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Patrick Monahan
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That’s right. There are moments in Girl Talk albums that are like, the best music has ever made me feel
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David M. Perry
1 day ago
More AI Haters (me) should read this rule. I understand the position that making an AI policy is a kind of surrender, but I also think a general rule like this is another way of addressing the situation that doesn't turn the syllabus into a EULA.
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Robert Downen
14 days ago
BIG news: The proposed border wall through Big Bend National Park is off following months of bipartisan backlash.
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No border wall in Big Bend, CBP commissioner says
Texans across the political spectrum opposed wall construction in the national park. Now the agency’s plans include roadways and digital surveillance to monitor the rugged region.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/08/big-bend-national-park-border-wall-construction-cancelled/
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local blogger
17 days ago
Well, Ted Turner was a billionaire (which should not exist) who gave us 24-hour news (which also should not exist) but he put the Braves on TV across the country (too beautiful to exist) and he bankrolled my favorite wrestling company growing up (too stupid to exist). Multitudes. RIP.
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Amanda Mull
18 days ago
I do think that “what is college actually for, as it currently exists” and “how and why has that changed over time” and “what SHOULD college be for, ideally” are all fascinating questions and it’s too bad that they are totally impossible to contemplate without being stricken with The Madness
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Rebecca Colesworthy
21 days ago
AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2026/04/30/ai-slop-is-flooding-academic-journals-a-top-journal-measured-it/
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Dan Garisto
28 days ago
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
https://democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-lofgren-reacts-to-latest-trump-scheme-to-undermine-science
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Nature
30 days ago
The US National Science Foundation is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences
go.nature.com/4vLQGTB
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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change
The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.
https://go.nature.com/4vLQGTB
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John Warner
about 1 month ago
Where did the notion of an "infinitely patient" AI tutor being a good thing come from? Sal Khan uses this. I've seen Marc Andreessen use it. It makes no sense. Some of the most important moments in my learning life was a teacher losing patience with me.
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Nicole Hemmer
about 1 month ago
“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here:
www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
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Mike Schuster
about 1 month ago
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
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Laura Lopez
about 1 month ago
NSF Grad Research Fellowship awardees were announced, & the total awards are back up to 2,599 this year after only 1,500 (1000 initially+500 later) last year! Congrats to all awardees, including 3 OSU astro undergrads and 6 UCSC Lamat REU participants!! 🎈🎉🔭🧪
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
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https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
about 1 month ago
New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the
#AMOC
: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊 AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz7738
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Ilhan Omar
about 2 months ago
Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached. When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?
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Hey look at my alma mater!
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Sickos Committee
about 2 months ago
Mary Washington wins the NCAA D3 men's basketball national title!
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Cameron Blevins
about 2 months ago
This is so, so well-articulated.
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Albert Burneko
about 2 months ago
learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
about 2 months ago
One thing that amazes me is that two of the three American astronauts on board Artemis II graduated from public universities: Christina Koch earned three degrees from NC State, and Victor Glover was a defensive back on the Cal Poly football team. We are not going anywhere without public education.
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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo
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victoria zeller⚔️ (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)
about 2 months ago
let’s get shaq and chuck on the next shuttle
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. So if somebody got their PhD in their 40s do they just start out as mid-career?
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itati VCS
about 2 months ago
Until you change the incentive structure of academia you will continue to see people fear losing their status and use AI as a way to fast-track productivity bc academia doesn't currently value the meaningful production of knowledge, only the performance of producing it.
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Katherine the Sixth
about 2 months ago
“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”
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Rodger Sherman
about 2 months ago
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
about 2 months ago
This is a Final Destination death sequence
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WIRED
about 2 months ago
The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.
www.wired.com/story/a-scho...
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A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work
The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-school-district-tried-to-help-train-waymos-to-stop-for-school-buses-it-didnt-work/
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Dan Garisto
2 months ago
The situation (as far as I understand it) seems to be that OMB has approved the apportionment (unlike with NIH). See:
openomb.org/file/11505250
So the money may even have landed at NSF... but it can't/won't be distributed down to the program level until a spending plan is approved by OMB.
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Dr. Stephanie
about 2 months ago
I need this good news.
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Monarch butterfly population increases 64%
Two new reports estimate a 64% increase in species population and a significant decrease in forest degradation in the butterfly's winter home
https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories/monarch-butterfly-population-increases-64-percent/
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Lane Moore
2 months ago
Hi there, Your AI flyer looks like shit
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Happy Monday
2 months ago
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Rural Indexing Project
2 months ago
Klassy Karrot Holtville, CA
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Bill DiFilippo
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
2 months ago
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
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Rachel Warnock
2 months ago
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
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Don't Forget that FORAMS 2026 (in scenic Amherst Massachusetts!) abstracts are due on March 15! If you just submit this video as an abstract it'll probably be accepted.
sites.google.com/view/forams2...
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If you want to use AI to review manuscripts you should just quit your job. The whole point of being a scholar is to critically engage with other people’s work! If you don’t even want to do that then why bother?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
2 months ago
In a related note, I spent three years looking into the looming disaster that is the Coastal Bend for
@thexylom.com
. Did you know that San Patricio County, partially folded into Pulido's
#TX15
district, has seen a 17-fold increase in toxic chemical risk, but has zero state-installed air monitors?
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“I Was Having a Good Time”: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?
A playing field tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies turned sleepy Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, into the Crude Oil Export Terminal of the United States, a...
https://www.thexylom.com/post/i-was-having-a-good-time-how-did-a-small-town-in-south-texas-get-hit-with-two-oil-spills
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Luke O'Neil
2 months ago
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Don't Forget that FORAMS 2026 (in scenic Amherst Massachusetts!) abstracts are due on March 15! If you just submit this video as an abstract it'll probably be accepted.
sites.google.com/view/forams2...
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Rodger Sherman
2 months ago
today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
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Dang! That is so much for satisfying than the usual petri dish pictures. Maybe a Beella digitata?
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Terry McGlynn
2 months ago
Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
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In a further setback to scientific ocean drilling, the SODCO advisory board (pictured) have all made invisible in some sort of laboratory accident
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Clara Bolton
3 months ago
Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology 2026 : 22nd July to 7th August in Urbino, Italy. 🇮🇹 Application DEADLINE 13th March 2026) ECORD Summer School Scholarship Applications also open:
www.ecord.org/education/sc...
DEADLINE 20th MARCH 2026 Please share widely in your paleo circles 🌲🌊⛰️
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Get a Scholarship - ECORD: European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling
https://www.ecord.org/education/scholarship/
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[#BigTru]
3 months ago
Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?
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Albert Burneko
3 months ago
mew mew mew i dont wike daywight savings time, i wost a whole hour of my wifetime—oh sorry i am outside in the bright sunshine at 6:30pm for the first time in half a year and cannot hear your babyish mewling over the clinking ice in my glass of lemonade
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piecesofeight mashups
3 months ago
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
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Seth Cotlar
3 months ago
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
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