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Dr Urska Demsar
@udemsar.bsky.social
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Associate Professor. GIScience, Movement Analytics and hiking/walking photos.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · Mar 12
New paper with @beatezein.bsky.social & @jedalong.bsky.social:

⭐A new data-driven paradigm for the study of avian migratory navigation⭐

We propose how the multi-modal multi-scale nature of navigation could be studied w/ data mining, machine learning & AI.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new data-driven paradigm for the study of avian migratory navigation - Movement Ecology
Avian navigation has fascinated researchers for many years. Yet, despite a vast amount of literature on the topic it remains a mystery how birds are able to find their way across long distances while ...
link.springer.com

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Brian A. Nosek, Gavin L. Foster , and 19 more

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 1d
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io

Reposted by Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Robert W. Wallace , and 16 more

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

Reposted by Urška Demšar

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 11d
We're *so* close to some students spending more time to have AI do their work, then use AI to make it not seem like AI and then have AI check it ... all taking more time and money than, you know, doing that actual work.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI
Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.
www.nbcnews.com

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joegisc.bsky.social @joegisc.bsky.social · 11d
And the good news continue: we have an open position for a University Professor (§99(1) Universities Act 2002) - in the field of "Digital Earth - Geovisualization"!
University Professorship opening | Z_GIS - Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg
🚨 The Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS at the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences, Universität Salzburg has an opening for a University Professorship - § 99 (1) Universities Act 2002 in „...
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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 11d
Replace "people" with students and that's just about what every academic has been trying to figure out in the last couple of years... Great thread, read from the start.
kolektiv.xyncro.com Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 12d
...then everyone sounds the same. Which means interviews become meaningless, and we enter the next phase in the arms race of "how do I evaluate these people in a way they can't fuck about with using AI"?

But sure. My weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, right? Next!

Reposted by Urška Demšar

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 12d
...then everyone sounds the same. Which means interviews become meaningless, and we enter the next phase in the arms race of "how do I evaluate these people in a way they can't fuck about with using AI"?

But sure. My weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, right? Next!

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Peter Thorne, Lesley A. Hall , and 7 more

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 12d
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk

Reposted by Muki Haklay, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers , and 4 more

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13d
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.

Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13d
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.

It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com

Reposted by Urška Demšar

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Institute for Regeneration and Repair @edinuni-irr.bsky.social · 14d
We are excited to announce we are recruiting patients for our ENDO1000 project! 🎉

Head over to the ENDO1000 website for more information and to sign up for the study: edin.ac/49UMqad

Your data could make all the difference to improving the lives of people living with endometriosis.
Endo1000 logo, a scientist looking through a microscope.

Reposted by Iain Davidson, Martin Tomko, Urška Demšar , and 1 more

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 15d
The 19th century Struve Geodetic Arc is, to me, one of the most extraordinary properties on the World Heritage List. It crosses 10 countries and was used to determine the size and shape of the world. 🧪 🏺 #ContemporaryArchaeology
Struve Geodetic Arc
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through 10 countries and over 2,820 km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16d
So glad this is being used in schools and universities.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Urška Demšar

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 17d
Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...
On research careers in academia and industry
The epilogue to a series on Cognitive Science and AI
infinitefaculty.substack.com

Reposted by Urška Demšar, Peter Matanle

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 17d
“If you are not gaining a new capability in exchange for the one you have outsourced, you may be conceding to the algorithms” writes Noel Carroll of the University of Galway
theconversation.com/is-ai-hurtin...
Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain
AI is replacing tasks we have grown reluctant to do ourselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing.
theconversation.com

Reposted by Urška Demšar

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Eoin McLaughlin @eoinaldo.bsky.social · 17d
#BrainRot is what my kids call this: theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.
theconversation.com

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18d
Aurora Coolness

xkcd.com/3196/
Comic. My experience seeing the Northern Lights: [Graph: x axis is increasing time, y axis is increasing aurora coolness, going from visible glow on the horizon, color only visible in photos -> sheets and pillars of light, colors faintly visible -> “oh wow, it’s getting really bright now.” -> spectacular ribbons of color spanning the sky and illuminating the landscape. Graph shows dips and peaks over many hours with the topmost peeks for only around 5 or 10 minutes.] [caption] Aurora tip: If you get good views of the aurora, keep watching the sky; you might suddenly get great ones.

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 18d
NEW Postdoc (4 years) in #ornithology at Uni Vienna to study human-driven environmental change reshapes species interactions: buff.ly/L2iWGwZ

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 19d
NEW PhD opportunity in #ornithology to investigate how much energy migratory birds require throughout the year based on #telemetry data: buff.ly/JXnVciF

Reposted by Urška Demšar

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20d
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

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MoveApps @moveapps.bsky.social · 20d
Help us improve Movebank: During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system to build scalability and sustainability. What does Movebank mean for you? How could it better support your work? Your feedback will be highly appreciated! Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...
Movebank

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 21d
Here is a current view of the Matterhorn in Switzerland with bright red aurora and green proton aurora spots.

Solar wind data are turning a bit sour for extreme low-latitude aurora for the U.S., but the system is still pumped up enough for Europe!

go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 21d
Aliens are coming :-O

This aurora looks like a flying saucer :-D

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 21d
It's amazing, isn't it?
Apparently this is the strongest geomagnetic storm since 2003.

Reposted by Urška Demšar

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Štefan Baebler @stefan.baebler.net · 21d
#aurora over Mt Triglav from Orlove Glave (Vogel ski resort), Slovenia. www.whatsupcams.com/en/webcams/s...
Vogel Ski Resort webcam View from Orlova Glava to Triglav
The Vogleski center lies high above the magnificent Lake Bohinj, in the heart of protected territory of the Triglav National Park. The beginnings of skiing date back in 1964. The cable car was renovat...
www.whatsupcams.com

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 21d
And more green

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 21d
Beautiful arch and now you can also see the green, meaning that it's moving southwards. It's green below and red on the top, so if you are far away, ypu only see the red because of the curvature of the Earth.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 21d
This is at 46 degrees north

@vincentledvina.bsky.social