Marcel Swart 🟥

Screenshot of a mail by Peeref in which they ask me to rate a new paper by A COLLEAGUE of mine. Which is ME.

D'oh. Rate my own paper?!?
@peeref.bsky.social

Imo three things you can do in undergrad that will probably meaningfully improve your career chances (that aren’t highly contextual where the wind may shift and what’s happening to CS majors rn might happen):

-become statistically numerate

-learn another language

-learn to write well

Need geology photos for your fall classes? Please check out my site Geologypics.com, which has >5000 of my images --all searchable and all for free download. And please share!
Just added 15 more including this one of Mt. St. Helens crater. #geology #EarthScience #teaching #scienceteaching

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Manuel?

And if you want to connect internationally:
Fawlty Towers (Bassssiiillllllllll)

I am on a glide path to retirement. So my colleagues are looking for a new physical/analytical chemist. I have had a terrific 40 year run at Bryn Mawr…and will miss the students a ton. #chemsky #womeninSTEM apply.interfolio.com/170426

Removal of a hornet’s nest.

Before the election, my focus group of Trump voters said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. Now the same respondents say their top priorities are building a gold ballroom for the White House and putting tariffs on Ford and GM.

Trump Flails After Conservative CNBC Host Fact-Checks His Poll Numbers Boast During Live Interview His delusion is off the charts.

Reminder: he is just as delusional as we all think, maybe even more.

Remarkable how much ICE and DHS want to hide their faces from the public.

I mean, according to Kristi Noem, you’d think they’d be proud of ripping people away from their families and kidnapping folks off of the streets.

I've cleaned up my contacts list, removed ca. 40%

Borculo herdenkt vernietigende tornado van 100 jaar geleden Bomen knapten om en daken werden van huizen gerukt. In acht minuten tijd werd de plaats helemaal verwoest.

nos.nl/l/2578163

Borculo, stormramp

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gerg74y71o

Article: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”

We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Nicht ärgern, nur wundern.

That’s it folks. #protip

Economists should behave in a manner that would lead the public to think of them as “humble, competent people” akin to dentists, wrote John Maynard Keynes. Would a trip to the economist improve your life? econ.st/4fyhvTE

Illustration: Álvaro Bernis

I think less of people who are impressed by generative AI.

The Genius Act Raised The Odds Of A Crisis. No Bank Is Immune. A broad adoption of stablecoins will threaten the stability of the entire financial system, Mark Copelovitch writes in a guest commentary.

I wrote @barrons.com about the Genius Act, Stablecoins, & what it means for financial stability (no good, potentially very bad) & the future of dollar dominance in global finance (somewhat paradoxically, likely reinforcing)

It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social

- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities

Congratulations @doudna-lab.bsky.social !! History will position her name alongside the likes of Darwin, Einstein, and Hodgkin.

This one line of code could be worth billions:

if(q="how many b's in blueberry"){a==2}

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

Paging the #CompChemSky and #iTeachChem communities: Could you please help my MSc student with an education project, exploring how gen AI shapes the way we think, solve problems, and build confidence.

Participation is anonymous and open to anyone aged 18 or over.
Stage 1 is a short online survey that takes around 10-15 minutes: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/JK8e8Gt1NX

Maybe stop coming up with new journals ever other day (for profit).

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Alongside @nyclu.org and @maketheroadny.bsky.social, we won't stop fighting to hold ICE accountable to the Constitution.

Let’s fucking name ‘em:

Robert Kennedy Jr.
Jay Bhattacharya
Martin Kulldorff
Marty Makary
Robert Malone
Tracy Beth Høeg
Vinay Prasad
Peter McCullough
Mary Holland
Paul Marik
Pierre Kory
Jeffrey Tucker
Kevin Bardosh
Retsef Levi

And many others.