Crab tastes better than both.

Got mine in there, last minute. Bid on a tee, help democracy!

Once again, we have a life hack here that's just a financial crime masquerading as one cool trick.

We really need to reframe how we talk about cats, especially from a care perspective in the veterinary & rescue world. Behaviors that people tend to label a cat “mean” for displaying come from fear, stress, or instinct. When we have empathy for cats & remove our human feelings, we do better by them.

It should be illegal to have 2+ busses with the same number and leaving the same station but with otherwise completely different routes 😮‍💨

Listen, I live somewhere built for these temps and they are still pretty miserable. Living somewhere that isn't built for them is dangerous and terrible! Sending y'all cool breezes and extra hydration.

we can fix this. i believe in us.

I would leave academia for good if this happened to me.

*Entirely* different scale and magnitude, but one of my most passionate soapboxes is about how poor people have little choice but to sell their private data for pennies to save on groceries, fast food items, etc., and how exploitative the entire system is while richer people can opt out.

Quite a few of us were trying to raise the alarm about this repulsive form of digital colonialism a decade ago - demands that vulnerable people cough up sensitive data in exchange for live-saving aid - and well, here we are.

Chocolate

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

There is always an @xkcd.com comic xkcd.com/793/

Yup. I tell all my students that it doesn’t matter if you’ve run the best experiment in history. If you can’t communicate it, then it may as well have never happened. Science is communal and communicative.

I don't want a chatbot to charge my card without my authorization????

Alternating between thinking I’m onto something interesting and thinking I’m a complete ignoramus, good times

See this is what gets me. Astronomy has used machine learning for years now, it certainly has its uses. I'm skeptical that a generic LLM could produce trustworthy results in a few minutes, esp. when a tenured prof and their research group has been trying for YEARS. Why are they so credulous?

What is the value of human beings studying the cosmos? For @michaelgreshko.bsky.social at Science, I dug into how practitioners of humanity's oldest exact science are metabolizing the latest developments in AI...and how it seems to be forcing them to wrestle with philosophical questions.

"'Why do we do astrophysics?' Hogg offered an answer. It wasn’t to solve the cosmos but to grapple with it: a journey, not a destination." THIS, from @joshuasokol.bsky.social, gets at the heart of why I despise genAI: it assumes that writing is a product rather than an experience

Calling all scientists and academics and researchers who want to raise money to fight voter suppression! Have you got a professional special interest? We have nerds willing to bid to pick your brain about it! form.romancingthevot...

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

This is how I feel about that Science article this week where an astronomer "interpolated between" the best cosmology textbooks, including problems and everything. That's theft. You did a plagiarism and then told the international community about it! You didn't write anything yourself!

I can tell you what: I’m not going to read your book, and my bookstore isn’t going to carry it, either.

You know what I really didn't need on top of everything else this week? A missed jury duty scam phone call! (I will call the sheriff department tomorrow to make sure it was a scam. But given they called after the office is closed and threatened to arrest me when I started asking questions, well...)

The Planetary Society created a fact sheet and action alert about the recent OMB proposal that would, among other things, insert politics into the proposal review process across science. More discussion here: www.planetary.org/articles/whe...

When DHS and ICE are eventually dismantled, part of that process has to be destroying all this data.

Fossil fuels are not economic for society if we count all the costs, as we should. apple.news/Avt5ulMrnTIW...

If I were gonna have a freak out about the sanctity of women’s athletics it would be about the appalling disparity between resources given to male vs female athletes not a handful of trans women who want to compete

Protect women’s sports* * By adequately funding them

Walk into an urgent care and you have to opt out of a GLP-1 conversation katemanne.substack.com/p/a-woman-wa...

I hate it here

I have struggled to get competent healthcare my entire life, across my lifetime's various income brackets. GLP-1s are the first and ONLY drug that every doctor, NP, phlebotomist, facialist have pushed on me. No info-seeking from me. No appointment. Just constant offers to give me GLP-1s.

I don't know what you are reading but before you imply that I am stupid, you may want to check your comprehension. My observation: it is anomoly for me to have such easy access to a drug. That says nothing about epidemiology and a lot about the social determinants of health.

Anyone who has any analysis of the history of medicine and its relationship to race and weight and other marginalized bodies knows this is a reasonable thing to comment on. Medicine is SUPER QUICK to lionize drugs that affect body size. Like, I am old enough to remember Fen-Phen.

As far as I can tell, the pro-Ai rationalists seem to argue from vibes and some gestures toward the amount of output they get from their software. None of the boosters seem to want to do measurements of the outcomes of using these systems.

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

Books, CDs, DVDs. Also I'm working on printing photos more often

books

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

"If someone offers you a rocket ship, you don't ask which seat" is such a nasty little thing to say. And it was scripted! Sir, I highly doubt this rocket ship is going anywhere I want to go, and if it is, then I wouldn't like to be locked in the cargo hold or the servants' quarters.

On the one hand this is v. encouraging and good but also I'm just old enough for "you might have to prove your paper has been published in a Reputable Place before you can put your pdf on the arXiv" is extremely funny.

Having a device *in your private home* is absolutely NOT the same thing as having a device *on your person*. I say this as a fellow disabled person with love and sympathy, but your personal disability does not override the privacy concerns of every single person those glasses surveils.

As I keep saying the solution to speed up transcribing and make more historical documents accessible isn't more fucking genAI. It's money. Spend that AI money on hiring transcribers. Or do what we've long done and being on volunteers.

People who love to blithely throw around "just move" aren't taking the horror of this seriously. No one in this country should have to flee their home, their history, their family, their support system. Your rights should not begin & end at state lines in fucking 2026. This is an abomination.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

The point is to control women, not to protect the fetus.

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’