This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

There it is. The clam before the storm.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.

We're offering a fully funded PhD at the intersection of ML/AI and the natural sciences with a focus on sustainability and chemistry. You'll work at WUR in the Netherlands, ranked #3 in environ. sciences, #1 in agricultural science, #38 in life sciences (QS). Apply here: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS #STARTREK #SISKO197

masterpiece

I found the original image on Reddit & altered it a bit 😃

>140mph gusts, in a global model, as Storm Éowyn approaches Britain and Ireland on Friday

Every now & then I think about how people frame the #MeToo "era" as an "era" & not the ongoing reality in which women & girls have always lived. RAINN Natl Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-HOPE (4673) Chat with RAINN online: hotline.rainn.org/online Spanish online chat: hotline.rainn.org/es?_

So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

Hey headline writers: “Arnold Palmer Cock Tale” is sitting right there for you.

I don’t know who did these but I saw them on Facebook and hooted with joy.

Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977

There’s a live you tube channel with the camera trained on a watering hole from the Namib Desert in Namibia. Around 2-3AM their time if you’re lucky you can catch huge porcupines ambling around. No one fucks with them. Not even the cheetahs. It’s 5:47AM there now: www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQ...

What news from France?

Vive La France!

Friends in the Twin Cities: I'll be chatting with @chrisdstedman.bsky.social at SubText Books on June 5 @ 7pm and would love to see you there!! subtextbooks.com/events/34579

Hey, neurospicy publishing people 👋🏻 The Neurodivergent Publishing Conference is this month, and the lineup looks great! All sessions will be recorded. Tickets are only $35 and on sale through this Friday. ndpub.org #AmEditing #Edibuddies #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Translation #xl8

move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor

Bsky bringing back timeline gifts.

It's a small, menial thing in a dark world, but a 👜 with pen pockets😍and an interior zippered pocket big enough to house private/spiky things is the best 👜. Yet few make them.

This quiz is hilarious. Tolkien character or antidepressant?

A copy of “Twelfth Night” just spontaneously combusted

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

they're married

Apply to write for us! Are you enthusiastic about science communication? Interested in developing your writing skills? Excited about joining a collaboration of over 100 astronomy grad students from around the world? We look forward to working with you ☺️ 🔭 astrobites.org/2023/10/21/a...

Ursula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91410900

There is increasing evidence that the world has warmed faster over the past 15 years than it has since the 1970s. Surface records, ocean heat content, and the Earth's energy imbalance all support an acceleration of warming, as I argue in today's @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/o...

Getting vaccinated during pregnancy can reduce miscarriage and maternal mortality, and they protect newborns against RSV, flu, COVID and pertussis when their immune system is not mature enough to fight infections 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-y...

Today is National Read an eBook day. (that sounds fake but I'm not questioning it.) and as it happens, I have an ebook on sale today, and for the rest of this month! If you'd like to read a furious fantasy romance about reproductive rights: www.amazon.ca/Midnight-Bar...

Working with the university's learning management system is like trying to get past a capricious troll. LMS: Here be the gateway to magical teaching. Ye may make quizzes and rubrics. Ye may have sparkly learning clips. Me: Can I have a list of the students in the class? LMS: Mayhaps. But no easily.

Yeah, so once you are safely in the provinces with your rebellious legions, you do not, in fact, return to Rome unarmed to attend meetings of the Senate on day-trips. You stay in the provinces with your legions.

First night of vacation in rural France. Have I bought some produits regionaux? Yes. Am I eating and drinking them? No. Am I eating the mysteriously addictive peanut-butter-flavored Cheeto-like snacks and drinking top shelf supermarket wine? Maaaybe.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. AI sometimes hits the average target.

Personally, I don’t think that AI slop can or will replace art and writing. I DO think that depraved tech lords are going to force us to spend at least a decade (or more) *proving* that AI can’t do this stuff in the worst, most destructive way possible.