Bad use of AI alert: There are now LLM products intended to "help" librarians enforce book bans and buy more right-wing books. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc... For example librarytechnology.org/pr/31869

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

This is not my parents' timeline

Advertising is the most likely endgame for monetizing llms. Artificial intimacy is the longshot.

🧵 Let’s be so effing for real right now. The Department of Education saying these jobs are no longer PROFESSIONAL is dumb as hell and insulting as fuck. It takes YEARS of post-graduate training, including passing certifying exams, to earn degrees in these fields. #fdt #momsky

The arc of the moral universe does not bend. The arc of the moral universe must be bent. The arc of the moral universe is a constant pain in the ass.

The patent office is trying to make it harder for the public to challenge bad patents. Lots of patents, e.g., ignore prior art, and can now be challenged with a simple process, which PTO wants to end. Please take a moment to go on record about what a bad idea this is. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

In my 60+ years on this planet, I have been a harsh critic of the CIA and unabashed American patriotism. But ex-CIA Sen. Slotkin's video brought a tear to my eye and I deeply appreciate her bravery. We are on the same side.

This is hilarious and wildly dangerous at the same time. AI guardrails try to keep us safe and yet Poetry beats all the bots on the net arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...

Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures. @jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts. They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪

I agree that emotional addiction to chatbots is the number one risk of AI today. Here is a gift link to an important OpEd in the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

I hope nobody ever said that co-reference resolution was dead in NLP because of LLMs.

Want a lovely property with a fun turnkey business on the Big Island? The Vanillerie is for sale mls.hiinfo.com/public-deep-...

This is going to piss off so many tourists. But hey, Hawaiʻi needs the money. When you host ~10 million visitors per year, they put a lot of strain on a tax base that is much smaller and vastly outnumbered by visitors.

Very much fits with Luke Kemp's "Goliath's curse" www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1le...

just outright disinformation — American Lysenkoism wreaking havoc and endangering our lives

Growing AI intimacy is a profound threat to public mental health. Ads for AI girlfriends: “AI girls never say no...” “What if she could be everything you imagined? Shape her style, her personality, and create the perfect connection just for you.” www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine.

#HawaiiVolcanoesNationalPark Update: ❓Where are the park rangers? Find us at the Kilauea Military Camp (KMC) Welcome Center! Kīlauea VC is closed for renovation, but rangers, NPS volunteers, visitor services & the Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association store have all relocated to the Welcome Center.

Narrator: NOT good news.

💛 the capacity for connection 💛 the ability to trust 💛 community rooted in care 💛 joy without dominance 💛 purpose beyond control Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth isn’t about shame. It’s about possibility.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

Looks like we’ve got some snow on the Mauna! #Hawaii #MaunaKea #Snow

“NIH fully expects recipients to comply with the new terms and conditions, unless otherwise stated in the Notice of Award, or unless NIH has been enjoined by court order from imposing or enforcing such terms while that court order is in effect. “ grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Academic publishing's ~30% profit margins are off the charts. Even rapacious Pharma only manages to rake in about 15% margins for LIFESAVING DRUGS. (To be fair, Visa & Mastercard are in the ~40% range)

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

The vitriol that women, especially educated women, face on the internet is revolting. What is the matter with all these men?

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."

Chana Makhani, Baingan Bharta and Tarka Dal. All made on my wonderful new Impulse stovetop.

📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate. apply.interfolio.com/177622 Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025. @columbiasysbio.bsky.social

Human health and ecosystem health are connected - In-depth reporting on amphibian die-off in Central America, and downstream implications for malaria incidence featuring work from my colleague Mike Springborn wapo.st/47Slsij

Richard so deserves this - a legend in bioinformatics and computational biology - work genome, human genome, Pfam, 1,000 genomes, Sam/bam format, bwa, vcf, psmc… and so many more

This looks like a useful resource!

If you are interested in the origin of life, the new issue of PTRSB is full of interesting work. h/t @manlius.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!

See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath... If only we could figure out how to get rid of dark triad parasites (e.g. billionaires), life would be a lot better than it is now.

Former OpenAI product safety leader sounding a loud warning about artificial intimacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

Agree

More new NIH institute and center director positions posted with a closing date of 11/26/25. hr.nih.gov/careers/open... These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ... 1/3

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

A lot of medical and scientific leadership (looking at you, NAS) has been abysmal in the Trump era. These spineless worms are selling out the rest of us to keep their access to power.

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category. That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement. A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠 aspph.org/department-o...

Massive cuts to American science funding are already conceding leadership to China in many areas. Ending all collaborations with Chinese scientists and cutting funding to any American scientist who had a Chinese student or postdoc in the last 5 years would be unbelievably destructive to the US. 💔😢

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

"As chatbot romances become more commonplace, causing lasting rifts in relationships, a new legal frontier is emerging in family law that is rewriting the rules of marital misconduct: An AI affair is now grounds for divorce." www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...

After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...