Jan De Laet

Biologist, ICT professional, amateur #tenorhorn player.

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

@philipglass I remember a #Koyaanisqatsi film screening with live music by your ensemble in @LaMonnaieDeMunt in Brussels, in the 1980's. Amazing experience! It was announced on painted metro trains, I finally digitized some slides of that. Happy birthday, Sir, and thank you for your music!

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

There is no such thing as a free lunch: hidden assumptions are still assumptions

[Cladistics Journal Alert @CladisticsAlert]

⚠️#NewPaperAlert💻
𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗼́𝗻 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱)
By Jan De Laet
https://t.co/cx1L9TwLOQ

#Cladistics #Phylogenetics #Bioinformatics #Algorithms #MDL #Graphs

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

No such thing as a free lunch: a note on what 'natural' means in the Phylogenetic Minimum Description Length optimality criterion and how PMDL relocates substantive assumptions into the chosen description language https://t.co/KalLKrZeDC

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Find me on #Bluesky: https://t.co/m3JBNNwXze

[Cladistics Journal Alert @CladisticsAlert]

⚠️ #NewPaperAlert
𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭: 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫'𝐬:
[𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒂 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏–𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔]
By De Laet & Goloboff

https://t.co/CotYEzAGMC

[Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis]

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/dmDHHU5ak0 via @Change

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

If you couldn't make head nor tail of this https://t.co/aD3JhRTdVH proposal to deal with inapplicable characters in a dynamic #homology framework, here's an analysis ->
Nothing to it: a reply to Wheeler's “much ado about nothing” - De Laet and Goloboff https://t.co/Tc6xqbj9fY.

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Conservationists call for urgent ban on deep-sea mining https://t.co/UUG8MRvZjU

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea https://t.co/5mpGWeBHyo

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Goloboff, Catalano & @AmbrosioTorresG on parsimony analysis of #phylogenomic datasets, part 2: great comparison of implementations of parsimony methods in TNT, PAUP*, MEGA and MPBoot - https://t.co/PBcWAPeBJy #phylogenetics

[Mongabay @mongabay]

Shark fin trade gill nets drag coelacanths into the light:

Demand for fins and oil has led fishers in Madagascar to set gill nets in deeper waters where they are finding — and possibly harming — previously-unknown populations of the ancient fish: https://t.co/vaPmPxdIDt

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Is planting trees always as good for the Earth as everyone says? https://t.co/oaklXd005F via @Mongabay

[E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation @EOWBF]

"The administration’s plans are grounded in community-led conservation. A set of guiding principles serve as the backbone of the report, and most of them lean on public participation to steer the way." #biodiversityconservation #30X30
https://t.co/ONx56sbQNr

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

@SarahLebeer He probably never knew - my bad - but he was as close as a mentor to me as one can ever wish for, even if our ways crossed just so briefly. My thoughts go to his family.

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

New wine in the old and well-tested bottle of maximization of #homology, aka as minimization of #homoplasy -> algorithms for #InapplicableCharacters now available in #anagallis and #TNT. Curious how this will behave with empirical data. Time will tell!

[Cladistics Journal Alert @CladisticsAlert]

An old problem with new solutions:
https://t.co/EK8aKjWeL5

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

@LauraMiers Very disturbing indeed

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

@AMNH Tnx! Reading Melville's Moby Dick right now, mostly about its cousin the sperm whale - but about so much else. Anyway, can't help being in awe with cetaceans more than usual now. The blue whale features in ch. 32, as the sulphur bottom. Provoking stuff for systematists there!

[Wayne Maddison @WayneMaddison]

General laws/hypotheses/questions are absolutely critical for prediction and control, but if our goal is basic knowledge, rather than technology, then discovery of what exists, in all its richness and diversity, has no less claim to our focus.

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

@PalaeoSmith Thanks Martin, and no hard feelings. #inapplicablecharacters https://t.co/9mu8dxQgWx

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Hi Martin, I talked about this with Pablo Goloboff, we’re a bit taken aback. Pablo is twitterless, so with his permission I share some of his thoughts in the quoted thread below. Needless to say that I agree. So, Pablo says:

[Martin R Smith @PalaeoSmith]

Another take on inapplicable phylogenetic characters, useful with few dependent chars when ancestral states are known
https://t.co/ioD0lyultI

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

@PalaeoSmith Hi Martin, please see https://t.co/yPvcAQIMFp for some thoughts

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

Hi Martin, I talked about this with Pablo Goloboff, we’re a bit taken aback. Pablo is twitterless, so with his permission I share some of his thoughts in the quoted thread below. Needless to say that I agree. So, Pablo says:

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

"Downplaying our paper while pretending to be nice and open, in only 280 chars. I'd have expected more from @PalaeoSmith; his work is very good and he doesn't need this to stand out." (5/5)

[Jan De Laet @TealEdNaj]

"...and natural extension into ML w/actual code, and (E) shows that the theory behind all this works and produces the same results as an independent implementation (anagallis, https://t.co/Wz0IifbZEe; comparison with @PalaeoSmith's own program yields huge differences)." (4/5)