Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇
@amarotuninetti.bsky.social
🦇 echolocation researcher.
postdoc in New Hampshire; NSF PRFB
bioacoustics, cognitive science, photography, fútbol, & a healthy dose of political shitposting
he/him/his 🇦🇷
amarotuninetti.me
postdoc in New Hampshire; NSF PRFB
bioacoustics, cognitive science, photography, fútbol, & a healthy dose of political shitposting
he/him/his 🇦🇷
amarotuninetti.me
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JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nation’s history
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nation’s history
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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🦇Fatal attraction: migratory bats are lured to wind turbine blades url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Fatal attraction: migratory bats are lured to wind turbine blades
Wind turbines are important for global energy production because of their low greenhouse gas emissions. However, for unknown reasons, many migratory bats are colliding with the wind turbine blades, le...
journals.biologists.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🦇Fatal attraction: migratory bats are lured to wind turbine blades url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOVETOPS
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOVETOPS
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOVETOPS
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOVETOPS
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He has been giving the same answer for months but he's asked about it every interview. These questions aren't being asked to inform the public. They exist to continually suggest to viewers that Mamdani secretly hates Jews.
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
He has been giving the same answer for months but he's asked about it every interview. These questions aren't being asked to inform the public. They exist to continually suggest to viewers that Mamdani secretly hates Jews.
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
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Data collected for another year of microbat monitoring at my place for Bats in Backyards (NSW). Now it’s the wait for a report to come back to tell me what species have been logged this year. Some great pick-ups, like this one. These calls are in the 30-80 kHz frequency range 🦇🔊 #EcoAcoustics
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Data collected for another year of microbat monitoring at my place for Bats in Backyards (NSW). Now it’s the wait for a report to come back to tell me what species have been logged this year. Some great pick-ups, like this one. These calls are in the 30-80 kHz frequency range 🦇🔊 #EcoAcoustics
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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Also, it's super fucked up that every cool unsolved bird mystery (like how birds orient during migration, still a very open question in the field, with support for a bunch of alternative hypotheses) is presented as definitely solved by the Google AI.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Also, it's super fucked up that every cool unsolved bird mystery (like how birds orient during migration, still a very open question in the field, with support for a bunch of alternative hypotheses) is presented as definitely solved by the Google AI.
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New paper + recent news demonstrate that chimpanzees are the only rational animals
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New paper + recent news demonstrate that chimpanzees are the only rational animals
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‘Winter arrives on the wings of a Brown Long Eared bat’ While the Brandt’s bats 🦇 have been underground since early September, it always takes a sub zero snap to push the Long Eareds into hibernation. #bats #chiroptera #research #conservation #ecology
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
‘Winter arrives on the wings of a Brown Long Eared bat’ While the Brandt’s bats 🦇 have been underground since early September, it always takes a sub zero snap to push the Long Eareds into hibernation. #bats #chiroptera #research #conservation #ecology
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November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Don't buy 'curiosities' made of dead bats!
Online stores including Amazon and Google shop are still openly selling these items, a year after we highlighted the problem. Trade in Endangered species needs to stop. #wildlife #bats #nature 🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Online stores including Amazon and Google shop are still openly selling these items, a year after we highlighted the problem. Trade in Endangered species needs to stop. #wildlife #bats #nature 🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Don't buy 'curiosities' made of dead bats!
Online stores including Amazon and Google shop are still openly selling these items, a year after we highlighted the problem. Trade in Endangered species needs to stop. #wildlife #bats #nature 🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Online stores including Amazon and Google shop are still openly selling these items, a year after we highlighted the problem. Trade in Endangered species needs to stop. #wildlife #bats #nature 🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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is this what happens when the economy is good
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
is this what happens when the economy is good
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I mean jesus christ, it was not that long ago that "papers please" was damn near universally accepted as a 2-word shorthand for the kind of oppressive society that we beat our chests over being better than
Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh).
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I mean jesus christ, it was not that long ago that "papers please" was damn near universally accepted as a 2-word shorthand for the kind of oppressive society that we beat our chests over being better than
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Folktale Week day 2: echo
where the Moon is looking for its friend
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #kidlitart #illustration
where the Moon is looking for its friend
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #kidlitart #illustration
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Folktale Week day 2: echo
where the Moon is looking for its friend
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #kidlitart #illustration
where the Moon is looking for its friend
#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #kidlitart #illustration