Is Trump trying to lose the technology race with China? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

Are there other kinds?

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

whenever a youtuber *chooses to put into the video* that they asked chatGPT something, i close the video lol. as if i'm interested in hearing about the journey you took talking to a fucking chatbot about a problem you were trying to solve 🥴

What was supposed to be AltText October took until today but I’m done! Alt text for 60 figures complete!!

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

Happy Halloween

One thing I like about AI is how I’ll search for “ESPN” and then the browser will be like “AI Powered Search found you the website for ESPN” and I can marvel at the wonders of Tomorrowland

I feel like the engagement on this website has really fallen off.

I own a house I rent to a guy. It’s an historic home with a big yard. Today I found out he tore down half the house. He says he’s going to rebuild it with someone else’s money. For some reason he didn’t ask my permission. Is anything I can do about it?

I'm catching strays this morning.

Book writing update: I'm part way through review and I think the figures are more-or-less set, so now I'm writing alt text for each of 60 or so figs. I'm calling it "Alt Text October". I'm trying to do 5 every day, which means I'm actually doing 2-3 every third day, but I'm making progress.

Spotted at the airport

If you've ever wondered about #POGIL, I'm helping facilitate a Mini-POGIL Experience next Wednesday, October 15. Come check it out! events.pogil.org/event-6350752

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

There is a danger that we assume students are good at observation. @dave2004b.bsky.social shares ideas to hone learners’ skills throughout their education to help them see, and explain, clearly edu.rsc.org/cpd/developi... #chemed #sciteachuk

I know there are other things going on, but I can’t get over this.

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Y’all, they are just admitting it.

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

Finished Andor tonight. Even if you aren’t a Star Wars fan you should watch Andor. I don’t even understand how good it is.

🧵THREAD: Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ is doubling down on using a $2B tobacco settlement fund to push conservative shareholder proposals at major corporations. The state's investment board just voted 3-1 to target 10 companies in 2026. 1/8

We're all coming at this from a different place, but here is my syllabus policy on AI for General Chemistry

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

A.I.:

Hank Green does an excellent job of spelling out some of the challenges higher ed is experiencing. It's worth sharing, especially with those who are not as familiar with the workings of academia. #RAdminSky #Research #Science #AcademicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwh...

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

I’m making a promise to my students this year. Just as I am asking them not to use AI for my class, I won’t use it either. Every class resource I provide is written by me without the use of AI.

Sometimes I really feel like I’ve messed up my “influencer” journey. I’m out here trying to convince people to use science for good in their lives when I’ve missed my true passion and calling of being a collab cookie reviewer.

Since its syllabus writing time, what are our favorite articles about the issues with things like ChatGPT? (Ethical, environmental, brain rot etc)

I can’t hear or read the word fjord without saying out loud “I won an award for that”

I think it’s simple that a person who doesn’t do a thing and instead allows a machine to do it for them can’t claim to be part of the group or history of the profession. An artist who doesn’t make the art isn’t an artist. A writer who doesn’t write is not a writer. It’s not the ideas but the making.

One thing we never talk about when we talk about NIH funded jobs is how underpaid most people are. My work has been a labor of love. I’m getting a significant pay bump as my research career ends. The world gets great research at bargain rates and we never talk about that.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

The cashier at the grocery store told me my total for groceries was $173.34. I demanded they be fired and replaced with a cashier who will tell me I only owe $40. This is what we’re doing now, right?

Bluey's dad is a PhD archeologist? That makes so much sense. I always wondered how he could spend so much time with his kids (it's because he doesn't have a job)

In case you’re wondering. Deaths per 100,000 residents

The number of people who write to me telling me they have made an incredible discovery using ChatGPT, or proved that it is conscious, is now roughly one per day. I wish there were a resource I could send these folks to gently try to steer them away from the brink

I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.

We hung Scorpius, I am in love ⭐️ I’ll take some more pics and video later once it’s fully dark. #SciArt #FrameOfReference

There are still people out here trying to do good work that helps vulnerable people and those in need, and I want y’all to remember that when the bad players seem to be winning. Good people are still spreading their medicine. They just do so with less fanfare, less spotlight. There are MANY.

Remember when the left was the place with ultra-academic and convoluted interpretations of seemingly simple stuff? Now Trump appointed Supreme Court justices are looking at “all persons born in the United States are citizens” in the literal constitution and saying, “ok, yes…but…”

What fresh hell is this

"Kids today have no idea how to do anything." Did you... teach them? Or nah?

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day