Liam Langan

It’s not fine, you’re right. The ethical issues are worrying. I’ll be deleting my account with OpenAI. Hard to find an ethical one. Tried running one locally yesterday on my PC but it was 💩

Nor do I.

I don’t write as clearly as I’d like. Ppl find it difficult to interpret at times. I guess it’s not unexpected. I have had no formal writing training.

I used grammarly to correct text previously but newer Ais are better at flagging incoherencies. It’s a decent learning tool.

Wow. Somebody (me) didn’t check that what they intended to write was actually what was written 🙄

They might pay you the big bucks string as you work the seminal paper on Pokémon; it was very niche.

@danlwarren.bsky.social they’re calling you

Developing statistical models as an early warning system to predict Salmonella outbreaks in wild birds | PNAS Developing statistical models as an early warning system to predict Salmonella outbreaks in wild birds

Something new in @pnas.org from me & @grrlscientist.bsky.social! A commentary on a really neat paper.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker is Jonathan Levine (Princeton) speaking on:

⭐Rapid evolution and species coexistence: from theory to empirical evidence in an orchard fly system⭐

Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... (NB Europe time shift⏰🌍)
Open Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
See you there!

You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

He’s too tall for the role

a painting of a man with a red beard ALT: a painting of a man with a red beard

Just came across this paper. I reckon the authors had a great laugh deciding on the order Vincent, Van, Goh :-)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trump will be in prison soon enough.

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Everyday hero!

For all 6 vegetation modelers on here. I’ve only looked at this briefly, but it looks like a very worthwhile read if you’re interested in root traits and potential linkages with above ground traits.

Will be reading this one!

For completeness, here (doi.org/10.24072/pcj...) is a paper by Markus where he explores the potential of population vs individual genome wide association studies to understand the genetic basis of polygenic traits.

Predicting Forest Tree Leaf Phenology Under Climate Change Using Satellite Monitoring and Population‐Based Genomic Trait Association We studied European beech trees to understand how the interaction between genetics and the environment, particularly climate change, influences the timing of leaf budding and leaf fall. We found that...

I’m not sure how to judge accessibility and I still struggle with the quant genomics, but this (doi.org/10.1111/gcb....) paper links genomics with leaf phenological timing and this one (doi.org/10.3389/fevo...) links it with drought stress.

Sure, but it’s not a trash language.

„Es ist niemals zu spät, vernünftig und weise zu werden; es ist aber jederzeit schwerer, wenn die Einsicht spät kommt, sie in Gang zu bringen.“

Kant

It’s quite a nice language actually.

I’ve had my last snow ⛷️ this year I fear. First two butterflies today. Spring is coming.

Shaping future forests: how can ecophysiology support climate‐smart forest management? Climate change, particularly the associated increase in extreme events and disturbances, threatens the numerous environmental, social, and economic benefits that forests provide, both locally and glo...

In our new work, we present a mechanism-based critical assessment of #forest #management practices to support climate-smart forestry in response to shifting environmental and climatic conditions. @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This looks cool!

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Haha, you’ve no choice 🙈😆

I hate “having” to get up at 6am but it’s a pretty nice time of the day a lot of the year. If I could master being asleep by 10 I think it’d be less painful.

I identify as bread defrost

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

I don’t expect to be visiting the USA until after the next elections. Too dodgy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...