Dr Manu Saunders FRES

@manusaunders.bsky.social

Ecologist. Mum. Writer.
Senior Lecturer Uni New England (Australia).
Editor in Chief: Insect Conservation and Diversity.
Anaiwan Country. My words. She/her.
https://ecologyisnotadirtyword.com
https://saundersecologylab.com/

@emilymbender.bsky.socialReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

@robtrop.bsky.socialReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

To test this, we compiled 3,415 quantitative networks with >110,000 links among 5,343 pollinator and 6,126 plant species across all major terrestrial biomes. The study brought together 142 researchers from 32 countries. 3/8

@sciam.bsky.socialReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

This is a thing everywhere in the world: on-site diesel generation is advertised as "backup" generation, but data centre operators plan to use it way, way more than that. Firmus in Australia now fighting against rules to limit pollution from their fossil-fuelled project

@lorak.bsky.socialReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

thinkin bout this - along with pollution, ai psychosis & ai enabled (industrialized basically) online harassment, discrimination, plagiarism, propaganda and ncii/csam (etc.) farrr more than “extinction” by ai within a decade

@kawulf.bsky.socialReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

Students in discussion of uncurated materials is not teaching. Students hanging out together is not teaching. Good teaching is the thing that AI cannot do, while it can mimic a role in the first two. 9/

@kawulf.bsky.socialReposted by @manusaunders.bsky.social

I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

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