David Nicholson

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Precocious dilettante. I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study:
https://github.com/vocalpy

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It was such a pleasure to join @SciPyConf today and talk about using multiple programming language for scientific computing! My slides (made with #QuartoPub!) are available here: https://juliasilge.github.io/scipy2024/

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super innovative, bro

SpaceX rockets blew away local bird habitats after Elon Musk 'misled' NPS officials about expansion, NYT reportswww.businessinsider.com The New York Times reported that operations at SpaceX's Starbase in Texas is damaging the environment, including a local migratory bird habitat.

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www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🧪🦑🌎

Listening to animal behavior to understand changing ecosystemswww.cell.com Interpreting sound gives powerful insight into the health of ecosystems. Beyond detecting the presence of wildlife, bioacoustic signals can reveal their behavior. However, behavioral bioacoustic infor...

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I just interviewed the three academics who wrote this paper and it was the most fun I've had on an interview. Next week on Better Offline - ChatGPT is Bullshit link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m gonna need all 370 of you who reposted above to share this: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

Windmills blow away Trump's denial of Project 2025 involvementwww.thehandbasket.co A brief line in the 900+ page authoritarian guide reveals the Republican candidate's fingerprints.

Chiara is the best

📣 New quarter, new Editor-in-Chief at pyOpenSci! We're absolutely thrilled that Chiara Marmo will be our acting volunteer EIC for the upcoming quarter. Chiara is involved in a multitude of open source communities, and we're so excited to have her 💜 #OpenScience #OpenSource #community #pyOpenSci

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My #ABS2024 talk is live on the ABS portal! You can also watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/BijNN5SnqCw I'm going to be honest, it is very hard for me to just throw this up in all it's haphazard glory rather than re-recording a perfect presentation, but on the other hand, I have no time.

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Anyway, I don't *only* shitpost. Sometimes I make powerpoints, too

If you missed my talk at Behaviour 2024, and are part of the Animal Behaviour Society, you can check out a recording online during the virtual portion of the meeting! This constitutes the 2nd chapter of my dissertation and a paper-in-process with Ter, Riddington, and Westerman

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post-apocalyptic sci-fi where the last remaining humans suffer from a strange malady: they will die if they go more than four hours without eating a sugary energy bar

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"every trick in the book"* *voting

It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm the phantom of the opera

when you contain multitudes 📽️

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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Crows are such amazing ecological generalists. For several years I've watched various birds in the Seattle area that have learned to pluck fish from the water, sometimes swooping and scooping, other times, hovering almost like a tern. Below, some very jerky video (hand-held 800mm lens). 🪶

crow fishingyoutu.be This American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) has learned to pluck fish from the water of Seattle's Lake Washington.This is very shaky video, because it's hand-...

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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The very worst thing about social media, including this site and the Bad Site and every other site, is the illusion that by posting on it you’re accomplishing anything.

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Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

authentic Pennsylvania Dutch-style hot dogs

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🚨 New paper! 📝 Laura van de Braak, Ronald de Haan, Mark Dingemanse, Ivan Toni, Iris van Rooij, & Mark Blokpoel (2024). Intractability obstacles to explanations of communication. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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It is interesting that one of the things fascism destroys, deliberately, is the idea of a consensual reality. It purposely isolates its opponents into their own separate reality tunnels, bubbles, each fighting with each other while the boot crushes them.

we're past the Biden Event Horizon, where every opinion has an equal and opposite reaction. You're either too optimistic, too pessimistic, too lib-pilled, too tankie, too naive, too paranoid, too uninformed, too in-the-weeds...

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The nature of the choice I'm making is: given that there are two possible outcomes for the presidential election, I'm choosing the person (and party) I think will do best (or even least bad) for the country and the world over the next four years. On every metric I can think of, that choice is clear.

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Holy shit @mattdpearce.bsky.social and journalists in CA just had potentially the biggest legislative win in America - still more hurdles to pass but GOD DDAAAMMNN mattdpearce.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking news: California Senate advances a major data mining tax to fund journalism jobsmattdpearce.substack.com Senator Steve Glazer's Senate Bill 1327 secures a two-thirds majority.

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About two paragraphs into this article I had to put my hands over my face and start reading through my fingers while wincing repeatedly

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Kudos to my California colleagues for getting "we didn't get a grant we applied for" turned into a multi-week local news story. I can't recall seeing something like this happen before. I hope it helps, because they really do a lot of important work. www.ocregister.com/2024/06/24/l...

Long Beach’s Shark Lab at risk due to funding challengeswww.ocregister.com The Cal State Long Beach program has become a national resource as shark populations grow and the public encounters the ocean predator.

e/clout

i have developed the first device capable of measuring clout objectively. it outputs readings in units of millijuice.

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we are all calvin's dad

I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.

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The YIMBY argument is that freeing the housing market from regulatory interference will impel landlords to compete against each other, and rents drop (Because Econ 101); the Yieldstar case concretely shows how capitalist class solidarity works to prevent that. prospect.org/infrastructu...

How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Greenprospect.org RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.

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Ladies and Gentleman of the jury I may not be one of these big city lawyers here with their big fancy city college degrees but as a simple small town lawyer comprised of multiple crows under a trench coat there's a thing or two I know about murder

www.vera.org/news/the-tru...