Rachel Mitchell

Oh NSF, for having the "best merit review system" you sure have problems with consistency!

We have two maniacs but Midge the border is the real killer. These three have really held up well!

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Oh, I have some Amazon US recommendations for you! We have a few squeaky toys that have lasted months!! Months!

Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.

NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃

18-29 year olds: bless your heart, you were duped so badly. From +5 to -51 (!!!)

Just in case you ever forget that #rejectionistherule this was the ranking on a grant declined yesterday by the NSF.

They aren't screening for testicular cancer by squishing balls, though they could! Wonder why that might be?

I was literally just thinking about this. You know how they could, but don't screen for testicular cancer? Wonder why? Your modern doctor doesn't mean to cause pain, but our technology is a legacy of ignoring women's pain and discomfort. AND mammograms are inaccurate and lead to painful biopsies

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

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It's good to know that this happens at places like Uchicago as well as UA. Last year we had a big whoopsiedoodle miscalculation of 250 million that led to a shortfall of 170 million. The incompetence is absolutely staggering. Insult to injury, a huge contributor was spending on sports.

Food Systems Resource Economics Fellow, Stanford Law School in School of Law, Stanford, California, United States *NOTE: This position has been deemed critical/has specific funding, has been approved by the Law School for posting, and is exempt from the hiring...

Are you a natural resource or agricultural economics PhD or postdoc interested in real world policy work? Come work with CEPP's growing food team on quantifying subsidies in the dairy and beef industry!

If not, pass the word!

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But does offloading these relatively easy tasks (that some might argue help you think more deeply about what you are doing) outweigh emissions/data center costs/human toll?

Cutting until you hit something vital is the capitalist way.

Who is this article kidding? Error prone, probabilistic, hallucinating AI is coming for my University job!

So many ecological processes are highly tied to VPD. Here, Atmospheric aridity strongly influences fire behavior.

#terriertuesday #outoffocus Midge says "smile!"

The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry The best AI Agents are currently failing about 70 percent of the tasks assigned to them, as investments are expected to drop off a cliff.

The percentage of tasks AI "agents" are currently failing at may spell trouble for the industry... futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

You can't make this stuff up folks:
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Check out it's black-bellied cousin, the Kaibab squirrel!

Had this happen with my CAREER. So heartbreaking.

A nice apricot sourdough loaf today #breadsky

Student review stating "I WILL NEVER MIX UP SEVERITY AND INTENSITY"

Taught Fire Ecology for the first time this past semester. Just checked my course reviews: my work here is done.

For me, the biggest concern with these plants in the Sonoran basin and range is their transformative nature; increased fuel loads and continuity in a fire sensitive system during the pyrocene will transform the Sonoran.

ML45159 - Bronzed Cowbird (Bronzed) - Macaulay Library Macaulay Library ML45159; © Geoffrey A. Keller; Arizona, United States

Today a bronzed cowbird sang to me at very close quarters. One of the most bizarre bird songs I have ever heard from the gorgeous little parasite.
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I love both shows!!!

What show? Asking for a friend...

Every time I type ratio it comes out ration. Also bouteloueaueuea....

Abundance-weighted traits are the mechanistic link, here!

Having had close encounters with one of those authors, the invasive species denialism is completely irrational, cherry-picked, and emotional. Great Science and Nature fodder though.

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world