As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

Happy holidays, Bluesky friends! 🎄🎅 This holiday season, if you are able to and feel generous, please consider donating to World Central Kitchen. They do incredible work all over the world, providing food to people in crisis. Sharing this post would be lovely as well :)

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

How cool is this mosaic in the NYC subway? (make sure to zoom!) 🪶

Thanks, I hate it.

Currently recruiting PhD students to follow up on this result - please come to have a chat if interested #ASABWinter2025

At the top of this article on an AI-related problem, there's a "Takeaways by Bloomberg AI" button. Please clap/cry.

In DC and decided to come to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The guy at the front desk ended his welcome with "Have a meaningful visit". How poignant.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Very millennial experience: listening to Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park but have to turn it down because I cant hear the instructions on the YouTube video "Yoga for back pain"

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

My partner is an infectious disease doctor and every now and then I get a paper in my alerts that brings our interests together by means of ... parrot fever / psittacosis.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪 OCEAN STRIDERS!!

I- ... I guess the grey in my beard is really showing now

this ad reads like a warning 🤣🤣

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

Good generative models for: writer's block — your brain after a walk song recommendations — your friend's brain visual art — your brain + pencil/paint music — your brain + your fave instrument

#ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky apply.interfolio.com/173938 📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons

Leave.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

E I G H T H U N D R E D M I L L I O N

Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage

Summoning both of them at once reveals your true form

Look what the cat dragged in. Look what the dog hastily scrawled. Look what the baby quietly recited. The ritual has begun, take this knife

Has anyone succeeded in persuading people you know to drop GPT, Grok etc.? And if yes, HOWWW?

Who's out there getting their weather in Kelvin? "Looks like it'll be a nice day—300 and sunny!"

Male king parrot visiting the yard early morning. #birds #canberra #nature #australia #parrot #photography #winter #kingparrot #ausbird #ornithology #australianbird #canon

#AvianAugust Day 15 - 'Oma'o. These little guys like to forage in moss and lichen-covered branches. #birds #birdart

Black Tailed Godwit on Teesside the other day. @teesbirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social 🪶

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

"Hey, bullshit machine! Is your bullshit bullshit?"

attacked right in the middle of the work day

“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

Loads of people get around by motorbike in Vietnam, so I wasn't surprised when my research assistant told me that some of the staff at our field site who don't speak English refer to me as "bicycle man" 🤣 🧪 #academicsky

Fascinating how the political class, media, and policy wonks tie themselves into knots about Mamdani. It's always some deep 'analysis' of campaign strategy, virality and tone/targeting of messaging etc., and not just that the guy is suggesting reasonable things and seems to care about people 🙄

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4

Just trying to watch a show with dinner and Westworld hits me with "You're not a f***ing ornithologist and sure as hell not a coder" 🥲🥲🥲🥲 🪶 🧪

1. Ew 2. It probably took me too long but I'm uninstalling this trash app from my phone.

Orb Weaver webs are so impressive—this one is like 20x wider than the spider. I was out running a while back and, like many an unlucky insect, had the experience of getting tangled up in one of these impressive structures. (I survived). 🧪

But maybe one day I, too, can become an oligarch 🙂‍↕️

What's that snail climbing a tree, you ask? Why it's an arboreal snail 🤣 (according to Seek) 🧪 If anyone knows what's up with that shell please share!

Google Veo 3 providing new and exciting ways to do racism.

There’s a story of Bob (Lord) May, government chief scientist at the time, having the same thing suggested to him by Michael Hesletine. “Excellent idea”, he responded “and also, let’s only invest in shares that go up”.

Haven't been on social media for a while but need to say: Every good fashion runway is basically just themed #birds

For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

Researcher Emma Courtney, who studies breast cancer, says she has been advised not to mention "women" in her grant proposals as the Trump administration cuts funding for scientific research and censors certain topics in government work. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/st...

Well, God-a-mercy.

A friend just described punctuation marks as "word salt" Perfect word choice and 100% accurate.