NyaNyabulemba
@nyanyabulemba.bsky.social
Policy researcher in the wild
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Standing on the shoulders of 1000 country expert, we present and analyse the new Regime Support and Opposition Groups (ReSOG) dataset covering 2000 political regimes between 1789-2020.
March 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Standing on the shoulders of 1000 country expert, we present and analyse the new Regime Support and Opposition Groups (ReSOG) dataset covering 2000 political regimes between 1789-2020.
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Finished a draft chapter today for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel writing. The chapter is 'Earwitnessing and the authentication of experience' and it argues that travel writing was not just an eyewitness genre; that 'seeing' was a multisensory experience... (1/2)
March 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Finished a draft chapter today for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel writing. The chapter is 'Earwitnessing and the authentication of experience' and it argues that travel writing was not just an eyewitness genre; that 'seeing' was a multisensory experience... (1/2)
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Haikuboxes were listening for birds during the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2025! Learn more about what we learned https://buff.ly/438ZyXk #haikubox #GBBC #bioacoustics
February 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Haikuboxes were listening for birds during the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2025! Learn more about what we learned https://buff.ly/438ZyXk #haikubox #GBBC #bioacoustics
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Can't believe this is happening 3 hours away but I'm considering sleeping in this weekend. 🪶
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Can't believe this is happening 3 hours away but I'm considering sleeping in this weekend. 🪶
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Drops on a colorful mushroom.
Secrets of forests.
Dolomiti - 2021
My #hiking life.
My #nature #photography.
Secrets of forests.
Dolomiti - 2021
My #hiking life.
My #nature #photography.
February 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Drops on a colorful mushroom.
Secrets of forests.
Dolomiti - 2021
My #hiking life.
My #nature #photography.
Secrets of forests.
Dolomiti - 2021
My #hiking life.
My #nature #photography.
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First stick I found on my birthday walk today was covered with teeny tiny gold. Sunburst lichen?😍
#hotsticks#fungifriends#lichen
#hotsticks#fungifriends#lichen
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
First stick I found on my birthday walk today was covered with teeny tiny gold. Sunburst lichen?😍
#hotsticks#fungifriends#lichen
#hotsticks#fungifriends#lichen
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I am making a thread of my finds from recently released Red List of Fungi (Macromycetes) of the Czech Republic (which came long 18 years after the first Czech fungi red list).
www.priroda.nature.cz/index.php/pr...
#fungi #fungifriends #mycology
www.priroda.nature.cz/index.php/pr...
#fungi #fungifriends #mycology
Červený seznam hub (makromycetů) České republiky: Red list of fungi (macromycetes) of the Czech republic
| Příroda
www.priroda.nature.cz
February 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I am making a thread of my finds from recently released Red List of Fungi (Macromycetes) of the Czech Republic (which came long 18 years after the first Czech fungi red list).
www.priroda.nature.cz/index.php/pr...
#fungi #fungifriends #mycology
www.priroda.nature.cz/index.php/pr...
#fungi #fungifriends #mycology
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That Oval Office debacle today solidified two things:
1. The US is not a trusted ally
2. Zelensky is a hero
1. The US is not a trusted ally
2. Zelensky is a hero
March 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
That Oval Office debacle today solidified two things:
1. The US is not a trusted ally
2. Zelensky is a hero
1. The US is not a trusted ally
2. Zelensky is a hero
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Got chills reading the first few pages of this new release from @restingdinoface.bsky.social 😻
Such an incredible opening story about what else you may find while looking for dinosaur bones … #BookSky
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Such an incredible opening story about what else you may find while looking for dinosaur bones … #BookSky
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Got chills reading the first few pages of this new release from @restingdinoface.bsky.social 😻
Such an incredible opening story about what else you may find while looking for dinosaur bones … #BookSky
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Such an incredible opening story about what else you may find while looking for dinosaur bones … #BookSky
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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NEW BOOK OUT TODAY!!
SHARDED MEDIA
Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream
@williammerrin.bsky.social
Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media...
they have replaced it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
SHARDED MEDIA
Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream
@williammerrin.bsky.social
Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media...
they have replaced it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
SHARDED MEDIA
This book shows how the election of Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2024 is not a fluke but rather a symptom of a deep crisis within representative democracy
link.springer.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NEW BOOK OUT TODAY!!
SHARDED MEDIA
Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream
@williammerrin.bsky.social
Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media...
they have replaced it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
SHARDED MEDIA
Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream
@williammerrin.bsky.social
Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media...
they have replaced it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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This book is very good - and makes a lot of the Scary Math Stuff accessible to a generalist audience without pandering (a real feat). highly recommend to everyone who feels AGH about statistics and AI.
Posting this so I can pin it. This is my most recent book about artificial intelligence, statistics and capitalism. It was written largely before the most recent AI boom, but feel that everything I wrote is even more true today than when I wrote it. (also available in Spanish, Japanese and Korean)
Revolutionary Mathematics
Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods ...
www.versobooks.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This book is very good - and makes a lot of the Scary Math Stuff accessible to a generalist audience without pandering (a real feat). highly recommend to everyone who feels AGH about statistics and AI.
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Morning rays warming up these flammulina #fungifriends #mycology
February 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Morning rays warming up these flammulina #fungifriends #mycology
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Y'all, I just found out about Elisabeth Bik, microbiologist & science integrity advocate. Basically, she finds scientists cheating their results in papers. Her work has resulted in 1331 Retractions, 215 Expressions of Concern, and 1074 Corrections so far. And she's here! @elisabethbik.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Y'all, I just found out about Elisabeth Bik, microbiologist & science integrity advocate. Basically, she finds scientists cheating their results in papers. Her work has resulted in 1331 Retractions, 215 Expressions of Concern, and 1074 Corrections so far. And she's here! @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Milkcaps/Lactarius aurantiacus are kind of the bane of my existence. They are EVERYWHERE in the spring and their bright orange caps catch your eye over and over just to find it’s yet another milkcap.
Having said that, I have a ton of pictures of them ! Lol #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography
Having said that, I have a ton of pictures of them ! Lol #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography
February 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Milkcaps/Lactarius aurantiacus are kind of the bane of my existence. They are EVERYWHERE in the spring and their bright orange caps catch your eye over and over just to find it’s yet another milkcap.
Having said that, I have a ton of pictures of them ! Lol #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography
Having said that, I have a ton of pictures of them ! Lol #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography
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Phaeotremella foliacea
#Phaeotremellafoliacea #Phaeotremella #BlattartigerZitterling #LeafyBrain #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends
#Phaeotremellafoliacea #Phaeotremella #BlattartigerZitterling #LeafyBrain #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends
January 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Knowledge is paywalled and disinfo is free, and this is part of why we are where we are.
January 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Knowledge is paywalled and disinfo is free, and this is part of why we are where we are.
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Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
January 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
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Two young happy parrot mushrooms, AKA Gliophorus psittacinus, throw a little dance party in the woods by themselves. These mushrooms are extremely slimy, even if they don't really look like it. If you were to try to pluck one from the ground, you'd have a really hard time! 🍄💦 🍄📷 📸🎞 💚 💛 🍄 📷 🌱🌿 🟢
January 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Two young happy parrot mushrooms, AKA Gliophorus psittacinus, throw a little dance party in the woods by themselves. These mushrooms are extremely slimy, even if they don't really look like it. If you were to try to pluck one from the ground, you'd have a really hard time! 🍄💦 🍄📷 📸🎞 💚 💛 🍄 📷 🌱🌿 🟢
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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Why Pigeons Make Bad Nests: A defense of pigeon aesthetics
January 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why Pigeons Make Bad Nests: A defense of pigeon aesthetics
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Every argument for A.I. just shows these hucksters are the laziest, emptiest, dullest people on the planet.
January 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Every argument for A.I. just shows these hucksters are the laziest, emptiest, dullest people on the planet.