Anna Loi

PhD Candidate @MINTLab_Umu, University of Murcia; Master of Forestry'16 @YaleYSE; Interested in forest restoration, forest ecology, mycology & theories of mind

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

What THE HELL is that damn update for the Mac App of ChatGPT?!? Literally all my chats and projects gone and only this coding crap available. Had to dig the old version out of my trash. Crappy job, @OpenAI

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

DO NOT rent from @Avis , they charged me additional money for gas, even though the tank was full, said the fee it to bring it to another station would be 30€, but was 180€ and now me more than a month later are attempting to charge more than €500 for damages I NEVER incurred.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

BREAKING: Massive -- really, massive -- electricity outage hits Spain, which large part of the country suffering blackouts (including Madrid and Barcelona).

Data from Spain's national grid shows a lost of >10 GW of demand, from ~26GW to ~12GW in a few seconds. Reason unknonw.

[MINT Lab @MINTLab_umu]

New post from @quercus_aliena asking - can plants be truly intelligent if isolated from their communities and ecosystems?

https://t.co/2KCle4Ifpx

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

First blog post for our forest intelligence project! https://t.co/UDcky5Ap9u @DioVicen #plantintelligence

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

Unfortunately this is entirely unsurprising.
"The Chinese Paper Mill Industry: Interview with Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8" https://t.co/BeGcoHJGAe via @schneiderleonid

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

More fascinating research on fungal intelligence

https://t.co/4kTXZnGs5E

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

Couldn’t even (via official channels) download a paper FROM MY OWN LAB thanks to the ridiculous #paywall @SageJournals has. All of these journals effectively blocking free science should be torn down.

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

Imagine Southern Spain used to have summer monsoons and we managed to make them disappear a few hundred years ago🤯 https://t.co/UtIgiK0aaf

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

I got total AI vertigo with #NotebookLM - used it today to create a podcast about various fairly complex papers, as well as individual ones about some books and, together with the now true multi-source doc reader it‘s truly going to change the game🤯

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

Great to see our lab work stimulating debate. Plant-fungal exchange processes are complex, elegant, & still mysterious. We should be open to using all types of tools & frameworks to understand them

https://t.co/VpsQSQiHZt

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

Uhmmm, #NotebookLM might be THE greatest tool ever created for researchers???? It’s what we all hoped ChatGPTs pdf uploading function would be🤯

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

Sorry, but you’re confusing effect with cause. We‘re talking about a system that is no longer able to tell threat from non-threat. It‘s not inherent in the system, it‘s because it’s been trained on too much contradictory information.

https://t.co/cuxPnpLmhJ

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

The idea that subsystems like the immune system but also other organ systems can be subject to Pavlovian Conditioning (including accidental fear conditioning) is absolutely blowing my mind - we really need to stop viewing any sub-CNS system as just dumb machines

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

If the surviving trees we see in a natural forest are not just the product of „lucky coincidence“ but rather the result of intelligent choices, then it is both amusing and straight up terrifying to think that in restoration we may mostly be planting „idiots“.

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

@liminalmessages Thanks for letting me join! Currently reading some of your papers and finding them intensely interesting!

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

I have no idea how I missed #biosemiotics AS AN ENTIRE FIELD, but excited to dive in now! This paper is already getting me excited: https://t.co/Zdw2DMIMY7

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, free range isn’t necessarily free range, here is a case study from Australia: https://t.co/cYIVPcvDtf

[Anna Loi @quercus_aliena]

Honored to have been able to participate and dip my toes a bit more into that academic world! #IBC2024