Let me say a few words about the parade of executives in Silicon Valley and elsewhere claiming that 'you can't do anything great' unless you devote your entire life to working.

AI is not even remotely coming for developers' jobs. If you believe that it is, you are buying a line from those who want developers to fear for their jobs. #AI

higher ed will not survive in its current incarnation as the gatekeeper of class privilege. there simply aren't enough wealthy liberals, and it has long since alienated anyone else who might have risen to its defense this in itself is not a bad thing #AcademicSky 🧪

the way we (incessantly) publish is what needs to perish #AcademicSky

What if I just eat an entire avocado and call it dinner? #Cuisine

A bit of #yoga on a dry creekbed @ohiopyle.bsky.social

The US National Science Foundation -- where 'good' means 'bad' and 'competitive' means 'snowball's chance in hell' 🧪 #AcademicSky

fresh pesto season

me in my natural state

The people quoted in this article are all "progressives". We used to take pride in the fact that unions created the 40-hour workweek, but I guess that's just another way in which 'the left' fails to distinguish itself from fascists nowadays. fortune.com/2025/07/18/f...

It's not that I'm a great cook but it's hard to go wrong with fresh and local ingredients, like the garlic, lion's mane, zucchini and eggs in this fritatta #food #cooking #summer

selfie taken from the coffee shop to prove to my neighbor that I made it across the river in the kayak the other day. it was longer than I though and hot and I lost my sunglasses in the river but . . . made it and I think it's a real option #commuting #urbanism

important messaging #streetart

I guess this means I'm sticking around WV for awhile

I go back and forth between states of being where I pretend like we are going to capitalistically solve the sustainability problem and admitting that we never will this person -- who as of now is no longer my partner -- was pulling me toward the side of the truth I miss her like crazy 💔

I mean . . . substack.com/@resistorx/n...

We can do machine learning (there is no 'artificial intelligence') without killing the planet -- the problem isn't data it's the overuse of neural fucking networks #MathSky 🧪

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

I am basically in math and my curves look like the purple ones. I worked my ass off to get tenure, but you can't just keep that up. It cost me a lot. If you build a physical lab that tends to create its own momentum. 🧪#AcademicSky

I want to fight but I also want to gently ask progressives whether or not they recognize that the leadership and funders of the Democratic Party are not only estranged from most people but in many ways every bit as greedy and exclusionary as the leadership and funders of the Republicans. 1/

I wrote this in the waning times of the pandemic, but it seems more urgent now, with science in the United States under full-frontal attack by the political establishment. 🧪 #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

first breath of German air in awhile

1981, in a Dodge Dart my Dad: “quack, quack, quack — another one buys the duck”

Anybody know someone who made the switch mid-career from science / academia into something completely different? #AcademicSky

New career idea: think I’m gonna go into construction. People need houses the way they don’t need models 🧪

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

it’s gonna get ya

The only way to make sense of the actions of the Israeli military is that they are intentionally and systematically carrying out genocide against the people of Gaza right up to the limit imposed by the Israeli government's dependence on international support. crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide

So, interesting situation — think I know how I’m going to handle it but would appreciate good-faith perspectives. 1/

PINNs are overblown, which will be a shock to nobody who’s been thru a few hype cycles #AcademicSky #MathSky 🧪 www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

Self reflection is such a beneficial thing for anyone really -- I hate to hog it all

It’s truly one of the great all time musical performances, Sesame Street or otherwise and yeah that kid is a hesher

Does the phrase 'AI agent' conjure this image for anyone else?

If professors would admit that we are workers and just join the @aft.org already we could maybe start to deal with some of this shit a bit more effectively #AcademicSky 🧪

spent a couple days in Colorado and another couple in Louisiana both were work trips, I promise 🧪

movie you've watched more than six times using gifs (Hard mode: no LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek)

Shit is getting more and more serious

wishing you well

The culture of overwork in STEM affects not only faculty but students as well. They have no time for themselves and many of them buckle, creating cynicism and trauma. It is hard to learn while in a constant state of stress. We MUST change. #AcademicSky 🧪

Not sure who needs to hear this but LLMs are not really all that — it CAN solve simple problems like those I assign for my undergraduate numerical methods course but it often fails. Real problems? Fucking forget it Why do people think otherwise? Hype / lies I guess. #AcademicSky 🧪

I teach computational math in an engineering program. Where I work probably about 75% of the students have no interest at all, and are correct when they say that they will never use it in their careers. Yet it's a required course. Why? ABET #AcademicSky 🧪

just one of a million shitty things that are happening all at once -- the government now completely infiltrated by Russia

do not donate to Harvard, ever

essentially I'm a nerd who doesn't know his place

I work 37.5 hours per week. Why? Because that is the figure in my contract, and it's a perfectly reasonable work week. If you think that makes me a bad professor, let me assure you that the problem is not me. When did academics start taking sides with 1890s robber barons? 🧪 #AcademicSky

#ReggaeSky youtu.be/B9n3XUUqFFk?...

why is it that people with more money than they know what to do with want even more they don't care about money, they care about winning. competition -- never really fair of course -- is humanity's sickness #AcademicSky 🧪 climatepower.us/research-pol...

not really my field but people THIS is the way to publish research! anybody can peer review -- and maybe your comments should count for something with your institution or professional society