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

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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.

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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.

Your Bird of the day wood carving: Killdeer #art #artist #artwork #woodcut #carving #woodcarving #woodwork #woodworker #woodworking #bird #birds #birdwatching #birdwatcher #graphics #graphicart #artgallery #wildlife #ornithology #Canadiana #wildbirds #studio #creative #follow

This picture didn't turn out exactly as I'd hoped, but I do really like that you can see the reflection of the sunset over the ocean in this Black Phoebe's eye #birds

An Anhinga in breeding plumage. Hold onto the beauty around us #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonusa

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Check out this incredible shot by @charlesdavisphoto.bsky.social. The tree in this photo is dead, so all the green you see is made up of tens of thousands of Budgies! #Birds #Budgies #Nature #Photography

Bagworms are unambiguously S tier creatures

Expressing my frustration about something this morning Partner: "I know, I know. Capitalism, Individualism, we have heard the story" 💀💀

Exactly! We have shifted to a world where *everything* is for sale. This has seeped into academia but also the science itself e.g., carbon credits. Suggesting pay for reviews misses the root causes: overworked academics, low value of service activities (despite what job committees say) etc..

The wonderful folks at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Newark, NJ) have an opening for a first-year Infectious Diseases Fellow. More details below. Please share widely! #IDSky #MedSky #InfectiousDiseases (1/3)

The wonderful folks at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Newark, NJ) have an opening for a first-year Infectious Diseases Fellow. More details below. Please share widely! #IDSky #MedSky #InfectiousDiseases (1/3)

I wont be surprised if it becomes unusable, so what's the best free alternative to Google Scholar? Maybe in the mould of the Internet Archive? Ideally without AI summaries. 🧪

Read a book!!!* *positively encouraging, not scolding

They have the chance to do the funniest thing 👀

Accidental commentary on the impermanence of academic jobs #academicsky

I'm often upset that Beyonce is both a fabulous diva genius and basically a billionaire 🥲