Anton Savchenko
@notgaudi.bsky.social
fungal taxonomist • PhD • Ukrainian expat • melancholic for all the good reasons • he/him
Machine vision for poor people, or yet another way to misuse Quantum GIS! I wanted to know if color of DNA extract correlates with sequencing success, and to get the colors I imported a photo of extracts into QGIS as if it was a map, placed sample points, and measured their underlying RGB values.
August 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Machine vision for poor people, or yet another way to misuse Quantum GIS! I wanted to know if color of DNA extract correlates with sequencing success, and to get the colors I imported a photo of extracts into QGIS as if it was a map, placed sample points, and measured their underlying RGB values.
Reposted by Anton Savchenko
There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
May 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
Reposted by Anton Savchenko
the beauty of humans is that even if we explicitly attempt to copy something, the noise of our lives and our brains seeps into the work. you still end up with a New messy synthesis of things
AI doesn't live a life, it may have system noise, but it doesn't have a story to tell; because its software
AI doesn't live a life, it may have system noise, but it doesn't have a story to tell; because its software
The difference is George Orwell did not steal 7.5 million novels to ghostwrite 1984 for Greg from Stevenage. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mining of authors’ work is nothing new – AI is just doing what creative humans do | Letter
Letters: Creativity has always ‘trained’ on the work of others, says Andrew Vincent
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
the beauty of humans is that even if we explicitly attempt to copy something, the noise of our lives and our brains seeps into the work. you still end up with a New messy synthesis of things
AI doesn't live a life, it may have system noise, but it doesn't have a story to tell; because its software
AI doesn't live a life, it may have system noise, but it doesn't have a story to tell; because its software
Reposted by Anton Savchenko
A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
metsamaja on liminaalnemaja
April 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
metsamaja on liminaalnemaja
Spent the last 2 weeks sampling dozens of type specimens in a well maintained, almost fully digitized, and just lovely TAAM fungarium (Tartu).
March 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Spent the last 2 weeks sampling dozens of type specimens in a well maintained, almost fully digitized, and just lovely TAAM fungarium (Tartu).
Reposted by Anton Savchenko
Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.
Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity
Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i...
journals.plos.org
March 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.
Typology of matchboxes from Leiden's fungal type collection
March 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Typology of matchboxes from Leiden's fungal type collection
Evergreen reminder that clades and taxa cannot really be "basal" or "early diverging".
doi.org/10.1080/0027...
Also see these nice blogposts (and other works!) by @iochromaland.bsky.social
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
doi.org/10.1080/0027...
Also see these nice blogposts (and other works!) by @iochromaland.bsky.social
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
March 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Evergreen reminder that clades and taxa cannot really be "basal" or "early diverging".
doi.org/10.1080/0027...
Also see these nice blogposts (and other works!) by @iochromaland.bsky.social
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
doi.org/10.1080/0027...
Also see these nice blogposts (and other works!) by @iochromaland.bsky.social
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
- for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
two-dimensional specimen 💌
February 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
two-dimensional specimen 💌
When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)
February 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)