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Terry McGlynn

@hormiga.bsky.social

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Ecologist, entomologist, writer. Chair of Academic Senate and Professor at CSU Dominguez Hills. ScienceForEveryone.science and I'm the Small Pond Science guy. he/him Black Lives Matter. In favor of DEI, justice, access, opportunity. Abolish ICE.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is the account that auto-posts my blog posts. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Science For Everyone @hormiga.scienceforeveryone.science.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

On accepting and acknowledging your authority

If you don't own it, you're failing the people who need you.

scienceforeveryone.science

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 16h

that is GORGEOUS

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 16h

It's been a couple weeks but I keep coming back to that one devastating sentence, "But was silence not an option?"

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 18h

it's an entomology conference, so I can go with this I suppose

image of an inflatable honey bee costume that a person can fit in and wear around. And it's like less than 50 bucks?!

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 18h

wait I just realized in a few weeks I have a conference in... Portland.

Can an inflatable fit inside a carry-on?

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19h

ahhh. I'm slow. You quote-tweeted the old one (and properly so).

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19h

oh, the link you posted was from last year. This time, it's 550 people. 11% of who remain.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19h

wait that update said it was 5%. Someone in lab told me 11%. hmm.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19h

11%! again! yikes.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19h

That C. elegans must be voiced by Wallace Shawn?

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 21h

“The scientific Nobels announced this week underscore that point. All three awards — granted each year in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research…Decades of inquiry paved the way for the technology, treatments and toys of tomorrow.” 🎁

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19h

I think nearly all administrators believe in shared governance. It's just that a lot of them will abandon the project when it stops being easy.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 23h

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

this is explained in the piece

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you didn’t read the piece without telling me you didn’t read the piece

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

Where did you get that I’m uncritically celebrating?? Did you read the piece?

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

If you take a look my the previous two reposts, would you believe they are about the same piece of writing. My replies have been very Rashomon.

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Guy Leonard @guyleonard.bsky.social · 2d

We should be training people NOT to do this.

You have the experience and knowledge to assess the output and correct it and notice mistakes.

Your students and mentees do not.

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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 1d

Understanding of experimental design and hypothesis testing is fundamental & key💡 Otherwise: garbage in, garbage out! An insightful and thought provoking read here! 👇🏻

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

hmmm. yeah. I've only started down this road but I think two ways to approach this is to actually hand over the dataset and ask gpt to conduct the analyses and then, or ask gpt to give you the code (to run in rstudio). I wonder which one is more or less error prone or if it doesn't matter

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

(just asking because I've had replies (online and otherwise) all over the map about capabilities, and I'm wondering how of much of this is about the version folks are using. Everybody using Claude Code seem to get it to do precisely what they ask it to, as long as the prompts are highly specific)

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

have you been using ChatGPT5 (the new one?)

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

That is crux of where we are, I think.

I think it's down to how our communities build consensus and how this winds up in peer review. In my field I know I'll be pushing for emphasizing the human element as much as possible (insofar as the coding aspect is akin to point-and-click software)