Please see this commentary I wrote for @livescience.com that summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding the "zero emissions commitment" (how much warming we expect once emissions decrease to zero). Our best estimate is that the ZEC is very close to 0C:
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
great stuff by @davekarpf.bsky.social
"Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."
🆕 The @biogeneurope.bsky.social project - which now gives way to BGE+ - represented a landmark in European research collaboration, bringing together the #DNAbarcoding (@iboleurope.bsky.social) and #reference #genomes (@ergabiodiv.bsky.social) communities.
🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....
"We want the murder software to murder accurately" isn't the absolution everyone seems to think it is. Anthropic is enacting a huge PR campaign and too many people are helping them
If you are interesting why these strikes happened right after we received news that the US-Iran talks went reasonably well though without breakthrough, Lord Ricketts has an excellent explainer.
🆕 Latest research in @dissco.bsky.social's #openscience collection illustrates a Machine Learning as a Service approach for quantitative analysis of #herbarium #specimens.
🌿 Subsequently, DiSSCO's models are used to calculate surface area of identified #plant organs.
🔓 See: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
🌿 New paper: "FAIR Digital Twins for biodiversity"
Combining #DigitalTwins with #FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) addresses data fragmentation & model integration using #RO-Crate.
Thanks to co-authors & BioDT team! @horizoneu.bsky.social
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Some big diffs between citizen science observations (from iNaturalist) and specimen records (from digitised museum collections) - cit. sci records biased towards large inverts & exotic spp. Great MSc project with recommendations 🌏🧪@nzhymenoptera.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We need to focus less on charismatic species and more on where they live
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Glad to see mention of @orcid.org. FYI: @dissco.bsky.social is working on providing DOI to each digital specimen so attribution can be linked to specimen instead of datasets. Check: disscover.dissco.eu. Also digitalSpecimenID is now an approved TDWG term: github.com/tdwg/dwc/iss... 🪩 #FAIRdata
Oh! The irony 😂
"A COP is a bit like a potluck dinner," @katharinehayhoe.com said. Each participant brings an offering to the table and "it's obvious who took the time to bake and who dug out the frozen chicken nuggets." 🙃
#COP30
also. Current tools do different things: GNVerifier=string matching, Wikidata=curated ID links. entity res does MORE. for : relationship graphs, ML from past decisions, network effects (like '10 specimens use spelling A, so specimen 11 with spelling B is likely the same'). Auto-resolution etc.
it's about the techniques enterprise/industry uses to solve these problems that we can learn/borrow.
Wikidata does mapping but that's different from entity res. Wikidata: 'these IDs are related/refer to this taxon'. Enterprise entity resolution: 'these messy records are probably the same entity' using probabilistic scoring. What I'm brainstorming (in my post) is that we need both.
Yes. Maintenance and sustainability always a challenge. So that is why I am trying to look at this from entity resolution instead of another global ID. Ideally there could be many types of these mappings. If banks and companies can do this with customer data why can’t we?? 🧐
Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
bmd-project.eu/news/new-sur... The @bmd-project.eu is inviting Europe’s natural site managers to take part in a survey on the monitoring and analysis needs of protected and restored natural sites. #Biodiversity #Natura2000 @eea.europa.eu
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
Oh! I knew it!! Those Belarusian teens!! 😂
Thanks. Adding to my list!
Jamaica set for post-Melissa payout but experts warn of limits to hurricane insurance.
sadnewsletter.substack.com/p/when-neutr...
The #Python Software Foundation recently had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the they drop any DEI efforts. My thoughts on this.
If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!
It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.
And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
I think part of the issue is that we are taking someone like Bill Gates seriously to advise the world about climate change. It's like how Al Gore created the internet! 🤔 #ClimateChange
