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Neil Lewis, Jr.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
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"Anything they do, I wish them luck" is the new "Stand back and stand by"
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Stacy Farina@stacyfarina.bsky.social |
380 followers 175 following 150 posts
Assistant Prof of Biology at Howard University studying functional and evolutionary morphology #BlackLivesMatter (she/they)
Fully funded MS Programs in EEB:
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
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"Anything they do, I wish them luck" is the new "Stand back and stand by"
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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I don't know who else needs to hear this today, but please remember: Ask for what you need!
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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It should be simple for big publishers to develop simple citation-checking tools to flag potentially fake citations. I could probably write a script to do it myself. And there should be serious consequences for authors who even submit something like this, even if it doesn't make it to publication.
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Stacy Farina
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Editors should be pushing publishers to give them citation fabrication detection. In the mean time, they should take action when authors are caught doing this. No author who fakes citations should just get silently rejected from the journal. They should be banned from that journal, at minimum.
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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I wouldn't say editors should be responsible for this (in most cases). It should be the big publishers. Editors generally don't have the tools to detect these things. At the proofing stage though, every citation needs to be checked by the publisher.
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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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1. We need firm policy on this. 2. There need to be consequences. 3. The journals need to lead the way.
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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This is an enormous issue. Thankfully, this would be almost guaranteed to be caught at the proofing stage at any reputable journal, but fake citations are already permeating grant proposals and predatory publications. Authors should be permanently banned from the journal for doing this.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers. Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in. But it wasn't real. AI is not good for science.
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Erica Larson
@ellarson.bsky.social
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Help community college students participate in research by supporting The Community College Field Biology Alliance. They are $1,000 from supporting their summer program.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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imagine where "AI is biased/harmful/ineffective until it's proven otherwise" is the norm instead of the current hubris where excitement and faith at empty promises have become normal
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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Congratulations! Great work.
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Jon Phillips
@jowiph.bsky.social
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Richard Lynn’s racist national IQ data sets and papers that use them should be retracted. New piece in Stat News from @dsamorod.bsky.social, @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, @jedidiahcarlson.com, James Lingford, @rebeccasear.bsky.social, Cathryn Townsend, and me
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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The alt text says "bad photoshop" but I think it's quite good
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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"We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs."
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
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Tomorrow is post office day! Last call for orders to ship tomorrow :)
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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If you're going to use chatGPT to write an email (which I'm not opposed to necessarily), maybe delete "Sure, here is a draft for your email:"
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Bradford Vivian
@bradvivian.bsky.social
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Many thanks to @insidehighered.bsky.social
for publishing my latest op-ed:
Growing anti-university sentiment in the US can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.
#academicfreedom #HigherEd #authoritarianism #democracy
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Rebecca Sear
@rebeccasear.bsky.social
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This is very disappointing, especially as an ex-Associate Editor of the journal👇 Looks like Evolutionary Psychology is going the same way as Ev Psychological Science & Ev Behavioral Sciences in their editorial standards. Just crossed this journal off the list of those I’ll submit to or review for
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Interesting new report on the American coastal and maritime economy, with lots of focus on the Biden-Harris administration's climate adaptation and mitigation investments.
www.noaa.gov/news-release... 🧪🦑🌎
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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To be specific here, the frequently-violence-inciting former president of the United States is calling out some of my shark science and conservation colleagues, who will now almost certainly be harassed by his supporters because of this. Fuck
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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Vought believes that he must destroy the Constitution to save the “original” Constitution, meaning a Constitution that, in his mind, enshrines Anglo-Protestant supremacy in perpetuity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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IF YOU ARE GOING TO A PRIDE EVENT TOMORROW IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE REALLY HOT!! LIKE PHYSICALLY, FROM THE SUN!! bring water, wear sunscreen, reapply sunscreen as needed. many medications including some antidepressants, spiro and opiates make you more likely to overheat.
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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My lab is at the Smithsonian for World Oceans Day!
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Noah Bressman, PhD
@noahwithfish.bsky.social
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It's been 4 years since I could create new artwork, so I am super excited to share this Hogchoker (Trinectes maculatus), a flatfish species commonly found in estuaries and brackish water along the Mid-Atlantic that can use the Venturi Effect to attach to surfaces! #SciComm 🦈🐋🐠🦐🐡🦀🦑🐟
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R.L. Stollar
@rlstollar.bsky.social
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"Beyond his goal of eliminating the U.S. Department of Education, Trump has also stated that he will attempt to slash education funding, mandate prayer in public schools, and ban ideas that challenge right-wing dogma."
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Wobbologist (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
@wobbologist.bsky.social
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🧪 #QueerInSTEM
Migrating this from the bird site (originally by Felix):
Yearly #PrideMonth call out for science *bluesky! Reply with the following information (all optional):
- Name and Pronouns
- Field
- A picture of yourself
- Hobbies outside of science
- A random Fact about yourself
*edited
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Matthew A. Barnes
@drbarnes.bsky.social
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Working on an #eDNA submission with a high school science fair student right now!
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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I will ask our team, but we have had postdocs review with no problem. The language may be due to a difference in practices in other fields (microPublication is primarily cell and molecular), but I'm pretty sure postdocs regularly review in all fields.
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Dr. Catherine Scott
@cataranea.bsky.social
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This looks awesome as a venue for negative results, that one figure/experiment that got left out of another manuscript, 'not-quite-worth-a-full-paper' student projects etc. 🧪
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Patrick Phillips
@patrickphillips.bsky.social
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We’ve been using micropubs for our aging research and it has been great. Very painless and it feels great to get the results out in the world rather than rotting in a notebook.
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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We are also looking for more volunteer peer reviewers! All are welcome (including grad students with at least one pub or willing to co-review with their mentor). If you are looking for reviewer experience and/or want to help us out, please let us know!
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg
@noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
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Forgot relevant tags 🧪🐙🦑🌿 Any trans and/or queer marine life scientists or enthusiasts have queer ecology facts they want to share?
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB!
www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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Anyone interested in reviewing a Micropublication in your area of expertise? We recently launched an EEB category in Micropublication Biology.
All are welcome (including postdocs & grad students with at least one pub).
Check out our site (authors, too!) www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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Reposting my worst creation
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Worth restating again that Russia has been forcibly conscripting *huge* numbers of discriminated against ethnic minorities into the Ukraine meat grinder that *they* created
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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Fun fact, this is actually a flounder urohyal
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Mark Greene
@remakingmanhood.bsky.social
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The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates | Mariana Mazzucato | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
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"She offered the asking price, which was accepted, and sent over a down payment. And then when she was in escrow..her broker called..with some bad news..‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but she doesn’t want to sell the home to you, and it’s because you’re Black.’”
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/r...
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Black in Natural History Museums
@blackinnhms.bsky.social
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We are having a #BlackInNHMs Community Conversation soon!
Adé Ben-Salahuddin will speak about his experiences from working in the Peabody Museum’s Vertebrate Paleontology collection (as a college student).
Join us on June 12: bit.ly/3K76jOW
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Stacy Farina
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I agree. But I also think we are a long off from being able to responsibly apply behavioral ecology to behavioral science. Maybe one day. But from what I've seen, the field is not ready to even acknowledge the outsized role that behavioral ecology as a field has played in propping up racist ideology
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Stacy Farina
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It's a superficial engagement. I know it's a short comment, but the article "engages" by making it sound like all of this happened in the distance past, when it is the present reality of behavioral ecology. There are still a large number of behav ecologists who subscribe to biological essentialism.
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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This discussion distances behavioral ecology from its history by failing to discuss how scientific racism directly gave rise to the field of behavioral ecology. A novice reader could be lead to believe that behavioral ecology is separate from (or a solution to) this history, but it is steeped in it.
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Stacy Farina
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Thanks for engaging! Sorry I'm a little too passionate about this topic. It's extremely important, but I have the opposite view from the people in the article (historically and perhaps presently, behav eco has brought more biological essentialism into behavioral science, bot less)
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Stacy Farina
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Until behavioral ecology as a field has a reckoning with their past, I do not trust them to handle this topic at all.
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Stacy Farina
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I read the paper, and I was shocked to see that there was no discussion of the role that bio essentialism has played in shaping the field and the direct academic lineage from scientific racism to behavioral ecology. You can do all of the things proposed in the article (and more) w/out behav eco.
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Stacy Farina
@stacyfarina.bsky.social
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Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Stacy Farina
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For example, here is a high profile behavioral ecology paper from 2022 that is typical of this mindset. The authors 'biologize' wealth inequality in humans by relating it to the loosely connected concept of ecological resources.
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Stacy Farina
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No way. The history of behavioral ecology is steeped in scientific racism, and many behavioral ecologists lack understanding of how NOT to do biological essentialism. You can easily correct 'biologization' (weird to try to rename/rebrand bio essentialism) without invoking behavioral ecology.
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Terry McGlynn
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Some unsolicited advice to everybody in the US putting together syllabi for the Fall: Note the election and build flexibility and grace into the schedule. No exams or big assignments right before or after the election. Maybe have a distance learning day. It'll be difficult, no matter what happens.
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