Dr Anna Dornhaus

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Dr Anna Dornhaus

Dr Anna Dornhaus

@dornhaus

Collective behavior, insects, complex systems; Prof in Ecology & Evol Bio at Univ of Arizona; science for public/kids; mastodon: @[email protected]

Arizona, USA शामिल हुए Mayıs 2009
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Dr Anna Dornhaus@dornhaus·
Key thing about scientific research: we don't know the answer yet. But do we think we know the answer? You bet! (we're human, after all) Therefore, key difficulty in science: overcoming our convictions. How? Rigorously discard hypotheses that make wrong predictions.
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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun@ylecun·
Not sure what you think is at stake, but whatever it is, working to elect an egocentric, incompetent, authoritarian, convicted felon is throwing the baby with the bathwater. And then, eroding the trust of the public in democratic institutions, the electoral process, the press, institutions of higher learning, science, and scientists, by spewing conspiracy theories, all for political expediency, is downright evil. You might mean well, but what you're doing is very destructive, highly dangerous, and would have the opposite effect of what you're hoping for.
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Esta@TheOnlyEsta·
This video was REMOVED FROM X‼️ Y’all know what to do…. GO‼️ twitter.com/kamala_wins47/…
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Nicholas Beale
Nicholas Beale@Starcourse·
@j2bryson Yes. But the assertion that Israel’s attack on Gaza amounts to genocide is highly contentious (to say the least). It is not per se a war crime, or genocide, to attack an enemy that is hiding in a civilian population.
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Sam Thorpe
Sam Thorpe@samthorpe__·
First: I am a proud Jew and grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Second: Israel is killing thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza. The actions of the Netanyahu government, and our funding and support of those actions, are morally indefensible. (2/6)
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Social insect researchers and students: the IUSSI-North American Section meeting is coming up! Arizona in the mountains in late summer - spectacular landscape, gorgeous weather. Registration includes all accommodation and food. iussi.cyberbee.net/iussi-2024/
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AZPM@azpublicmedia·
UPDATE: Around 2:00 a.m. law enforcement officers in gas masks and riot gear stormed a pro-Palestinian encampment on the @uarizona campus. The move came hours after a 10:30 p.m. deadline for protesters to leave the area. More: news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/202…
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Dan Quintana
Dan Quintana@dsquintana·
I've been asked to write a recommendation letter for promotion for someone at a US institution. Never done one of these before, how long are these letters typically? Any other tips?
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Sabrina McNew 雷鳴夏@SabrinaMcnew·
@UArizonaPolice out ticketing bike commuters and tear gassing our students but apparently have no problem with other encampments. @uarizona are you so afraid of your students that you’d ruin your lawns and close your campus rather than support the first amendment?
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Dr Anna Dornhaus@dornhaus·
@mbialek82 I think this is misleading. What do people read into 'in full'? There are many levels of thoroughness of reading. And many levels of citing: general background vs specific method, for example, that require different levels of reading.
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Michał Białek@mbialek82·
Dear academics, what percentage of papers you cited in your most recent work you actually read? In full, not just skimmed through.
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I think I am ready to try the other place, the one that looks like a clear day looking up. Anyone have an invite code? DM me
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Daniël Lakens
Daniël Lakens@lakens·
I never understood why Moscovici was such a big name in social psychology, until I just read this chapter, which is the best text on the goals of theory and experimentation in the social sciences I have ever read. Too bad this is a book chapter almost impossible to get.
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David Lockhart
David Lockhart@avicenna·
I've been thinking for a while that statistics should be among the cog sci disciplines. Stats is a (mostly) normative theory of quantitative reasoning with a dash of descriptivism, which seems as good as linguistics being desc. verbal reasoning. Plus we've taken over AI now.
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Dr Anna Dornhaus@dornhaus·
Although I sort of knew this, it is still shocking: the US isn't on here but I think that the old median age in Germany explains many of the cultural and living differences between Germany and the US.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600

Map by @landgeist shows the median age across Europe. Remember that median age means half the population is older than that age. In Portugal's Alto Tamega half of the population is older than 56.2 years! Imagine managing such a region. Challenging! Source: landgeist.com/2023/08/19/med…

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Simon Williams
Simon Williams@drsimonwilliams·
6/Lets look at each review in turn. 1. MASKS: N=35 studies in community settings (3 RCTs) & 40 in healthcare settings (1 RCT). 😷 MAJORITY of studies found that masks (87%) and mask mandates (89%) REDUCED infection compared to those that found no effect (12%).
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@josh_c_jackson Interesting, but why? I can see that in medicine you are exposed to random death often, and religion may be plausible/helpful there. But what it is about programming? It seems the default interpretation or selection bias needs to be strongly refuted here.
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@StatedClearly Wall-e. 😁 But seriously, you know evolution is about reproduction, so what matters is which heritable traits induce that. Eg later menopause, stronger predisposition of women not to want to work, etc seems more likely.
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Stated Clearly - Jon Perry
Stated Clearly - Jon Perry@StatedClearly·
How do you think humans are most likely to evolve in the next million years? Comment to tell me why, or if all these options seem wrong.
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