Daniel S. Katz

Things seen in nature, Wyoming & Colorado, July 2025 (2/12): Say's Phoebe, Pronghorn, Western Tanager, Giant Robber Fly

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Things seen in nature, Wyoming & Colorado, July 2025 (1/12): Wyoming Ground Squirrel, Western Kingbird, Tree Swallow, American Avocet

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Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (8/8): Audubon's Warbler, Bullock's Oriole, Western Wood-Pewee, Norton's Giant Ichneumonid Wasp

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Prairie Rattlesnake, Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Adams County, CO, USA

Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (7/8): Northern House Wren, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Stellar's Jay

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@benaaronovitch.bsky.social thanks for writing Stone & Sky. I just finished it and found it a worthy addition to the series.

Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (6/8): Spotted Towhee, Red-naped Sapsucker, Bushtit, Great Blue Heron

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Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (5/8): Long-billed Dowitcher, Belted Kingfisher, American Goldfinch

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AI and Trust | Communications of the ACM

I found this ACM column "AI and Trust" by
‪@schneier.com‬ to be quite interesting:

doi.org/10.1145/3737...

Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (4/8): Adult and juvenile Nutria, Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Mallard ducklings

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Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (3/8): California Scrub Jay, Common Yellowthroat, Song Sparrow, Common Whitetail

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Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (2/8): Cedar Waxwing, Western Tanager (f), Western Tanager (m), Brush Rabbit

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Things seen in nature, Oregon, July 2025 (1/8): Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Osprey and Mountain Whitefish, Snowberry Checkerspot, Northern Flicker

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I've written "Understanding and advancing research software grant funding models [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]" with Eric A. Jensen and Michelle Barker and it's now published on Open Research Europe as doi.org/10.12688/ope...

I think this is the first really colorful picture I've gotten of a Violet-green Swallow (in Curt Gowdy State Park, Wyoming). Now I understand the name.

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If you get too close to a Northern Harrier on its nest on the ground, it might take flight and then repeatedly dive at you until you move away. (At Leazenby Lake, Wyoming, USA)

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iNaturalist's first two choices from the AI image analysis model are Osprey and Mountain Whitefish. Pretty good 🙂

At Hosmer Lake in Oregon this morning

Why??

Open Conference of AI Agents for Science 2025
agents4science.stanford.edu

The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers

I've been involved in 2 papers submitted to @plos.org Comp Bio recently. One was submitted as a Quick Tips article, and the editors then told us to resubmit as 10 Simple Rules. The other was submitted as a 10 Simple Rules article, and the editors then told us to resubmit as Quick Tips. 🙂

#SC25 registration asks "What are your ethnic origins or ancestry? Please select ALL geographic areas from which your family's ancestors first originated." and I don't see how anyone can't take "first" literally and answer Africa.

The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?

From a mastodon post by vmmmh@mastodon.social: asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...

I think some schools are much more homogenous in terms of class, particularly in middle-class & upper-middle-class suburbs

From gr*pists to nip nops, how self-censorship shapes the language of TikTok Podcast Episode · Code Switch · 07/09/2025 · 34m

I just heard podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... on this too

I try to think as little as possible about X. But man, I gotta say, it is rather disappointing that corporations and universities continue to use a platform that is being explicitly engineered to spread racist propaganda. Like, why did your ancestors bother evolving a backbone if you won't use it?

We’re excited to host an insightful talk during the upcoming Testing Working Group meeting on Wednesday, July 23, 2–3 PM EDT.

Title: Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: How testing enabled a total rewrite of critical infrastructure
Presenter: Ethan Holz

More details:
us-rse.org/events/2025/...

I can't read the article since it's behind a payway, but www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... seems to be the same thing without the paywall.

Anyhow, I did this recently and it was easy and fast.

Also used for words that weren't supposed to be printed (e.g., cursing) in some 18c and 19c books I think, and maybe beyond

“Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” - Thomas Paine

YouTube video by Lud le Scribouillard Scott Dunbar, "Jaybird", 1968 (recorded by William Ferris at Woodville, Mississippi)

Scott Dunbar, "Jaybird", 1968 (recorded by William Ferris at Woodville, Mississippi)

youtu.be/Ym-cMbpW6Zs