Alligators Crocodiles Manatees Sea turtles Dolphins (unpictured)

if I write enough in my little notebook I will be able to Control the Chaos

the number of nights I have gone to bed filled with impotent fury over typhon is too damn high. even more infuriating in that I’ve beat him once so know it is in fact possible yet somehow impossible to replicate

When publication becomes a graduation requirement, the student’s fate depends far more on the efficiency of their environment than on their talent or effort. That’s not academic excellence, that’s structural luck.

I was always very creative writing focused. hated my HS bio teacher/he hated me. was looking at CW programs for uni. summer before senior year I was attending a CW institute but also summer@brown so didn’t want to do CW for that too. signed up for techniques in DNA-based biotechnology. & here I am

Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.

Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results. A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.

is it sunrise to sunset fasting or just being a wet lab scientist who isn’t allowed to have food/drinks at the bench? 🙃

it’s a few years old but I’m excited for the new sequel — “winter’s orbit” by everina maxwell. and although the couple aren’t the protags, including “the warm hands of ghosts” by katherine arden because the book revolves around their relationship.

new haven, we have aurora!!!!

my 2015 macbook air, trying to run thousands of permutations on dozens of genes simultaneously

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

calling the reps again like

And frankly, celebrating dining with "the wealthy" of LI, while not seeing this was the very donor connection which was directly used as a silencing threat against the marginalized grad students and postdocs of the institution, starkly shows the limit of your analysis. bsky.app/profile/anal...

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...

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.

mail from my husband’s family/friends: Mr. And Mrs. [Husband’s first name] [husband’s last name] mail from my friends: Dr. Elizabeth [my last name] and [husband’s first name] [husband’s last name] — also — Elizabeth and [husband’s first name] [my last name] my friends are the best 🥲

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

3) They wrecked NOVA's economy, firing our workers and contractors, and then furloughing those who are left by shutting down the government for the purpose of making sure people can't afford health insurance. Or food for that matter. WTH did they think was going to happen at the ballot box?

The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control. A partial list: Ansonia Bethany Branford Bristol Brooklyn East Granby Ellington Enfield Farmington Milford New Britain New Fairfield Norwich Plymouth Rocky Hill

BREAKING: Maine voters pass a “red flag law” allowing temporary removal of firearms, a response to 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston. Follow AP for live updates.

this is genuinely wild

every victory speech is like “to those that did not vote for me just know i will work with you” nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.

Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed

Staten Island not beating the allegations.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

today’s going great why do you ask

“I want more daylight” rise and shine then; plenty of sunshine by 6:30 am, enjoy it

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

An Air Canada flight right now

How can you not be romantic about baseball? [DEROGATORY] [COMPLIMENTARY]

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

a game for sick freaks

as year after year goes by I realize more and more than practical magic is a perfect movie

I realize that many scientists are not confident in their art skills. Simple drawings made by scientists who may not be artistically talented are significantly better than the ai art because **the ai stuff is full of errors**. “Bad” but correct figures are better than “prettier” wrong ones.

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.