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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22d

This rules lmao

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 22d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21d

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity

next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

Reti earmarks $70m of new agency's budget for AI commercialisation grants

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 21d

*Private Health Insurance entered the chat*

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21d

A paper in Nature presents a new artificial intelligence model that can predict how a person’s health might change over their lifetime. This tool could help doctors and health planners to better understand and prepare for personalized medical needs. go.nature.com/4n6giWi #medsky 🧪

This is figure 4, which shows explainable AI offers insights into disease progression.

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 21d

New read from me this AM w exclusive polling:

Luxon headed into a $1500 a head donor dinner with his leadership of the economy and country under serious pressure.

Polling shows more think the county is on the wrong track than at any point since the election

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

PM jets off to donor dinner, leaving Willis to explain economic dive

Christopher Luxon walked into a $1500-a-head National Party fundraising event last night with the economy under serious pressure ‒ and a poll revealing more Kiwis think the country is on the “wrong tr...

www.thepost.co.nz

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 24d

You can see a breakdown by category, and look up your specific ward, too. If you want to avoid biasing yourself, you can also click the little 👁️ icon at the top left to hide the candidate's name/image. You can then 💜 the policies you like, and at the end, it will show you who aligned with most!

André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 24d

For my whānau in Aotearoa, if you haven't heard there is a fantastic new website for learning about your local election candidates: policy.nz - this was funded by the electoral commission and it gives you far more detail about the candidates, including their specific policies on a range of issues!

Policy.nz - NZ Local Elections 2025

Don’t know who to vote for? Policy.nz is the complete guide to the 2025 local elections. Compare the candidates and policies to see where you stand.

policy.nz

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 24d

I wonder if they know how they sound...

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 29d

Next week on Wednesday 17th September at 7pm NZ time I'll be talking to the NZ Geological Society on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction. You can register to see my talk using the link below.

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 28d

A copy/paste-able link for those interested: gsnz.org.nz/gsnz-events/...

GSNZ Events

gsnz.org.nz

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Jeff White @jeffwwhite.bsky.social · Aug 28

New open access paper out! We evaluated the population structure and conservation needs for 3 crested penguin species in NZ. Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · Aug 18

same

Headline: These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping

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Skull Issue @gothpink.bsky.social · Aug 12

Very glad I finally got stuck in to modeling these little critters. Still need texture work, but they look a lot more menacing now, and really gross too 😈
Now i gotta do something about the player models.

#gamedev #indiedev #horrorgames

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 10

No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models

Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

www.theguardian.com

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Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · May 1

**Join Our Team! 🚀**
🌟 **Exciting Postdoc Opportunity!** @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Dive into groundbreaking research that explores how rising ecological novelty transforms #biodiversity and #vegetation! 🌿 —apply now! 👉 shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · Aug 4

Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n

Nature @nature.com · Aug 4

“The dire wolf fits the Jurassic Park model of de-extinction beautifully. It is clearly for spectacle”

Colossal’s bold de-extinction claims have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down
go.nature.com/458Q4L2

This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.

Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.

go.nature.com

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · Jul 30

Willis pushing partial privatisation of Kiwibank just so it can access $500m of new capital. $500m also happens to be the combined subsidy she is giving to Phillip Morris tobacco ($300m) and fossil fuel cos ($200m). Let’s redirect that cash to Kiwibank and keep it. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Not-so-Kiwibank? Finance minister opens door to partial sale

“Kiwibank. It’s Ours” or so the advertisements go. But possibly not “ours” entirely for much longer with Finance Minister Nicola Willis open to floating part of the state-owned company

www.stuff.co.nz

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today is the five year anniversary of Jordan Williams of the the New Zealand Taxpayers Union blocking me on Twitter after I referred to the debt monster mascot as his fursona

A green furry monster holding a sign that says "debt monster"

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · Jul 23

Better version of the meme.

The joke is, Nature is the one killing null results, but blaming scientists.

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 11

and predators affect seabird colonies. A preview is that even low amounts of predation by invasive predator is enough drive populations locally extinct and that ENSO effects can break the back of many populations. For translocations, even a little predation can prevent new colonies establishing!

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you Andy! I am super happy this is finally out :)

Thank you for the link - I have chatted about this with Graeme and other seabird folks and I fully agree. Mammalian predators are absolutely devastating. We are just about to submit another piece using simulations to look into how climate...

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Jun 5

Combining multiple data sources to show that colonies of at least 15 species of burrowing seabirds were once found throughout Aotearoa, including on mountain ranges far inland. Most were rapidly wiped out by humans and rats pre-1840, other introduced predators taking care of what survived.

André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 5

Stoked to finally see this one out in the wide world: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)

Burrowing Into the Past: Extending Niche Space Models of Procellariiform Breeding Grounds by Merging Fossil and Historic Data

Aim Predicting species' potential distributions and niches requires multi-scale data encompassing the past and present. Increasingly, researchers have advocated using historical context to inform ec...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you Marta! 😁

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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · Jun 5

Check out this cool work from @andrebellve.bsky.social

André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 5

Stoked to finally see this one out in the wide world: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)

Burrowing Into the Past: Extending Niche Space Models of Procellariiform Breeding Grounds by Merging Fossil and Historic Data

Aim Predicting species' potential distributions and niches requires multi-scale data encompassing the past and present. Increasingly, researchers have advocated using historical context to inform ec...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 5

...and better understand burrowing #procellariiformes colonies Aotearoa.

Also, a big thank you to all my coauthors - Janet M. Wilmshurst, Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social, Edin Whitehead, Chris P. Gaskin, R. Paul Scofield, Trevor H. Worthy, and George L. W. Perry - who made this possible! (4/4)

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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · Jun 5

...while fossil records only captured environments that favour preservation. In contrast, contemporary records were more thorough, but only captured the distribution of extant #seabird colonies. By combining these records, we showed that we can reconstruct past distributions...(3/4)

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