@slothrop12

PhD student of theoretical biology sitting on the shoulders of giants and others, parenting two handfuls. Budding friend of Ctrl++ and lucky person.

 Berlin, Germany
extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/person/christoph-thies/
Joined January 2016
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Oh, no! Ein schrecklich Ende. youtu.be/9Ip_e-vcQdc
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bOb cOeCke
@coecke13 Aug 2021
On nature, Identity is the hardest process to achieve. Otherwise we by now had huge quantum computers and wouldn’t need fridges for food.
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Will Ratcliff
@wc_ratcliff5 Aug 2021
Well, this has been a long-awaited day- the first paper on our multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) is on the BioRxiv. Ever wonder how simple multicellular organisms evolve to become larger and more complex over thousands of gens? 1/35 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Will Ratcliff
@wc_ratcliff30 Jul 2021
What do you do when invited by the amazing @TobySpribille to contribute to a special issue of a Lichen journal, when you don't work on lichens? You accept, of course! @SFI_elibby and I show how lichens illustrate a often-ignored route to multicellularity: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Matthias C. Rillig@mrillig4 Jun 2021
There are now 29 videos containing advice for doctoral students. Check'em out #PhDstudent #RilligExplainsScience @OpenAcademics @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @YTacademics @Sci_Comm_ youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Me: Oh another interactive visualization sigh. Let's see how disappointing it is... (this is very good! and I tend to be very critical of these things)
STJ@scien_ti_st30 May 2021
What does a Gaussian process "look like"?🧐 My take on interactive visualisation of #GaussianProcesses aims to help you intuitively understand prior and posterior kernel functions: infinitecuriosity.org/vizgp/ - would love to hear your suggestions for improvements! Made in #svelte
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Ruben Gerczikow@RubenGerczi20 May 2021
Ich bin 24 Jahre alt, ich bin #Jude, ich habe mein Judentum nie verheimlicht, habe/hatte politische Ämter inne, stehe teils im medialen Interesse und habe in meinem Leben sehr oft #Antisemitismus erfahren. Ein Thread 1/15
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Judea Pearl
@yudapearl20 May 2021
For @AlJazeera educated Westerners, equating Zionism with colonialism is almost axiomatic. To see the absurdity of this association please examine the five bullets listed on p.229 of ucla.in/2SxjgWH. Send them to @mehdirhasan and other Qatari spokespersons.
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Ben Keene@benkeene17 May 2021
What a devastatingly brilliant ad @GreenpeaceUK
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Tarek Baé
@Tarek_Bae14 May 2021
Wer Hass gegen Juden verbreitet, ist nicht für die unterdrückten Palästinenser, sondern betrügt alle. Palästinenser wollen ein friedliches Miteinander mit Juden und viele Juden fühlen beim Leid Palästinas mit. Antisemitismus ist eine historische Seuche europäischer Rassisten.
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Got my chip today (Astra)! Now waiting for instructions on how to survive the final 4 weeks of writing my thesis.
Me after the Covid vaccination

ALT Me after the Covid vaccination

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Science 2.0@science2_01 May 2021
Today in 1964 BASIC made its debut, in an effort to take programming out of the world of machine language. Share if you're old enough to have gotten your start with it.
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Tivadar Danka
@TivadarDanka28 Apr 2021
Principal Component Analysis is one of the most fundamental techniques in data science. Despite its simplicity, it has several equivalent forms that you might not have seen. In this thread, we'll explore what PCA is really doing! 🧵 👇🏽
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Abusing women in science on social media using a veil of anonymity vm.tiktok.com/ZMexH6BD1/
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Anna Riedl
@AnnaLeptikon18 Apr 2021
You are in STEM? Help me make this lifetime achievement more visible with a retweet: Did you know one individual did all of this? - brought the acronym STEM itself into existence as director of the @NSF (1/6)
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A different job advice (in German). youtube.com/watch?v=o-p5o57z…
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Judea Pearl
@yudapearl13 Apr 2021
Linear regression has two faces, that should be taught side by side: 1. A claim about nature: E(Y|x)= bx + eps 2. A strategy for estimation: The best (min squared error) linear approximation of y . The former is empirically refutable, the latter is beyond refutation.
Análise Real
@analisereal12 Apr 2021
I would say that one should also avoid teaching linear regression as y ~ Normal(Xb, sigma) Because that's also not what a linear regression is. Linear regression should be taught as what it is: the best (min squared error) linear approximation of y (or of E[y|x]).
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I had heard of several of the terms at the ends of the paths but am not sure about their meaning. This is a nice way to arrange them (I can't vouch for correctness though). In my case, the questions lead to scientific realism.
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Matthias C. Rillig@mrillig27 Feb 2021
New video The Global Plastic Toxicity Debt explaining our paper in @EnvSciTech w/ @shin_woong @WaldmanLab and TY Kim pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102… #H2020 @ERC_Research @BMBF_Bund #plasticpollution #microplastics #SoilHealth youtu.be/f4E-kjZvj8s

The Global Plastic Toxicity Debt

Plastics are solids with an interior and a surface. Fragmentation of plastics in the environment, coupled with the release of chemical additives from these

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Matthias C. Rillig@mrillig26 Feb 2021
New paper out in @PLOSCompBiol Ten simple rules for hosting artists in a scientific lab w/ Chris & Regine from @ArtLaboratoryB @JLehmannCornell @SasaSpacal @indimansour, Karine Bonneval, Vera Meyer #sciart #scicomm #ArtistOnTwitter #artsci @Sci_Art dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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