58 days 😬 Nominate now because we’ll be setting the lineup sometime very, very soon.

Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers.

A subtle change in the electronic configuration of iron ions produces a measurable difference in seismic wave speeds through mantle rocks, contributing to a fuller understanding of Earth’s deep interior, write Renata Wentzcovitch and colleagues. Via @eos.org. https://bit.ly/4oFz6xg

New Zealand and Iran are neck-and-neck in the Volcano World Cup Group G voting. Have you cast your ballot? Will you be the one to put one of these countries on top? Can you stand the drama and excitement? Do you like all these questions? #volcanoworldcup #worldcup eruptions.site/2026/06/22/v...

I wanna learn how to read. I’ve never really gotten into it. Starting with some classics. Committing to these 3 minimum. If anyone has good book recs please, I’m all ears!

Finding two is underrated: the model "insists" men are more cited when objective counts say otherwise. That's not a recall gap, but it's a model overriding the data it was supposed to summarise. A tool for evidence synthesis that contradicts evidence isn't just biased; it's broken.

When students make up citations or invent authorities, we don’t say they hallucinated. We say they were dishonest. When engaged in literary or legal research functions, AI is frequently dishonest while assuming the pose of an authoritative resource. At this point, AI is an unreliable tool.

Ther are more ramifications that specifically affect female authors. Clarivate is removing papers from Scopus if in a former name, claiming “essential maintenance on your profile, and this is the start of an intensive period of system upgrades and curatorial oversight. “

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

The Arrival of the Sun, 1962 by Kenojuak Ashevak, artist of Inuit heritage born on Baffin Island #womensart

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the finalist for Best Novelette "When He Calls Your Name" by Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social! It is also a Locus Award finalist and placed 1st on the Uncanny Poll! You can read it here or in the Hugo packet! buff.ly/1fhgx9A

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: A rare meteorite recovered in 2019 from the Sahara Desert seems to be a half-kilo hunk blasted from the depths of a long-lost planet that roamed the (very) early solar system. Cool story by @jennaahart.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...

Let your communities know about the elimination of Federal Funding for Libraries, and its impact on America. We made it easy at SaveIMLS.org. #library #libraries #libraryfunding #fundlibraries #saveimls #imls #read #reading #book #books

Welcome to the 2026 Volcano World Cup! Here's a little introductory post about the Volcano World Cup for the uninitiated. Look for Group A coming out at the end of the week to start us off. eruptions.site/2026/06/08/w... #volcanoworldcup

Congratulations to last night's winners at the Nebula Awards, which include @stephengrahamjones.com, @amalelmohtar.com, @effies.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social among others, and which formally installed @nkjemisin.bsky.social as a Grand Master! file770.com/sfwa-announc...

Before Caturday ends I'm going to slip one more in

What's been your favorite audio book listen this so far this year? #audiobooks #audiophile #books 📚💙

"50 Things You Can Do For Trans Rights 10 Ways To Learn More About Trans Rights"

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

This is the editorial calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. A must read. 🧪 diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

This is so horrifying. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Very nice article about #MinCup - talks about its joy and utility for #geoscience outreach as well as some of the challenges. (Pssst: if you've never participated, follow the @mineralcup account and prepare for fun and learning this September!)

We did a thing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Which minerals could compete this September? Nominations are open! www.mineralcup.org/nominations All nominations are read. Providing reasons why a particular mineral is appealing makes us more likely to select it.

... And this list doesn't even include: *The bias baked into the results. *The psychological damage of sycophantic tech. *The damage to critical thinking process incurred by use. *The measurable reductions in memory use of AI causes. #AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat

Psst. We’re working on getting recognition for Mineral Cup & need some help. If we can pull it off, it’s warm-fuzzies for our volunteers, but it also opens doors for having the resources to do some neat things for the 10th Mineral Cup (how is that on the horizon??)

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Help? We’re applying for a geoscience outreach award. We need nomination letters. Are you someone working in geoscience education or outreach, think Mineral Cup is worthy, and are willing to write us kind words by May 22? Please drop a note to [email protected] for details. Thank you!

Emerging Tactics in Destroying Libraries for Political Power: Perkins County, South Carolina, and Randolph County, North Carolina, point to new tactics being used to destroy libraries for political power. That, plus this week's censorship news roundup. bookriot.com/destroying-l...

#Shifters assemble! The #Kickstarter for WERE-2, the 2nd #antho from @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social featuring all the were-animals who AREN’T wolves, starts tomorrow at noon ET. Check out the #authors & #incentives here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb...

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Ask Japanese Americans what they lost in World War II.

ICE is stealing from the people they detain whether they are U.S. citizens, have legal status, or are undocumented... watches, jewelry, phones, money or anything they feel is of value.

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

#WomensArt #Minnesota

These people are actual monsters

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Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people. ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

6/ Healthcare is a human right. Full stop. ✊ What’s happening in these concentration camps is cruel — and dangerous. Active TB won't stay locked up - it will spread into communities too. End the cruelty. Treat people. Stop the spread. ‼️ and shut down the fucking concentration camps

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

We all knew this was coming and also this is fucking terrifying both things are true

Programming that refuses to accept a hyphenated name as "valid" is piss-poor programming. Do better.

🧵 1/5 RFK Jr.'s deadly anti-vax crusade doesn’t stop at U.S. borders. Now the U.S. says "no thimerosal, no funding" -- putting $300M at risk for Gavi, which helps the world’s poorest countries access life-saving vaccines. Thimerosal keeps multi-dose vials safe from microbial contamination. 💉

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.