THIS. What we incentivize through hiring and promotion 100% fuels shortcutting like using LLMs etc.

it's very hard to not to think this was part of the appeal in pushing LLMs so broad and so fast - make it both difficult and onerous for researchers to complete their work, while also making the general population skeptical of research/assuming that everything is now just made up slop.

AI is not only a harmful plagiarism machine, it's also spreading information that can't be verified because the "sources" simply don't exist

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Yea, I saw one quote from a guy who said he was doing "science that was really challenging" and therefore needed to use AI. I guess all the science the rest of us are doing is easy!

In 2025 several major universities chose insiders and interims to be their next president. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

40 Billion to Argentina, despite them getting the soybean sales to China And another 20 for our farmers... You know, since China won't buy our soybeans because of Trump's Dipshit-Tariffs. Trump is running things like a business, which he is famous for being able to bankrupt.

final boss of #quaxing

For the price of less than ONE of National's Roads of National Party Significance you could expand the cycle network right across the motu, returning benefits easily 10x (so $12.8b) of what we have now (which is already formidable at $1.28b). And more than RoNS will EVER return to Aotearoa 🚲 👇

Here's a sketch about how this phenomenon works in Chicagoland, and how we'll fix it when we #BuildTheTunnel

There are so many impossibly pessimistic “railfans” in groups titled like “Passenger Rail Enthusiasts” who are so intolerant of hope that anything can ever be improved that they might as well be called Passenger Rail Defeatists. Just enthusiastic about railroad past, I guess.🤷🏻‍♂️

Congrats to foldride.com on winning the 2026 German Design Award for their folding cargo bike.

*Me riding my kids to school on my cargo e-bike* Old neighbourhood: smug asshole with a toy New neighbourhood: loser without a car

Christmas Eve. Fresh snow. Cargo trike. I don’t bike in winter because I’m tough. I bike because it's the most fun you can have. #yegbike

Two of the most powerful ways of reducing ghg emissions: drive less and fly less. By building more walkable, lovable neighbourhoods, we can help people do both! www.instagram.com/p/DSA4xweAab...

Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.

Auto photo correction made this look warmer and sunnier than it was All In all, 40F and 20mph winds weren't as bad as I expected though. Wind didn't push me around too much with those narrow section rims too, which is a nice change from my city tank bike with 32mm tires on deep section rims.

I’ve been hit by cars six or seven times over several decades of running and cycling. But most drivers will (and have) told me to my face that pedestrians and cyclists are the problem—& not motorists unwilling to slow down and/or pay more attention to their surroundings.

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good bike!

NYC has reached peak delivery #Amazon #cargobike #bikeNYC

really depends on the bike, just install one

Winter wonderland ride with @cmehlman34.bsky.social who, at this point, was regretting not going directly to Spain

Before (2013) / After (2025) the bus lane created in 2024 on Rue de Londres, Paris 8th. The removal of car parking spaces in Paris is used to create bicycle lanes and greenery, but also bus lanes, a fact that not that many Parisians are aware of.

Merry Christmas to you all, especially the cyclists and art lovers.

Rural cycle routes in the Netherlands, that put the UK and most of the rest of the world to shame. Riding to Duinrell from Katwijk aan Zee, from the latest #Netherlands25 blog post. More 👉 wp.me/p6f6qW-8R8 #Bikesky

Let's take a moment from our holiday festivities to relish the fact that there's a photo of Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister riding a bike, and it's a beaut. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Lemmy! December 24 (1945-2015)

Tuesday continued with purchases of 680 tamales, we filled every community fridge we could find and lots of hungry Chicagoans on our rides home. My favorite part is that every buyout is a new combination of cyclists from the beautiful #BikeChi community. ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲 Tonight is 150 cheesecakes 🍰

Things that we need to support: Abolish ICE Ban Palantir Free Education Affordable housing Legalized Cannabis Universal Healthcare Invest in clean energy Affordable & fair wages

Housing affordability and inflation. Trump sold real estate franchises, socials, crypto, and golf. He and his crew diagonally drill us with inflation. Different businesses, different rules. You were never gonna drop inflation with a low rate guy, or real numbers.

U.S. Economy: Some Analysts Call Recession In 22 States 9 In 10 Live In Slow Growth States! “22 states plus D.C. are already in or near recession. Jobs are slowing. Wages are stagnant. Housing markets are soft. Manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation are struggling.” tinyurl.com/3hcy93yd

So if reports that #reeves is falling over backwards to pull #privateEquity into the #UK housing market, this wld not only further commoditise the housing market but channel the UK’s last store of significant wealth to US financial investors. @itvpeston.bsky.social you need to look at this.

Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill seeks public input from people w/disabilities. This is a chance to share your voice and express value on topics such as Disability Rights, Increasing Medicaid Asset Limits, DSPs, Affordable Housing & Transportation. Fill out the survey here: tinyurl.com/mrxrkwth

My most neoliberal trait is a skepticism of anti-poverty policies that that narrowly target housing (both housing vouchers/affordable housing) as opposed to straight cash that people can use for anything. Housing with wraparound services is different as the market won't provide social workers.

In #SteamboatSprings, a local billionaire named Mark Stevens just bought a big 104-unit apartment 🏠 complex for over $95M and slashed the rents below normal so teachers, workers, and locals can actually afford to live there. 👩‍🏫👨‍🔧 #HousingShortage

The price of the houses for sale is what's so terrible. I only bought my house 5 years ago and if I were to buy it again today, I'd need an extra $25K to match the 20% down payment and the monthly mortgage would be double what I currently pay. That's psychotic.

With two speeds, two chains (yes, two chains!) and a big rear rack, the Buffalo bicycle is saving lives in Kenya. Read more about the bike. worldbicyclerelief.org/s2/ Donate to help World Bicycle Relief here. tinyurl.com/ynf3ys6y

🥰🥰🥰 Biking in the city is a delight!

Alaska Governor Dunleavy, still whimpering from having his vetoes overridden, pulls the plug on on $19M of already-vetted/approved transportation safety improvements in Anchorage. These improvements would have made roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists & motorists.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

there's a reason why bikeways really need to bend out at intersections

It's time that bicycles for transport emerge out of the shadows in Trinidad & Tobago! #MobilityIsEquity #ActiveLifestyles

Nuuk, Greenland, population ~20k has a bus system with 10 minute headways most of the day and operating hours from 6am to midnight. Arlington, Texas, population ~400k has a minivan you can maybe get a ride on if one of the 6 seats is available and the driver doesn't have too many stops to make.

The Vektron was Mrs. American Fietser's first ebike and it's what helped develop her into a bikes-for-transportation person. She now owns a Tern HSD, but the Vektron is an amazing commuter and hauler of small cargo. It's compact and foldable for those that require it.

Awesome! And they’re perfect upside down U racks, not some fancy piece of art that is impossible to lock to. Good work! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚲

while lane control does help improve the #BikeSky experience vs edge/gutter ridding & cuts down on close passes, it doesn't completely remove the various dangers as effectively as some ppl like to insist. such is the case here: i nearly got left-crossed despite being very much in "primary" position.

NYC congestion pricing: One year later, data shows impact on air quality, traffic www.silive.com/transportati...

Cycling in booming in London but fairly stagnant UK-wide. What’s going on? I spoke to some people who know about these sorts of things. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Lower number of bicycle users in the Philippines. Not surprised. Unsafe road conditions manilastories.com/the-philippi...