Manish Ravi
@manish-ecol.bsky.social
PhD candidate @BEElab @IISER-TVM Plant-Insect interactions | Insect Diversity | Pollination | Landscapes | Ecology (He/Him)
New blog: If you don't use genAI to artificially enhance your research outputs, why aren't you encouraged to claim the originality and integrity of your work? #AcademicSky ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2026/09/04/s...
Scholarship, authorship and genAI: claim your work!
A common argument for ‘ethical’ use of GenAI in academic research and practice is that it’s okay to use these tools to write the final product that you claim authorship for, i.e. drafting, editing …
ecologyisnotadirtyword.com
I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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If you are attending @isbe2026.bsky.social , come to the Agnelli auditorium to watch some bamboo bat action from India at 12:45 pm. Concurrent 5A Conservation Behaviour session #ISBE2026
Excited to talk about how anthropogenic landscapes🌳🌾🏙️ influence the foraging behavior of honey bees in Asia🐝 at ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social Talk at 10am today (21.07) at Berlino room. Please join for some new insights on tropical bees! #ISBE2026
Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io
Knowing even a little bit of how DAGs work, and tiny pieces of causal inference can mean...you suddenly realise some (new and old) 'big' papers in your field arent really showing what they claim..even if there is a 'positive' signal...sigh...
The essay was never just words on a page. It was a promise. My new post, "The Student Who Wasn't There," is about what AI does to that promise, and how to keep it. baronca.substack.com/p/the-studen...
We hope that science policy makers, administrators and funders will take note and push for this. Also, more than political will, I think this endeavour needs field ecologists in India to come together for a larger good as opposed to individual pursuits.
Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn their recent Perspective in our Field Stations in Experimental Biology Research series, Somanathan & co call for a network of field stations throughout India to better understand the biology of the organisms that inhabit the country's diverse ecosystems doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
These claims about what AI can do truly need citations. Checking statistics isn’t routine work, nor is whether citations to the literature are sensible. Whether statistics are appropriate and render reasonable inferences is inherently a question of human judgement.
Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 9mo ago“The noise in human peer reviews is crucial because it arises from the variability in human experience and practical knowledge — two features that no model’s training corpus can fully capture,” writes Giorgio F. Gilestro in Nature about the introduction of AI peer reviews. #Academicsky 🧪
Excited to be at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025. Presenting a part of my PhD that looks at Nectar robbery. Not all flower visitors are pollinators, some are cheaters too! Poster: A4.83 16th Dec 2025 Lennox Suite 18:00-19:30 (GMT) @britishecologicalsociety.org
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology
Excited to share some cool results on the #visual #navigation of Asian weaver ants at #Behaviour2025 today @5:33 PM (Hall 7) #VirtualReality #ants #behaviour @behaviour2025.bsky.social @pvnkmrksk.bsky.social
A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds their “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits. scim.ag/3IsE93l
Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators
A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits
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Our false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:
My new substack newsletter explains the fundamental trade-off in experiments in ecology and environmental sciences: you can either have mechanistic resolution or realism, but not both in the same experiment. #ecology #environment #science matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/why-you-ca...
Why you can't have it all in experiments in ecology
The trade-off between realism and mechanistic resolution, and why this is important.
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This week’s newsletter talks about why science is so hard, or at least one reason….this was something I struggled with at the beginning of my PhD. I wonder if other people feel or felt the same way? Let me know…. #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Why science is hard, or at least one reason why it is difficult
And how to cope (at least with this one particular aspect)
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