Brazilian PhD student studying fruit fly navigation in the Maimon Lab
The Rockefeller Univiversity, previously at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | She/Her
Sofia Avritzer
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If you've ever wondered what makes a LLM 'memorize' information, and spit it back out word-for-word, you should read this new piece by @peterha2l.bsky.social!
Happy to share my first story for @nature.com, looking at an aspect of science that doesn’t get discussed enough: retractions that happen because scientists discover honest mistakes in their work. I spoke with researchers who chose to self-retract about what helped them get through the process.
Highly recommend the @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social program for any scientists who want a behind-the-scenes look at how science journalism works!
Earlier this year, California’s Death Valley was overrun by a superbloom. I visited the park in late March. It was incredible to see the desert all covered in purple and yellow flowers – and I wrote a short piece about it for Science News Explores. www.snexplores.org/article/scie...
So excited to share a story I wrote for
@snexplores.bsky.social on how some animals make themselves (almost) invisible - and why humans can't do the same! My last piece written as a
@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social, and probably the one I had the most fun working on.
www.snexplores.org/article/how-...
@natastron.nature.com's beautiful September cover shows the first ever image of a dying start that exploded twice on it's way to become a type 1a supernova. I got to write about this really cool discovery this summer for @sciencenews.bsky.social.
www.sciencenews.org/article/supe...
So excited to share a comic I wrote out on @snexplores.bsky.social! Flamingos make underwater whirlpools with their heads and feet to catch shrimp 🦩🌀 Written during my @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social this summer: www.snexplores.org/article/flam.... Beautiful illustrations by the amazing JoAnna Wendel!
These massive wildflower blooms create colorful carpets over desert landscapes during unusually rainy years.
Retractions, which have long been associated with misconduct or poor scientific practice, can carry a lot of stigma
Some in the research community want that to change
go.nature.com/46R3tJF
🧑🔬 @sofiavritzer.bsky.social’s summer was packed with fascinating stories at @sciencenews.bsky.social thanks to the support of the Heising-Simons Foundation. Take a look at the stories here: www.aaas.org/programs/mas...
#MassMediaFellowship #SciComm
What do a group researchers do with 200k GPU hours from NVIDIA worth around a million dollars? They train a bunch of AI models on fake people from Arizona, of course!
Hubble is a new open source model suite appearing at ICLR this month. Read the full story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
Beautiful new cover at Nature Astronomy's
Concentric shells of highly ionized calcium and sulfur in the ejecta of a type Ia supernova provide evidence of the double-detonation scenario for exploding sub-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs. 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/natastron/vo... @natastron.nature.com
