Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈

Very millennial experience: listening to Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park but have to turn it down because I cant hear the instructions on the YouTube video "Yoga for back pain"

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

A Google Scholar alert about a paper "Fever of Unknown Origin in Infectious Diseases" mentioning a person who is ill and has a history of keeping parrots, raising the suspicion that the illness is psittacosis.

My partner is an infectious disease doctor and every now and then I get a paper in my alerts that brings our interests together by means of ... parrot fever / psittacosis.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Cool! Seems like I need to be watching more octonauts 😝

Not fair to them, they're already skating the open seas!

Proud to be a fish 🫡

Spectacular!!

Spectacular! Though I must say I expect there to be a mite living pretty much anywhere one might suggest.

a woman is sitting at a table saying i don 't understand the question and i won 't respond to it ALT: a woman is sitting at a table saying i don 't understand the question and i won 't respond to it

Hahaha giving this energy:

Oh cool, would you recommend the series overall?

the sea calls us home

Why did only one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high seas? Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface and house a dizzying array of organisms, including five species of the peppercorn-sized ocean-skater Halobates, which live exclusively at the ocean surface...

Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪

OCEAN STRIDERS!!

Someone needs to do this a third time, call it the Tripplicate study.

screenshot of spam email purporting to be from AARP

I- ... I guess the grey in my beard is really showing now

ad with a smiling man, it is captioned, "grad school is closer than you think"

this ad reads like a warning 🤣🤣

I think this is the real inspiration for American Pie 😢

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

Good generative models for:

writer's block — your brain after a walk
song recommendations — your friend's brain
visual art — your brain + pencil/paint
music — your brain + your fave instrument

#ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Mother rhesus macaque with her baby

Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky

apply.interfolio.com/173938

📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons

a lamb's ear plant from above

better yet, leaf

Leave.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says More than half of those surveyed (54 percent) said that they had some sort of relationship with an artificial intelligence platform

Every day we stray further from god's light.

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Sep 28! I can't wait for the weird frog spam.

Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage

Summoning both of them at once reveals your true form

Look what the cat dragged in. Look what the dog hastily scrawled. Look what the baby quietly recited. The ritual has begun, take this knife