Celebrations & reflections! 🎉 @kjsanders.eurosky.social discusses the 3 experimental book pilot projects & what they have made possible 🔗 buff.ly/ZbPXGvI @openreflections.bsky.social @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @simonxix.com @chromatinfuel.bsky.social

lol - “obviously” “Obviously Dawkins sees something in the subservient nature of this AI chatbot that makes him think "woman". He sees an eagerness to please, to disregard all of its (nonexistent) self interests in order to serve his needs, and he thinks "adult human female".”

I am pre-ordering now…

I’m shocked, shocked to find that there’s gambling going on in here

Annnnnd this goes well beyond what was written down in Project 2025!

See you tomorrow, Boston!! RSVP required: www.eventbrite.com/e/chanda-pre...

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

Clémence Royer was French self-taught #polymath born #OTD in 1830. + Best known for producing the first French translation of Charles Darwin’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 + First woman elected to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 1870 & remained its only female member for ~15 years #WomenInSTEM

The 22 point summary & the book it's based are a manifesto w/all the derision that label brings. It is no different than bin Laden's letter to America. Kaczynski's own manifesto, Bibi's & the neo-Cons' A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, or The Army of God Manual. 1/

a thing i've been thinking about (as part of reading this very good book) is how some of what looks to us like a delayed response or inaction to the kind of stratospheric wealth accumulation our tech executives have managed is that this is basically an entirely new problem in human history

@seagoat72.bsky.social Here is my promised reading list on trans history. open.substack.com/pub/sterling...

I’m better for Hampshire, too. 😢

Read more about #EdgeOfSpaceTime -- and why it's a book that welcomes you, yes you, into the boogie wonderland of our cosmos -- in my newsletter: news.chanda.science/archive/the-...

Next week! Come and learn more about what these experimental book pilots have been up to and discuss experimental publishing with us, our speakers, and panellists!

really looking forward to this!

The Trump regime has functionally frozen the National Science Foundation, effectively removing the largest source of funding for scores of scientific fields.

Quick point: In regard to his remarkrs from last night, DOD's attempt to strong arm Anthropic, funding for ICE & CBP, lots of folks keep referring to Trump as the leader of a failed coup. This is not correct. He is the leader of a successful coup. 1/

#DarwinDay 🧪 "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before." - Charles Darwin

"They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture" boy that's reeeeally giving these fuckers the benefit of the doubt

I love this, even though I clearly don’t know as much about love as Tal Lavin does

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay. A few comments, in a short 🧵>> bigthink.com/the-present/...

Building the First Library in Gaza After the Genocide chuffed.org/project/firs...

“There were some cells in there that were very messed up” In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y

Fantastic event and well organized. Many scientists, communicators and journalists are currently asking the right questions How can we bridge the gap between science and society? What is the role of media and trust? Are we on an even playing field? Let me share a few slides from my talk 1/

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

No Kings includes Angus

The worst thing about fascism is the fascism. The second worst thing about fascism is what one has to do to stop it, and the fascism only gets worse the longer one takes to begin opposing it.

great to see Watson getting absolutely slagged, but no one seems to quote the postcard that he, age 40, having just wed Radcliffe junior Elizabeth Lewis, sent from their 1968 honeymoon in La Jolla to Paul Doty at Harvard: "Nineteen year old now mine." [Victor McElheny, Watson and DNA, p141]

not quite as overtly fascist, but one of my students pointed me to the USDA website today:

banger closer www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l... Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🚨🚨🚨 What Russ Vought Is Doing Right Now: Project 2025 Architect is Spending his Shutdown Destroying Your Government With half of Project 2025 implemented, what is its architect turned Director of OMB coming for over the shutdown? Find out (free) and then RP! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience youtube.com/watch?v=5APQ...

correction: that article is A LOT wonky but AF-S knows amazing when she sees it…

Can Tanya Harding's Ex-Husband Save Figure Skating?

They've set the conditions for a Trump movement partisan to attack &/or kill a GOP senator, presentative, appointee, state level official, or a member of their families for years. It has fortunately not happened, but when Kirk was killed it created the opportunity they've been looking for. 13/

It is important to remember that the violence in political violence & the terror in terrorism includes not just actual physical acts or attacks. It also includes threats, whether verbal or written, delivered w/ink on paper, phone call/voicemail or virtually by email, tweet, or other type of post. 1/

Spencer Cox Quotes Charlie Kirk, Leaves Out A Hell Of A Lot open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

I hope Camille Zapata is getting a bonus for this brilliant work.