About AI in education. AI has probably only highlighted the limits of the current scholar system, based on tests, grades, and knowledge. If we think that teaching and studying are aimed at passing a test or getting a high grade, then AI has probably already won. 1/3 #generativeAI #ethics #school

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📆 Mark your calendars! Neuromatch Academy 2026 courses are coming! 🧠 #ComputationalNeuroscience & #DeepLearning (6–24 July) 🌍 Computational Tools for #ClimateScience & #NeuroAI (13–24 July) ➡️ Applications open Feb 2026. Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters. We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them. grist.org/language/nat... #Nature #Words #Language #Culture #Climate #Diction #Writing #Writers

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The interrupters www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ol... #music

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GPT-5 is out and everyone is wondering "how many R in Strawberrrry?"

The latest smoke plumes from intense Canadian wildfires are reaching Europe, causing hazy skies, and a second plume is following according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast. See the forecast: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...

Abbiamo scoperto cosa ha ucciso miliardi di stelle marine negli ultimi 15 anni

From TA to project chair 🌍 Wil Laura's journey with Climatematch shows what’s possible when you take a chance—and find your people. 📖 Read his story: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #ClimateScience #ClimatematchAcademy #EarlyCareerResearchers

Excited to teach two grad courses @UTAustin Spring '26! 📊 Gov 385La: Making Big Data – Learn web scraping, crowd-sourcing, & data curation to build high-quality datasets for social sci impact. 🌍 Gov 385Lb: Causal ML & EO for Social Sci – Deploy satellite data & ML for causal inf at planetary scale

The Fantastic Four! All four illustrations i did for Marvel Snap, so happy i had the chance to work on them! @Marvel #marvelsnap #fantasticfour #invisiblewoman #thething #mrfantastic #humantorch #marvel #vincenzoriccardi #vinartwork

L'accordo scozzese, spiegato bene open.substack.com/pub/fabiosab...

47 years of #Arctic sea ice thickness during the month of June... (updated through 2025) Graphic available at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

It's time for your monthly climate change update: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Graphic by zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

For anyone who might be interested in teaching my book on Leopold's land ethic: The Philosophers for Sustainability group has put together resources to use for teaching _The Land Is Our Community _. 1/n 🌱🐋 🌎 📗

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Parts of the Mediterranean Sea reached 30C this week, much earlier than usual, raising fears for marine life. For some areas, this is 6 or 7C warmer than usual at this time of year. Our story with more maps by @markpoynting.bsky.social and me here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

💈 “Il sistema americano sta andando in pezzi”: accademici lasciano gli Stati Uniti per cercare “asilo scientifico” in Francia

🧵 Le energie del mondo. Fossile, nucleare, rinnovabile: cosa dobbiamo sapere | @gruggieri.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/energie-pian...

The beauty of timing.

and "who said that"

As per every year heatwaves will bring up the convo, more heatwaves = more public salience, but words won’t become actions until we confront the v political fact that there’s a well organized group of interests *against* the materialisation of climate policy. Fossil fuels won’t phase themselves out.

Sicily is so hot that the region has just issued an ordinance to suspend various types of agricultural and construction activities on hot days to avoid accidents at work. Essentially these activities will be off at 12:30-16:00pm until 31/8. But let’s talk again how expensive climate mitigation is..

Il fatto che l’IA generativa venga percepita come una fonte sicura e accurata di informazioni è sicuramente una vittoria del marketing. Probabilmente si è parlato così tanto di AGI (intelligenza artificiale generale in italiano) ...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

In September 1964, the US seriously considered attacking the nuclear program of the People's Republic of China, as they could see that a nuclear test was being planned. They abstained from doing so. Why? A few reasons. 🧵

Spoke to a doctoral student from another university about my work yesterday. It was one of those conversations academics live for. "But in your 2017 paper you say ...." "Er, remind me what I published in 2017."

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

Automation vs Augmentation in AI, and why Hinton was wrong on radiology substack.com/@aisnakeoil/... 🧪🤖

Del resto perché consentire alle pericolosissime ngo di promuovere regole più stringenti su ambiente e sanità? www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...

Amazing! I literally just left a careers session at HPS in Cambridge where I explained to a group of PhD students that their ability to process and reflect on large nebulous quantities of information at speed was a skill so desirable the tech-bros are trying to mimic it with LLMs and AI.

🎯 Agree. I think it's easier for marketing to humanize the chatbots and mention AGI, but the underlying architecture is based on a stochastic behavior. Chatbots repeat the patterns (words) they have already seen. Stochastic parrots by Emily Bender is still my favorite definition.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

About 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests, our species learned to live just about anywhere. Later, that ability helped our ancestors expand from Africa across the world. Here’s my story on the human niche [Gift link] nyti.ms/3ZBc7ID

Trump wants to revive “big beautiful coal.” I wrote about why that won’t be so easy. open.substack.com/pub/themoney...

‘once you get below a certain level of attainment, young people of white British ethnicity just don’t seem interested in going to university anymore. On the other hand, lower attainers from ethnic minority backgrounds are still quite keen to participate in HE’

🧵 Liste di attesa infinite, visite negate: così si nega il diritto alla salute in Italia www.valigiablu.it/esami-visite...

🧪 Why attack science? "Science [is] an independent voice ... guiding governments ... toward informed actions... That independence is why authoritarian regimes invariably target science & scientists. Authoritarian regimes treat science ... as an obstacle to overcome" 👇 blog.ucs.org/melissa-finu...

If you are a politician I don’t want to hear that you are on crusade. I don’t like the metaphors mission and campaign either. Just tell us what you want to do. Why it’s good and important. And how you propose to do it.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com