In the interest of being a good professor, if you want to read the pertinent sections of Magnifica Humanitas on slavery, the "apology" and the implications for AI, skip to sections 172-181 of the Encyclical.

If you'll be in NYC on June 13, join us for this all-ages celebration of public libraries. If you're not in NYC, please spread the word. RSVP: librarypropagandafair26.eventbrite.com - Free and Open to everyone.

They're not wrong 🐋

Just realized I should post the schedule openly and pin it to the top of the feed. 🐾

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(1/3) Good afternoon, #bsbookclub! I’ve been having trouble with my feed builder and ended up creating a new feed for next month’s read of Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” 🐾. The previous appears to still work but it’s disappeared from my dashboard, which makes me nervous.

This is for like 87% of everything happening now

Okay so in the first paragraph we're told that the increase in temperature means the tank is either getting closer to or further away from rupturing. The NYT is deeply committed to both-sidesing *everything*.

I was so perplexed by the Sunday-travelling thing that I duckduckgo'ed it. Ended up with this in which the author argues (unpersuasively imo) that this doesn't make Anne a ridiculous prig but instead "tacitly criticizes him not for having lived too fully but for not having lived fully enough." 🛁

This is beyond absurd. For employment-based green cards the wait once an application is filed can be months or even years. So like, what, you take a leave from your job, go back to your country of origin, and hope you still have a job when you finally get approved? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

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testing 1 2 #wellwellwell

State of the Democratic Party leadership

Some excellent #scicomm in this story, including the artist's rendition of the tetrodotoxin molecule and their justified skepticism about the coffee pot story.

#Detroit #MotorCity

Of *course* he’s unqualified. That’s kinda the point.

We can supercharge possibilities in the classroom with fintech. As AI grows students’ ability to produce … material … exponentially, we need a grading system capable of leveraging resources to grow alongside them. Harvard is stuck in a scarcity mindset; we need to embrace Abundance.

Seems bad

Microbiologist Jasmine Clark campaigned on her science background--and won. www.science.org/content/arti...

Glad to see this fiasco resolved, at least for now. Also, oof, they threw out the lab houseplants? They'll have to pry my lab houseplants out of my cold, dead hands.

LOL, I shared this cool tool at our all-team staff meeting yesterday and invited staff to spell out their names and share what the image looked like with the rest of us. You can find the tool here: science.nasa.gov/specials/you... Try it yourselves :)

Interesting science but also CLEAR WRITING. The Results section has subheads like "We generated a library of hHv1 constructs with Acd incorporated across the different structural domains" and "Acd was relatively insensitive to the hydrophobicity of its local environment". More of this, please!

Given that many of the states are mislabeled in this map, I don't know why I should believe any of the rest of its content.

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

At 8:32:21 a.m. in the early morning of May 18, 1980, a magnitude 5.1 #earthquake strikes 1 mile (1,6 km) below Mount St. #Helens, triggering one of the largest landslides ever witnessed by humans - followed by a gigantic lateral blast ...

"Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories & Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point" Edgerton's obituary for Starmerism www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

daaaamn london

Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, the commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures in Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.

Good morning, #bsbookclub! I’ve developed a schedule for next month’s read, Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”. Link in the next post. To be added to the feed, please respond to this note; I’ll like your post when added. (1/4) 🐾

I want someone who thinks the US is a truly god-blessed, Exceptional ™ "city on the hill" to explain this fucking phenomenon to me.

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

I mean, yes? Isn't that kind of our whole thing as humans? 🐋

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Oof, serious burn here from Jane Austen on all the moralists and preachers out there. 🛁

Last day to apply for the Empowerment Award of the @neuroethology.org. If you're a disadvantaged researcher investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour, this award is to help you overcome barriers. Deadline: May 15th 2026 Info here: www.neuroethology.org/empowerment-... Please share

Surely the proposals will be reviewed by panels like other NSF grants. We can just contact the program officers to learn more… oh, wait…

People keep saying “other countries will just take US research talent”—no, researchers will leave the profession

Truly genuinely a breath of fresh air. I want to hear more from this man.

ngl if I suddenly had sheep I'd go out every morning and admire them too. 🛁

Holy shit! (Also, purely selfishly, glad I've already given my bird song lecture this year.) Congrats to all involved. #neuroethology

🛁 Well, here's an unanticipated consequence of my participation in #bsbookclub!

Hell, I lived in West Philly at the time and I’m still shocked by it. By the event, by the treatment of the remains, and by the fact that the mayor got reelected.

Story of my life 🐋

Includes a streaming option!

told a coworker i used to work at the dump and they asked me if that’s where i got my haircut

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organizing gets the goods

“If one wanted to sabotage IU’s reputation as a leading R1 institution, one could not do much better,” [dept chair] Moczek said. Damn right. This is a travesty.