Currently listening to a playlist that so far has included Herb Alpert, Tame Impala, Star Wars soundtrack (Duel of the Fates), and now Lil Nas X. Confused by the range but not upset about it!

That's what I don't understand about professionals using A.I.: Don't they have something they really want to say? Isn't that why they're writing?

For anyone else who wants a not-AI search engine:

The new "I do my own stunts" in the age of genAI: I make my own diagrams and presentation slides 😎

TIL

I asked my slack group of learning scientists - from @ludmilanunes.bsky.social Morehead et al. (2019) did a meta-analysis that showed a very small advantage of handnotes. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Flanigan et al. (2024) showed the same pattern link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Finally got around to making this recipe and these cookies may be the best I’ve ever had?!?! Definitely follow Dominique’s advice of chilling the dough for 24-48 hrs before baking!

In the absence of aggressive quality control it's just the mass production of tech debt that will inevitably collapse. I fear we'll eventually hit the finding out phase 😬

Deeply worried about deskilling in bioinformatics and software development. In parallel, also worried about low quality code being churned out rapidly by folks using these tools without doing proper quality control on the outputs 😬

Genuinely interested @vincentab.bsky.social: A lot of your (great) work has made reference to minimalism, i.e. low dependency footprint etc. How do you reconcile this approach with incorporating an LLM into your workflow? A massive dependency that can change cost / capability at any time?

I have a similar experience. I am able to get the #Rstats code I want from Claude in just a few prompts, often in just one. It's not just that Claude has improved, it's also that I started using R in 2014 (I know what to ask) and I learned how to prompt effectively (I know how to ask).

New article by @crabtails.bsky.social about his work as a fisheries biologist!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: “What is a fisheries biologist?” Brendan Turley, PhD, explains the science behind fisheries management, field research, and sustainable seafood and what life as a fisheries biologist is really like. neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2026/f... #Fisheries #OceanScience #NOAA

I don’t always close 7 issues with one pull request, but when I do, it takes 210 commits over 1.5 years… and I regret it deeply 😅

Funny they never need anyone’s permission to widen the road.

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

The discourse around "This is a tell for AI writing" really only serves the AI bros, because (they believe) it will tell them how to change the AI to make it indistinguishable from a human. We need to keep our em dashes. Our rules of three. The tell for AI is: is it hollow, does it say nothing.

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Lots of quotable paragraphs in this article!

you couldn't pay me to get on a cruise ship

really good from @grimalkina.bsky.social. I’ve been thinking about writing something about a habit or maybe skill I have, which is that I’m good at treating things I hear as tentative and holding onto them for later confirmation (or not) www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...

is there any etiquette i should know of wrt iNaturalist? like is it considered annoying or disruptive to upload a bunch of really common or captive species as long as they're labelled as such and not labelled wild? is too much info going to interfere with anyone's research? or is it maximalist

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

Any time I want a quick, delicious bake with ingredients I keep around the house, I just make these cookies. Letting them chill for 24 to 48 hours creates such an insane caramel flavor. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/clas...

Everybody pointing out that Merlin, or Bird Shazam, is actually good: you are correct, that is a good app

Look, LLMs are powerful tools for software engineering, I‘m not gonna shame people for using them to assist with coding. But can we PLEASE not paste LLM output directly into issue/PR comments? These are places for discussion between *humans*. I don’t want to read LLM-generated prose.

Speaking in my professional capacity as an ornithologist, this sounds like a classic case of Age-related Bird Enjoyment. There's no cure, so we suggest those afflicted just embrace it by joining their local birding club and developing strong opinions on binoculars and field guides.

“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.” That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

in my lifetime, i've experienced the transition from a single channel black&white tv all the way to streaming, from rotary phones to smartphones, from lack of printed traffic maps to gps,.... never before have i seen a technology being shoved down people's throats as forcefully and urgently as llms.

We had a tornado warning last night here in SE Michigan. First time I experienced that since I moved to MI 8 years ago. For some reason my phone emergency alert didn’t make a sound but my spouse’s phone did. 🤔

Appliances shouldn't connect to the internet.

We need to think deeply about our responsibilities to future generations — globally — with respect to the night sky. Who gets to decide what they will see when they look through a telescope at the moon? Right now there are no democratic processes for that. 🌔🧪🔭

I wish this were a bit. Science and antiscience are not the two sides of science. Much of the criticism you are receiving is because people were not born yesterday and they actually are familiar with disinformation campaigns and science denial

🧪 Me responding with vitriol: There’s a reason biologists refuse to be empaneled with “creation scientists.” There’s a reason climate researchers refuse to share podiums with climate deniers. And it’s the same reason why platforming those destroying science is terrible. Hint: It’s not popularity.

Much like we don't dump food uneaten directly into the toilet, a lot of other human activities relating to thinking, new skills, need to pass through your system (you need to deeply engage with situations and materials) too sans AI. You can't outsource parts of something and still consider it done.

Categories are human inventions that are often useful in systemizing nature. Nature, however, is under no obligation to respect them, and often does not. Misunderstanding this is "antithetical to science." There is no blueprint for the "correct hummingbird" male or female. It is whatever results...

"I can't use Quarto because my coworkers don't code and they need to edit docume-" 👀 ✋🏼🔜 quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #rstats #quarto #databs

Now let's start talking about why you might want to make crow friends. I can't begin to enumerate the reasons, but I'll try. The best one is simply that interacting with beautiful wild creatures with sublime intelligence that recognize us as individuals adds immeasurable beauty to our lives. (19/n)

I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

LLMs and other automated tools can surface reliable information about the world that already exists. In the vast majority of cases, they cannot produce it. And the people who produce that information are becoming rarer and rarer.

Just be normal. Support good policies because they're good and will help people. Don't make it sound like you're trying to triangulate everything to death.

The problem is if you use your personal GitHub for work, and your company buys a copilot license for you, there is no possibility to use copilot for personal use and all copilot settings are controlled by your company.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Project Hail Mary was pretty fun and had a good alien in it. It’s sentimental, but in times like these, I’ve got a pretty high tolerance for pro-science odes to cross-cultural teamwork. It is also *long* but I was at a theater that brings alcohol straight to your seat which helped a lot

I'm certain my physical therapist endorses this message

You can tell I turned 30 recently because I’m growing native plants from seed in milk jugs in my back yard, the only reason I don’t have a bird feeder yet is I’m reading up on how to deter invasive house sparrows from using it, and I went to a city council meeting for the first time ever last week…

I once crashed my bike at low speed because my derailleur threw my chain into my casette. My helmet made a loud cracking sound when it hit the pavement, had a huge dent in it. Amazingly I didn’t have a concussion! Helmets aren‘t just to prevent deaths and not just for car collisions!