Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)
@tedpavlic.bsky.social
ASU Assoc. Prof in SCAI and SOLS.
Decision making and behavior in living and artificial autonomous systems. I ❤️ ants, bees, wasps, robots, and optimal foraging theory.
mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter/X: @TedPavlic
@TEDx: http://youtu.be/9GWXCRetOjk
Decision making and behavior in living and artificial autonomous systems. I ❤️ ants, bees, wasps, robots, and optimal foraging theory.
mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter/X: @TedPavlic
@TEDx: http://youtu.be/9GWXCRetOjk
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*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago
Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals
Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago
www.newscientist.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago
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We are looking for PhD applicants! ‼️Interested in genomics, ecophysiology and adaptation? Look at our TREES DLA project:
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und...
We also offer more projects via ROUTE2. Get in touch and let’s have a chat 💬
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und...
We also offer more projects via ROUTE2. Get in touch and let’s have a chat 💬
Understanding the role of metabolism in adaptation & evolution | TREES DLA
In an era of rapid environmental change, understanding how species adapt to shifting conditions is critical for conservation biology. At the heart of adaptation lies metabolism, the process that fuels...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
We are looking for PhD applicants! ‼️Interested in genomics, ecophysiology and adaptation? Look at our TREES DLA project:
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und...
We also offer more projects via ROUTE2. Get in touch and let’s have a chat 💬
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und...
We also offer more projects via ROUTE2. Get in touch and let’s have a chat 💬
Oh, boy. #GoogleScholar is experimenting with blending AI with your favorite literature search engine. I worry that the results you get are not an improvement over standard search, and the process makes it harder to teach students how to do good searches.
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...
scholar.google.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Oh, boy. #GoogleScholar is experimenting with blending AI with your favorite literature search engine. I worry that the results you get are not an improvement over standard search, and the process makes it harder to teach students how to do good searches.
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Don't miss "Edge of Tomorrow," at 7 PM MST on Wednesday at Tempe's Majestic Neighborhood Cinema Grill! Before the film, enjoy a discussion with @tedpavlic.bsky.social , a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence.
🔗 www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
🔗 www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Don't miss "Edge of Tomorrow," at 7 PM MST on Wednesday at Tempe's Majestic Neighborhood Cinema Grill! Before the film, enjoy a discussion with @tedpavlic.bsky.social , a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence.
🔗 www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
🔗 www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
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This Wednesday, SCAI’s @tedpavlic.bsky.social joins ASU’s History of the Future series to introduce Edge of Tomorrow! 🎬 He’ll share how swarm intelligence & AI are turning sci-fi into reality.
www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
History of the Future: EDGE OF TOMORROW at Majestic Neighborhood Cinema Grill
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with hi...
www.majesticphx.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This Wednesday, SCAI’s @tedpavlic.bsky.social joins ASU’s History of the Future series to introduce Edge of Tomorrow! 🎬 He’ll share how swarm intelligence & AI are turning sci-fi into reality.
www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...
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#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
I'm really sick of the prisoner's dilemma. It's not relevant to most problems (temptation is too high -- which gives it THREE Pareto efficient outcomes) and gives the impression a Nash eq is always unique. Use stag hunt (one Pareto/more realistic) & hawk–dove (two Nash) instead.
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm really sick of the prisoner's dilemma. It's not relevant to most problems (temptation is too high -- which gives it THREE Pareto efficient outcomes) and gives the impression a Nash eq is always unique. Use stag hunt (one Pareto/more realistic) & hawk–dove (two Nash) instead.
"And where are we putting the pirates again?"
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"And where are we putting the pirates again?"
This old, silver #Apple keyboard that came with an iMac Pro years ago is still a fantastic keyboard. Much better than the current Apple Magic Keyboard.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This old, silver #Apple keyboard that came with an iMac Pro years ago is still a fantastic keyboard. Much better than the current Apple Magic Keyboard.
I once knew a guy named Rus, which he spelled with only one "s".
When he was in a hurry, sometimes we called him hyperbolic rus.
#sigmoidalhumor
When he was in a hurry, sometimes we called him hyperbolic rus.
#sigmoidalhumor
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I once knew a guy named Rus, which he spelled with only one "s".
When he was in a hurry, sometimes we called him hyperbolic rus.
#sigmoidalhumor
When he was in a hurry, sometimes we called him hyperbolic rus.
#sigmoidalhumor
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Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) has been sworn in!
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) has been sworn in!
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For Earth-based observers, bright sky background around full Moon, and geometry where comet 3I/ATLAS is close on the sky to the Sun, means it's taking a few days for big optical telescopes to get back on the job. All very standard, it's what happens for moving objects.
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
For Earth-based observers, bright sky background around full Moon, and geometry where comet 3I/ATLAS is close on the sky to the Sun, means it's taking a few days for big optical telescopes to get back on the job. All very standard, it's what happens for moving objects.
Huh. Even the hail is deadlier in Australia.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Huh. Even the hail is deadlier in Australia.
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This is the end-point of extractive AI. First get people to upload everything, then suck everything out of it, then get AI to generate all the answers. I wonder how this cycle continues. (If it means Chegg can't continue the cycle…paint me so sad.)
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is the end-point of extractive AI. First get people to upload everything, then suck everything out of it, then get AI to generate all the answers. I wonder how this cycle continues. (If it means Chegg can't continue the cycle…paint me so sad.)
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My my this hurts 😅
Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
My my this hurts 😅
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My quote of the day
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My quote of the day
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
This reads like an April Fool's joke. The first author in this "Sh-index" doesn't even get full credit for the paper. It's bad enough negotiating author order without these weightings!
"Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This reads like an April Fool's joke. The first author in this "Sh-index" doesn't even get full credit for the paper. It's bad enough negotiating author order without these weightings!
"Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Someone told me they got started as a flip-flop salesman. "SR?", I asked, but I was just kidding (JK!).
#jokecircuit
#jokecircuit
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Someone told me they got started as a flip-flop salesman. "SR?", I asked, but I was just kidding (JK!).
#jokecircuit
#jokecircuit
Does #SharePoint do anything right? Government contracts prop up this outdated enterprise platform, giving it far more market share than it deserves and putting govt security at risk.
"Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"
www.csoonline.com/article/4074...
"Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"
www.csoonline.com/article/4074...
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
A foreign actor infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus through vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint browser-based app, raising questions a...
www.csoonline.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Does #SharePoint do anything right? Government contracts prop up this outdated enterprise platform, giving it far more market share than it deserves and putting govt security at risk.
"Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"
www.csoonline.com/article/4074...
"Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"
www.csoonline.com/article/4074...
The captcha's at every step are also a bit much! Are they really worried about an AI attack of automated unsubscription requests? The amount of effort they've gone in to making it hard for people to avoid their spam. Is this really CAN-SPAM compliant?
This is egregiously evil, #Samsung. First, you force me to manually enter my e-mail to opt-out of a marketing list. THEN you make me confirm over e-mail via passcode. Remarkable!
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The captcha's at every step are also a bit much! Are they really worried about an AI attack of automated unsubscription requests? The amount of effort they've gone in to making it hard for people to avoid their spam. Is this really CAN-SPAM compliant?