Beckett Sterner
@beckettws
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Biodiversity data science — Historian and philosopher of biology — Asst Prof at Arizona State -- all views my own
Phoenix, AZ
Joined May 2015
“It’s self-evident that generative AI competes with the work it’s trained on, and the people behind that work. But there is now a growing body of evidence to support this.” About that fair use argument…🤔
If people tell you gen AI is a tool rather than a replacement for human creativity, show them this new data from Harvard Business Review: - ChatGPT reduced writing jobs by 30% and coding jobs by 20% - AI image generators reduced image creation jobs by 17% - These numbers are not
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Exciting to see the list of former @Project_Telos team members speaking at this year’s PSA conference, including Anya Plutynski, @ArminWSchulz @beckettws Celso Neto, Charbel El-Hani, @DerekSkillings Ingo Brigandt, @justin_garson @NewExtinctBlog @pierrickbourrat and Thomas
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New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30
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Why doesn’t evolution follow a path of constant adaptation? Over the past 50 years, punctuated equilibrium has expanded leading to a unified framework for punctuated evolution across scales—from genes to ecosystems & our planet. Our new collaboration at https://t.co/HXYe0yUyDM
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NativeBio & its many many friends and academicians are making the changes needed in this burgeoning and potentially harmful Big Data, Omics and Open Access landscape. The Common Rule needs a big overhaul and it needs to be applied to Private Corporations!
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Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information
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This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors @theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at @BrownUniversity. Olivia is a physics PhD student at @BrandeisU, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)
Tissue-Like Multicellular Development Triggered by Mechanical Compression in Archaea https://t.co/dgcRTwNDTe
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This looks super cool. 2 postdocs on 1. philosophy of scientific method and philosophy of causality. 2. evidence review and research methods. Applications due Nov 4 https://t.co/ovicWq3Fl9
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Jon Williamson’s research pages: philosophy of science, medicine, AI and law; epistemology; metaphysics; logic
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What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely? New paper out today! ✨ https://t.co/Om197YOdvl 1/🧵
How do your favorite disorders fare in a data-driven reorganization of the DSM-5? Find out in this new preprint where we followed the patterns in 14,762 individuals’ symptoms with the goal of overcoming limitations in both the DSM and @HiTOP_system
https://t.co/jDI45DjLnl
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Tried to recreate this with a square headshot of my own and some open-source outpainting models and.... yep, they all definitely give me more cleavage than my original blouse (last picture)🫠 (They also erase my butterflies! What kind of bias is that?)
Guess what: AI enhancement tools of any kind will have a tendency to add things that weren't there to begin with... like unbuttoning women's shirts and showing their bras🙃
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turns out using copilot for coding, neither increases productivity nor reduces burnout but increases (by 41%) bug rate according to a study that assessed 800 developers
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🐰 Announcing new project on Zooniverse: Notes from Nature - Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America! https://t.co/yKCsBBlvtw
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Calling all science/tech folks: Do you have thoughts about xkcd? Parker Bach & I are trying to understand the role that xkcd plays in the scientific/technical community. Will you share your thoughts? https://t.co/r3BEnihZTd And since we are doing a snowball sample, please spread
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There is a major lack of microbial/music parody stickers. Thankfully I'm here to change that! https://t.co/FAyx3Ar3dn
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New pre-print on the presence of negative scaling between diversification rates and the duration of clades! Various explanations, such as incongruence between micro- and macroevolution, have been put forward based on molecular phylogenies, but the fossil record has been ignored
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Introducing The Boring Fund. Alongside @Arm, we’re supporting the essential but overlooked aspects of conservation technology—the “boring” initiatives that build a more resilient and effective #conservationtech ecosystem. Learn more and apply today: https://t.co/Fx7HCNr16B
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🔥LIVE from the @tdwg-@SPNHC conference! 🇯🇵 Our publisher @Pensoft's efforts in spreading the word about our brand new #journal just got us two new Editorial Board members!🤩 👋Warm welcome to @idbdeb (@UofIllinois & past @tdwg Chair) and @alinaff3 (@utcCotopaxi)! #TDWG2024
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🚨The AMNH is hiring at the post-baccalaureate level to assist with activities in support of an NSF collaborative research project (w/ us at @OU_Paleo) investigating biogeography, turnover, and evolutionary dynamics of the Late Ordovician mass extinction https://t.co/8XRMezAAVO
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I love this @Nature article by @samjscience on careful considerations to human microbiome research, especially on consent, benefit sharing, commercialization, avoiding stigma, questioning data ethics norms, and calling question to health and digital equity for Indigenous peoples.
I’m grateful to the many researchers who spoke with me about what the future of Indigenous microbiome research should look like, particularly the Indigenous researchers who trusted me to share their histories and work @Nature
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Are you a philosopher, historian or 'STS' scholar that is interested in exploring jobs in 'policy'? Here's my guide for on ways to explore working in federal government. I frame it for HPS types, but advice is general to all Please share/comment!
philscipolicy.com
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