Jon Paul Davis

My personal account. For agriculture and science tweets related to my teaching position, see @MrDBio.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

This is due to the way that AP updates its data, not a conspiracy. It took me 30 seconds with the Gemini sidebar to understand the issue and 5 minutes on Twitter to learn that this happened later for Bass. Unfollow these election conspiracy kooks and grifters

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

Red flag… 🚩🚩🚩

39.3% vote in…
Karen Bass had 117,579
Spencer Pratt had 86,323

42.4% vote in…
Karen Bass 130,429
Spencer Pratt 86,323

Virtually every candidate received votes except for Spencer Pratt. Impossible.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@SpaceFentDealer @MJTruthUltra This is how you get Jan 6. This meme pulsed thru Facebook, outraging thousands. Likely explanation- in the process of CSV file export of the count database, scraped by AP for the web, there was a slight delay in updating candidate totals. On both sides. Way to erode democracy!

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@SpaceFentDealer @MJTruthUltra All these are just screencaps from AP, but if your response is legit, then this reflects a patchy update by AP from the database storing the totals. Wow. Thousands of people who still haven't reckoned with Jan 6 getting fired up again over nothing. Good job, Nick!

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@chelliepingree @RepMcGovern @HouseAgDems Are you aware that the legal team that won the first of those lawsuits included RFK Jr. Avoid going MAHA on glyphosate. Thanks!

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@AShoutOutfromMN @atrupar No, they didn't. They backed down following the recommendations of the EFSA, their EPA/FDA. It a challenge to follow the science on this one and not go full MAHA along with RFK Jr.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@_oRyca_ @atrupar It's a tough issue because you would be allied with RFK on this one. And the WHO basically pulled back their assessment that he made BANK in CA from Bayer before working for Trump. Farm lobby rolled right over RFK on that one.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@evans_senri @atrupar It is a tough spot for her to be in because McGovern was exaggerating what the WHO report said. BTW the WHO pulled that one back.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@JackMeoff506 @atrupar Right. And the farm lobby rolled right over Kennedy to do this for Bayer. Kennedy made bank on a couple of decades of anti-GMO sentiment. He was able to monetize that in a slightly different way than anti-vaccine sentiment. Wrong on the science, but a fascinating court case.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@fredstaffordcs Calling someone a dickhead is more divisive than calling someone else a degrowther.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

Congrats, Austin, TX on housing affordability! Durham, NC has many, but not all, of these pro-development, YIMBY policies in place. https://t.co/ORzeoIkuVE

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@BulwarkOnline @esaagar I enjoyed the whole interview, but Saagar voted for the "80s Vegas Guy" multiple times. Did he think that Biff was the hero of Back to the Future 2 as well?

[Michael Grunwald @MikeGrunwald]

I took over the great @CitizenCohn's policy column today @BulwarkOnline to explain that RFK Jr. isn't just awful about vaccines; he's awful about food and farming, too. It turns out that brain worms don't pick and choose which judgments to infect! Link below...

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@AriFleischer Freudian slip -- "his rise coincided with the welcome birth" no it was just birtherism, a racist con-man's smear that Republicans enjoyed hearing or naively believed.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@emprestheodora @DrEricDing I know you mean well, but look what happened when the government of Sri Lanka, followed the advice of other well-fed first world activists. https://t.co/NEGCVx5X4n

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@juliatmade @mattyglesias No. Monsanto is sort of a boogeyman for folks on the Green Left and MAHA Right that are not following the science on this closely. Glyphosate is just safe, and helpful for saving soil through conservation tillage.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@SpeakingBee @mattyglesias You can get it at Tractor Supply and at other ag stores for about half the price of the new formulation on Roundup that was developed in response to the lawsuits.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@MelindaRD @LawrenceGostin Other more toxic herbicides, older methods of soil eroding tillage and coming soon but not here yet-- robots! So for now glyphosate is the way to go.

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@LawrenceGostin With all your credentials and background in this area, Lawrence, how did you miss this one? WHO pulled back the IARC assessment. Seethe replies here. Glyphosate, useful for conservation tillage, is the most misunderstood topic in public health, even by experts in related domains

[Jon Paul Davis @jonpauldavis]

@emprestheodora @DrEricDing No, see the ESA and EFSA approvals. It is just like mRNA vaccines misunderstood and used for various wellness grifts. The IARC assessment was pulled back.