Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!" Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

A Better World Isn’t a Dream. It’s a Choice. And we’re currently choosing poorly.

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

As good a time as any to remind people that the vast majority of deaths from the Iraq war were due to preventable disease from destroyed infrastructure and sanctions.

You can rest assured that someone w/ administration ties will make bank from this directly and also that from now on the private sector will be even more prominent in the provision of a public good - information - w/ all accompanying inefficiencies & inequities. Really selling the country for parts.

obscene. as alan richter says in the article: the officers would have known through that encounter that she was a lawyer. impossible not to see the confluence of anti-black racism, misogyny, & unchecked police violence so familiar to the criminal system, now turned against one of its members.

in addition to what de melo notes here that defence lawyers may stay late because JUDGES ask us to--if you're in court daily, you start to recognise the faces of the other ppl who work there. are we supposed to believe the officers who (allegedly) assaulted her didn't know who riley was?

I REPEAT: YOU DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, FUND THE GESTAPO!

AI makes everything worse, and science and all of us stupid. Authored by AI, reviewed by AI, edited by AI, published by AI. Next? cited by AI.

everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren

You genuinely can’t get much closer to winning the World Series without doing it. That Blue Jays run was incredible, and nothing that came before today was invalidated by that result — but a win sure could have elevated it.

Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run: Ernie Clement That's it.

The job isn't done yet, but the Blue Jays have been getting it done in the World Series. And, of course, this week @nickashbourne.bsky.social and I are talking about the Only Thing That Matters. Have a listen! 👇

In MLB history, 334 hitters have come to the plate 60+ times in a playoff run. Of that group, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s 2025 ranks second by wRC+ (248) behind only Barry Bonds in 2002.

📢 latest IDENT paper, in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! @paqlab.bsky.social @meganedeziel.bsky.social @ritasousasilva.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social @ebsearle.bsky.social

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

This is, by a large margin, the most astonishing sample I have seen in my 'career' (15 yr sampling glacier subfossil wood)! 🥰 Wanted to share it on this first World Glacier Day! 🧊❄️ This trunk has spent almost 10,000 years below a glacier and I have never seen bark better preserved! 💪

with everything going on in the usa regarding both the major and rapid changes to the law/regs/practice re immigration and trans ppl, how the hell can canada responsibly issue a blanket "normal risks" status without at least a warning for trans people specifically?!

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

whether we can access healthcare or not, we're trans. what these EOs are doing, is hurting and destroying the lives of trans kids, before they take aim at adults. years of treating a marginalised community like a shameful political football, like we're an embarassment to liberal political and legal

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Posting on behalf of my colleague Sylvie Quideau. She is offering a funded Ph.D. position in Soil Science- Forest Soil Carbon. See ad below for details. Please share. Thx!

This year, I recorded every movie, TV show, game, podcast, and book I engaged with, which was an experience I recommend. Speaking of recommendations, here are the recs I have to offer based on that undertaking:

fuck "the cruelty is the point." healthcare bans kill. closets kill. trans death and disappearance is the point.

Interested in how and where trees move water? I'm hiring a plant ecophys postdoc to study hydraulic redistribution in Indiana forests. If you'll be at AGU and want to discuss, please reach out! jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

It's time for my favourite pastime! Looking at the Ontario 511 highway cameras and saying "Oof, that's alot of snow" Hopefully I get a few months of it this year!

I have no interest in Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, but sometimes you find yourself in a bar in Saulte Ste Marie, and it's on 11 screens....