THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

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I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom. it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them

Accepted! "Acoustic differences persist in urban tits over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." Hans Slabbekoorn and I show that city-living Great Tits continue to sing at high frequencies, even as Paris reduces noise pollution. Coming to Ornith Appl. @amornith.bsky.social

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

chat I think I'm kinda cooking w/ this music ngl

For maximum alpha, read this microblogged cognitive poetry jam at 1.25x on your cellular intelligence device:

@skrub-data.bsky.social: better data-science primitives for clean code on dataframes Watch my dotAI talk, it's fun (live coding)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS4... skrub really makes it easy to do machine learning with dataframes

HEY MIAMI! This Saturday at 1:30 pm I'll be on a "Spotlight on #Florida" panel at the Miami Book Fair with such stellar authors as Les Standiford ("Last Train to Paradise," among other terrific books). Gee, I hope we can find SOMETHING to talk about! www.miamibookfair.com/event/spotli...

This is why I write so critically and frequently about Ezra Klein (and Matt Yglesias). Democrats are led by the centrist blogosphere, yet for the last year they’ve claimed progressives control the DNC to excuse their failure. Klein, Yglesias, Chait, etc ushered in GOP fascism and refuse… 1/4

Ecuadorians have decisively rejected a series of referendum measures, including plans for U.S. military bases and constitutional changes, handing President Daniel Noboa a major political setback amid rising gang violence. n.pr/4nZx6y4

@erinhecht.bsky.social does amazing work on brain evolution in wolves and doggos, among other things Give this one a listen and give Dr.Hecht a follow #neurosky #neuroskyence

It was long thought that domestication leads to reductions in brain size. But as we understand dog brains better, the truth is proving more complicated—and more interesting. Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @erinhecht.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/of-breeds-an...

@raskin.house.gov WTF are you doing dude We don't need a tent so big that MTG can come in and talk about Jewish space lasers, troll @aoc.bsky.social and spew other vile racist sh*t. Nobody wants that

Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.

Director Bhattacharya shared the supposed rationale for placing Jenna Norton on administrative leave late Friday with "Just the News": 1. Potentially violating anti-deficiency act. 2. Comms centralized w/Director 3. Not scientist, so no academic freedom images+alt text below, link next in brief 🧵

ICE is not welcome in #Baltimore. I won't allow it. This isn't the country I served for. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

While the media often focuses on identity, any election with a socialist / progressive candidate will come down to class and capital accumulation.

Come say hi at the @nwb.org and @dandiarchive.org booth #3831 at SfN! Learn about how the standard and archive can help advance your science and fulfill your data sharing requirements! We're also ready to help you convert your data to NWB and publish it to DANDI 📶🎉

“The case underscores a common problem in academia: Professors, promoted for their research, may be unequipped to advise students.”

Grijalva explained her choice to speak in Spanish as well as English in her first House address: “I felt it was very important. In southern Arizona, we have a lot of Spanish speaking families and even many that are bilingual. I wanted to let them know I was there for them.”

The journalists waxing nostalgic over Epstein's NYC sex trafficking parties are the same ones also freaking out about Mamdani and they're all in the fucking emails chatting with the guy a decade after his conviction.

Irish people 🤝🏻 Spanish people

Also, whether you’ve been in Baltimore the last decade & paying attention or not, keep an eye out for The Beat Goes On docu in the next 18 mo or so. It’s telling more than just the story of the @baltimorebeat.bsky.social team & @lisasnowden.bsky.social .

There are so many professors/scientists y'all

the professors in the emails being all chummy with epstein is pathetic and enraging.

SciAm did a story www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...

Rollers are a group of birds that get their name from their dramatic tumbling flight during courtship and territorial displays. While we did see a bit of those displays, this Lilac-breasted Roller seemed mainly concerned with flashing his fancy colours! Kruger Park, South Africa #Birds 🪶

Life update: had good borscht at our favorite random Uzbek restaurant

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Bach, you have to stop. Your clavier is too well-tempered. Your concertos too Brandenburg. They’ll kill you

Brevetoxins are potent neurotoxins produced by certain algae and cause significant health problems (“red tide” is one form). Even if you don’t care about marine life, you can get sick and even die just from breathing air near a shoreline w/ brevetoxin-producing algae. Climate change will kill us all

Join us at #SfN25 tomorrow (11/16) at 7PM PT for the BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social: Toolmakers Showcase to celebrate innovation and collaboration in #neuroscience. Register: https://web.cvent.com/event/4a051497-a2f2-4385-8944-f1bff79dfb9f/register

it's so funny that the US far-right defunded science in the name of industrial production when they're all well studied historians of world war 2 German military strategy bc the greatest lesson of WW2 was that 10x production didn't win the war, it was the breakthroughs that allowed that 10x

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Hate the argument of "Well you can boycott for now, but soon every game studio is going to use genAI and you won't be able to tell or avoid it anymore!!" dude there are already more videogames in existence than I'm ever going to be able to play in my lifetime. this boycott shit is easy.

Yes. A lot of this is downstream of educational outcomes becoming a status competition between parents, which I think has become significantly worse in part as a result of shrinking bourgeois family sizes bsky.app/profile/mort...

My strategy game, MORSE released this week! MORSE teaches you Morse Code through timing, tactics and telegraphy. Learn a secret language, build your own telegraph and jump head first down the rabbit hole of ham radio. 🔥⚓️⚫️➖ #hamradio #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #morsecode

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

Remembering the time Wendy saved the planet from imminent destructions youtu.be/WXgNo5Smino?...

wendy carlos is so cool

The entire Tron soundtrack is just so incredibly cool. Carlos built on her work with Switched-On Bach to make a baroque techno-sounding (BEFORE TECHNO EXISTED) set of music tracks that effectively defined cyberspace for a generation. Just incredible.

@science.org has an article up about this now, with quotes from Josh Gordon and Eric Green. Please check it out

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Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

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Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.

Oof. I am learning right now that high-quality photos of Sandhill Cranes from directly behind are hard to find on Macaulay! So here's another plea from an illustrator, folks - upload your weird angles! So many gorgeous shots are from the side but I want behind, straight-on, every which way!

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here: