Ryan Greenway
@ryangreenway.bsky.social
Science and illustration. Ecological research coordinator for the Genes and Behavior group at MPI-AB.
Excited to launch the first call for proposals focusing on policy and/or societal impact of evolutionary biology research. Activities might include: ✅ local meetings on policy and/or societal impact ✅ actions to influence policy 💰€500-2K available Read more here and apply: shorturl.at/ixlby
Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
Professors using LLMs to do their work like this do not deserve tenure, nope. But soon enough, our admins and college boards will be asking why bother to have faculty at all, if they can just pay a bunch of AI agents to "do" academia, and I do wish we would think of AI as a labor issue
James Andrew Smith@drsmith.bsky.social · 2w agoThe natural extension of this: Claude: does Professor X deserve tenure?
The natural extension of this: Claude: does Professor X deserve tenure?
Christian Wolf@chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is fine ...
Just received email spam from an outfit called Academic Humanizer that uses AI to rewrite your AI-written manuscript so people can't tell that it was written using AI. I don't understand why academics don't trust Silicon Valley to solve any problems it inadvertently creates along the way.
New #OpenAccess research by @julian-lunow.bsky.social et al. in #RESEcolEnt examines how management & tree dieback alter beetle assemblage structure & body size distribution in a temperate German forest. doi.org/10.1111/een.70127 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social
Dwindling reservoirs aren't the result of "bad weather" or "natural cycles". They're a choice our society made. Growing thirsty crops like alfalfa and pecans in the desert is a choice. Refusing to reduce CO2 emissions is a choice. Refusing to change the water laws as reality changes is a choice.
#small is the theme for Day 22 of #ArtRepostJuly, so here is a marker drawing of a stink bug on a blade of grass. #art
Hard to overstate how much of the "iconoclastic free-thinkers" who the White House thinks be given most of the nation's research money are mostly mediocre rich people who resent their supposed inferiors' successes. A lot of it is just elitism, an aristocracy clawing for its status back.
With so many wildfires raging on—Southwest, Canada—I wrote a post about how beavers can help prevent wildfires. Click if you want a dose of critter cuteness, too! @azcentral.com @emilyfairfax.bsky.social
How Arizona's beavers could be a secret weapon in fire prevention
Scientists say beavers keep wetlands wet, leaving them less less prone to burn.
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The headline result: every additional day above 80 degrees raises a zip code’s monthly Medicaid bill by a quarter of a percent. On the hottest days, above 100 degrees, the effect is 8x worse. More explanation below, link to paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Scrubs: Elliot's 'Yikes!' Professional Opinion
ALT: Scrubs: Elliot's 'Yikes!' Professional Opinion
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1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
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"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
New research in #RESEcolEnt Biparental care improves major male paternity in a #BuryingBeetle, testing a hypothesis of paternity assurance doi.org/10.1111/een.70123 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social Photo: #Nicrophorus quadripunctatus (credit: Seizi Suzuki)
A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...
Can species always evolve fast enough to keep up with environmental change? A resurrection experiment in morning glory shows genetic constraints can limit adaptation—even under strong selection. doi.org/10.1093/evle... @gbaucom.bsky.social @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social Image credit:Cbaile19 Wikimedia
A Male Expressed Copulatory Plug Increases Female Fertility in Caenorhabditis Nematodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735219v1
serious pollination party going on here ... Anza Borrego Desert State Park
The whole dire wolf thing was borderline fraud. And of course the point of all this bollocks is that all these accelerationists, longtermists, EAs, and their GOP allies have been salivating over an excuse to destroy the environment now on the grounds that later generations can recover it.
Dire wolf, or Colossal misrepresentation?
A biotechnology company called Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the dire wolf, a species that went extinct over 10,000 years ago.
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I'd put Colassal Biosciences somewhere in between Greenwater Services and Four Seasons Total Landscaping on a scale of trustworthiness and competence. Trump always finds the worst goddamn people.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw
On this last day of #Evol2026, a reminder to sign up for the ASN Stand Alone meeting, on the East Coast of the US for the first time! www.amnat2027.org Registration is open. It's a small conference and spots are limited.
ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027
Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!
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Predatory bacteria impact C. elegans life-history traits by modulating microbiota community dynamics and thereby vitamin B12 availability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734446v1
How is America's largest natural habitat also one of its least understood? New national survey data reveals a disconnect: nearly half of Americans say they are unfamiliar with grasslands, yet when they learn more, recognition of their importance more than doubles: https://nature.ly/4fN45Fr
Just imagine discovering an armored animal that breathes w/ gills, regrows lost limbs, builds underground homes, and communicates using urine. This is not an alien. You've merely found a crayfish. New Tangled Nature Deep Dive Essay (with Dr. Jim Stoeckel) 👇 tnature.substack.com/p/crayfish-c...
Crayfish, Crawfish, and Crawdads
The Most Important Animals You Probably Never Thought About
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"I know there's a lot of concern about the proliferation of journals, slop in the in the literature — the best way to combat this is to publish in society-owned journals." — @asn-amnat.bsky.social President @beckyfuller82.bsky.social preaching the Gospel #Evol2026
"We didn't become biodiversity scientists to preside over decay." — Becky Chaplin-Kramer Eight times more papers document biodiversity loss than recovery. We're better at describing what's broken than understanding how to fix it. That needs to change. More here 👇
We're great at documenting decline and surprisingly bad at understanding recovery
Recovery, rewilding, and why we're measuring the wrong things (Nexus Notes #30)
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Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. https://scim.ag/4ekk1hk
Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them?
As populations rebound, attacks on livestock and humans are fueling debate over the limits of coexistence
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🐝 Beelieve it or not, this blue bee is the real deal! Meet the blue carpenter bee (Xylocopa caerulea). This insect can be found in parts of India, China, and Southeast Asia where it plays an important role in pollinating its habitat. Photo: Cheongweei Gan, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
