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Visuel montrant 4 illustrations de coccinelles qui ont l'air d'avoir été peintes à l'aquarelle. Le texte dit : "Elles sont jolies, ces illustrations, non ? Elles sont jolies, oui... Mais c'est du grand n'importe quoi généré par IA."

Visuel montrant les 4 mêmes illustrations de coccinelles, avec un texte disant :"Quand on y regarde de plus près, il n'y a rien qui va : Face blanche inexistante chez cette espèce, la coccinelle à 7 points, un individu représenté avec 7 pattes, un autre avec 6 ou 12 points, d'autres avec un nombre de tarses faux, etc. Le texte précise "je n'ai même pas assez de place pour indiquer tous les problèmes".

"Si on tient un peu à la réalité, Si on tient un peu à la rigueur scientifique, Si on tient un peu aux personnes qui exercent le métier d’illustrateur·rice (au passage : être illustrateur·rice scientifique, ce n’est pas juste “savoir dessiner”, c’est aussi avoir une *connaissance* de ses sujets), ... Alors svp, arrêtons de promouvoir et d’utiliser l’IA générative."

Je n'en peux plus de voir de l'IA générative partout 😐

Regardez-moi ces "dessins".

Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.

#IA

I truly don’t think even the most well-meaning, informed men understand how many of the women in their lives have been sexually assaulted or abused, often by multiple men, and often by men they know. The stories women share with each other privately would shock them to their core.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.

If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.

Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.

Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢🔭 #histsci 🧵

Maxime Tessier, avocat de Joël Le Scouarnec, est mort à 34 ans Le pénaliste est décédé dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi. Il avait mis toute son âme dans la défense de l’ex-chirurgien pédocriminel, condamné en mai à vingt ans de réclusion. « Tout laisse à penser à un suicide », a indiqué le procureur de Rennes.

Maxime Tessier, avocat de Joël Le Scouarnec, est mort à 34 ans

Récit de @hlemonier.bsky.social et @mathildemmediapart.bsky.social

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

This take is strikingly silent on the possibility (necessity) to regulate not what can be consumed but what can be produced (and how) when it comes to s*x content.... as if there is no third way between "total ban" and "unregulated free market" otherwise an excellent review!

New controversy in the country wide exams of France, the 14/15yo had a French exam on a text of Simone de Beauvoir and many thought she was a student and not the prof 🫠

YouTube video by Gregoire Simpson BREF 2 : une vraie REMISE EN QUESTION des MECS TOXIQUES ?

10/10, no notes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljN...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Image taken in a lecture theatre, the screen displays the title of the talk “Exploding Binaries: stars and gender”, with a woman standing at the front of the lecture theatre

Today we had our annual Pride Lecture in Oxford Physics (@oxfordphysics.bsky.social). The lecture was given by Prof Jan Eldridge (@astro-jje.bsky.social) and it was phenomenal! It was wonderful to learn how she has exploded binaries in both astrophysics and gender 🔭 🏳️‍⚧️

Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.

theconversation.com/biobots-aris...

Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...

Good post with great suggestions! For me tracking my period is how I learned python - it was a win-win project. no personal data was shared with sketchy companies, and I could adapt the code exactly to my own needs.

Asexual flag made from photos of galaxies

Non-binary flag made from photos of galaxies

New Pride flag made from photos of galaxies

Transgender flag made from photos of galaxies

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.

Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…

Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...

The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

Italy's high court rules both same-sex mothers can be named on birth certificates Italy's highest court ruled Thursday that women in same-sex couples who become mothers through IVF both have the right to be recognised on the birth certificate. Previously, some cities recognised onl...

Good news still exist!

The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago

My perio/dentist and I just had the best email exchange about this @newscientist.com piece because we are both total nerds 🧪

www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This headline...

Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

"The head lawyer of a human rights group representing the families of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador after being deported from the United States has been arrested.

Ruth López, an outspoken critic of Bukele, was detained under an order which accused her of “embezzlement”."

A plot showing absolute magnitude (y axis; a measure of luminosity) versus spectroscopic redshift (x axis; a measure of distance). Several galaxies are shown on the plot, with the galaxy from this paper the farthest to the right (highest redshift). There are also images of 4 galaxies on the plot.

A new record holder for the earliest-known / most distant galaxy, from @rpnaidu.bsky.social! It’s at redshift 14.4, or 280 million years after the Big Bang. It’s also remarkably bright & compact. The abundance of these galaxies is 100x higher than pre-JWST expectations 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263

Oh god France's entry does look like explosive diarrhoea, doesn't it? #Eurovision

Sepia tinted photo of Williamina Fleming. She is wearing an elaborate black hat with a large feather on top, a lace-striped blouse with an elaborate puffy-sleeved jacket, and a choker around a white collar. She is looking to the left of the photographer, and is not smiling. Image: Harvard College Observatory

Astronomer Williamina Fleming was born #OTD in 1857. She developed a stellar classification system based on spectra, cataloged over 10k stars, and discovered many deep sky objects.

She was the first Harvard "computer" – women who processed astronomical data and were paid half a man's salary. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

ChatGPT: The cognitive effects on learning and memory The integration of ChatGPT into the domains of learning and memory holds the potential to transform the entire field of education. This article explores the potential positive and negative effects of...

AI will be a plague on student's minds. Literature is already indicating major issues. See:
1. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
2. arxiv.org/abs/2410.03703
3. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....