dtpolet @dtpolet@qoto.org

The fallen tree here is, I am almost certain, a red oak I watched fall on a windy afternoon between 1994 and '98 in Wingra Woods, UW Madison Arboretum. I returned to it last week to get a sense of what 25 years of decomposition looks like for a red oak in an upland oak forest, north-facing slope, south-central Wisconsin.

Lake Wingra in the background, with white and red oaks and planted sugar maples.

#oaks #fieldnotes #arboretum #forest #decomposition

Faculty at more prestigious universities publish more bc they have funded Ph. D. students and postdocs to do the work.

In fields where advisors aren't put on Ph. D./postdoc research pubs, there is no relationship between university prestige and faculty productivity.

Mid-career faculty, matched, who move to institutions with more funded Ph. D./postdocs publish more.

Counting pubs is a poor method of judging a researchers quality.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7056

#Introduction

Hi! I am a CS PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I am broadly interested in learning based #robotics to solve problems in #agriculture.

Currently I am working on vision-based navigation of under-canopy agricultural robots (https://ansivakumar.github.io/learned-visual-navigation/). These small robots could enable various precision agriculture applications like autonomous cover crop planting, mechanical weeding etc in an affordable way.

#agrobotics #fieldrobotics #robotsinthewild

Academia, where money is always a problem no matter how many titles and awards you have😅

#academia #PhD #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

So, robots in movies are always depicted as being nimble on their feet and dextrous -- like the new trailer for M3GAN where the robot wanders around a house and dances and gently strokes a child's cheek

In reality even the best household robot we can build would trip over literally anything or accidentally shatter your ribcage while trying to open a box of cereal

My little rant on this: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/the-hilariously-bumbling-reality-of-humanoid-robots-31af6f02ef42

#robotics #robots #movies #popculture #AI

really neat academic job for a Canada Research Chair in "Technological Change for Inclusion"! https://www.sfu.ca/siat/hiring/crc.html

We are hiring! Faculty position in Organismal Ecology/Evolution, come join a highly interactive and collaborative group in an awesome city
@eebtoronto
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Organismal-Ecology-andor-Evolution-ON/565418217/

Since Mastodon saw its initial popularity circa 2017, I've noticed that most users and those reporting on it either don't think about the Fediverse as anything more than Mastodon, or treat its history as beginning with Eugen Rochko and the beginning of Mastodon. In fact, Mastodon is the latest in a long line of federated social networks, going at least back to Identi.ca, and though I wasn't around for all of it,I find this history pretty interesting. (Thread; boosts welcome!)

I've been lurking for a few days, and I think it's time for an #introduction.

I'm a biologist who works on the comparative #biomechanics and #neuroscience of vertebrate copulatory systems. I'm also a science writer and a fact-checker for narrative #podcasts and science magazines.

Hoping to find all the people I followed on the birdsite, and meet new folks, too!

It's finally finished: my new and improved full scale Archaeopteryx skeleton model is done! More stable, easier to assemble and a bit more accurate. Special thanks to Scott Hartman
for the input! Modelled in #b3d, printed on an @anycubic3dprint
Photon Mono X. #3Dprinting