Pretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sample-images-of-each-class-of-the-self-created-dataset-for-early-pest-detection_fig1_366224366

🦋 #citizenscience 🦋

As part of a research project led by Maël Doré (@Eonymus) on mimicry in tropical butterflies, we have developed a survey to quantify our perception of butterfly color patterns. ⌛ < 10 min

Your participation would be very helpful.The more data we have, the better. Thank you so much!

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https://memometic.cleverapps.io/
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Please boost! And follow Maël for great research on #macroevolution and #mimicry. 

#colsci #survey #research #perception #cognition

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

Build your own high-sensitivity spectroradiometer for ~£250! See my pre-print here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.09.519768v1 and source here: https://github.com/troscianko/OSpRad

#colsci