Ted Pavlic (he/him)

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Followers
1.1K
Account age
3 yrs

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Just in case you might have thought otherwise, we need to clarify that the gecko here is not a real person.2 views Just in case you might have thought otherwise, we need to clarify that the gecko here is not a real person.

📊 Post engagement

1
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Preprint suggesting hallucinations are often more a func of bad · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
4.6 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.7×
Follows 1.6K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Preprint suggesting hallucinations are often more a func of bad context than bad models. The future of LLM-based AI will be better harnesses and establishment of best practices in context management. "AI Agents Do Not Fail Alone:The Context Fails First" https://arxiv.org/abs/260… ★ 2
More transmissible cancer, this time in fish… in Vermont! “Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer” by Curd et al. (2026, Nature) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10828-6 ★ 1 Why in bad times, sometimes things look like they are going well: In high-stress conditions, species with higher growth rates have an advantage - leading to robustness in overall growth despite community deterioration. "Predictable shifts … ★ 1 A tornado *in* the erupting #Kilauea volcano caldera today! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19JHJzGF7g/ ★ 1 #Kilauea volcano vents are now overflowing with lava. They expect fountaining to start today or tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZv9yk?si=vo4jI9cHehdvOA7p ★ 1 Lava is sloshing in Kilauea again -- fountain likely today or within a day or two. Pretty "cool" to see it slosh! Will be overflowing soon... then fountaining after. https://www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZv9yk?si=-1edwvMAqgWb-aME Here are the two vents together: https://youtube.com/live/gXKuUyKt8mc?is=9wOgGaBCkYATNfSu I'm pretty sure #Kilauea lava fountaining will start within hours of posting this -- one vent is rapidly boiling now! Check out the live stream of this very active vent or back out to see the live stream #USGS has of both vents. https://ww… ★ 1 Simplified template for manuscript reviews, supporting both MD & LaTeX. Template includes support for an LLM **scribe**, helping to organize repo and take down notes *you* give it as *you* read. It is NOT an endorsement of LLM actually doi… ★ 1 This is a massive screw up on Sony Pictures part. It's been this long and they still don't know how to spell "MARVEL"??! Just in case you might have thought otherwise, we need to clarify that the gecko here is not a real person. ★ 2 Ants are the new plants! More examples that size (now even in monomorphic ants) is correlated with endoreduplication/polyploidy. "Endoreduplication underlies body size variation in monomorphic ants" by Okrutniak et al. (2026, Frontiers in …

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Home server
mas.to
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 4.6× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

54/100 Fair
  • Est. 72% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low content engagement (~0.1% of followers) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
72%
Fake-follower risk
Medium

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

ASU Associate Prof in SCAI/SOLS. Interdisciplinary research in autonomous decision making in living and artificial systems. Director of the Bringing Ecology and Engineering Together (BEET) Lab at Arizona State University. Research interests: behavioral ecology, OFT, social insects, multi-agent systems/robotics, automation in the built environment, animal behavior, ethics in autonomy, AI/ML https://bsky.app/profile/tedpavlic.bsky.social https://x.com/TedPavlic TEDx: http://youtu.be/9GWXCRetOjk

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