The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
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The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
"Palantir’s system... also uses automated reasoning to evaluate legal grounds for a strike." Holy fucking shit
"Wow, great target choice 🎯, you're *right* on the money 🔥🔥🔥." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
What a pre-conference workshop on Bayesian statistical methods—a powerful toolkit for our community! 📊
Many thanks to Daniel Redhead and Ramona Roller for guiding us through STRAND and to Michael Chimento for the introduction to STbayes.
And thank you to all participants for their energy! 🙌
due to a frustration at a lack of what could be described as a "bodybuilding forum for information science professionals" i decided to make a discord. then everyone clowned on me and told me to make an oldschool bbs. so i did. presenting scope and content:
scopeandcontent.com/forum/
join + share!
great can't wait to tao lin my r package on your boards
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... i always used Damien's asnipe library for the GMMs, described here. the GMM could be rewritten and customized for your use case in stan or otherwise
And if you had an automated method for classifying vocalization types, you could make a group by individual (groups being temporal clusters, individuals being call types) matrix to estimate co-occurrence rates of call types
Not acoustic data, but could be generalized: We use GMMs to identify flocking events from fixed RFID readers that poll several times per second. Could apply the same to onset events to cluster vocalizations, adjusting priors to dial in the correct timescale resolution.
Just over a week left to apply for this PhD project (unfortunately UK students only). If you're interested then please get in touch!
it could be that too, the email was so vaguely worded. i didn't reply, don't need another rabbit hole. but it was sus
i got this as well, in collaboration with sussex. seems like they're trying to farm content to train a model to evaluate grants? not quite sure
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
Want to gain hands-on experience using STBayes?
Join our pre-conference workshop on 25/02, led by @mchimento.bsky.social 🤩
New blog post!!🚨
Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪
Read the blog here 👇
"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Want to socialise ahead of the conference? Join the Early Career Researchers drinks on the evening of 25th/02! 🍻 An excellent opportunity to meet fellow researchers in a relaxed way. Contact us to join.
Reminder: conference and workshop registration is still open (forms on our website) 🔎
There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
#openaccess #socialcognition
Happy New Year from the Culture Conference organisers 🎉 We wish you a year filled with kindness, curiosity, and fruitful research.
We still have a few spots available for presentations. Feel free to send us your abstract if you’d like to share your work with us in February!
Thinking catalogue
📖Published!
STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission
This framework can be used to infer complex transmission rules🖥️ 🧪
Read more:
not a misconception, but this yt video has stuck with me over the years from a class on evolution taught by kenny smith at Edinburgh. really nice visual of evolution in progress www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk...
Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
maybe the same person w the chalkboard skillz
If you'd like to learn more about network-based diffusion analyses and how to use STbayes, we will host a workshop at the upcoming 2026 Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social. Registrations: culture-conference.com/registration/
Detailed vignettes demonstrate basic and advances use cases github.com/michaelchime....
in addition to previous extensions of NBDA, STbayes allows users to include network edges as distributions (fit by generative network models), varying effects by ID & trial, complex transmission functions, and dynamic transmission weights (e.g. to test which cues are important for social learning).
🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
oh it older than 17 years :( iirc the flash animation was up on the weebl and bob site in 2003 or 2004
