Manish Ravi

These claims about what AI can do truly need citations. Checking statistics isn’t routine work, nor is whether citations to the literature are sensible.

Whether statistics are appropriate and render reasonable inferences is inherently a question of human judgement.

Excited to be at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025.

Presenting a part of my PhD that looks at Nectar robbery.

Not all flower visitors are pollinators, some are cheaters too!

Poster: A4.83

16th Dec 2025
Lennox Suite
18:00-19:30 (GMT)

@britishecologicalsociety.org

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,

in fact,

a tortology

Excited to share some cool results on the #visual #navigation of Asian weaver ants at #Behaviour2025 today @5:33 PM (Hall 7)

#VirtualReality
#ants
#behaviour

@behaviour2025.bsky.social @pvnkmrksk.bsky.social

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits

A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds their “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits. scim.ag/3IsE93l

Our false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Microscope image showing parasitic wasps

Takes an eternity appreciate the beauty of #parasitoids! #hymenoptera #diversity

Microscopic image of many insects in liquid

Into the micro-cosmos! #insect #diversity

Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:

Save the native pollinators

Why you can't have it all in experiments in ecology The trade-off between realism and mechanistic resolution, and why this is important.

My new substack newsletter explains the fundamental trade-off in experiments in ecology and environmental sciences: you can either have mechanistic resolution or realism, but not both in the same experiment.

#ecology #environment #science

matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/why-you-ca...

Why science is hard, or at least one reason why it is difficult And how to cope (at least with this one particular aspect)

This week’s newsletter talks about why science is so hard, or at least one reason….this was something I struggled with at the beginning of my PhD.

I wonder if other people feel or felt the same way? Let me know….

#AcademicSky

open.substack.com/pub/matthias...