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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
@jarome.bsky.social
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Biologist* wondering why the world is so colourful. Currently NYU, formerly Princeton. Generally bird/scienceposting πŸ§ͺ

Opinions are official Bene Gesserit policy.

πŸ“ Jersey City

*actually three parrots in a parrot suit .. more

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Jan 31
Hi new followers (bots and real people alike 😝). I'm not here to collect followers but it'll take me some time to go through and follow back people with shared interests etc. In the meantime here's a nice bird ✌🏽

Expect more birds, science, politics and occasional shitposting :)
A Double-crested Cormorantβ€”a variably black and glossy birdβ€”with it's wings held open, and its long neck looped around so it can preen its wing feathers.

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 5d
If it matters to you, they have a 100% rating from Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator - Rating for World Central Kitchen Incorporated
World Central Kitchen Incorporated has earned a 4/4 Star rating on Charity Navigator. This Charitable Organization is headquartered in Washington, DC.
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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 5d
Happy holidays, Bluesky friends! πŸŽ„πŸŽ…

This holiday season, if you are able to and feel generous, please consider donating to World Central Kitchen. They do incredible work all over the world, providing food to people in crisis. Sharing this post would be lovely as well :)
WCK in 2025 - Community in Action
YouTube video by World Central Kitchen
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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 7d
How cool is this mosaic in the NYC subway? (make sure to zoom!) πŸͺΆ
mosaic of a bird's head, many of the tiles are "evil eyes" The same mosaic, but more zoomed in

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Β· 7d
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 7d
Thanks, I hate it.
jopabinia.bsky.social Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social Β· Dec 21
🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are!
#Crustmas πŸ§ͺ
Adult male (small) and female (large) of Armillifer sp. Looks like a big and small crinkle cut french fry, also with paired hooks at the front. Both photos from this paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0000320 Adult female Linguatula serrata. Looks like a wrinkly tube, a bit wider at the front and tapering to a tail. There are some hooklike bits at the front.

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 12d
At the top of this article on an AI-related problem, there's a "Takeaways by Bloomberg AI" button. Please clap/cry.
anastasiagal.bsky.social Anastasia @anastasiagal.bsky.social Β· 12d
also an issue with ai, is it kills the data it needs

like on a fundamental level they work based on imitation (garbage in garbage out), and if it becomes part of a workflow, the ability to generate new data gets eroded
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com

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Anastasia @anastasiagal.bsky.social Β· 12d
also an issue with ai, is it kills the data it needs

like on a fundamental level they work based on imitation (garbage in garbage out), and if it becomes part of a workflow, the ability to generate new data gets eroded
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 13d
In DC and decided to come to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The guy at the front desk ended his welcome with "Have a meaningful visit". How poignant.
A photo of the museum.

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ASAB Spring 2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Β· 14d
Compared to warning colouration, camouflage is more affected by the sensory enviro πŸ‘€ πŸ¦‹ #ASABWinter2025
Effects on crypsis and warning colouration as antipredator strategies swansea University

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Β· 17d
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· 20d
Very millennial experience: listening to Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park but have to turn it down because I cant hear the instructions on the YouTube video "Yoga for back pain"

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Β· 27d
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 27
My partner is an infectious disease doctor and every now and then I get a paper in my alerts that brings our interests together by means of ... parrot fever / psittacosis.
A Google Scholar alert about a paper "Fever of Unknown Origin in Infectious Diseases" mentioning a person who is ill and has a history of keeping parrots, raising the suspicion that the illness is psittacosis.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Β· Nov 25
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to β€œyou didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 20
Cool! Seems like I need to be watching more octonauts 😝

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 20
Not fair to them, they're already skating the open seas!

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 20
Proud to be a fish 🫑

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 20
Spectacular!!

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 19
Spectacular! Though I must say I expect there to be a mite living pretty much anywhere one might suggest.

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 19
Hahaha giving this energy:
a woman is sitting at a table saying i don 't understand the question and i won 't respond to it
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table saying i don 't understand the question and i won 't respond to it
media.tenor.com

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 19
Oh cool, would you recommend the series overall?

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 19
the sea calls us home

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 19
Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? πŸ§ͺ

OCEAN STRIDERS!!
Why did only one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high seas?
Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface and house a dizzying array of organisms, including five species of the peppercorn-sized ocean-skater Halobates, which live exclusively at the ocean surface...
journals.plos.org

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 19
Someone needs to do this a third time, call it the Tripplicate study.

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 15
I- ... I guess the grey in my beard is really showing now
screenshot of spam email purporting to be from AARP

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 15
this ad reads like a warning 🀣🀣
ad with a smiling man, it is captioned, "grad school is closer than you think"

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Nov 8
I think this is the real inspiration for American Pie 😒

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Β· Nov 7
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Oct 27
Good generative models for:

writer's block β€” your brain after a walk
song recommendations β€” your friend's brain
visual art β€” your brain + pencil/paint
music β€” your brain + your fave instrument
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com

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Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Oct 23
#ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
jarome.bsky.social Jarome Ali πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @jarome.bsky.social Β· Oct 23
Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico πŸ§ͺ #primates #academicsky

apply.interfolio.com/173938

πŸ“·: davidraju, wikimedia commons
Mother rhesus macaque with her baby