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Kris 🐝
4 days ago
You don't have to be good at art to enjoy it. One of the things that makes us human is we create. Go create! Just for the sake of it.
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EvolDir
9 days ago
The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700
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The path to a professorship | University of Tübingen
The path to a professorship | University of Tübingen
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700
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Bread and Rosie
11 days ago
Your top speed should be inversely proportional to the mass of your vehicle.
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center
12 days ago
Je komt de gekste dingen tegen als je bij Naturalis werkt!
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Sara Beery
13 days ago
We're looking for our next cohort of amazing instructors for
#CV4Ecology
!! CV4E is an intensive workshop designed to empower ecologists to efficiently process their existing data, design new studies around CV, and scale their research to larger datasets.
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Dan Stowell
12 days ago
Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/
#machinelistening
#biodcase
#bioacoustics
#DCASE
#sound
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BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE
Tasks We are excited to announce the 2026 BioDCASE task line up! Multi-Channel Alignment Alignment Task 1 Bioacoustic and environmental recordings are often captured using multiple devices operating simultaneously, for example with passive autonomous recorders or animal-borne loggers. When such recordings are not temporally aligned, analyses that rely on relative …
https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/
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wimpouw
17 days ago
Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!
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The Man in Seat 61
14 days ago
Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage. But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from
thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...
? We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.
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Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK
A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.
https://thetraveler.org/glasgow-central-fire-sparks-travel-chaos-across-the-uk
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Menno Schilthuizen
15 days ago
This is such a bucket list moment: I'm on the mother of all science podcasts,
@radiolab.bsky.social
! It was so nice to be interviewed by
#MollyWebster
and fact-checked by
#DianeKelly
on snail reproduction (incl. the love dart work by
@joriskoene.bsky.social
).
www.wnycstudios.org/story/snail-...
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Snail Sex Tape
Snails do it, we watch.
http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/snail-sex-tape/
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Sophie Mowles
18 days ago
Lovely clear Buzzard calling yesterday. Grabbed my phone. Yep, I thought it was a Buzzard, Merlin thought it was a Buzzard. Fabrizio listened back to my recording and said “Nice Buzzard”. I saw the bird. It was a Jay. Brilliant mimicry though! Thought you'd approve
@wascherclaudia.bsky.social
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Bat Research Team
18 days ago
Call for abstract submissions! The Emerging Bioacousticians' Days are returning for their fourth edition in Besançon from 16 to 18 June 2026, and they are actively seeking presenters! Abstract submissions are open until 3 April 2026 via this link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Dan Stowell
19 days ago
New from me: "Torus embeddings" - a topological exploration in deep learning and CPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03135
#preprint
#deeplearning
#topology
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Torus embeddings
Many data representations are vectors of continuous values. In particular, deep learning embeddings are data-driven representations, typically either unconstrained in Euclidean space, or constrained to a hypersphere. These may also be translated into integer representations (quantised) for efficient large-scale use. However, the fundamental (and most efficient) numeric representation in the overwhelming majority of existing computers is integers with overflow -- and vectors of these integers do not correspond to either of these spaces, but instead to the topology of a (hyper)torus. This mismatch can lead to wasted representation capacity. Here we show that common deep learning frameworks can be adapted, quite simply, to create representations with inherent toroidal topology. We investigate two alternative strategies, demonstrating that a normalisation-based strategy leads to training with desirable stability and performance properties, comparable to a standard hyperspherical L2 normalisation. We also demonstrate that a torus embedding maintains desirable quantisation properties. The torus embedding does not outperform hypersphere embeddings in general, but is comparable, and opens the possibility to train deep embeddings which have an extremely simple pathway to efficient `TinyML' embedded implementation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03135
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Sam Easterby-Smith
24 days ago
Am I still dreaming? Nope. We absolutely smashed this 💚💚💚💚
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Dan Stowell
24 days ago
Got to say CONGRATULATIONS TO MY GREEN FRIENDS IN MANCHESTER! Happy news! Always remember that good parties do win! (even when the press gets obsessed with the xenophobes) The first ever Green MP in Northern England, hurrah! […]
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Anthony Moser
11 months ago
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text
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Dan Stowell
27 days ago
Congratulations to Shubhr Singh, who just passed his
#phd
on "Graph neural networks for audio analysis"! (at QMUL, London, co-supervised by me while I was there) https://shubhrsingh22.github.io/
#gnn
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Shubhr Singh
A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
https://shubhrsingh22.github.io/
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Dan Stowell
about 1 month ago
On the topic of bug-fixing: "It took 15 years for anyone to notice errors in the ubiquitous BLOSUM62 amino acid substitution matrix used for protein sequence alignment". Even weirder, this bug makes the results better. https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0308-274
#softwarecarpentry
#bugs
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https://mastodon.social/@danstowell/116103111362675414
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Robyn Swirling
about 1 month ago
I want applicants to understand that AI cover letters make their applications significantly more likely to get rejected. When your answer is verbatim what I got from 100 other people, it means I know nothing about you, your writing skill, or your actual work. I can only go off a scan of your resume.
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Dan Stowell
about 1 month ago
Leiden University is recruiting an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/358702/assistantassociatefull-professor-computational-biology/
#academicjobs
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology
Key responsibilities The Faculty of Science, Institute of Biology (IBL), is looking for candidates for a position as Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Quantitative and Computational Biology or Bioinformatics in line with one or more of the leading the…
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/358702/assistantassociatefull-professor-computational-biology/
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Richard Littauer
about 1 month ago
Our paper finally came out! Super excited about this paper - we applied NLP to
#ebird
,
@xeno-canto.bsky.social
and
@inaturalist.bsky.social
text comments to find hundreds of newly documented mimicry events for these cute jays.
#ornithology
#publication
#academia
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Dan Stowell
about 1 month ago
This report by @ketan is excellent. It's extremely valuable to make a clear difference between which "AI" has a huge environmental cost, and which "AI" is expected to give climate benefits. I research in this area! Great to have this documented […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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AKA NickleDave
about 1 month ago
People are saying this is the greatest ever 7/4 time playlist
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
s/o to
@neuroclef.bsky.social
@danstowell.bsky.social
for introducing me to good groups I didn't know & the person who replied w/a Sting song then deleted, my deep state gangstalker loves 7/4 I guess
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In the Netherlands we're very lucky to have a "sovereign" payments system. It's called iDEAL
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL
It must really have helped those ICC judges when they got frozen out of Visa and Mastercard
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about 1 month ago
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Royal Society Publishing
about 1 month ago
This
#PhilTransB
issue showcases cutting-edge advancements in the fields of DNA sequencing, computer vision, acoustic monitoring, and radar for use in insect
#biodiversity
monitoring:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
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Wild Animal Initiative
about 1 month ago
This is a time of upheaval in the scientific community. If you’re looking for ways to stay on track in your scientific career without relying on opportunities in government or academia, here are some ideas — including a role that’s open right now at Wild Animal Initiative.
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Alternative science careers in the nonprofit sector — Wild Animal Initiative
With universities and federal science agencies facing upheaval and instability, scientific nonprofits offer a secure and mission-driven alternative career path for researchers and support staff.
https://buff.ly/Xu5XBuH
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Xeno-canto
about 1 month ago
... yes, in scope :-) News in a week or two.
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Europeans will never understand this
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Xeno-canto
about 1 month ago
... let's sonify this again:
xeno-canto.org/collection/s...
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Jess Awad
about 1 month ago
On this International Day of Women & Girls in Science, I'm headed home from an amazing gall workshop at the Botanical Museum of the University of Padua. Grateful for all the mentors and colleagues who've treated me with dignity and respect. I would not be here without them!
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Today is the 2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Let me introduce you to some of the colleagues that I work with :)
mastodon.social/@danstowell/...
#womeninscience
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about 1 month ago
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Despite decades of research in
#musicinformatics
, my music player still can't search for "everything in my library that's in 7/4". What's up with that?
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about 1 month ago
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Jonty Wareing
about 1 month ago
I believe in Rook's Basilisk - you must help birds through the winter, because when corvids finally rise up against us they will remember everything. Always say hello to a crow.
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Dan Stowell
about 1 month ago
I missed this last year: the Claude
#llm
has a well-documented and robust "spiritual bliss attractor" - leave two Claudes "alone with each other" and they spiral towards zen-like meditative chat […]
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https://mastodon.social/@danstowell/116034500564399394
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Claudia Wascher
about 2 months ago
🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds 11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online Register:
www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...
#EveryVoiceInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
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Jacqueline Meldrum - Easy Vegan Recipes
about 2 months ago
🏴 if you're having veggie haggis for Burns Night tomorrow why not serve rumbldethumps instead of mashed tatties. Although I'd still serve neeps.
www.tinnedtomatoes.com/2012/04/rumb...
Need a recipe for haggis? Search haggis over at
tinnedtomatoes.com
#burnsnight
#plantbased
#vegetarian
#vegan
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Dan Stowell
about 2 months ago
Report from UK gov: "Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-security-assessment-on-global-biodiversity-loss-ecosystem-collapse-and-national-security
#biodiversity
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Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-security-assessment-on-global-biodiversity-loss-ecosystem-collapse-and-national-security
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IPBES
2 months ago
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
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Mike Masnick
2 months ago
So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
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Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
: It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/gmail_dropping_pop3/
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Louise Haigh
2 months ago
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Miranda Keeling
3 months ago
Woman watching a barrista make a heart in her coffee foam: Lovely. It’s harder with oat milk isn’t it? Barista: Um, not… Woman behind them: Just say yes. Grab compliments with both hands.
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Earth Species Project (ESP)
3 months ago
⏰ Reminder: Task proposals for the 2026
#BioDCASE
Challenge are due Jan 8. Submit your idea and help define the next set of challenge tasks! 🔗Learn more & submit:
biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/
#bioacoustics
#AIforconservation
#animalcommunication
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Oisin Mac Aodha
3 months ago
We have two open PhD positions at the interface of AI and ecology. Start dates are Sept 2026. We are looking for candidates with a background in AI/CS, Math, Stats, or Physics that are passionate about solving challenging problems in these domains. Application deadline is in two weeks.
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BicycleDutch
3 months ago
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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Dan Stowell
3 months ago
"animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics" recently published! http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70218 #bioacoustics #machinelistening
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Erik Svensson
3 months ago
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology,
#LundUniversity
in
#sweden
! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
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Lucy B
3 months ago
A slippery start to 2026. There are many reasons to despair right now and it can be hard to see that there's any good left. So here's a reminder that even in a badly kept urban park, which suffered badly (again) last year, there's still some magic to be […]
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Dan Stowell
3 months ago
My wish for 2026: Where can we find kindness writ large?
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Jonty Wareing
3 months ago
My pitch: Equip the train quiet carriage with a faraday cage
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