Jan De Laet
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Jan De Laet
@jandelaet.bsky.social
Biologist, ICT professional, amateur runner and #tenorhorn player.
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AI perpetuates knowledge artefacts. Mind you, a look at PubMed will tell you that humans are pretty good at perpetuating these too.. theconversation.com/a-weird-phra... ht @cyrilpedia.bsky.social
A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
theconversation.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies and implied weighting - Grams - Cladistics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies and implied weighting
Using a new character matrix composed of revised matrices of previous analyses and new morphological findings, the phylogeny of Malacostraca (Pancrustacea) is analysed anew with 207 characters for 35...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Pol & Ezcurra present a fully scripted (TNT & R, incl. publication-ready graphics) #parsimony based workflow for estimating rates. It deals with ambiguous optimizations and multiple MPTs and can use different calibration approaches. Nice work! #phylogeny
Cladistic estimates of evolutionary rates focused on palaeontological datasets using TNT
We describe a protocol for estimating evolutionary rates from phylogenetic trees based on parsimony character optimization. The rate estimation is conducted through a TNT script and the results are a...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
We can all use some beauty right now (Quercus robur L., pedunculate oak, in Belgium; www.plantsystematics.org/imgs/jdelaet...)
January 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Wheeler (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) recently proposed to deal with inapplicable characters in #morphology and #phylogeny by concatenating morphological characters into morphological sequences that are, in a next step, to be analyzed using #phylogenetic tree alignment algorithms.
Much ado about nothing: inapplicable data as insertion–deletion events
The treatment of inapplicable characters has proved especially vexing to systematists. Investigators have wrestled with alternative coding scenarios to capture both the presence and absence of a feat....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Reposted by Jan De Laet
Our new paper on the #phylogeny of Osmundales is out. We reviewed the phylogeny of the group by taking into account character dependence and found that most of the recognised groups are hardly when dependencies are ignored. Check it out

#ferns #fossilfriday

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM