No matter how fancy your AI models, you'll always face the issue of garbage in, garbage out
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@DaniRabaiottiI 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
Dr Dani Rabaiotti on Twitter
“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.”
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
Body size and substrate use affect ventral, but not dorsal, brightness evolution in lizards
Abstract. Substrate properties can affect the thermal balance of organisms, and the colored integument, alongside other factors, may influence heat transfer via
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/
Here's Why Human Sex Is Not Binary
Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man
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
Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin 🐸 ☠️ 🐍 💚🪰 on Twitter
“Herp Labs, @ssarherps has a new form to fill out if you are recruiting this year: https://t.co/LFsdgV7JYo”
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/1317181208896307200RT @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