absolutely. which is why this was the definition for AI that @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I included in our recent TiCS article

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

I'm sitting on the couch crying actual tears reading the docs for this 😂

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

I highly recommend URSSI! Check them out if you want to level up your skills in research software development:

At this point whenever I’m googling around looking for recipes, DIY tips, etc., any websites I come across that I don’t recognize as existing before 2-3 years ago I just assume are AI slop farms. And it seems like those fill up at least the first page of search results 😭

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

Shower beer after a 5h trail run

remember when computers did what you told them to

...Now taking suggestions for a note taking app that's: - cross-platform compatible (macOS, iOS, windows, android) - has a web clipper (for saving web pages as notes)

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days. It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.

i made a helpful reference

Wim Vanderbauwhede: “You give an input and it ‘guesses’ the answer a user would want to get, based on the input and the data it was trained on. The ‘machines’ don’t think; they generate something plausible, something that seems acceptable.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

“Reality” is a shared agreement upon a set of facts. When people’s understanding of facts are inconsistent or warped, coming to terms on policy, or any structure larger than a single person becomes compromised.

I understand it emotionally, when I decide I like something or have decided to support something, it's hard to give that up/realize I was wrong. But it's an adolescent perspective to be unwilling let go the idea of something when confronted with the reality of it.

Do you have an R package that pins a dependency to a max version? Have you figured out a decent way to handle installation with pak/renv/something else for continuous integration, etc? Teach me your ways! forum.posit.co/t/advice-on-... #rstats

🥹 I miss old stats twitter. Some of the smartest, most knowledgeable statisticians were in the weeds of shitpost replies, teaching people best practices in statistics.

If someone could invent a way to filter out AI slop websites from search engine results, that would be great…

and before, "but itati, what else are we supposed to do?" you are supposed to counter organize. you are supposed to pressure your universities to stop accruing capital in endowments and use that money to actually invest in itself and not football. You are supposed to engage in conflict.

I’m at #USRSE25 this week! Not presenting anything this year but happy to chat with anyone about software dev for genomics research! #opensource #openscience #bioinformatics #genomics

::waves 'ISO 8601' flag::

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in! #rstats

This week’s neighborhood scientist is Charity Robbins! Check out the link below to read Charity’s rules on how to build the perfect scientist (yes, really!!) neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/l...

Can again confirm this simple step improves meal enjoyment at least 3 fold Bonus points if you spatchcock the chicken and make a pun about spineless cowards!

Got my natural immunity boosting wellness injections! (flu + covid vaccine)

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

it's been one of those days...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I get called radical because I want affordable housing and rational, compassionate immigration policy and gun reform that helps keep kids safe. Radicals like me are never going to kill people for our ideology because that’s literally not our ideology.

This is my impression too. The poorer our critical thinking skills, the less opposition there can be to fascist and autocratic power.

I feel like the last 48 hours have just been the entire world going full NYT Pitchbot. "Whether it's the people on the right saying we should shoot everyone on the left as terrorists, or the people on the left saying we should give everyone on the right health care, both sides are---"

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

If you want to support the work we do, you can donate to my nonprofit @your.neighborhoodscientist.org here: neighborhoodscientist.org

Excited to be featured in today’s @nature.com article about scientists standing up to Trump. I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines, especially when something I believe so deeply in—science funding that saves lives—is under attack. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really grateful to be part of a community of "helpers" & thanks to @nature.com for highlighting! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

More of "The AI Coming For Us". Well, one way it's going to take us out is if the next generation of folks relies on this slop for anything serious ....

Periodic reminder not to use LLMs to ask questions for which you don't know how to verify the answer!

I’m looking at getting an EV before the US incentives go away Sept 30. Now accepting make/model recommendations!

Important for people to understand the AI utilized in specialty medical care IS NOT the same crap that is dumbing down humanity via falsehood-generating apps like Chat GPT.

I'm thankful Don took the time to make this case in such a methodical fashion. I found it very convincing.

Despite (or because of?) the topic this is a beautiful essay. “AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.”

These rulings don't just have direct effects on the specific grants in question, but they have much larger indirect effects. If every federal grant can now be terminated with no notice for any (political) reason, no awardee can make any long term (> 3 months?) commitment to infrastructure or people.

This week, our neighborhood scientist is Marcel El Kouri—a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan who studies fear and PTSD. Marcel shares what research has taught him about the brain, and also about mentorship and kindness. Read his article below! neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/r...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Back in February, I presented a live demo on github actions for NCI bioinformaticians. If you're interested, you can watch the recording and/or following along the notes at your own pace. sovacool.dev/posts/2025-0...

I fired up the ol' blogging machine and wrote a short post about teaching this workshop: sovacool.dev/posts/2025-0...

Facing a dilemma: keep my car with 260k+ miles (and a manual transmission 😍) or ditch it for a hybrid/EV before incentives go away in the US… 🤔

We’re always accepting submissions for @your.neighborhoodscientist.org! We welcome pitches from anyone who has something to say about science or science policy to the general public. neighborhoodscientist.org/contributing/ #scicomm