You can tell that the US blew up that school because everyone’s doing everything possible to find a way to disqualify the obvious. The country that was bragging about knowing everything it hits suddenly being quiet and wanting to move past the situation while its journalists blame the AI system? Ok.

The man walked right smack, face-first into the whole point, and did not see the damn thing.

Ugh, I woke up

Wow.

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

Sing it

Hot off the press; an update from last year's conference on Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes, highlights from our collection in MGen & tiny 2027 teaser 😊@fionahenriquez.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky #Protistonsky 💻🧬 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

TV. They've just reinvented TV.

A female Hooded Merganser communicating a message to a male Hooded Merganser. I think she wanted to go for a walk, because soon after this they were strolling along the icy shoreline together.

How is the dinocon board handling the Epstein field more seriously that than the United States dept of justice??

Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.

Love this, seeing ourselves in our own little corner of our universe 🔭

Heute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).

Letter from chief exec of UKRI www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

Second paper from MRes (!!) student Caitlin Duggan; #AMR mechanisms and the challenges of actually measuring and defining what is "resistant", deep dive into #cefiderocol susceptibility testing & resistance mutations #MicroSky #IDSky 💻🧬 #MicrobiomeSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very nice thread about our piece on AI "peer" review.

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.

This is probably one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent history. Damn. 👏👏👏

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

SA und SS Vibes werden stärker....

BLUESKY! My sitcom THE COMIC SHOP is out on YouTube! It’s about a struggling, Black-owned LA comic store, made 100% independently with heart. We’re bringing back Awkward Black Girl, The Guild & other indie YouTube classics. Ep 1 is live—share & HELP US FIND OUR AUDIENCE! 🙇🏾‍♀️📺

In case useful @iandunt.bsky.social , @soniaz.bsky.social has just shown me how to turn off the AI summary in google search! Just add -noai. Just did a simple test comparing you and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

How cool is that electric-blue throat patch on this Brandt’s Cormorant! Unreal. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today

New year, new team! Welcome @conmeehan.bsky.social to join @sheppardlab.bsky.social and me in our efforts to work with our great editors & senior editors & the community to keep MGen as the place to go for the microbial genomies community! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... (1/2)

I wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place

Same with scientists. Each "fun" generative AI thing shared makes me a little less confident in the quality of your research.

For those of you wanting to start a new project in the new year but afraid you're gonna suck, heed the words of the ancient texts:

Happy New Year, start it off smiling with this golden oldie

"Ask meta to summarize" / "ask grok to explain this to you." Thanks but I have a brain and I would sooner ask Bobcat Goldthwait, drunk, to explain Bose-Einstein condensates to me in Pontic Greek at 4x speed than look to shitty *AI* for comprehension or a summary

Here’s to 2026

The plot thickens... #Wolbachia wAnD, #Anopheles demeilloni and #Plasmodium; unhappy together? #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky #mosquitoes 💻🧬 verixiv.org/articles/2-4...

A last thought before taking off into your various breaks - Microbial Genomics is looking for editors! Scientific publishing is frustrating and so much money going to commercial publishers... be part of the change by supporting society publishing 😊 great opportunity to join a lovely community.

Last year, I was invited to give a seminar and put on a #LuxArt session by the student chapter of the American Society of Microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin . Students created some wonderful #LuxArt! 1/2

This is the approach CEOs want in normalizing use of AI to actually replace artists. "Oh it's just placeholder", tomorrow it will be "just a junior artist" and then "it's normal all art and writing is AI"

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical animation, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to pin to your skyline. And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳

It's actually incredible how much the average person despises AI and how divorced from reality these CEOs are about their role that they think they can just force it down everyone's throat irrespective

"there is little reason to doubt what the aim [of the massive investment in AI] is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains." 🧵

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is extraordinary. Prasad's memo was something else, but to have 12 former FDA commissioners get together so quickly and say what a threat it is...just wow. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #medsky #vaccine #fda

New editor's spotlights to highlight some of the exciting work we see at #MGen, getting kicked off by @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social diving into the latest work from @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social et al 🔍 vaccine impacts on non-target species! #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky #MedSky #evobio #clinmicro 💻🧬 🧪

My fantasy landscapes are my favourite thing to paint! These three ended up a series of sorts and hang in my foyer so I can escape into them often. I have a thing for foxes. They fascinate me! 😊 🦊☀️"Dark Moon Grove", "Woodlands", "Year of The Fox" linktr.ee/sunshyneart #art #mixedmedia #painting