Adam Linson

GitHub - milekpl/zotero-ner: Zotero author name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling) for cleaner bibliographic metadata Zotero author name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling) for cleaner bibliographic metadata - milekpl/zotero-ner

@zotero.org Name Normalizer now supports normalizing Publishers, Locations, and Journals too!

Get suggestions like "Springer" → "Springer" (standardized) or "Cambridge, MA" → "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
Your metadata just got way more consistent. github.com/milekpl/zote...

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article/23/234/20250687/479613/Alerting-and-orienting-attention-in-anti-predator Figure S1. The default alerting behaviour of sentinel vigilance is monitoring the surroundings via head rotations. Alerting entails the agent hypothesis that a predator may or may not be present, whereas orienting is initiated when the agent has a sufficiently low uncertainty belief that a predator is present, i.e., acute risk increases. In a scenario with high background and low acute predation risk, we experimentally induced a shift to high acute risk, using a pre-recorded hawk call (diagonal arrows, upper right quadrant). In accordance with our hypothesis, this produced a behavioural shift from high to low head rotation frequency, and a shift in the neurocognitive model to a belief that a predator is present along with a reduction in simulated head rotation frequency. Our model provides a feasible interpretation of the underlying neurocognition that distinguishes two identical observational scenarios (low head rotation frequency under low and high acute risk).

In a field experiment and its simulation, we manipulated perceived acute predation risk and measured head rotation frequency. Our model provides a neurocognitive interpretation that distinguishes two identical observational scenarios (low head rotation freq. under low vs. high acute predation risk).

scrub-jays overcome visual limitations kind of like we do:

- rotate your head to see behind you
- move your eyes for narrow focus
- change your elevation to see over obstructions

how do these relate to habitat-specific predation strategies?

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🧪🌎🪶 #corvids

The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory Biological Theory -

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!

doi.org/10.1007/s137...

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Simulation examples. Scenarios A–D above correspond to agent behaviour sequences in rows A–D below. The sequences indicate 12 time steps, one per box, which proceed horizontally (i.e. the leftmost box is t1, the rightmost box is t12). In the lower rows, beak direction is depicted with a triangle such that head rotations are visible (e.g. in row B, there is a head rotation each time step). The circular area connected to the triangle represents a top view of the scrub-jay head (filled circle with unfilled sectors). Circles with two unfilled sectors show the default foveal position bilaterally, and circles with four unfilled sectors show further foveation during a fixed head position. Unfilled row squares indicate that the scrub-jay has high uncertainty about whether a hawk is present due to lack of sensory evidence (no hawk shape is visible and no hawk call is audible). Filled row squares that progress from dark (orange) to light (yellow) represent the strength of the belief that a hawk is present, beginning with low uncertainty during three time steps when the hawk shape is visible and an increasing belief that the hawk is no longer present once the shape is no longer visible. Upper half: the filled circle indicates the scrub-jay’s proximal surroundings. In the top left (A), a single hawk suggests low background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every two time steps (row A). (Dotted lines indicate possible but not actual approaches.) Three hawks are shown in B, indicating high background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every time step (row B). Rectangular cover in C presents a skewed distribution of possible hawk approaches. This leads to a head rotation pattern that proportionately increases the time monitoring exposed areas (row C). In the upper right (D), two actual hawk approaches are shown (solid lines extended by dotted lines). The dark orange solid segment corresponds to the dark orange boxes in row D, when the hawk shape is visible.

Paper out today on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Alerting and orienting attention in anti-predator vigilance: neurocognitive modelling and behavioural evidence"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🧪🌎🪶 #corvids #OpenAccess

Simulation examples. Scenarios A–D above correspond to agent behaviour sequences in rows A–D below. The sequences indicate 12 time steps, one per box, which proceed horizontally (i.e. the leftmost box is t1, the rightmost box is t12). In the lower rows, beak direction is depicted with a triangle such that head rotations are visible (e.g. in row B, there is a head rotation each time step). The circular area connected to the triangle represents a top view of the scrub-jay head (filled circle with unfilled sectors). Circles with two unfilled sectors show the default foveal position bilaterally, and circles with four unfilled sectors show further foveation during a fixed head position. Unfilled row squares indicate that the scrub-jay has high uncertainty about whether a hawk is present due to lack of sensory evidence (no hawk shape is visible and no hawk call is audible). Filled row squares that progress from dark (orange) to light (yellow) represent the strength of the belief that a hawk is present, beginning with low uncertainty during three time steps when the hawk shape is visible and an increasing belief that the hawk is no longer present once the shape is no longer visible. Upper half: the filled circle indicates the scrub-jay’s proximal surroundings. In the top left (A), a single hawk suggests low background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every two time steps (row A). (Dotted lines indicate possible but not actual approaches.) Three hawks are shown in B, indicating high background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every time step (row B). Rectangular cover in C presents a skewed distribution of possible hawk approaches. This leads to a head rotation pattern that proportionately increases the time monitoring exposed areas (row C). In the upper right (D), two actual hawk approaches are shown (solid lines extended by dotted lines). The dark orange solid segment corresponds to the dark orange boxes in row D, when the hawk shape is visible.

Paper out today on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Alerting and orienting attention in anti-predator vigilance: neurocognitive modelling and behavioural evidence"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🧪🌎🪶 #corvids #OpenAccess

#Communiqué 🗞️ L'@academiesciences.bsky.social et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès et gratuit. ✍️

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/la...

We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.

later that evening...

Santa Severa (outside Rome, west coast) #medievalsky #caturday

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Black and white photograph of women of Nation of Islam, dressed in all white with white head coverings. Ethel Sharrieff in Chicago in the front. Photograph by Gordon Parks; 1963.

Black and white photograph of a large group of men, sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, protesting with “I Am A Man” printed on their signs. Photograph by Ernest C. Withers.

Black and white photograph. “Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi, 1968.” Photograph by Doris A. Derby.

“First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition Explores Photography’s Role in the ‘Black Arts Movement’” petapixel.com/2025/11/30/f...

was hoping you'd post this one...have this on 10", vaguely recall picking it up at a live show of theirs, maybe in Westwood (?), likely heard about it on KXLU!

Panic! At the oven window! It's regarding the pumpkin pie filling height! Relative to the crust edge height! Oh wait it's levelled out now! Sorry for the false alarm it's my first go and it was convex for a minute and I'd never seen that happen before!

An installation view of a museum gallery shows a large-scale Guerilla Girls collage that features Ingres's "Grand Odalisque" wearing a gorilla mask.

“Art should look like the rest of our culture,” says Frida Kahlo of the Guerilla Girls. Otherwise, “it’s not really history of art, it’s a history of power.”

I have a look at the timely Guerilla Girls show the Getty for Art Insider for @kcrw.com:

email.kcrw.com/guerrilla-gi...

The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci

Tomas Schmit: Two New Ways to Draw a Circle In 1971, the artist Tomas Schmit was commissioned to design the cover for Instant Composers Pool 010, an experimental jazz album featuring performances by Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg recorded liv...

In honor of Tomas Schmit's archives being digitalised (drawingmatter.org/tomas-schmit...) we decided to release ICP010 on Bandcamp this morning:

icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp010...

sign in a Viennese venue: "RUHE"

Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, in ancient Antinous pose, 1.80m.

Montpellier. Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, 1.80m in ancient Antinous pose. Divides vertically: flayed display (r), moveable complete dissection (l), down to skeleton w 130 numbered pieces, 1700 detailed objects. more (🇫🇷): collections.umontpellier.fr/component/k2... (my 📷) #histSTM

Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, in ancient Antinous pose, 1.80m.

Montpellier. Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, 1.80m in ancient Antinous pose. Divides vertically: flayed display (r), moveable complete dissection (l), down to skeleton w 130 numbered pieces, 1700 detailed objects. more (🇫🇷): collections.umontpellier.fr/component/k2... (my 📷) #histSTM

YouTube video by PharcydeVEVO The Pharcyde - Drop (Official Music Video)

caught them live a few times, always epic, but once right after this was 🤯 when they faked backwards moves on stage

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

Each dyad (a, b) moves through four discrete states over time, represented by coloured circles. The dyad remains in a given state for a certain duration, or "holding time", before transitioning to a new state according to state-specific transition probabilities, indicated by arrows showing all possible (non-zero) transitions. Paintings by Sofia M. Pereira & Judith von Nordheim.

New paper!

We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Before Watson and Crick in 1953 Came Friedrich Miescher in 1869 Abstract. The story of genetics typically omits the original discovery of the molecular nature of DNA: Friedrich Miescher's 1869 discovery of the substance

Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

💯 (had to for game 3!)

Angeleno out here 'across the pond' 😵

t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶i̶n̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ sleep
(time zone thing)

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.

UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:

Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

Leather-bound book with the date '1374' inscribed on the cover, secured with handmade knots

Look at this #knots & #bingins - lucky to be researching #pigs, #meat, #textiles and #devotionalobjects in this beautiful 14th century book for @artandinequality.bsky.social

and my #piggycities project on pigs husbandry and meat consumption in Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky