 👉 www.biorxiv.org/node/5580688...

The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource

The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) aims to produce complete and near-error-free reference genomes for all ∼70,000 extant vertebrate species[1][1]. Organized in four phases, it progressively targets ...

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UCL Discovery@ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 4w ago

Open Access UCL Research: Interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape island bat survival and extirpation in a global extinction hotspot discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape island bat survival and extirpation in a global extinction hotspot - UCL Discovery

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

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