I found the most fucked imaginable use case of AI for PhD holders #ImpostorSyndrome

Died *with* hantavirus, not *of* hantavirus

More like Sam Bankman Freed amirite

Hopping into my way back machine for this gem from shared grad student housing, once upon a time

Dijkstra‘s remains the correct take on AI

Wow

Google just randomly showing this to me in search results. What a beautiful, necessary feature. And congrats to Gene and Jeff! 👑

I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

Today was my favorite lecture of the semester because I got to show this video of the clock game on The Price is Right www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9H...

Nothing says "I am not working right now and this is a waste of my and your time" quite like sending a weekly summary email

Universities are too expensive for students, they've lost a focus on the communities they inhabit, they employ too many executivess who don't add any value, etc. But it's easier for universities to slow PhD admissions than incorporate real systemic change. Fewer PhDs means America loses innovation

In this teaching life you get to choose: post old memes no one gets, or steal from the greats?

How the hell am I gonna feed my kids when my great great grandfather's $3.63 per month social security check (which he earned from 40 hard years of clubbing baby seals) gets stopped?

@danprimack.bsky.social gets it

We are discovering very quickly which private organizations are led by cowards. That's the thing about cowards, they panic and show you who they are very quickly

Government agencies’ moves to comply with Donald Trump’s executive orders have sparked feverish efforts to archive US government data in online repositories like the Internet Archive.

A revelation about working in academia is that the angriest, most irritated people are also the kindest, truest of heart people you will encounter. What does that tell you?

Inspired by @charlesgaba.com's Herculean effort to post all Wayback URLs from the CDC website (including pages that have recently been deleted), I built this GitHub repo to share Wayback links to all CDC website pages, and will add more websites when I get a chance github.com/Niema-Lab/Go...

The era where significant parts of America tried to uplift people who hadn't been born into opportunity was brief, but it was hopeful. Frankly I can't believe it happened at all

1. Reckoner 2. Paranoid android 3. Pyramid song 4. Fake plastic trees 5. True love waits Subject to revision

I, for one, dream of a country in which people reach (underpaid) roles in (critical) governmental services by merit alone (and then take a severance offer and resign leaving that role understaffed)

We built Rosalind, the Bioinformatics Algorithms project, and the Biological Modeling online course

Say what you will about AI, but we just had an era in which our smartest quantitative minds spent their time training bots to sell ads to other bots. That era was extremely annoying and boring. Like if smart kids all wanted to do accounting for some reason

Using ChatGPT makes me smarter every day

I can't tell whether the mathematician side of me or the biology side of me is more offended by these definitions

Not all heroes wear capes

Looking at a professor's YouTube suggestions when that professor shows a video in class is literal violence

How I'm doing

Misinformation works. Why? People love misinformation. Information is boring, cold, concrete. It tells you a lot of stuff you don't want to think about (e.g., human existence is mostly meaningless). But misinformation ... misinformation is imaginative, fun, and makes you matter.

Crocs: for when you've given up completely

It is I, the random arbiter on the Internet who informs you that the TV show you like a lot "has not aged well"

They're making Luigi a terrorist because the health insurance industry has become so ingrained in the US government that it functionally *is* the US government. Murdering a healthcare CEO equivalent to murdering the director of the FBI or a member of Congress

Pittsburgh, never change

How the app got me

I used to talk to students about the prospect of using pig organs for transplants as something from a utopian future. And now it is a reality of science

The NIH drama is poppin off now fr fr

Me when I looked up at the night sky for the first time as a grown adult, discovered stars, and thought they were drones

Worthless (and somewhat terrifying) factoid of the Day: Neutron stars are so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter away it would hit the surface in a microsecond with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.

Me in a past life. Now I look at this and it makes my body hurt to think about getting in this position

Do GWAS next

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

Finding a PhD advisor who just happened to have funding from HHMI for educational projects that he basically wasn't using. And being in a relatively new field at a time when there were so few educational resources online that anyone who took the time to make one would probably succeed.

Ways my students can make me feel like my job has been worth it, ranked 1. Take me out for an enchilada dinner 2. Give me half of any money they'd consider donating to the university and then give the other half to charity 3. Thank you note

My old school buddy Chris finished an adult literacy program. He advanced his reading ability by two levels so he can take community college classes. I am so proud of him 🥹😭

I love how the snow swirls around this corner of our computer science building

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Help! Is there something on my back? It feels like there is something on my back

This guy gets it

60 year old lady who orders an airplane coffee at 11 PM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>