No matter how fancy your AI models, you'll always face the issue of garbage in, garbage out
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RT @DaniRabaiotti
I find one huge public misperception with AI is the 'just train it on x dataset' trope, as if a huge, clean, unbiased dataset exists for every single thing in the world.
https://twitter.com/DaniRabaiotti/status/1653361475174449159

RT @JGoldenbergEvo
Why some animals display remarkable color differences across their bodies? In our latest work, we show that body size and substrate use differentially affect dorsal and ventral color evolution of lizards 🦎 Teaser: size matters. #openaccess @journal_evo https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpad065/7131186 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653349052950487040

RT @Anthrofuentes
Greetings twitterverse! my latest for SciAm in response to the ongoing “sex is not binary” vs. the call to define human women and men via their gametes. This is the ~900 word version, stay tuned for the 50,000 word version in 2024.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/

RT @kb_kinsey
I'm recruiting M.S. & Ph.D. students to start w me @SDSU Fall 2024! The Bio Dept has great community + strong faculty expertise in computation & specimen-based research. Our Museum of Biodiversity is growing! Interested in urban eco-evo, islands, env change - reach out!🐍🐢🦎🦜🐸 https://twitter.com/frogsicles/status/1641866286719463424

RT @PaulKidby
Remembering Terry Pratchett today on what would have been his 75th Birthday. It is still hard to believe that my greatest source of creative inspiration is no longer with us, thankfully his legacy remains for us all to enjoy.

RT @AdamRutherford
Whereas I argue that almost everything this man says is a waste of perfectly useful electrons and somehow in this crazy world people take his pseudo-profound gargling frothy manballs seriously. But here we are.

RT @snakeymama
We've herped it, we've droned it, and now we need a live-stream here! There are 1500+ snakes on the top of this hill!
Can you help? https://crowdfund.calpoly.edu/project/37326 https://twitter.com/snakeymama/status/1317181208896307200

RT @pevchikh
1/22 This is Svetlana Maniovich. She is your guide to the world of extreme Russian glamour. She radiates richness. Diamonds, furs, Rolls Royces - she has it all and more. In summer you can find her in St Tropez where she rents a villa for €150k/month, or on a yacht in Naples🧵

One of the coolest resources and studies I've seen
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RT @SimonJGreenhill
Finally! #Grambank is out!

Grambank is a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages.

All available here: https://grambank.clld.org/

Press Release: https://www.mpg.de/20186271/0418-evan-grambank-shows-the-diversity-of-the-world-s-languages-150495-x
https://twitter.com/SimonJGreenhill/status/1648748616360550400

RT @SaarMaya
I am on the market for a postdoc / technician position in US! 💃🎉
I'm an Ecologist and Entomologist, interested in evolution of sociality!
Please please RT for wide distribution 💜
#postdocs #Womeninstem #womeninscience #ants #bees

RT @ron_efrat
Here it goes. I AM LOOKING FOR A POST-DOC POSITION starting mid-late 2024.

Are you looking for a post-doc / did you hear of anything interesting? Please contact me.

Please retweet.

#conservation , #Movement_Ecology, #Animal_Behavior, #biologging

*RG/GS in the comment

RT @ContraPoints
new video
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
or
"Why I left the center"
https://youtu.be/EmT0i0xG6zg

RT @urbanfrogger
Love urban nature and citizen science? Check out our new OA perspective piece on the value of question-driven CS projects in urban ecology and conservation: https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12917 @CAULHub @TSR_Hub

RT @BernatBurriel
Very happy to share our new preprint on the evolution of the endemic reptile fauna of the Hajar Mountains! Thank you all collaborators!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.07.536010v1

RT @AlexDSkeels
New study on predictive approaches to understand
future mammal #extinction now out in @CurrentBiology. Led by @MarcelCardillo and with @ecologician. This project was started pre-pandemic and its great to see it now published. Feel free to DM for a pdf. Details in 🧵 https://twitter.com/CellPressNews/status/1645441505035681795

RT @AdiDomer
Previous studies in sand dunes may have overlooked some species. In our new work we present the adorable Dune Gecko's behavior and habitat use, summing up one of the most amazing field seasons I have experienced🦎.
#reptiles #sanddunes #heprs #fieldwork
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=iw&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Stenodactylus+petrii&btnG=

RT @MHCNeateClegg
Our new urban birds paper is out now in @CurrentBiology! We combine global eBird data and traits to ask: what makes an urban bird? This was a huge @UCLAEEB team effort with @mwtingley, Ben Tonelli, @CaseyYoungflesh, @joannaxwu, Graham Montgomery, and @sekercioglu. A🧵(1/7)

RT @mbalter
Anatomy of a toxic lab: The Jetz lab at Yale.
https://michaelbalter.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-toxic-lab-global-biodiversity?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

RT @snakeymama
Pedro Pascal as snakes.

A thread.

RT @DStibbardHawkes
Which is why, every time someone says ‘there are two sexes the rest is politics’ I want to chew my own fingers off. Because that really isn’t all there is to it. Biology begets complexity and complexity begets nuance. 10/10