pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

time for everyone's favorite annual tradition: getting pissed off about how much AGU registration costs, then looking up their executive compensation and getting even more pissed off. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Hear that, centrists? Your plans to run on a platform of “we don’t have room in the big tent for trans people” went down in fucking FLAMES, MOTHERFUCKERS

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

man these people are committed to evil, what is even the point of having the word “evil” if not for this type of shit

This is why we can’t have nice things

For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series 2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves 2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros 2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers 2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.

I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is. diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me

When TEA took over Houston schools, they replaced some of the school libraries with "detention centers" and funneled state money to their own businesses. These state takeovers are utter crap, orchestrated by deeply disingenuous people, and Texans should fight back against this naked oppression.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Honestly, yes, one of the most personally embarrassing things is how a field so committed to parsing imaginary status distinctions suddenly cannot see that they’re pitching themselves as The University of Phoenix.

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

Check out this new open access paper in Marine Geology reviewing all the cool things we learned drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater on IODP expedition 364: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The water situation in South Texas is about as dire as I’ve ever seen it,” said Mike Howard, chief executive of Howard Energy Partners, a private energy company that owns several facilities in Corpus Christi. “It has all the energy in the world, and it doesn’t have water.” Exxon and Tesla.

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

that's why it's the best sport

My favorite part of baseball is the part where they play and re-play the worst moment of a guy’s day with hype music while the crowd cheers

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

Every geologist

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Not saying Texas is cooked but my dad just called him Arch Milton

That’s right

🚨Job alert🚨 The Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to operate/maintain lab instrumentation, process samples, train scientists, contribute to the development and improvement of analytical tools, techniques, and software. This is a sailing position! tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

😔no😔

Oh man are we going to get four excellent baseball games today??

maybe next time

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

I’m looking for a PhD student to join my lab @ NC State starting Fall 2026! Lots of room to develop projects, esp. around paleoceanography, ocean deoxygenation & foraminiferal ecology. Field, lab & computational angles all possible. Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

This left wing political correctness is getting out of control. bsky.app/profile/pete...

I’ve been saying for years that it should be illegal to email me

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Paleontologist to join our Cultural Resouces team. This is a full-time, hybrid role that will report to our California teams and candidate should be Southern California based. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AECOM2/74400...

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

I don't want to give the lady making fun of Alabama and acting superior about it any more engagement than she deserves. But if you think your state that votes 53% D is full of compassionate brain geniuses and another state that votes 47% D is full of evil morons, you are extremely incorrect.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

🚨Job alert Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO). tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...