“you died without making something that no one else could make” 🔥🔥🔥 You enrich the world with *your* unique lived experience, memories, viewpoints. You bring nothing new to the world by prompting an algorithm to regurgitate a meaningless amalgam of experiences other people have previously shared.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

The call for participation is out for the 9th Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference #SKI2026 Canada. The conference will take place February 19-22, 2026 in Banff, Alberta. Ski all morning, conference all evening. skiconference.ca

New research from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience has revealed the brain’s built-in distance tracker, and its link to early Alzheimer's diagnosis. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.011 Read more... 👇 ow.ly/HL5S50WZh2l #EverToExcel

Mount St. Helens as seen by Sentinel-2 on Sept. 16, 2025. 45 years old volcanic ash was kicked up by wind. h/t @wisc-satellite.bsky.social @wed-explorer.bsky.social @sangasso.bsky.social 😊👍

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

🌍✨ Our second seminar is with @miladmzdh.bsky.social - a Postdoc from @digigeolab.bsky.social "Towards Democratizing VR, AI, and Mobility Data: Insights from GreenTravel, MobiTwin, and OpenGPS" Date: 7th October 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid). Register here: tinyurl.com/3dj46bcp ✨🌍

The cleaning of the world’s largest #Roman floor mosaic, covering around 1050 sqm. It was discovered during the construction of a hotel in Antakya/Turkey. The shifting of the ground during an earthquake has caused a a ripple effect. Dating 4th c. AD. 🏺#mosaicmonday 📷 www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/sanat...

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

🌍✨ Our first seminar of AY25-26 kicks off with St Andrews Alumni @sila-gisci.bsky.social "From seconds to lifetimes: challenges in measuring environmental exposure across spatial and temporal scales" Date: 30th September 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid). Register here: tinyurl.com/ybaz2e6d ✨🌍

After last nights cloudy moonrise, it was nice to see the moon lift off above The Bass Rock tonight, with Lamb Island and Fidra joining in the almost full moon party. #landscapephotography #moon #scotland #dusk

A quick reminder that the #SDSS2025 deadline for Thematic Session proposals is coming up quickly. We'd love to see a proposal from you on a topic of your choice. The symposium is free, online, and typically has large numbers of engaged attendees. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

The 2nd Data-Driven Mobility Analytics workshop will take place in Montreal on October 27, 2025. We will be discussing current mobility analytics tools, open mobility datasets, and everything in between. Join us by submitting a statement of interest: ptal-io.github.io/ddma2025-mon...

Ten days ago #Whimbrel LYTSE GRIENE went off radar after many weeks in Cádiz. A sign the bird had continued south, confirmed a few days later: after a 50+h flight to Guinea-Bissau, and a 5day stop in Liberia, he made it all the way to Ghana! #ornithology www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...

The UK white storks don't stop surprising us. This year some went around the Alps and are migrating through Italy: wsp.acenature.org/flight2.html

There has been strong night-time bird migration in recent nights, for example last night. The new radar-based tool has revealed that birds can reach heights of almost 4 km (!) over southern Finland. ilmu.fmi.fi/realtime

Oh. The stochastic parrot does not boost productivity. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

Impressive data set with interesting findings: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology

A behind the scene story that exemplifies what can happen if brilliant and motivated people work together to turn cheap ideas into precious outcome. methodsblog.com/2025/08/28/c...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Where are #GIScience faculty hired from? The following Perspective, by Yanbing Chen and Yuhao Kang, is drawn from a paper currently under review and supported by the CaGIS Rising Award and the GISphere project, which summarizes over 400 #GIS programs and faculty information globally. buff.ly/RVBzfX5

Initiatives such as the Icarus Initiative from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social are pioneering future efforts to understand where, when and how animals struggle and die in particular areas and context: www.ab.mpg.de/669445/icaru...

In 2008 I met a climate scientist from Mali who was advocating for this so long that he looked exhausted. Absolutely amazing man. He was working so hard on this. And then I see numbers like this and my heart just soars. Youba Sokona, you (and your peers) really did it. www.ipcc.ch/people/youba...

Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs

Maybe you've heard this before (I hadn't), but this is a nifty little story about being stuck in the ocean off Half Moon Bay in a kayak when a tsunami struck in 1992: explorersweb.com/how-i-surfed...

Are blue book and oral exams the answer to AI in the classroom?

Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?

The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

The Southeast Crater - youngest and most active of the four summit craters of #Etna - producing Strombolian explosions and a lava flow on the evening of 24 August 2025. The current summit eruption started on 14 August. Photo taken from Nicolosi on Etna's south flank.

It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat. This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent. I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The proceedings of GIScience 2025 🌏 are now available open access from Dagstuhl Publishing: dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-95977-378-2 This volume showcases GIScience research on urban data, semantic place enrichment, knowledge graphs, mobility, geovisualization, spatial analysis, and other applications.

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/...

The heartbreaking thing about this is that there’s already a proven way to invest lots of money in a knowledge machine that produces unforeseeable results that include fantastically profitable ideas (and some life-saving ones) and generally benefit society and this machine is called a university

Last week to register to attend the BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting @britishecologicalsociety.org, deadline 27th of August. Come and join us in Norwich @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

I still can't get over how beautiful this eruption was... now just imagine if it were directed right at us. I wonder what kind of geomagnetic storm we would see...

I just love this. have been watching it since the first stones were laid. and its amazing. the sad thing is.. I have never been.. something I must remedy.. Has anyone else here been? archaeology.org/issues/septe...

Lol! Gjaldskylda means you have to pay for parking but these poor tourists think it’s the name of the mountain/foss/geyser.

She’s not wrong

"why [would] anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist choose to be one [given] the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio "? One of the most intelligent people you could meet offers some answers: having ideas, watching them develop, and sharing them journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

William De Morgan was the Arts & Crafts movement’s most brilliant and prolific ceramic artist. This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by some of his many tile designs. 🍪

We now know why insects gather at artificial lights www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

New paper: Your song says more than you think. In #songbirds, exploratory birds sing with greater variety, aggressive ones keep it short. Song may be part of the language of #personality. #BirdLab #KLF #animalbehavior #birdsong #wildlife @univie.ac.at doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Pictures: A. Katsis

Some insight into why UK Gov's so-called "Online Safety Act" could lead to wikipedia being banned in the UK. It's a word that gets thrown around a lot, but this simply is madness. Better to ban the whole internet than have the internet without actual reality-based content like wikipedia.

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.