lol she got his ass and he knows it

What the vast majority of Americans don't understand is that the DATA centers for AI Technology consumes a LARGE amount of WATER and ENERGY to operate these DATA Centers. Does the environment allow for this massive consumption? Does the consumer pay for this massive use? There are no regulations!

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

Pronounced "peeber one peeber" in my friend group in grad school

The closed captioning is devastating

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

The 2025 results of the #DFTPoll are online www.marcelswart.eu/dft-poll/ind... #CompChem #ChemSky

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

particularly all of the people who *left science* because they were not treated the way you have been treated. How many of those contributions have been destroyed by the coddling of men like Watson? We can only imagine. But I was there as a *friend*, not a famous scientist, so I know at least some.

And now I see people reposting *your* thread, with your platform and credibility and privilege, and saying "this is the reality from an eyewitness" or "a balanced account." The scientific position you may have does not mean you had access to the real experiences of minoritized people in science,

We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.

...strategize about culture change. I hope that this reads like a calling in, because this is a scary thread to write even though I have little to do with famous biology research centers, but I feel a duty to speak up on behalf of my brilliant, brave, amazing friends. THEIR science needs protection

While we can reminisce about "delightful dinners," I can tell you that encountering Watson and being trapped by him or sideswiped by his racism in this culture of silence was hell for anyone who was different. OUR dinners were in the basement apartments in CSH (all grads can afford), trying to...

And in fact, there are very visible and extremely influential movements happening *right now* directly making our colleagues less safe, and people like my wife and I less safe in science, because of this man bsky.app/profile/mich...

His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science bsky.app/profile/anal...

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

35 tonne truck? WE EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST!! #WorldBollardAssociation

PBE0 vs. PBE1PBE, which one is it? Aron Cohen reminded me. J. Chem. Phys. 1996, 105, 9982 doi.org/10.1063/1.47... "MP4 gives atomization energies for the G1 set with 2.6 kcal/mol error with respect to experimental thermochemical data" #CompChem 1/n

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS This is his part-time job

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Ok @stevevladeck.bsky.social has posted his longer write up. theory: she‘s pushing first circuit to move faster and trying to force SCOTUS to rule faster, regardless of which way they’re going to go, rather then sit on this for months like they could www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

this top post should be read alongside the second post where the prof offers a theory as to why she did this But on the face of it: ??????????

8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Lots of specific receipts here for anyone who hasn't followed Watson's legacy of doubling down on racism. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

"If you publish your book now, in the teeth of my opposition, history will condemn you” “the tone used to describe Rosalind's work in the Epilogue is perfectly reasonable, but contrasts ludicrously with the descriptions of her in the text itself.” -Francis Crick Letter criticizing Watson’s book 🧪

New article on Sam Altman's long history of abusive, toxic, manipulative, duplicitous behavior (those aren't my words, but the words of people who have directly interacted with him). The guy is a complete conman, worthy of the derogatory moniker "Scam Altman." Read more:

quantum mechanics -> quantum mechancs www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...

Wait, Francis Crick had sex parties? This for me is the most fascinating takeaway

TIL

For those who are looking into Rosalind Franklin today, check this out ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cj...

1 trillion dollars is so much money, you could give every human living on Earth $125 In case you needed a sense of scale.

Happy 158th Birthday, Marie Skłodowska Curie! She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the honor twice. In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA

The Trump administration said it will pay full SNAP benefits for November despite fighting the court order requiring it to do so

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"

"AI is not just another research tool; it is redefining what research is, how it is done and what counts as an original contribution." Alex Sen Gupta writes in Nature how doctoral training must evolve to make the most of AI outputs. #Academicsky 🧪

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

“Honest Jim” passed away at 97 digital.sciencehistory.org/works/nd9d0v9

Holy shit--look at the one name that doesn't get a link-out in the WaPo obit of James Watson. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

James Watson, he stole one good idea and spent the rest of his life being a racist, sexist crank.

James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition

One of my favorite jokes ever: What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notebooks