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tedpavlic

@tedpavlic@mas.to

ASU Associate Prof in SCAI/SOLS. Interdisciplinary research in autonomous decision making in living and artificial systems.

#animalBehavior #behavioralEcology #robots #ants #bees #behavior #socialInsects #socialBehavior #swarms #control #engineering #ecoevo #cognition #animalCognition #neuroscience #AI #ML #automation #complexity #ecology #deeplearning #collectiveIntelligence #mathematicalModeling #theory #entomology #STEM #bioinspiration

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tedpavlic, to random
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It's unavoidable that grad students will use LLM's to help them with their writing/proofreading and possibly even help jump start some of their reasoning. Rather than preaching total abstinence, this 3-page article outlines safer ways to use (and not use) these tools.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c01544

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tedpavlic, to random
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James Nieh always makes great bee videos, but check out the (home-built?!) props in this latest one! This certainly puts PowerPoint animations to shame.
https://youtu.be/w2WMPthEfdQ?si=kq7yWOihYyYFXbsd

tedpavlic, to random
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This week in endosymbiosis, an alga picks up an N-fixing bacterium that plays the role of a new "nitroplast" organelle. Some cool scaling relationships too.

"Scientists discover first algae that can fix nitrogen — thanks to a tiny cell structure"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01046-z

tedpavlic, to random
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It's the time of year where you can help fish migrate through the Netherlands by watching for them on a live stream and hitting a "fish doorbell" to let them through a normally closed lock gate.
https://visdeurbel.nl/en/the-fish-doorbell/

tedpavlic, to random
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How does this get passed review? In the age of ChatGPT, reviewers really need to start reading the papers they agree to review.

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tedpavlic, to random
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It's hard to reflect on what modern life would be like without mirrors.

tedpavlic, to random
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I wonder if the number of US entomologists who still refer to the EntSoc meeting as "ESA" reflects a history of not caring about ecology by those financing the development of insecticides(?).

tedpavlic, to random
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Not the word I expected GMail to underline in red...

timbray, to random
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Um, starting to see a pattern where people are being followed by accounts whose avatar is an attractive young woman’s face and who post sweet little inspirational messages and cute puppy/cat pix. And they smell synthetic as hell. Saw ’em referred to in a mods conversation as “seeds”. There’s an agenda here, dunno what it is.

tedpavlic,
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@timbray And no links to fishy websites listed in their profile or some of their posts?

tedpavlic, to random
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I really hate the term, "Digital Twin." It started out as a distinct idea with some marginal value (which companies like IBM milked to try to make some extra profit), but now it's lost any of its distinctive meaning and is just paint on a (simulated) lily.

tedpavlic,
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@jaztrophysicist It's very trendy right now, for sure. But as more people try to exploit the interest in it by funders, they also stretch the definition of what a "digital twin" is to include whatever they were already doing. I guess that's the nice thing about ambiguously short names -- they trick funders into funding a broader portfolio of work than originally planned.

Katja_Reinhard, to Neuroscience
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Looking for paper suggestions!

I'm teaching a class in Neuroecology for first year PhD students and part of it is a journal club.

I'm looking for additional, pure behavior papers that study "natural" / ecological behaviors, if possible not in mice.
And also for rather short papers that perform any form of brain recordings during natural /ecological behaviors (plus points if not in mice).

Any suggestions?

tedpavlic,
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@Katja_Reinhard @elduvelle So would you consider two-photon microscopy of the antennal lobe in honeybees trained on floral odors? People like Brian Smith have shown how the antennal lobe rewires itself to be a better mixture discriminator, allowing for generalized learning of floral rewards despite significant variance in odor boquet within a single species of flower.

tedpavlic, to random
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🤯 -- Add cooked.wiki before the http of any recipe and you'll get a recipe without all the ads with the ingredients in a separate column from the instructions

tedpavlic, to random
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If you managed to get away from Zoom meetings over the winter break, this is a reminder to give yourself a few minutes before your next Zoom meeting because it will almost surely have to install an update...

tedpavlic, to random
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Can you imagine the amount deadweight loss due to (and ever changing biosketch and CPS formats in general)? These process changes do not help proposers, and it is unclear they help any panelists either. I am sure it is all about audit trails. So unfortunate.

tedpavlic, to random
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Dexter is not happy about fireworks and the cloud that will hang over Phoenix's temperature inversion for hours (it's illegal to burn wood when the AQI is this high, but you can't keep people from their fireworks).

tedpavlic, to random
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"An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic," Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said -- Wait. So, starvation of low-income children is her alternative approach to childhood obesity?

"Iowa won't participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer" | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/iowa-summer-ebt-food-assistance-0e878c5c0fc9dd0dd55622cb22a82561

tedpavlic, to random
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lol

tedpavlic, to mastodon
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So, can someone explain to me how posts (often NSFW) of people I don't follow show up on my "Home" feed? Is it possible they've managed to include a hashtag I follow?

futurebird, to math
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Every year the many names for mathematical statements cause my students a little anxiety. I want to make an Euler diagram to show how they all overlap and intersect— so please mention any words I could add to this list:

statement
proposition
theorem
axiom
postulate
rule
law
definition
formula
corollary
lemma
conjecture
hypothesis

Can you think of any others?

tedpavlic,
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@futurebird In primary and secondary schools in the USA, the "critical thinking" crowd (i.e., conservative skeptics of science) have managed to get teachers to teach the CER framework:

claim
evidence
reasoning

You could consider adding a subset of these three. You might also consider "casual question" as well as "prediction" (partnering with hypothesis). Perhaps "predicate" too.

tedpavlic, to random
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Remember the good ol' days when $4000/yr was a reasonable budget for page fees on a grant proposal?

We didn't know how good we had it.

tedpavlic,
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@albertcardona And in the USA, new rules will soon force all govt funded research to pay for open access for all peer-reviewed publishing. That, combined with inflation, will mean deciding between publishing one paper and sending possibly more than one student to a conference...

tedpavlic, to ASU
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The School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) has a BROADLY SCOPED Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship that has a PATHWAY TO TENURE-TRACK POSITION. Candidates from diverse backgrounds, such as Hispanic or LatinX communities, are encouraged to apply!

Deadline: Oct 15!

https://apply.interfolio.com/131174

tedpavlic, to random
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For those of you who teach System Dynamics Modeling, have you checked out -- the free, on-line, web-based SDM simulation tool? They've just added interactive live simulations (similar to Vensim's SyntheSim). A very nice upgrade!
https://insightmaker.com/docs/live

tedpavlic, to india
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Pretty amazing accomplishment! Congratulations to 's !

"-3: India makes historic landing near 's south pole"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66594520

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