Güneş Bodur
@gunesbodur.bsky.social
Boğaziçi University - Linguistics
🇨🇾
🇨🇾
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
“True intelligence is the ability to reason with minimal inputs – a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach of LLMs like ChatGPT”
Fascinating article on what true Artificial General Intelligence could & should be
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Fascinating article on what true Artificial General Intelligence could & should be
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“True intelligence is the ability to reason with minimal inputs – a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach of LLMs like ChatGPT”
Fascinating article on what true Artificial General Intelligence could & should be
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Fascinating article on what true Artificial General Intelligence could & should be
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
As people get more & more obsessed with ‘big’ data and new tech for gathering loads of data
It is worth remembering that science is about asking useful questions & gathering the right data to answer them
It is worth remembering that science is about asking useful questions & gathering the right data to answer them
September 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As people get more & more obsessed with ‘big’ data and new tech for gathering loads of data
It is worth remembering that science is about asking useful questions & gathering the right data to answer them
It is worth remembering that science is about asking useful questions & gathering the right data to answer them
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
I say this as someone who grew up blue collar. I spent my childhood moving around, living in hotels with my mom, a brief stint at my dad’s trailer or co-op. We ate day old bread and stew from dented cans. Learning to learn is not for rich kids and our value does not derive from what the bosses want.
September 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I say this as someone who grew up blue collar. I spent my childhood moving around, living in hotels with my mom, a brief stint at my dad’s trailer or co-op. We ate day old bread and stew from dented cans. Learning to learn is not for rich kids and our value does not derive from what the bosses want.
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Some terms are very popular in conservation, but are not unmitigated positives
‘Resilience’: keeping systems the same may make ultimate collapse more likely
‘Connectivity’: can allow the spread of fire, disease & invasives
‘Species-rich’: is simplistic & ignores uniqueness & trophic structures
‘Resilience’: keeping systems the same may make ultimate collapse more likely
‘Connectivity’: can allow the spread of fire, disease & invasives
‘Species-rich’: is simplistic & ignores uniqueness & trophic structures
August 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Some terms are very popular in conservation, but are not unmitigated positives
‘Resilience’: keeping systems the same may make ultimate collapse more likely
‘Connectivity’: can allow the spread of fire, disease & invasives
‘Species-rich’: is simplistic & ignores uniqueness & trophic structures
‘Resilience’: keeping systems the same may make ultimate collapse more likely
‘Connectivity’: can allow the spread of fire, disease & invasives
‘Species-rich’: is simplistic & ignores uniqueness & trophic structures
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Co-production of rich agrobiodiversity by people & nature in the Shexian dry stone terrace landscape (Hebei, China). Key components of this agricultural heritage system are: Farmers, Chinese red pepper, donkeys/mules, traditional crops & a lot of stones. Paper: doi.org/10.1080/2639...
July 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Co-production of rich agrobiodiversity by people & nature in the Shexian dry stone terrace landscape (Hebei, China). Key components of this agricultural heritage system are: Farmers, Chinese red pepper, donkeys/mules, traditional crops & a lot of stones. Paper: doi.org/10.1080/2639...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Do not treat this as fait accompli. We are winning in courts and public opinion. Nominees are being withdrawn. Congress is shook. Musk is leaving.
Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses.
Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.
Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses.
Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Do not treat this as fait accompli. We are winning in courts and public opinion. Nominees are being withdrawn. Congress is shook. Musk is leaving.
Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses.
Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.
Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses.
Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Bored of claims that reducing meat eating will mean valuable habitats will become undergrazed
Reduced meat eating would decrease the land given to intensive livestock farming & arable crops grown to feed livestock
Semi-natural habitats are obviously not the basis of industrial meat production
Reduced meat eating would decrease the land given to intensive livestock farming & arable crops grown to feed livestock
Semi-natural habitats are obviously not the basis of industrial meat production
April 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Bored of claims that reducing meat eating will mean valuable habitats will become undergrazed
Reduced meat eating would decrease the land given to intensive livestock farming & arable crops grown to feed livestock
Semi-natural habitats are obviously not the basis of industrial meat production
Reduced meat eating would decrease the land given to intensive livestock farming & arable crops grown to feed livestock
Semi-natural habitats are obviously not the basis of industrial meat production
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
I’ll be giving a public lecture at the Linnean Society in April on how conservation needs to adapt to meet the challenges of the climate emergency
Book tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220841863...
Book tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220841863...
January 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I’ll be giving a public lecture at the Linnean Society in April on how conservation needs to adapt to meet the challenges of the climate emergency
Book tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220841863...
Book tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220841863...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
The next talk in our 2024/2025 talk series will be given by Sol Tovar.
The talk will be on the topic of "Queering the linguistics classroom".
Find more information here: div-ling.org/talks
#linguistics #Linguistik
The talk will be on the topic of "Queering the linguistics classroom".
Find more information here: div-ling.org/talks
#linguistics #Linguistik
January 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The next talk in our 2024/2025 talk series will be given by Sol Tovar.
The talk will be on the topic of "Queering the linguistics classroom".
Find more information here: div-ling.org/talks
#linguistics #Linguistik
The talk will be on the topic of "Queering the linguistics classroom".
Find more information here: div-ling.org/talks
#linguistics #Linguistik
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Hybridization is too often an overlooked mechanism aiding the dispersal of invasive species. The right pairing and hybrid vigor gives us entirely new management challenges. For plants, knotweed comes to mind. www.iflscience.com/hybrid-pytho... #invasivespecies #ecology
Hybrid Pythons Are Winning The Invasive Snake War In Florida Everglades
The interbred snakes of South Florida have "hybrid vigor," making them a formidable foe.
www.iflscience.com
December 30, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Hybridization is too often an overlooked mechanism aiding the dispersal of invasive species. The right pairing and hybrid vigor gives us entirely new management challenges. For plants, knotweed comes to mind. www.iflscience.com/hybrid-pytho... #invasivespecies #ecology
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
👩🌾 Reducing tillage is a pathway to make Mediterranean agriculture more sustainable. But how does "conservation agriculture" fit into the mental models of farmers in Morocco, Spain and Tunisia (Topp et al.)? doi.org/10.1007/s104..., doi.org/10.1080/1473...
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
👩🌾 Reducing tillage is a pathway to make Mediterranean agriculture more sustainable. But how does "conservation agriculture" fit into the mental models of farmers in Morocco, Spain and Tunisia (Topp et al.)? doi.org/10.1007/s104..., doi.org/10.1080/1473...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
🐟 Urban wetlands are a neglected, but important source of ecosystem services, especially when managed cooperatively - as evidenced for the East Kolkata Wetlands, India (Basu et al.) and the pond systems of the Pearl River Delta, China (Chi et al.): doi.org/10.1016/j.la..., doi.org/10.5334/ijc....
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
🐟 Urban wetlands are a neglected, but important source of ecosystem services, especially when managed cooperatively - as evidenced for the East Kolkata Wetlands, India (Basu et al.) and the pond systems of the Pearl River Delta, China (Chi et al.): doi.org/10.1016/j.la..., doi.org/10.5334/ijc....
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
What happened in the Social-Ecological Interactions group at @unikassel.bsky.social and @agrarunigoe.bsky.social in 2024? Some highlights🎉 from our work on sustainability transformations in diverse landscapes...
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
What happened in the Social-Ecological Interactions group at @unikassel.bsky.social and @agrarunigoe.bsky.social in 2024? Some highlights🎉 from our work on sustainability transformations in diverse landscapes...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Ecological rewilding needs cultural rewilding - to reconnect people to nature. A story of reindeer reintroduction, peatland restoration & cultural regeneration from Eastern Finland. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer
For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Ecological rewilding needs cultural rewilding - to reconnect people to nature. A story of reindeer reintroduction, peatland restoration & cultural regeneration from Eastern Finland. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
The #TransformativeChange Assessment is the 1st @ipbes.bsky.social report on the root causes of the biodiversity crisis:
➡️ Disconnection / domination of nature & people
➡️ Concentration of power & wealth
➡️ Prioritization of short-term gains
Recommended holiday reading! www.ipbes.net/transformati...
➡️ Disconnection / domination of nature & people
➡️ Concentration of power & wealth
➡️ Prioritization of short-term gains
Recommended holiday reading! www.ipbes.net/transformati...
December 21, 2024 at 1:51 PM
The #TransformativeChange Assessment is the 1st @ipbes.bsky.social report on the root causes of the biodiversity crisis:
➡️ Disconnection / domination of nature & people
➡️ Concentration of power & wealth
➡️ Prioritization of short-term gains
Recommended holiday reading! www.ipbes.net/transformati...
➡️ Disconnection / domination of nature & people
➡️ Concentration of power & wealth
➡️ Prioritization of short-term gains
Recommended holiday reading! www.ipbes.net/transformati...
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank.
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank.
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Endangered languages are being killed, if you like a metaphor—more accurately, language users are *coerced* into shifting to a socially dominant language
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to save some of them www.npr.org/2024/11/...
December 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Endangered languages are being killed, if you like a metaphor—more accurately, language users are *coerced* into shifting to a socially dominant language
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
December 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
December 19, 2024 at 2:31 AM
I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
Reposted by Güneş Bodur
Peri-urban agroforestry has potential to boost social-ecological resilience while bridging rural-urban lifestyle needs. Our PPGIS study of landscape values, uses & disvalues in the exciting peri-urban Maâmora forest of Morocco is now out. Led by @mrio-torralba.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...
December 11, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Peri-urban agroforestry has potential to boost social-ecological resilience while bridging rural-urban lifestyle needs. Our PPGIS study of landscape values, uses & disvalues in the exciting peri-urban Maâmora forest of Morocco is now out. Led by @mrio-torralba.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...