Applied ecologist working on the ecological emergency
Studying ecosystem restoration, rewilding, dispersal, spatial ecology, ecosystem services, agro-ecology, global change. Views are my own & personal/unofficial
Given English remains the dominant language in academia globally, don’t LLMs help academics who are not fluent in English to write papers?
Adapting to ongoing climate change will involve huge disruption to our systems
It would be so much simpler to act to stop further climate change
“Tech companies are conflating traditional AI [machine learning] with generative AI [energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools] when claiming the technology could help avert climate breakdown”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The argument in the paper you cite is not compelling
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Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
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Politicians & corporations won’t act unless the pressure changes
Hope is in protest & collective action. Together we must change the national conversation before tipping points lock in a hothouse Earth
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I know that’s not your point, but we have a corrupt, self-serving & profiteering arms trade that needs to be reformed
Will shift academia from the normalisation of working long hours and at the weekend
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the cattle have obviously heard about rewilding plans & are looking out for large predators, in multiple directions
Also my post does not oppose reintroductions. It asks for good research & accuracy in reporting
1) Eurasian beavers are not ‘at risk’; they are doing very well within their range
2) The Large Blue butterfly reintroduction was accompanied by a large amount of scientific research
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Refusing to see this as primarily top down processes is to protect the status quo
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Both are relevant for nature recovery, and can be used in combination to achieve wider benefits
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
as is The Telegraph
To aid further work, we have reviewed up-to-date empirical & modelling approaches & emerging technologies to quantify animal-mediated seed dispersal
doi.org/10.1002/aps3...
that papers one disagrees with & with which one finds fault should be retracted
Retraction is warranted for major errors, data irregularities, or misrepresentation
The scientific process will winnow out studies which are simply poor
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
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Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.
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