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New awareness campaign

Very bad news. Teen Vogue was doing work other journalists were not.

Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.

Regarding "far more common than reported here": Left: the Nature News story above, Sept 18th 2025 Right: Wired directly quoting OpenAI, Oct 28, 2025 www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

To the rug— The good rug— NOW. No, Mom— Urrrrrp. I absolutely Hurrrrgh. Cannot wait Mmmmrgh! To get FLURRRRP! Outside.

Perfect metaphor.

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

omg, this is utterly painful and exactly how it feels to be an educator right now, especially in the Humanities. yikes.

Anacortes area folks! We are doing a Bingo/scavenger hunt activity leading up to the pop-up aquarium on August 10th. Here’s a link to a PDF copy for alt text and printing: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ynyc...

1 Do not obey in advance. 2 Defend institutions. … 15 Contribute to good causes. 16 Learn from peers in other countries. 17 Listen for dangerous words. 18 Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. 19 Be a patriot. 20 Be as courageous as you can. @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny #DoNotObeyInAdvance

The interactive show that closes this FHL art/sci workshop is amazing. 🐡

For #FossilFriday, my life-size Brachiosaurus forelimb and skull. Because even if they can’t make it to a museum, my students deserve to see and feel how enormous these animals were. Made of expanded polystyrene sheets and painted with acrylics.

We should try to find a hero fighting back against fascism in the US every day. Today, I'd nominate the FCC's Anna Gomez and, yes, Jerome Powell. A lot more courage than any elected Democrat this week (and I say that as someone who is very much NOT on the bash-the-Dems train.)

Headline in a Scottish newspaper today: CONVICTED US FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND

Bird sounds.

Curious if this is a one off, or did some other school superintendents come in from vacation and caved and gave them the data? We might know a lot less of what is going on in the shadows than we think.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Emmett Till would have been 84 years old today. I celebrate your life, sir 🕯️

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Turning the kids woke but it's just making sure they're not sleeping in class.

vocal fry implies the existence of vocal onion ring and vocal tater tot

31) Non-Black Americans: you should care about Black Americans. You should listen to what we talk about, and at least maintain a healthy curiosity about what we currently celebrate/are alarmed by. We're often the first to see/experience things you'll both enjoy and be subjected to a few years out.

A favorite visualization of pearl formation (🎨: Raven Ramaria, ravenglassrocks.com/featured-art...) #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🐡🦑

South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

There is no such thing as an "AI" (or any other technology) without biases and values in it, but there very definitely is such a thing as presenting one's own biases and values as "neutral" and then forcing people to build "AI" which conforms to *those.*

Can someone smarter than the New York Times explain to me what exactly the $200M fine that Columbia is paying is *for*? Because in my naiveté and with $400M in grant funding canceled, this is indistinguishable from a protection racket. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old

In the last 6 months Republicans have also: -killed a low income broadband program that gave poor people a $30 discount -killed a program providing free Wi-Fi to rural schoolkids -destroyed the FCC's consumer protection authority -killed efforts to police broadband data caps

Brad Lander's "The line in the Democratic Party right now is not between progressives and moderates — it's between fighters and folders" is truly *the* best diagnosis of what's needed right now. It also has the advantage of being backed up by public opinion.

Here are all 11 little baby sharks ~Lance #pottery #art #clay #ceramics #shark #sharkweek #wildlife #animalart #sculpture #ocean 🦑 🐡

Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently

You know how often your autocomplete is completely wrong? Good news, now it's in charge of what's safe to eat!

You all asked, and so I've spent the day figuring out how to make it happen. And now you can buy one or both of my Middle Earth subway maps! They're available digitally, but also in print. With and without watermarks. Enjoy! surprisedeelmaps.etsy.com

Holy cats! Did everyone know about this already? digitallibrary.usc.edu The sheer amount of *stuff* you can get here is incredible. I found it because it's where the 222,000+ images from InscriptiFact went. But this database has *everything*! Look, look! digitallibrary.usc.edu/CS.aspx?VP3=...

🚨LOBOPODIAN ALERT!1!!!11!🚨 Palaeocampa – a fossil known since 1865 – redescribed & now interpreted as: geologically youngest of its kind (315-307 mya), lived in freshwater environments, & (most badass of all) had venomous spines. Great work by Richard Knect, @prehistorica.art, & colleagues. 🧪

NSF staff release their appeal—slightly different format than the declarations of dissent from EPA/NIH/NASA; a more formal petition to Congress to redress attacks on the agency and its employees. 149 signatories (48 named) democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Prediction by me: after lighting a trillion dollars on fire for so-called ‘AI’ with negative ROI, our stock market and economy will collapse. It’s only a question of when, not if. www.youtube.com/live/9ELXACQ... CMU paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

A big part of social media is the Secondary Hobbies. You need mutuals who have a harmless additional interest that you will otherwise never learn about, but you kind of root for it to work for them. I hope you do enjoy the new issue. Your needlepoint looks great. I'm +1ing for you

I got to see this a couple of years ago and as someone who makes art about science and space, seeing this in person was especially moving.

an actual loyalty test to hold a state job

It’s ludicrous and immoral to require some of America’s universities to pay a higher effective tax rate than many corporations do.

I had a blast writing about #D&D for the neuroscience podcast This Is Your Brain! This episode is about storytelling, & there are some neat studies about D&D's impact on mental health. My segment starts ~13:30 & includes highlights from a @dimension20.bsky.social campaign w/DM @aabria.bsky.social) 🧪

There's the dishonesty in the marketing of public-facing AI too. Some do as they promised within specific contexts: i.e. identifying animals from thousands of camera trap/drone photos in conservation projects. But many promised to magically answer people's daily problems and that's a blatant lie.

Avogadro’s constant doesn’t define atomic units. It is a conversion factor between our western-European bespoke units and the universe’s units.

I don’t want to alarm anyone but they’ve let me into the British Museum!

If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!! You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site