Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)

Assoc. Prof in @SCAI_ASU/@ASUSOLS.
Autonomous decision making in living and artificial sys.
@[email protected] @tedpavlic.bsky.social
@TEDx:

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Now available on YouTube: My #TEDxASU talk about the hidden costs that disciplinary identity puts on innovation.
https://t.co/tDWT5eoYed

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

I just heard a @kjzzphoenix reporter refer to the "enormity" of the blue wave in a news update. Either they meant "enormousness" or the worries about NPR stations having a liberal bias are completely unfounded.

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

#Kilauea #volcano is fountaining again. Looks like it's back to more regular ~monthly fountaining activity after the recent pause and re-shaping of the crater.
https://t.co/uaqjHjMlFj

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Hey @Starbucks employees: If someone mobile orders a pour over, do not wait until they arrive to ask them if the pour over is okay because it would take 5 minutes. Just do the pour over as it will probably take 5 minutes for that person to arrive (or more). Isn't that the point?

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

I guess elections have consequences...?

National Weather Service ordered to resume twice-daily weather balloon launches, "an important step"
https://t.co/CxUXWOuLT6

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

@ShriramKMurthi I worry a bit that Obsidian does become a crutch for graduate students developing into independent researchers. Research notebooks for recording experimental data is one thing, but at some point you have to set yourself free to just absorb and think and recall what is needed.

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

@ShriramKMurthi And if they do that, I don't think it should matter what form the lecture experience is in -- slides, whiteboard/blackboard, projected notepad, or open discussion (no props/no digital memory). I also hope students try to ween themselves off of taking notes over time.

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

More great BEET Lab representation at #SWRS2026! This time from Amrit Kaur, Biomedical Engineering BS student (#SBHSE @ASUEngineering) who was mentored by @nush_dasu (@asuSOLS Animal Behavior PhD). Amrit received the 3rd place paper/talk at the event! Nice work, Amrit!

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

I just watched someone shake a bottle of cold-pressed juice really hard.

It was unsettling.

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Elena Oikonomou (CEN PhD student from @SCAI_ASU) represented the BEET Lab well at #SWRS2026 today! She presented on her "ISO-Compliant Safety in Human–Robot Collaboration via Control Barrier Functions" as a poster and a lightning talk. She did a great job!

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Claude made some visuals for my process of paper-writing, useful for students. In case anyone else wants to use them:
https://t.co/JUuxdidTFY

(from older blog post https://t.co/USeCdro5o2)

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

@mbw61567742 Definitely deserves further study that controls for the health conditions. And follow ups to test mechanistic hypotheses like this one.

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Correlation between popular low-/no-calorie sweeteners and faster cognitive decline in an 8-year study. Includes aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame-K, erythritol, xylitol, sorbitol and tagatose.
https://t.co/4IM3zEwjve

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Another explainer designed for students to explore difficult intro #stats topics. Topic is the Multiple Comparisons problem/FWER and different ways to resolve MC issues in diff contexts (Bonferroni, Holm, ANOVA/MANOVA, Tukey, Select-the-Best, SimOpt, ...).
https://t.co/v72vKiT2lh

[Guy Theraulaz @GTheraulaz]

Our new study in PRX Life challenges classical collective motion models: rather than averaging information from multiple neighbors, fish respond primarily to ONE most influential neighbor at a time, not necessarily the nearest!
🔗 https://t.co/VZTJuEPx3s

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Pressure for this cuckoo to match host eggs leads to accumulation of deleterious mutations via hitchhiking.

"Maternal inheritance accelerates sex chromosome degeneration and mitonuclear coevolution in a brood parasitic bird"
by Sorensen et al. (2026)
https://t.co/n74z6iHcrQ

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

It's amazing to think that computer viruses and malware can now be mere malicious suggestions to agentic AI that are the workhorses who to figure out how to make it happen.

"Cursor says up to 5,000 users affected by tampered Claude Code extension"
https://t.co/0Vj5X35D9T

[Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @TedPavlic]

Very sad

NBC News: Patrick Stewart, actor known for iconic roles of Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, dies at 86
https://t.co/0ldaWwD7I1