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A road runs down the middle of the picture with buildings on the sides. A mountain range is visible on the horizon in the orange light of the setting sun.

View from the office (strictly speaking on the way to the bus stop... :p)

...also spectrogram somehow becomes 'Spektrum' ...some really weird quirks when we consider that 'normal' translation does not make these mistakes...

...first time using an LLM to do translations. And whew am I glad I understand German. So many subtle hallucinations I would never have realised otherwise. Making up words ('Echolokationsfledermaus') & classic hallucination ('a bioinspired flight capable system'..instead of 'bioinspired system').

Okay, let's get the AI discussion entirely out of the hype-and-theory realm. For the "I'll just vibe code and trust the LLM folks," here's an interesting page showing results from asking several LLMs to perform a simple coding task (creating an HTML/CSS clock): [clocks.brianmoore.com/].
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This looks v cool, and GA is something I always wanted to try out at some point. Any chance this is part of a lecture that's online somewhere? - remember you'd also put up a lecture where the Pareto front features a whole back.

Also the link here below:

beamshapes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...

Realised today that one of the packages I wrote during my postdoc (beamshapes, see QR code) has been used and cited to do some cool science.

I'm feeling unusually happy about this, somehow even more than a paper citation.

Shout-out to the @dfg.de + @cbehav.bsky.social for funding this work.

..all of this without the usual process of a colleague going through the package website, trying to see if it's relevant, looking at described examples, gauging code and documentation quality etc.

This is scarily true - professional + collegial attention- & esp. true for scientific software. I'm imagining a niche field - where there are anyway only 1-2 OSS package/s out there. Even lesser incentives to develop, test, document, if it'll all be spat out as code snippets 1/2

Thur can't be said enough 🤣 it's a choice that they're brushing past you, and very rarely an accident

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”

📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025!
No further extensions will be granted.

If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community.

We look forward to seeing your contributions!

Plenary by @natashamhatre.bsky.social - on her 'random biased walk in science" - featuring the coolest insect acoustics, tool-use by crickets, many cool FEM animations and hearing #IBAC25

Seeing advertisements by OpenAI I'm Bengaluru saying 'I want to give a public speech...teach me how'...with ChatGPT written in blazing letters below. Wow.

what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype

Raghavendra Gadagkar welcomes people to the closing ceremony

Sumana Annagiri delivers the vote of thanks

And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

Night photo by @adityamoger.bsky.social

Fieldwork - this time with the lab! Fieldwork in the campus @uni-konstanz.de by the lake with a view, and WiFi, what a luxury 😎 @albertodoimo.bsky.social @adityamoger.bsky.social

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …

"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."

activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Have you ever seen a worm tower? YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.

Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱

Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

Feels like the right kind of post to tag @laurieparrot.bsky.social and @luisana (why can't I tag you!)

Deadline for the advertised PhD position to study echolocating bat swarms in the wild with a multi-sensor rig ended this week Monday (25/5) (www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/)!

Big thanks and appreciate the interest of the 50+ people who sent in their applications!

Just some water-striders doing their very cool thing of walking on water.

One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors.

Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!

Reading a paper that uses mics to record a cool animal sound, and then the sentence along the lines of .... 'gain was regulated continuously to improve signal-to-noise' ratio....sigh.

If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!

Thanks @natashamhatre.bsky.social . Lots to learn in this new role - also looking fwd to do lots of cool science!

Handheld LiDAR scanners vs static high-res scanners.... anyone here with experience using either - would love to hear your thoughts.

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