Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

TODAY: We staged a die-in in front of the National Security Ministry to protest our government’s racist policy of ignoring crime and violence in Israel’s Palestinian community. Just this year, 231 Palestinians in Israel have been killed – men, women, and children. (1/2)

1. I was a Dinosaur Kid who never really grew out of it 2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce 3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

Myth: men aren't interested in women who pursue advanced degrees Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"

Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.

We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid

lest we think that tenebs are the only beetles who like to get weird with it, here's the brentid weevil Calodromus with his signature defensive move (stick he leggy out)

honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards

While letters of yore would attempt to signal seriousness with exhaustive if often incoherent technical detail, the current crop of LLM-induced letters are hopelessly vague, carrying grandiose names (a unified theory of fractal cybernetic enthalpy) but without any detail, mathematical or otherwise.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention. Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe. But some tongues were made for the boot.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Scientists have been crying "Lysenkoism!" since RFK Jr. took office, but what does it mean? RFK Jr. is reviving a dark chapter of history where ideology trumped evidence, with deadly consequences for millions. Dissent is patriotic. We're fighting to #impeachrfk

🫵 Lysenkoism! Changing a few sentences won't change reality. Without robust vaccine and public health infrastructure, we're unequipped to handle the inevitable: more fatal, frequent, and far-ranging outbreaks of preventable disease that will go unaddressed by a HHS worshipping ideology > evidence.

It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how many veggies you eat when it comes to a pandemic. These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.

the most radical belief I have that I actually think should be normal is this: The people whose job it is to figure out how to make a business make money should not be the ones in charge of a company. They should be, at best, a subservient department within a company, on par tech support or HR

Three #NASAWebb discoveries in ONE! Webb shows there are FOUR dust shells (only one was previously seen), allowing researchers to narrow the stars’ orbit of one another to a LONG 190 years. Plus, they confirmed a third star is part of the “party”: https://bit.ly/4n1tpas 🔭 🧪

Happy GIS Day to all who celebrate! Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays. Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Anonymous graphic designer, I salute you #sciart

when I recognize the Cloudflare issue and find an archived version of the website my students need:

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Eight years ago today, I participated in removing a huge sheet of lead from inside the walls of a lab room that used to house some X-ray instruments. That sucker was HEAVY!

This is what Jupiter looks like in the infrared. Its hot, lower atmosphere shining through the cooler cloud layers above. You show me Jupiter and I'll show you a planet that wants you dead.

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

got my ass tbh

The problem isn't "we gave him money and he wasted it" it's that the job was represent and serve everyone and he only looked out for himself and his buddies

An important thing many corruption stories get wrong is that what's stolen isn't "taxpayer money" it's collective governance

I know the hypocrisy is part of the point and that none of these people actually stand for anything beyond, power, money, and making others suffer, but it’s still doing my head in to see the “what about the children” crowd pivot to a pro-pedophilia stance this fast.

“But you see your honor, I added spikes to mine, so I believe this constitutes transformative use.”

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

everything but the bagel seasoning is american furikake. send tweet

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Billion year old shallow water stromatolitic carbonates contact metamorphosed. Green layers with diopside and occasional grossular garnet. Sedimentary layers are preserved, including ripples! Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas.

jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away

If you've seen "Blues Brothers" (1980) you probably know that the scene with the Illinois Nazis is a reference to the Skokie Affair, in which the National Socialist Party of America successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Skokie,

Unbelievable! How can this crap still be published?

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

can't help but feel a bit miffed that I spent a whole year living in a tiny Iowa town, but all this aurora activity waited to happen until I moved to just across the Hudson from the car-tailgating-you-with-its-high-beams-on that is Manhattan at night.

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work: “I basically study swamp monsters” “I’m a dinosaur orthodontist” “Dead bird bird watcher” #2025SVP

Everytime I say something like, “so now’s a great time to commit tax fraud” or “remember kids, one crime at a time” in lectures:

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...