Had a meeting this week where I asked detailed questions about a team's statistical plan and the response was "we'll just use AI for it".

Even if you used AI to help, you first have to know what you're asking it to do. You'd have to know what you expected to get, so that you could correct any errors. It is really hard to emphasize how cooked that is, as a response. Like, it is TROUBLING

My PhD student will be finishing soon and is looking for a postdoc position to start in the fall semester. If you have a postdoc ad or opening and are looking for someone experienced especially in population/evolutionary genomics with a knack for coding and bioinformatics, let me know.

Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years. The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly

It isn't obscure in library circles, and it should be obvious, but it does seem to confuse a lot of people when I note that a bad economy always sees a spike in virtually every library use statistic.

The Catholic bishops have just made crystal clear the reason that the pope is right and JD Vance is wrong: A just war can't be a war of choice, which this one clearly is. This is a crucial theological, political, and moral argument, and the clarity here is needed and powerful

Common Gallinules Battling, George's take first and Vic second capture #birdoftheday #CourtshiporConflict #LakeMartiinLA #gallinule #commongallinule #nature #widlife #naturephotography

Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.

Going to show this to my dog next time she’s mad that I’ve gone to the store without her. “Yeah, well at least I didn’t go all the way to the MOON”.

Leo: "The message of the church, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing."

This view is STUNNING

hey kids you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big* they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

do not embarrass me in front of the people who flew around the moon

This is a really big deal.

Brutal.

Here in Illinois, you might not think about the US Forest Service having much of a presence, but the agency manages important places like Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Shawnee National Forest - learn more about what they do from @extension.illinois.edu: aces.illinois.edu/news/illinoi...

Student led paper rejected. Which happens. This one has been rejected twice now, after review both times, at two different journals. Its frustrating since we're clearly not communicating well with the reviewers/editors, and I can't quite seem how to crack why that is.

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Solar eclipse viewing - IN SPACE!!!! 🤩 #Artemis 📷: NASA ℹ️: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Every discussion on AI and higher ed is extremely depressing. ”Al for mentorship. AI for tutoring. AI for research and writing.” Where is the, “AI for executive admin positions”

She’s correct! From the ISS, where women have been on board for some time, it’s only a partial view. This is a view from deep space, and it marks a first. And it’s lit by the moon’s reflective light, not by the sun which is on the other side of our planet in this shot. Amazing!

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

Registration is now open for afowos2026.org, the annual meeting of the @Association of Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society, 7–9 July 2026 in beautiful Newport, Rhode Island. *Conference merch* is also available through our Bonfire store: www.bonfire.com/afowos2026/.

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Reminder that the moon that orbits the Earth has a name in English and that name is the Moon. There are lots of nicknames and names in other languages (Luna, for instance) but technically in English it is just the Moon. The concept of a moon is uncapitalized; our moon is the Moon.

Reminder, we currently have people in space, heading toward the moon.

Humans really like to ask the big questions NASA: For the first time in over 50 years, we're going to the M– Internet: WHAT KIND OF TOILET WILL THEY BE USING NASA: The ship will also be carrying several secondary paylo– Internet: WHAT HAPPENS IF THE TOILETS BROKEN

I'm in the community chorus this year, its wonderful singing with folks again, we're preparing for a concert in late May EXCEPT we ended with Surfin USA last night, and its stuck in my head now, nothing has been able to shake it loose send help <inside outside USA, inside outside USA....>

there goes my dream of escaping Outlook by leaving Earth :/

Maybe not funniest ever but perfect for Easter 🐣

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

HERE WE GO!

Rocket?????

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO (to the moon)

It's so loud that if you were close to it, the heat wouldn't be the issue, the sound waves could literally liquify your organs. So-- rocket launches. You want to be far away or riding it off the planet.

"We are going for all humanity." "Artemis crew is go for launch. Full send." Publicly funded science to explore our universe and our own precious world is a beautiful thing.

Many of us don't want to hear this take, that we go to the Moon not because it is easy but because it is profitable and supports the war machine... but it is absolutely true, and every single person in the space industry needs to reckon with it

I don't use any generative AI. A statistical word-string vending machine offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and these companies stole copyright intellectual property knowing that's illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

It’s a perfect day to appreciate the Moon! 🌕 Join the love-fest here:

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

You need this Flame-in-a-robe photo.

It’s just wild to me that we didn’t know what the far side of the Moon looked like until the 50s. Here’s a globe from that era that lives in our university library. They used the far side as a legend, since they did have any images to use.