📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting:
⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!
Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors.
We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time.
We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
This is the crux of it.
I spent much of today fixing something a collaborator vibecoded. It did something that could never work, and repeated that code 4 times in slightly different ways, so I had to hunt them all down, figure out what they meant to do, and redirect them to a working function.
occARU: Bayesian (multispecies) occupancy models for ARU data using @mc-stan.org. Automated recording units (ARUs) like camera traps produce rich time series which warrant going beyond occupancy and focusing on detection rates. 1/n
mhollanders.github.io/occARU/
A female polar bear feeds on a sperm whale carcass in the polar pack ice north of the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard. © Roie Galitz The 69th annual World Press Photo Contest
Metal as ffff
Black ink drawing in near-silhouette of an ornithomimosaur, one of the so-called 'ostrich' dinosaurs.
Kinnareemimus, like most dinosaurs from Thailand, is so fragmentary that this might as well be a generic ornithomimosaur. But it does mean that I get to make it as pretty as its namesake. This dinosaur is named after the kinnaree: a half-woman, half-bird from Thai mythology with Hindu origins.
If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link:
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We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏
In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social
Initial conditions:
m1=111.3 m2=23.6 m3=31.8 (solar masses)
v1x=0.098 v1y=-5.762 v2x=-3.132 v2y=1.488 v3x=2.232 v3y=4.317 (km/s)
x1=33.0 y1=-33.0 x2=6.0 y2=16.0 x3=-18.0 y3=34.0 (AU from center)
Music: Ballad with Modulations – Bourquenez
i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
Foto mit dem Schwarz-Abzug. Man sieht einen Formtext um eine Klobürste. Der Text lautet: Der Pinsel mit dem die Künstliche Intelligenz Bilder erstellt, wird der letzte Pinsel sein, der einem Menschen bleibt, der den für Ausprägung und Erhalt seiner Schöpfungskraft notwendigen Erfahrungsaufbau und Aufwand einer „KI“ überlässt, indem er das leistungslose Bestellen von Inhalten, Ideen und Bildern mit dem Denken, dem Schreiben, dem Entwerfen oder dem Erschaffen von Kunst verwechselt.
Foto mit dem fertigen Abzug. Man sieht einen Formtext um eine Klobürste. Der Text lautet: Der Pinsel mit dem die Künstliche Intelligenz Bilder erstellt, wird der letzte Pinsel sein, der einem Menschen bleibt, der den für Ausprägung und Erhalt seiner Schöpfungskraft notwendigen Erfahrungsaufbau und Aufwand einer „KI“ überlässt, indem er das leistungslose Bestellen von Inhalten, Ideen und Bildern mit dem Denken, dem Schreiben, dem Entwerfen oder dem Erschaffen von Kunst verwechselt.
Foto mit einem Detail des Drucks. Man sieht zweifarbig rot-Schwarz eine Klobürste und Text.
Foto von Farbmustern und Druckphasenabzügen, die mit Magneten an einem Werkstattregal hängen.
Bleisatz am Nachmittag: Die Auflage ist fertig, jetzt noch die Maschinen putzen (Betonung auf -en, weil ich mal wieder beide Korrex Pressen parallel benutzt habe). Die Schriften sind die Palatino (Textkörper) und die Binder-Style (Titel). Die zweifarbige Bildform ist ein Holzschnitt von mir.
They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno
A precarity of postdocs.
I’m amazed how many ecologists still confuse ecosystem functions with ecosystem services
Functions are the underpinning processes that maintain an ecosystem
Services are the benefits people (& only people, not other species) derive from some of these functions
'it's easy! just install the app, create a login, register your details, print a label, find the nearest packet sta-'
I WANT TO TALK TO A HUMAN BEING AND HAND IT TO THEM
'it's great, there's the automated checko-'
I WANT TO DEAL WITH A HUMAN
'you can use their chatb-'
HUMAN
'it's g-'
HUMAN
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
Illustration eines Details eines Fahrradrahmens: Man sieht angeschnitten das Hinterrad, den unteren Teil des Rahmens, das Kettblatt mit den Pedalen und die Kette. Das runde Kettblatt zeigt die Erde. DArunter der Text: Bikes heal the planet.
Es wird Zeit, dass das Spritpreiswinseln der Diesel Dieters an den städtischen Zapfsäulen ihrer Unfreiheit im Rauschen urbaner Fahrradketten untergeht. Für die typische innerstädtische PKW Strecke von 3-6 km reichen Fahrräder, welche im übrigen auch dazu führen, diese Strecken zu verkürzen. Dies
INTERVIEWER Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they have read it two or three times. What approach would you sug- gest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.
Scaffolding is in place to support the people doing the work. Falsework is there to support the thing being built.
But if the framework is only temporary, then it's called falsework. 🤓
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsework
Lotta people using “scaffolding” as a metaphor when they mean “armature.” Scaffolding is an exterior structure that allows construction to occur within it, armature is an interior framework around which something is built.
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Inside every ecology job posting there are two wolves. The first demands you earned your PhD within the past 5 years. The second demands you come with 27 years of field-relevant work experience.
If we get through this I strongly believe that steps should be taken so I no longer have to know or care about the outcome of US elections.
Although the twentieth century finds male practitioners firmly in control of formal Western medicine, women doctors and healers still have important inventions and innovations to their credit. For example, although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness. Women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries or perhaps millennia earlier (Halsbury 1971, p. 19; Raper 1952, p. 1), and one nineteenth-century Wisconsin woman, Elizabeth Stone, an early antibi otic therapist, specialized in treating lumberjacks’ wounds with poultices of moldy bread in warm milk or water: she never lost an injury patient (Stellman 1977, p. 87). In the twentieth-century development of the drug, it was a woman bacteriologist, Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin, who created the ultraviolet-mutant strain of Penicillium used for all further production, since it yielded nine hundred times as much penicillin as Fleming’s strain (Bickel 1972, p. 185; O’Neill 1979, p. 219).4 And as Howard Florey, leader of the British penicillin team, was quick to point out, it was Dr. Ethel Florey’s precise clinical trials that transformed penicillin from a crude some time miracle worker into a reliable drug. It was also a woman, Nobel laureate and X-ray crystallographer Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who finally deter mined the precise structure of the elusive penicillin molecule (Bickel 1972, p. 216; Opfell 1978, pp. 211, 219). Women were also involved in developing the sulfa drugs that preceded penicillin. For instance, it was a married pair of chemists, Prof. and Mme. Tréfouėl, and their colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris who split red azo dye to create sulfanilamide (Bickel 1972, p. 50). At least two women have invented new antibiotics for which they receive sole credit. Dr. Odette Shotwell of Denver, Colorado, came up with two new antibiotics—duramycin and azacolutin—during her fi…
reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
The fact that NONE of the reporting on Artemis II has mentioned and analyzed the Trump 1 space directives that are governing why and how Artemis is happening and to what purpose is an extraordinary #scicomm failure and a sign of how bad journalism about policy and science has gotten
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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