Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️🌈
@jarome.bsky.social
Biologist* wondering why the world is so colourful. Currently NYU, formerly Princeton. Generally bird/scienceposting 🧪
Opinions are official Bene Gesserit policy.
📍 Jersey City
*actually three parrots in a parrot suit
Opinions are official Bene Gesserit policy.
📍 Jersey City
*actually three parrots in a parrot suit
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️🌈
@jarome.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Hi new followers (bots and real people alike 😝). I'm not here to collect followers but it'll take me some time to go through and follow back people with shared interests etc. In the meantime here's a nice bird ✌🏽
Expect more birds, science, politics and occasional shitposting :)
Expect more birds, science, politics and occasional shitposting :)
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
Good generative models for:
writer's block — your brain after a walk
song recommendations — your friend's brain
visual art — your brain + pencil/paint
music — your brain + your fave instrument
writer's block — your brain after a walk
song recommendations — your friend's brain
visual art — your brain + pencil/paint
music — your brain + your fave instrument
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good generative models for:
writer's block — your brain after a walk
song recommendations — your friend's brain
visual art — your brain + pencil/paint
music — your brain + your fave instrument
writer's block — your brain after a walk
song recommendations — your friend's brain
visual art — your brain + pencil/paint
music — your brain + your fave instrument
Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
Leave.
Leave Twitter for Bluesky. Leave Bluesky for Mastodon. Leave Mastodon for Klerb. Leave Klerb for Chunk. Leave Chunk for Goobus. Leave Goobus f
October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Leave.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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M I L L I O N
Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
E I G H T
H U N D R E D
M I L L I O N
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Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage
this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time
excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
August 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage
Summoning both of them at once reveals your true form
August 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Summoning both of them at once reveals your true form
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Look what the cat dragged in. Look what the dog hastily scrawled. Look what the baby quietly recited. The ritual has begun, take this knife
August 7, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Look what the cat dragged in. Look what the dog hastily scrawled. Look what the baby quietly recited. The ritual has begun, take this knife
Has anyone succeeded in persuading people you know to drop GPT, Grok etc.? And if yes, HOWWW?
August 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Has anyone succeeded in persuading people you know to drop GPT, Grok etc.? And if yes, HOWWW?
Who's out there getting their weather in Kelvin?
"Looks like it'll be a nice day—300 and sunny!"
"Looks like it'll be a nice day—300 and sunny!"
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Who's out there getting their weather in Kelvin?
"Looks like it'll be a nice day—300 and sunny!"
"Looks like it'll be a nice day—300 and sunny!"
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Male king parrot visiting the yard early morning.
#birds #canberra #nature #australia #parrot #photography #winter #kingparrot #ausbird #ornithology #australianbird #canon
#birds #canberra #nature #australia #parrot #photography #winter #kingparrot #ausbird #ornithology #australianbird #canon
August 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Male king parrot visiting the yard early morning.
#birds #canberra #nature #australia #parrot #photography #winter #kingparrot #ausbird #ornithology #australianbird #canon
#birds #canberra #nature #australia #parrot #photography #winter #kingparrot #ausbird #ornithology #australianbird #canon
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#AvianAugust Day 15 - 'Oma'o. These little guys like to forage in moss and lichen-covered branches. #birds #birdart
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#AvianAugust Day 15 - 'Oma'o. These little guys like to forage in moss and lichen-covered branches. #birds #birdart
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Black Tailed Godwit on Teesside the other day.
@teesbirds.bsky.social
@rspbengland.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
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@rspbengland.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
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August 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Black Tailed Godwit on Teesside the other day.
@teesbirds.bsky.social
@rspbengland.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
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@teesbirds.bsky.social
@rspbengland.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
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Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
Songbirds play optical tricks to make their feather colors ‘pop’
Concealed black or white bands on feathers boost the vibrancy of bird plumage
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
"Hey, bullshit machine! Is your bullshit bullshit?"
The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them.
I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.
I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.
i don't think it helps that the llms constantly lie to the user about the capabilities of llms as part of its whole obsequious fawning style of interaction that oversells its abilities and obscures its obvious limitations by fundamentally misrepresenting how the technology works
August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Hey, bullshit machine! Is your bullshit bullshit?"
attacked right in the middle of the work day
You are lost.
August 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
attacked right in the middle of the work day
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“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Loads of people get around by motorbike in Vietnam, so I wasn't surprised when my research assistant told me that some of the staff at our field site who don't speak English refer to me as "bicycle man" 🤣 🧪 #academicsky
July 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Loads of people get around by motorbike in Vietnam, so I wasn't surprised when my research assistant told me that some of the staff at our field site who don't speak English refer to me as "bicycle man" 🤣 🧪 #academicsky
Fascinating how the political class, media, and policy wonks tie themselves into knots about Mamdani. It's always some deep 'analysis' of campaign strategy, virality and tone/targeting of messaging etc., and not just that the guy is suggesting reasonable things and seems to care about people 🙄
July 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Fascinating how the political class, media, and policy wonks tie themselves into knots about Mamdani. It's always some deep 'analysis' of campaign strategy, virality and tone/targeting of messaging etc., and not just that the guy is suggesting reasonable things and seems to care about people 🙄
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🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨
Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4
Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4
June 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨
Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4
Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4
Just trying to watch a show with dinner and Westworld hits me with "You're not a f***ing ornithologist and sure as hell not a coder" 🥲🥲🥲🥲
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July 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just trying to watch a show with dinner and Westworld hits me with "You're not a f***ing ornithologist and sure as hell not a coder" 🥲🥲🥲🥲
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1. Ew
2. It probably took me too long but I'm uninstalling this trash app from my phone.
2. It probably took me too long but I'm uninstalling this trash app from my phone.
July 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
1. Ew
2. It probably took me too long but I'm uninstalling this trash app from my phone.
2. It probably took me too long but I'm uninstalling this trash app from my phone.
Orb Weaver webs are so impressive—this one is like 20x wider than the spider. I was out running a while back and, like many an unlucky insect, had the experience of getting tangled up in one of these impressive structures. (I survived). 🧪
June 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Orb Weaver webs are so impressive—this one is like 20x wider than the spider. I was out running a while back and, like many an unlucky insect, had the experience of getting tangled up in one of these impressive structures. (I survived). 🧪