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:
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Professor. #Zoology, Theoretical #Ecology & #Evolution, Trinity College Dublin.
As if we needed another reason to tear down academic publishing houses
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w 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 · last mo.Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻♂️
lol, nicely pitched. NB This line of argument is already an axis of conflict, as there are emerging fights over leveraging AI in the world of Accommodations. This is one of several reasons why theories of AI that only see top-down imposition are missing how its diffusion is happening.
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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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 · 3mo 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 · 3mo 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 · 3mo 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 · 4mo 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?
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Andrew Jackson@yodacomplex.bsky.social · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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...
PLEASE SHARE. PhD Opportunity with me, Ben Raymond and Jan Engelstaedter and Andrew Letten at University of Queensland. Experimentally testing mechanisms of how temperature may change selection and spread of AMR in E. coli. Coupled with some advanced modelling and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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what if I told you that if you went blind, a doctor could pull out your tooth, drill a hole in it, and stick it in your eye to help you see again? Yes your actual tooth. In your actual eye. Don't believe me?
It's impossible to explain how something so daft was so enjoyable.
Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5mo agoTin can stilts (Things to Make, 1963) Artist: G Robinson
