Stuttgart Naturkundemuseum. Bee Systematics, Natural History, and everything in between. Focused on Anthophorinae (Apidae). He/Him.
Stuttgart, Germany
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Michael Orr retweeted
What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, researchers report in Science.
Learn more: scim.ag/4qaJ3TF
Michael Orr retweeted
Here’s an idea: just don’t use this stuff.
Michael Orr retweeted
We had an amazing story to tell, and now it's finally out! 🐜💫
Check it on Researchgate tinyurl.com/mzfw932y
@Nature
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Michael Orr retweeted
I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
ALT Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto
Michael Orr retweeted
BREAKING: A careful, controlled study from @metr_evals on coding and productivity that potentially undercuts one of the biggest positive use cases for generative AI.
Also shows that coders may be overvaluing the tools relative to their actual return.
Excellent thread below, with lots of sensible caveats.
Michael Orr retweeted
Who's actually benefiting from gen-AI? 🙄
"the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming, while the harms feel transformative and immediate"
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wired.com/story/generative-a…
Michael Orr retweeted
AI scraping bots looking for training data are overwhelming the servers of libraries and archives, making valuable resources unavailable to people. We are losing access to original writing and getting gimmicky writing in return through LLMs. #AIEthics
404media.co/ai-scraping-bots…
Michael Orr retweeted
It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning.
"LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels"
This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔
Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice time protects memory circuits and encourages richer language even when a tool is later reintroduced.
Michael Orr retweeted
This is simply an admission your industry isn't legitimate. It's built entirely on theft and plagiarism.
It deserves to die.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry theverge.com/news/674366/nic…
The global online authority for #bees research DiscoverLife.org has been up and down the last few months due to rampant AI bot webscraping. Learn more in our quick new @Nature Correspondence here: rdcu.be/emMOw
Michael Orr retweeted
I recently saw a coworker had clearly used AI to wish another coworker “happy birthday” (which he confirmed later). So AI is not only replacing the ability to do academic reasoning of any kind, but even the most basic effort for low level human interactions
Michael Orr retweeted
¡Buenas noticias! Nuestro trabajo "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀?" publicado en Journal of Applied Ecology está entre los más leídos de la revista.
👉 Pueden leer el artículo completo en besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Michael Orr retweeted
There are only a handful of observations of this bee, Anthophora ursina — and this was the first from 2025!
📷 pippin7512 on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: inaturalist.org/observations…
#ObservationOfTheDay
ALT A fuzzy, pale yellow and black bee with large, deep-green eyes rests on a white, triangular-shaped flower against a leafy background.
ALT A fuzzy, pale yellow and black bee with large, deep-green eyes rests on a white, triangular-shaped flower against a leafy background.
Michael Orr retweeted
🦤🧬🧑🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Michael Orr retweeted
frying our only planet… for this
“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @CJR
🔗 cjr.org/tow_center/we-compar…
