Ben de Bivort
@debivort.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy
Professor at #Harvard University in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology #OEB and the Center for Brain Science #CBS.
We study the #behavior of individual […]
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We study the #behavior of individual […]
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Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.
FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)
Your turn!
FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)
Your turn!
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.
FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)
Your turn!
FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)
Your turn!
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In an online meeting today I greeted a colleague in #Ukraine with the words "Great to see you back from Antarctica, safe and sound!"
Later she told me that she watched a ballistic missile pass her flat in #kyiv this morning and that 9 people had been killed and 60 hospitalised. Now I wish she […]
Later she told me that she watched a ballistic missile pass her flat in #kyiv this morning and that 9 people had been killed and 60 hospitalised. Now I wish she […]
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fediscience.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Georgetown University Law Center students are working to heighten their peers’ awareness of which firms have caved to Trump and which have stood firm. Upper level students are creating a resource for 1Ls interviewing for jobs. They sent me this ask for help⬇️. #lawfedi
March 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Georgetown University Law Center students are working to heighten their peers’ awareness of which firms have caved to Trump and which have stood firm. Upper level students are creating a resource for 1Ls interviewing for jobs. They sent me this ask for help⬇️. #lawfedi
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Today in American science is fucked news:
March 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today in American science is fucked news:
likeness is not a distance function
March 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
likeness is not a distance function
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A couple of Tesla Takedown protests this weekend in MA and RI:
WATERTOWN, MA
Saturday, March 15, 2025 10:00 AM
457 Pleasant Street, Watertown
BOSTON DOWNTOWN
Saturday, March 15, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St, Boston
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR ELON!
Sunday, March 16, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St […]
WATERTOWN, MA
Saturday, March 15, 2025 10:00 AM
457 Pleasant Street, Watertown
BOSTON DOWNTOWN
Saturday, March 15, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St, Boston
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR ELON!
Sunday, March 16, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St […]
Original post on kolektiva.social
kolektiva.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A couple of Tesla Takedown protests this weekend in MA and RI:
WATERTOWN, MA
Saturday, March 15, 2025 10:00 AM
457 Pleasant Street, Watertown
BOSTON DOWNTOWN
Saturday, March 15, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St, Boston
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR ELON!
Sunday, March 16, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St […]
WATERTOWN, MA
Saturday, March 15, 2025 10:00 AM
457 Pleasant Street, Watertown
BOSTON DOWNTOWN
Saturday, March 15, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St, Boston
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR ELON!
Sunday, March 16, 2025 12:00 PM
888 Boylston St […]
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Pigeon built its nest on anti-pigeon spikes.
March 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Pigeon built its nest on anti-pigeon spikes.
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Stop the Coup Protest
Friday, February 28 4-5:30 pm
Susan Collins' Office
160 Main St
Biddeford, ME
Join Biddeford Saco Area SURJ at protests every Friday at 4pm at Susan Collins' office, 160 Main St., Biddeford. Bring signs or not. Stop the Coup! No One Voted for Elon Musk. Speak up against […]
Friday, February 28 4-5:30 pm
Susan Collins' Office
160 Main St
Biddeford, ME
Join Biddeford Saco Area SURJ at protests every Friday at 4pm at Susan Collins' office, 160 Main St., Biddeford. Bring signs or not. Stop the Coup! No One Voted for Elon Musk. Speak up against […]
Original post on kolektiva.social
kolektiva.social
February 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Stop the Coup Protest
Friday, February 28 4-5:30 pm
Susan Collins' Office
160 Main St
Biddeford, ME
Join Biddeford Saco Area SURJ at protests every Friday at 4pm at Susan Collins' office, 160 Main St., Biddeford. Bring signs or not. Stop the Coup! No One Voted for Elon Musk. Speak up against […]
Friday, February 28 4-5:30 pm
Susan Collins' Office
160 Main St
Biddeford, ME
Join Biddeford Saco Area SURJ at protests every Friday at 4pm at Susan Collins' office, 160 Main St., Biddeford. Bring signs or not. Stop the Coup! No One Voted for Elon Musk. Speak up against […]
There is a lot of commentary coming from Law types at Harvard asserting that "the system is working" i.e. we're not in a constitutional crisis.
Besides being demobilizing, I think this notion is wrong/vacuous for at least three reasons.
Besides being demobilizing, I think this notion is wrong/vacuous for at least three reasons.
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
There is a lot of commentary coming from Law types at Harvard asserting that "the system is working" i.e. we're not in a constitutional crisis.
Besides being demobilizing, I think this notion is wrong/vacuous for at least three reasons.
Besides being demobilizing, I think this notion is wrong/vacuous for at least three reasons.
If we're headed into a world of minimal federal support for academic research, can I propose that we no longer view training for non-academic research as a major goal of PhD programs? 1/2
February 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If we're headed into a world of minimal federal support for academic research, can I propose that we no longer view training for non-academic research as a major goal of PhD programs? 1/2
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I have an idea how the #nih could increase their efficiency and make Trump very happy 😇
How about the NIH decentralizes all #pubmed #ncbi #NLM etc. databases with EBI and other similar instritutes around the worls, so that the US isn't the only country having to pay for these services? […]
How about the NIH decentralizes all #pubmed #ncbi #NLM etc. databases with EBI and other similar instritutes around the worls, so that the US isn't the only country having to pay for these services? […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
February 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Public notice:
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
February 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Public notice:
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
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I don't know how much clearer it needs to be for any pro-"AI" academics than the collusion of government and tech giants announcing $500b in funding for "AI to cure cancer" while simultaneously preparing to gut the NIH: you are digging your own grave.
January 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I don't know how much clearer it needs to be for any pro-"AI" academics than the collusion of government and tech giants announcing $500b in funding for "AI to cure cancer" while simultaneously preparing to gut the NIH: you are digging your own grave.
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Epic!
Photo taken by Chris Holmes while swordfishing off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Photo taken by Chris Holmes while swordfishing off the coast of Nova Scotia.
January 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Epic!
Photo taken by Chris Holmes while swordfishing off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Photo taken by Chris Holmes while swordfishing off the coast of Nova Scotia.
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Paul Graham has written some brilliant essays, and I still read basically everything he writes. But Dave Karpf is not wrong that he and Y Combinator are a MASSIVE net negative for the way the tech world has gone in the last 20 years.
"the fork-in-the-road moment was when the industry stopped […]
"the fork-in-the-road moment was when the industry stopped […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
January 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Paul Graham has written some brilliant essays, and I still read basically everything he writes. But Dave Karpf is not wrong that he and Y Combinator are a MASSIVE net negative for the way the tech world has gone in the last 20 years.
"the fork-in-the-road moment was when the industry stopped […]
"the fork-in-the-road moment was when the industry stopped […]
Happy New Years friends!
December 31, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Happy New Years friends!
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Wooden cards that can be laser engraved, or painted as membership cards, door opening devices.
I feel like these could be used for some kind of interesting board game, or puzzle device. Though why can't a keycard ID be a little carved wooden object? Feels very magical...
(From the "things […]
I feel like these could be used for some kind of interesting board game, or puzzle device. Though why can't a keycard ID be a little carved wooden object? Feels very magical...
(From the "things […]
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sauropods.win
December 23, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Wooden cards that can be laser engraved, or painted as membership cards, door opening devices.
I feel like these could be used for some kind of interesting board game, or puzzle device. Though why can't a keycard ID be a little carved wooden object? Feels very magical...
(From the "things […]
I feel like these could be used for some kind of interesting board game, or puzzle device. Though why can't a keycard ID be a little carved wooden object? Feels very magical...
(From the "things […]
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wow, it was 5 years ago today that the first person in Wuhan, China got sick with what we now know as covid-19, triggering catastrophic loss of life as well as what must be the largest and most ridiculous anti-science campaigns in human history.
December 1, 2024 at 11:05 PM
wow, it was 5 years ago today that the first person in Wuhan, China got sick with what we now know as covid-19, triggering catastrophic loss of life as well as what must be the largest and most ridiculous anti-science campaigns in human history.