As someone who lives less than 10 minutes from the stadium, I am not excited for this clstrfck.

Hillbillies vs. Hormuz. Challenge accepted. #EnergySky

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

HELLO

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Does anyone have insight into how “Proquest Biographies” of authors/historical figures are created? I’ve copied a (paywalled) link to one example below This is the resource one of my grad students believes used/stole his dissertation research—they’re encyclopedia-style but include zero citations

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

@maintenancephase.bsky.social is on here now!

The hardware still works. It's the software that's horrible. This can be remedied. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Hey if anyone needed a good cry today

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nasa employee: oh hey y'all are back astronaut: Jerry's verified? nasa employee: yeah, so? Where u going? astronaut: *turning off their phone and getting back on the rocket ship* Jerry's verified.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

If Bluesky wanted to increase posting and interaction on the site, they could offer the ability to have private accounts, but that won't be happening so lurkmode it is 🙃

Calling all physics/astronomy science communicators! Applications are open for the 2026 #Scicomm Collider at @perimeterinstitute.ca! A great opportunity for folks doing all kinds of astro/phys engagement to meet, network, and share expertise on connecting the public with science! ⚛️🧪🔭🎢

BREAKING: Delta reports $15.9 billion in revenue for the first three months of 2026. The airline expects $1 billion in profits for the quarter, 10% higher than last year despite soaring gas prices. Delta also raised fees yesterday to $45 for one check bag and $55 for a second.

Bookmarking to read later... Link to preprint in thread. (And yes, they mean "causal.") One sabbatical side goal is to stop and rethink my mentoring and pedagogy strategies, not just constantly react. #AcademicSky

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

I had reposted it. I really hate that people are doing this shit for clout.

Just in case folks miss this due to the block

Once a month the entire internet gets in a few It Happened reps. Staying limber.

I teach undergrad students who are primarily from Massachusetts and a shocking number of them show up freshmen year without knowing basic things like how to attach a file to an email and use control F to search. So this is very silly.

Geophysicists say there is an increased risks of destructive floods and wild fires due to climate change. A guy who thinks he was teleported to a Waffle House says there's nothing to worry about. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

Democratic senators: It's time to draw a line in the sand. A nominee for Attorney General will soon come before you. Make the confirmation process about releasing ALL of the Epstein files (without redactions) and prosecuting the Epstein class. (1/2)

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

It's an imperfect analogy in our modern world, but looking at LLMs and the genAi productivity jump and comparator to clothing production, outsourcing to sweatshops, and the potential bespoke future of people who bother to put in individual effort to create and think ... (8/)

This speaks directly i think to the devaluing of skill and experience. When you buy a hand painted thing or knit sweater or a book etc you are paying not just for the object, but the years of expertise that created it. Same with hiring a plumber or lawyer etc. Skill matters. Experience matters.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology. Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

SLS, NASA's Moon rocket 🌙🚀

Go! #Artemis publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/track/go

Go! #Artemis publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/track/go

As @jessicacalarco.com says, other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has (overworked, underpaid) women.

That’s one hell of a cover…..

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reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

Careful and thoughtful weeding is part of maintaining library collections. And no we can't just donate every de-selected book.

Since college and university programs/departments are shifting and merging and such, I would like to propose an alternate division of disciplines based on the only distinction I think really matters: is the thing you study also studying you back?

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

not to be all everything is gender but damn

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

good news the dogs are still good

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

PSA, if you’re in academia and are also infuriated by this—complain to your library’s electronic resources people. It can be turned off at the institutional level but there needs to be vocal support for that.