'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.

Eine eigene deutsche Atomwaffe bleibt vertraglich, politisch & technisch nahezu ausgeschlossen. Es bleibt die Frage: Wer garantiert Europas Sicherheit, wenn nicht die USA? @yjschnellbach.bsky.social ordnet die Diskussion im Interview ein ⬇️ www.merkur.de/politik/us-s...

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

Pigeon milk.

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

my nice borb #illustration #art #pigeon #鳩 #bird

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)

For this week's DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I wrote a little bit about Martin Amis' essay "Thinkability," which I think is just one of the sharpest pieces of writing on nuclear war that I am aware of... doomsdaymachines.net/p/nuclear-we...

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

Hanford's waste vitrification plant has vitrified (turned to glass) its first nuclear waste today. It's taken a LONG time to get to this point and its a huge milestone. It also comes as I hear rumors that workers on the site are being furloughed because of the govt shutdown....

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.

Graph of British Rivers

The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.

“When the system forces you to code with a hallucinating clown, eventually you stop resisting. You let him type. You let him be "productive." You check out. You surrender your brain to the noise and just float.” deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

Pigeon Party 🕊 #illustration #pigeons #animalart #artsky

do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity

📣 CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep 🐑 ​​Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where two particles’ states are tied to each other, no matter how far apart the particles are. These findings could now help to explain the species’ fascinating flocking behaviour.

Draw for the Namesake chat for #TransDayofVisibility yesterday. Support trans rights and trans artists 🎨 ⭐️🩵🩷🤍🤍🩷🩵⭐️

I skipped that "advice from the over 30s" QT that was going around a couple of weeks ago, but I have one now. If there is a little sandwich place that does a sandwich that is perfect and you love it, get that sandwich whenever you feel like it, because any day that shop might shut without warning.

The slow, then sudden decline of Stack Overflow. Full article: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak...

Hoo boy, I bet you could use a distraction today! So how about an intense JWST image of a pair of colossal stars whizzing past each other and blasting out wave after wave of dusty shells, expanding away at a soul-freezing NINE MILLION KPH?! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/two-coloss... 🧪🔭

new article. it's about what cozy and wholesome games are, why shitty people like them, and why I really liked I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...

The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)

The Anatomy of a Borb. By fluffing up their feathers, they trap tiny pockets of air close to their bodies, which acts as insulation. Helping them regulate their temperature.

Spaceship names! - Solar Serendipity - The Falling Knife - Point of Light

A different perspective on the Civil War damage of 1645 to Chester’s (in origin, Roman) city walls. These devices for imagining past events are extremely cool, and also not always accessible or long-lasting. 📸 Chester Roman Gardens, Oct’ 2023

Haha just saw a screenshot of the "Harris could have shown she was a moderate, but now she looks like an extremist, what a mistake" like, all my life Democrats have been treating things like "I think kids shouldn't starve" as damagingly extreme left positions and it made me want to chew my arm off.

I love potatoes. If you ignore other vegetables they become gross mush. If you ignore a potato it becomes a Creature. This is an approach I deeply respect

What city pigeons talk about, part 1.

You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

BREAKING NEWS: The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.

on.ft.com/3HoUeTH I didn't know I needed tribunal judges to state that "Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods" or a pie chart of % potato in poppadoms

After many moons, finally published a paper on our work done a while back: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... - review took time, but it was 100% worth it in this case, we ended up expanding it with an entirely new section!

A thing that's always surprising to me is how many techbros think they can nuance their way through Nazis. Pro trip: You can't nuance your way through Nazis. There's no nuance in Nazis. What's more, you're (probably) not the fucking US government. You don't *have* to nuance the Nazis. So just don't.

absence makes the heart grow fonder?

Decay Modes xkcd.com/2860