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Naturalist. Birds, plants & gnocchetti sardi.
PhD student @LaStatale on community ecology in mountain agro-landscapes. Intrigued by distribution tails.
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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meganjthompson.bsky.social
Sharing on behalf of my colleague Marcel Eens:

Post-doc position on #UrbanBirds at University of Antwerp:
6-10 month position with intention of submitting fellowship application (extends postdoc by 3 years if successful).

Deadline Aug 28. www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
Post-doc position Behavioural ecology in a changing and urbanizing world | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
www.uantwerpen.be
August 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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stervander.com
Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553!

🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job
Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors. Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections... A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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dillensegerg.bsky.social
Amazing poster of @sangeeth-sailas.bsky.social from JCU South Bohemia presenting one of his PHD chapter: global analysis of raptor, which raptors suffer from intentional mortality and deserve more protection measures at #EOU2025
August 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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frodsan.bsky.social
Muy buenas las infografías de @creaf.cat sobre los robles y pinos ibéricos

www.creaf.cat/es/articulos...
March 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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shefbirdstudy.bsky.social
BTO urgently looking for volunteer Woodlark surveyors in our area ⬇️ ⬇️
btobirds.bsky.social BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Feb 17
1/ Can you help us survey Woodlark for our Heathland Birds survey? Monitoring has started for this species, so visit our website to sign up. ➡️ www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey #Ornithology #UKBirding
Image of a Woodlark on the ground alongside the wording: Heathland Birds Survey. www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey. BTO logo sits top right of image. Image credit reads: Woodlark © Liz Cutting/BTO
April 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
korandocando.bsky.social
Happy to see my colleagues presenting their works at #BirdNumbers2025 #EBCC Congress in Riga! Better knowledge can guide better policies, keep going for it!🤟 @francescaroseo @emanuelagranata
April 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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markaeaton.bsky.social
I love a big conference photo… here’s the ~280 attendees at the European Bird Census Council’s #BirdNumbers2025 in Riga, where we’re having a great time sharing news on monitoring, research and conservation projects
About 280 ornithologists and conservation scientists sitting on the stairs at the University of Latvia’s House of Nature for the Bird Numbers 2025 group photo
April 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM