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leoboeger.bsky.social
@leoboeger.bsky.social
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He/him - Phd student at Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior, in Scholz lab and Lightfoot lab. Worms with teeth. Brains. Everything nature. Music when I have time for it. Views are my own.
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · Sep 21
Hi Bluesky! I recently joined, I think it’s time to introduce myself 👋 I’m Leo, #PhD student looking into how #worms with teeth kill other worms 🧠🪱🔬I investigate how feeding behaviors are controlled by the brain
#ecology #neuroscience #pristionchus
#nematodes #compneuro #MLsky #neuroskyence
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Signal @signal.org · 6d
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · 9d
Interested in neuromodulation, predatory worms or hidden Markov models? Or the combination of all three? Then come and see my poster (number 21) today in poster session 1 at the #BernsteinConference.
P. pacificus feeding on a C. elegans larvae.
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Vanessa K. Nickel @vanessa-k-nickel.bsky.social · 10d
Welches Zugdesign wurde inspiriert von einem Vogelschnabel?🤔 Um welchen Vogel es sich handelt seht ihr schon im Bild, alles weitere könnt ihr in meinem Blogartikel lesen. ☺️📖

#bird #sciart #graphicdesign #blogging #illustration #birdart #nature #kleinekunstklasse
Der Eisvogel als Inspiration
Mit seinem farbintensiven Federkleid ist der Eisvogel bestens getarnt. Sein schimmernden blautürkises Gefieder verschwimmt im Ufernähe mit den Lichtreflektionen der…
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · 10d
Also a little section about brains 🧠 no worms though 🙂‍↔️
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · 10d
Yesterday’s PhD symposium of the #BernsteinConference was great fun. Today I spent the morning in the Senckenberg museum, what a great exhibition! Too much to look at in 3h, will have to come back.
Now heading to the start of the main conference. Looking forward to a lot of great talks and posters.
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · 10d
Also a little section about brains 🧠 no worms though 🙂‍↔️
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · 12d
Oder was Duo, oder was?
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · 15d
Ein Flugzeug? 😅
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Christoph Dellago @chhdellago.bsky.social · Sep 3
Time to say goodbye to the glacier Marmolada, which will be gone soon😥
goodbye-glaciers.info/glaciers/RGI...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Aug 27
Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due.

Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.

Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
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Vanessa K. Nickel @vanessa-k-nickel.bsky.social · Aug 27
It has such a beautiful red colour 😍 so I really couldn’t resist to illustrate this bird of the month for the #birdwhisperer project. @birdwhisperers.bsky.social

#birds #vogel #birdart #sciart #art #vectorart #illustration #vectorillustration #kleinekunstklasse #graphicdesign #wildlife #natur #bird
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · Aug 20
New preprint: Scientists, how many times has this happened to you? You collect all kinds of data from a camera or microscope. But then you are faced with an analysis pipeline that threatens to take 100x longer than collecting the data did!
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · Aug 21
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · Aug 15
What a concept, sadopopulism. Explains some twisted things, kind of.
Screenshot of article, bold in center: “They’re offering them delight in the torture of others.” Rest of text: “The memes about brutal detention and deportation, specifically, invite audiences to delight in what Stanley calls “torture,” to see themselves in what the government is doing, to say, as he puts it, “This is something we’re doing together, we’re having a blast, we’re laughing and those wimpy liberals are saying it’s scandalous. We’re going to show our power over them by having as much fun as possible.” “Stanley says that it’s part of the overall structure of what his colleague Timothy Snyder calls “sadopopulism“: putting policies into place that inflict real pain”
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · Aug 13
The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans.

Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
a man in a suit has a name tag on his jacket that says dennis
Alt: a man in a suit has a name tag on his jacket that says dennis
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · Aug 12
Unfortunately though also the environment
insighttechtalk.com/tech-news/st...
Stop Saying Please and Thank You to ChatGPT- The Environmental Impact You Didn’t Know About
The Hidden Cost Behind Every "Thanks"In our everyday lives, saying "please" and "thank you" is a basic courtesy — a
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · Aug 12
Guter Artikel! Mit „die anderen sind doch noch viel schlimmer“ kommen wir auch nicht weiter. Auch weil wir uns alle gegenseitig beeinflussen. For better or for worse.

#klimakrise
Klimakrise: Pffft, die anderen sind doch noch viel schlimmer
Viele von uns fliegen zu weit und essen zu viel Fleisch. Doch schuld am Klimawandel sind Reiche oder Politiker. Diese Doppelmoral der Mittelschicht-Ökos ist gefährlich.
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Kenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social · Jul 3
Are LLMs correlated when they make mistakes? In our new ICML paper, we answer this question using responses of >350 LLMs. We find substantial correlation. On one dataset, LLMs agree on the wrong answer ~2x more than they would at random. 🧵(1/7)

arxiv.org/abs/2506.07962
Heat map showing that more accurate models have more correlated errors.
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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · Jul 2
I often heard the term "swim along or go under" when talking about AI. Seems like it's time to get out of the fricking water.
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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · Jul 1
Kudos to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for some absolutely essential reporting from the frontline of AI’s enshittification of our culture (not to mention our software).

Worth the long read.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Jun 26
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · Jun 25
I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌
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Vanessa K. Nickel @vanessa-k-nickel.bsky.social · May 5
Ist euch schon aufgefallen, dass sich die Lachmöwen für den Frühling in Schale geschmissen haben? 🎩 Ich habe dazu einen kleinen Blogartikel geschrieben, denn: ich blogge jetzt! 🤓😄

#birds #birdart #illustration #kleinekunstklasse #möwe #lachmöwe #art #seabirds #frühling

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leoboeger.bsky.social @leoboeger.bsky.social · May 2
Who would have guessed.
Germany’s far-right AfD formally designated as ‘extremist’ – Europe live
Minister says party ‘discriminates against entire population groups’ and insists there was no political influence over intelligence agency’s decision
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 1
Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.

Could these be the real culprits?

The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.

This thread explains! 🧵
A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!
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Vanessa K. Nickel @vanessa-k-nickel.bsky.social · Apr 19
Ein schönes Osterwochenende euch allen 🌼🎨

#april #flower #frühling #blume #gänseblümchen #digitalart #illustration #nature #art
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