Michal Rindos

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European Journal of Entomology: Book Review: Huertas B. & Nakahara S. 2025: Butterflies of the World: A Guide to Every Subfamily. eje.cz/artkey/eje-202…

@DAISEA_AfricaBP @Unical1975 What is your sampling strategy and plan, and what samples will you use? What shipping strategies will you use to preserve the samples at the required quality? The lab is easy and bioinformatics can be resolved by experts and AI, but neither can identify or collect the material.

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🐞please repost: Dry or wet? Comparing black slot trap efficiency in spruce bark beetles control | @ForestryRelay @RelayJFR 🤳link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Pest #Europe #Forest #Ecology 🧐 shareable link: rdcu.be/eTQ0b

Online now: Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe dlvr.it/TPTn7d

@MirekTopolanek Ve zdravotnictvi by bylo penez dost kdyby zdravotni pojistovny neskrtili platby jen aby vydelali co nejvic a samozrejme pak je tu masivni castka, ktera se ztuneluje. Kdyby stat, konecne neco udelal poradne, tak by tech penez hned bylo vic. Zdravotni pojistovny jsou problem vsude

Zbláznil se. Platíme skoro nejvíc v OECD. Hoďte na něj síť. Problém je jinde. Pokud to neví ani šéf jedné ze dvou odborových centrál (Lékařská komora ničím jiným není), tak se nic pozitivního nestane. Na rozdíl od diskuze na "X" doporučují sundat poklop. echo24.cz/a/HrAUf/zpravy…

Nature is widely considered one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. Here is a template by Nature on how to craft a masterpiece abstract for your paper:

In 1929, Alexander Fleming published his paper outlining the antibacterial properties of penicillin, and began the era of antibiotics. Read the Nobel Prize laureate's full article online: goo.gl/G8mUHd #OpenAccessWeek

@RaziaAliani This should be forbidden forever. The only thing it brings is cheating and cheaters...

We're about to create the 1st gen of scientists who can't research without AI. And honestly? I'm not sure if that's evolution or devolution! 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝘁𝗼: — Extract key findings from dense papers in seconds — Design entire experiments from scratch — Turn complex studies into engaging content for public — Generate survey questionnaires that would take days to create — Respond to peer reviewers (yes, really) & this book does a great job going through these details! But missed the elephant in the room: ⤴️ research inequality. Universities with AI access will accelerate faster than those without. Researchers fluent in prompt engineering will outpace those who aren't. We're creating new divides in an already unequal system! It doesn't address how AI might bias research directions: ⤴️ We're training AI on biased research. Now it's teaching us. See the problem? Overall, this isn't another "AI will save us all" book. Authors actually tested ChatGPT on real research tasks & documented both the wins and the spectacular failures. 𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: We need AI-literate researchers, not AI-dependent ones! 💬 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴? Comment if you'd like a link to download this book! ------------------------- Useful find? Pass it on! 🔄 Retweet 👋 I’m @RaziaAliani Click my name + follow + 🔔 I post about AI in #research & #analysis Want FREE tips on using AI in research? ↳ Join 15K+ researchers: 🔗 link in bio ----------------------- #aiinresearch

Polyommatine Blue Butterflies Reveal Unexpected Integrity of the W Sex Chromosome Amid Extensive Chromosomal Fragmentation Linked to Telomere Restoration @GenomeBiolEvol academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17…

Another paper on polyommatine blue butterflies just published in @GenomeBiolEvol. Blues have high chromosome numbers associated with increased diversification and their karyotypes reveal strategies to maintain genomic integrity amidst profound karyotypic changes

@RealKidPoker 👏🏻 exactly, the problem is that people who never experienced it even here in Europe will never understand. For them, these are just stories from history classes which most of them ignore anyway, history always repeats itself and unfortunately for society, people quickly forget.

My parents grew up in communist Romania and told me stories of breadlines and suffering under that political system. I saw it first hand when I visited Romania at 10 years old. I tried to tell a joke about Ceasescu in a restaurant and my mother’s friends covered my mouth as I was about to say his name. They feared the consequences for me of even saying his name in public- and I was just a kid. Communism isn’t a reasonable option for a political system. It doesn’t work for the people. It has never worked to better the lives of the people. Capitalism isn’t perfect, but at least it was a system my parents could flee to with $5 in their pocket, work at the CNE selling candy floss and doing whatever they could. Eventually buying a home and giving our family a middle class lifestyle that wasn’t an option under a communist regime. My father had absolutely no education, but he and my mother worked hard and were rewarded for it. I get it kids, because you don’t know the history of the system you see it as this utopian ideal where everyone is provided for, but the reality is this: While the rich would be less rich, the poor would be even more poor. That’s how it plays out in practice. Every. Single. Time. It leads to famine. It leads to death. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China is responsible for more death than any other leader in history, estimated 40-80 million people. When the Berlin Wall fell, which side ran to which side? Why do you think that is? Anytime you hear people push for anything like “Equality of Outcome,” beware…that outcome is bleak. It is a sanitized description of authoritarian rule and communism.

@phytools_liam Hi, I am interested 🙂

Also posted to #evol2025 app social feed, but in case anyone's looking on here, I'd like to give away a copy of my book to a non-U.S./Canada grad student, since I know it can be harder to get outside N.A. Respond here or on the app want it! I'll pick the recipient at random. 🎲

@phytools_liam is there any chance to watch it via Zoom please?

If anyone wants to invite me to give a departmental seminar next semester, I've got an hour-long talk entitled "Bounded Brownian motion & the most important phylogenetic comparative methods paper you've probably never read (and it's not by me)" that I'd like to tell you about.

@GerardTalavera Is there any chance that you will also open a postdoc on similar topic please? 🙂

📢PhD Position available! Our lab @IBB_botanic is recruiting a PhD student to work on Butterfly Migration Genomics 🦋🌍 📝Apply by: 15th September 2024 🔬Lab: phylomigrationlab.com ℹ️More details: ibb.csic.es/en/2024/08/phd…

Our nice paper about the diversity of the Afrotropical Darwin wasps is out 🔎🌍📊 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

our Nun moth study is out 🔎🧬🌲🦋🌍onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zs…

@EerikaSchulz Are you also collecting?

Caviria sp. from Finca Heimatlos Eco Lodge and Farm, near Puyo, Ecuador.

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@phyloprog Is there any chance to do that with PostDoc salaries? 😅

I took average asst prof salaries from data.aaup.org/ft-faculty-sal… and annual cost of living from epi.org/resources/budg… (both in k of $), and matched them at the county level. I used the estimated budget for a family of 4, and filtered the data to only public R1 institutions

If you ever wondered how much universities pay assistant professors, and how that compares to the local cost of living, wonder no more..