Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)

People have been citing this #glyphosate paper for 25 years!

Study on popular weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it | CBC News An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environmental groups in Canada to ask the federal government t...

"The #retraction notice cited documents made public through litigation in the U.S. that suggest employees of Monsanto, which makes Roundup, may have helped write the article without proper acknowledgment [...] Monsanto may have paid [authors]."
#ghostwriting #glyphosate
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Thursday night fun in #Phoenix! Just enough time for them to cut on Friday and air the episode on Saturday! #waitwait

This semester I ran a class where we read recent papers in phylogenetics / systematics. I'd prepare an intro for each with background, then we'd dig in. I'd write a blog post after each as well. All the papers, slides and posts are now available at brianomeara.info/posts/phylop...

🧪 #AcademicSky

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If @workday.com is really "Powered by AI" or whatever they say in their marketing, they would have a "Search" feature in their dropdown boxes that doesn't require you to type in an exact prefix match. The "Search" all across this system is terrible!

QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago

Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago

We are looking for PhD applicants! ‼️Interested in genomics, ecophysiology and adaptation? Look at our TREES DLA project:
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und...

We also offer more projects via ROUTE2. Get in touch and let’s have a chat 💬

I might be being dumb here, but shouldn't it actually be EVEN BIGGER? That is, quantile(..., c(0.025, 0.975)) ?

Oh, boy. #GoogleScholar is experimenting with blending AI with your favorite literature search engine. I worry that the results you get are not an improvement over standard search, and the process makes it harder to teach students how to do good searches.
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Don't miss "Edge of Tomorrow," at 7 PM MST on Wednesday at Tempe's Majestic Neighborhood Cinema Grill! Before the film, enjoy a discussion with @tedpavlic.bsky.social , a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence.

🔗 www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...

History of the Future: EDGE OF TOMORROW at Majestic Neighborhood Cinema Grill Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with hi...

This Wednesday, SCAI’s @tedpavlic.bsky.social joins ASU’s History of the Future series to introduce Edge of Tomorrow! 🎬 He’ll share how swarm intelligence & AI are turning sci-fi into reality.
www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...

#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai

I'm really sick of the prisoner's dilemma. It's not relevant to most problems (temptation is too high -- which gives it THREE Pareto efficient outcomes) and gives the impression a Nash eq is always unique. Use stag hunt (one Pareto/more realistic) & hawk–dove (two Nash) instead.

"And where are we putting the pirates again?"

This old, silver #Apple keyboard that came with an iMac Pro years ago is still a fantastic keyboard. Much better than the current Apple Magic Keyboard.

I once knew a guy named Rus, which he spelled with only one "s".

When he was in a hurry, sometimes we called him hyperbolic rus.

#sigmoidalhumor

C-SPAN screenshot of House leader Mike Johnson swearing in Rep. Adelita Grijalva in split-screen.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) has been sworn in!

For Earth-based observers, bright sky background around full Moon, and geometry where comet 3I/ATLAS is close on the sky to the Sun, means it's taking a few days for big optical telescopes to get back on the job. All very standard, it's what happens for moving objects.

Huh. Even the hail is deadlier in Australia.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQUCYT4...

It would be a crime if a cover band of that name didn't already exist...

Bashing curcurbits would be a great name for a band...

Just at my institution. But a good opportunity (poo-portunity?) to make a #2 joke. :-)

On Monday, the online-learning company Chegg said it would cut 388 jobs globally, about 45% of the workforce, as it pivots to an AI model that automatically answers students’ questions. From: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-collar-jobs-ai-324b749c

This is the end-point of extractive AI. First get people to upload everything, then suck everything out of it, then get AI to generate all the answers. I wonder how this cycle continues. (If it means Chegg can't continue the cycle…paint me so sad.)

And just like that... they're ending support for Scantrons. The only place left for your #2's are down the toilet...