Before I transitioned, I ironically was accused of being a secret trans woman all the time simply because I was 5'11" Are all tall girls going to have invasive genital inspections or unnecessary genetic testing now? What a sham of a ruling devoid of both logic and empathy

I have worked with a lot of food safety researchers over the years. There is only one food that *all* of them refuse to eat: sprouts (alfalfa sprouts, bean sprouts -- pretty much any sprouts except Brussels sprouts). They say it's just too risky. www.food-safety.com/articles/115...

scientists, you don't need AI for your conference posters, what you need is a lil bird calling a t-rex mommy!

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

<voice on phone> 911 please state your emergency Me: I’d like to report a chart crime.

Ray Harryhausen didn’t remember the position of all the joints of seven skeletons 7️⃣💀 over four months 📆 so you could say gen AI is “inevitable” boingboing.net/2021/03/01/r...

Some help required. Daughter lost her very special to her Coraline Cat (pictured) at the Kneecap Crystal Palace gig on Saturday night last. Incredibly long shot but means a lot to her. Any and all help very welcome. Pictured at the gig and previously visiting Big Ben.

if the tournament stops now do we win

Wait what? WHAT? I’M HAPPY 😃 , JUST VERY SURPRISED 😱

Speechless. WTF @irishtimes.com? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

on the destruction of New Zealand Science open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...

PSA to people on Instagram: people who don’t have Instagram can’t see your posts! They see a login prompt. That information about your business or your event? Literally inaccessible

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

Overzeallous integrity bots & charging for blank PDFs? Lets keep humans in the loop before things really turn into a fever dream. www.science.org/content/arti...

YIKES: The OPM is proposing new NDAs for federal workers, this means scientists cannot talk about their work. They can't share their data, or talk to journalists. But it's still open for public comment! Comment by June 26. www.regulations.gov/search?filte...

Lot of people concerned that an AI-assigned score on a preprint might be used to make hiring or funding decisions instead of whether the letterhead says "Harvard" or "Oxford"

In the face of ongoing pressures and critique (including here by many), the public reaffirmation of the core mission of the National Academy of Sciences is a much-needed signal from incoming NAS President Neil Shubin. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for #MedicalIllustration artists from @jillmedart.bsky.social on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/jill-k... 🐡

The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw

This week @ucs.org launches a new interactive tool on the staggering 574 attacks on science so far under the Trump Administration. It's hard to convey the full scope and severity of what's happening but this tool helps us make sense of it and what we can all do about it: www.attacksonscience.org

But if you want to give a GOOD talk, you can read my little ebook "Presentation Tips" for free! FREE, I tell you! 🆓🆓🆓 doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 (Do not give me guff about, “Oh, it’s not a REAL crab because it’s not a member of Brachyura.”)

As a reader for years and years and years and YEARS... Will be really interesting to see how this magazine reinvents itself. So much of what the magazine used to do has been taken over by iMDB, wikis, and social media.

Crab 🦀 feed

Not one of the Texas officials quoted in this @texastribune.org article, or the writer, mentions that screwworm is a fly, with wings, capable of flying miles under its own power. The article is pretty weird to read, as an entomologist.

The ombudsman position is "certainly in the back of everyone's minds as they're teaching. This is hanging over a lot of folks that someone could report them." — Teresa Klein, Texas AAUP President @texasaaup.bsky.social

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

Burn "AI" down before we kill the places where human knowledge is actually expanded by human thinking! But ALSO. We have to start thinking about the base model of education and evaluation, which STRUCTURALLY ENCOURAGES CHEATING.

This article lists three 3️⃣ papers retracted for gen AI images. I can do one better, throw in a "Temporary withdrawal," and a paper with a gen AI figure retracted for crazy authorship issues. The collection of gen AI images in journals: bit.ly/academic-slop

"AI" is a problematic buzzword, because now people tend to think that "AI" means a large language model or generative AI. The "AI" described in these articles is a deep learning model, which the authors call an "algorithm." We need to distinguish these.

If you see this post a female superhero Philippine heroine Darna, whose fame in her home country amazes me

🛩 Every commercial pilot trains on simulators. None earns a license through simulators alone. The simulator is not the airplane. On July 10, 2025, NIH announced future funding opportunities will no longer be issued exclusively for animal models. The shift is now active policy.🧵

A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Verification code texted to me today: “ah30jajq8jh9pjvk” 🤨 Why send something that looks like a cryptography key? Why not six digits like everyone else?

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

’Science Insider’ took an entire month to write about this

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

The POINT of the Arabian Nights stories is that the genie ALWAYS goes back in the bottle because the genie promises to give you what you want, but the hero always realizes they're better off without the genie.

Wait, what? This has been the standard for book peer review? “In the past, industry practice has been to have a human reviewer read only the book proposal and one book chapter.”

Heavy-handed censorship by the regime, banning particular talks at scientific conferences based on their topic. They are just getting started. Proposed OMB rules would push this kind of fine-grained political control into all aspects of US funded research. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

One of the definitive classic albums of the decade was released #OTD in 1982. A gem that never fades.

Who’s your favorite movie dad?

Who’s your favorite movie dad?

A conversation science communicators need to have about AI art 🧪🐙🐡🧵

Y’all really got Elmo fucked up🤣

Publishers used generative AI 🤖 tools to catch authors using generative AI tools is going to be a never-ending arms race. The way to break this loop is to stop counting papers as a primary measure of job performance. 1/2

#ThisDayInFandomHistory: The Middleman is an American TV series developed by Javier Grillo-Marxuach for ABC Family. Based on the Viper Comics series created by Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine, the series ran for one season, starting on this date in 2008. #OnThisDay #TheMiddleman