"Use AI", they said. "It'll make you faster", they said.

So.... does it, actually? 🤷

Anybody studying this yet? 🤔 Oh, look at this! "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" by Becker at al.

metr.org/Early_2025_A...

Hmmm.... let's see... wait-- 😅

[PÉTITION] Génocide à Gaza : la France doit mettre fin à l'impunité d'Israël !

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Tracking data and teamwork once again show their value for wildlife conservation.

Our study led by Timothée Poupartand and Thibaut Bettignies reveals mismatches between the Natura2000 marine network and seabird distributions, urging for better protected areas off France

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New paper out in Marine Policy: "Mismatches between the current marine Natura 2000 network and seabird distributions call for enhanced protected areas off metropolitan France"
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Something to get you thinking…
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
#Seabirds

Yes, thanks! But we need smaller tags (for penguins).

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️

Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat

The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels

Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

To the #biologging community : I'm looking for GPS or GPS-TDR tags transmitting data through Argos or Iridium and depth-rated to 200m. Also not crazily expensive... 😅
Any suggestion?

All this plastic is making my head spin. I don’t think one can grasp the amount of our own produced junk you can find in sable shearwaters. All the pieces here (60g - 778 pieces) were in one (1!!!) chick. That’s roughly 20% of its body weight. @adriftlab.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social

NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...

I made a list of folks who work in ocean science and conservation, post stuff that’s interesting to non-experts in those fields (like my students,) and post regularly.

Give them a follow to get more ocean on your feed.

I am always adding to this list. But please don’t ask me to add you.

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Over 1,300 US Dept of Education staff were just fired today. They helped manage student loans, grants, and financial aid for college. Another 572 staff resigned in the last month.

Without the Dept of Education there's no way in hell I would have been able to afford college. #dumptrump

Relations entre Paris et Alger : “Nous assistons en France à un réalignement sur la posture de l’extrême droite.”

Entretien avec l’historien Benjamin Stora. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...

More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

Sous l’effet du changement climatique, les Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu environ 40 % de leur volume glaciaire en vingt ans.

En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume.

Hallucinant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize.

A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
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royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hell yeah, Wisdom
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NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.

This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

My god

Fucking horrendous.

National Science Foundation is being gutted today. Please support these folks and make some noise about this. 🧪

Great episode!