This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
Today’s insight from a WI LEND workshop on interdisciplinary systems leadership - “Maintain your bridges so that they are always strong enough to walk on.” ✨🌁
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
This reminds me of another fantastic PBS documentary: Lives Worth Living.
I wish it was more widely available right now because a lot of people need to realize that we are rapidly backsliding.
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism.
(This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
Every one of this videos makes my blood boil. The DOGE staffers are so clearly incompetent, yet think themselves the ultimate experts on what - humanity? Scholarship? Shame on all of them.
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?
Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.
Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
A colleague had their grant cancelled because it described the *diversity* of opioid receptor distribution in different animals.
My conference tournament starts today because the Badgers had a double bye. It’s March! Let’s go! 🏀❤️ #OnWisconsin #MarchMadness
“The craft was there… but this was definitely all written in a dissociative state” RINGING ENDORSEMENT FROM @helenrottier.bsky.social
HEAD IN HANDS
I wonder if some of the most passionate pro- and anti-AI takes are both coming from people who are primarily thinking of really different uses? "Get the AI to write for you" is usually what I think of first, because I teach undergrads, and I am 100% opposed for almost all scholarly writing tasks.
This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.
Ah, both of my earliest, strongly-held fashion convictions! Pleather everything was my jam!
I'm at an undergrad event and there's a girl here in pleather leggings and Converse high tops....... THE 2010S ARE SO BACK BABY
Pitch an unnecessary sequel
Even More Things in More Places All At Once
No one has to be pro-measles. Measles does not need allies. Measles does not have redeeming qualities. You don’t have to defend measles! You don’t have to needlessly expose yourselves and your loved ones to measles.
What kind of advice can you expect from the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) folks if you are worried about the ongoing measles outbreaks that we are seeing? Maybe they should change it to MAHMA - Make America Have Measles Again... stopantivaxpropaganda.substack.com/p/maha-advic...
Post three good things:
1. curiosity
2. cheese
3. college basketball
Here's my bottom line:
Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.
Today we had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Sami Schalk while she visits Brandeis for a lecture series produced by the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Thanks so much, Dr. Schalk, for making time in your schedule to chat with some of our staff about your work!
@drsamischalk.bsky.social
I’ll be honest, there was a while when I was concerned that some of my gestures might come off as hollow virtue signaling.
Then the 2024 election happened, and I quickly put up rainbow flag and immigrants welcome signs on my office.
Signal virtue. Signal that you care about people. It matters.
Everything humans are doing needs to stop getting so demonstrably worse and start getting better, right now, i mean jfc
Yup. There’s no level of responsibility to sufficiently offset poverty wages.
The hardest thing about pacing is cutting yourself off when you’re in The Zone™️. “I’ve got such great momentum,” you think. “I’m feeling good, I can do more.”
Wrong. This is wrong. That way lies crash.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
In 1996, Atlanta hosted the Olympics, and Helen was born! Our research retreat with partners at Emory was wonderful, and we also saw the World of Coca-Cola, ate at Waffle House, and bonded over long flight delays. 🍑✈️
The year is 1996. Michael Jordan lead the Bulls to a fourth championship. Space Jam came out. And Helen was born! Joseph, Washieka, and I are watching Space Jam to celebrate March and the last night of my 20s! 🏀🎉
Now, again to be clear, I don't know that LLM's are or aren't conscious, ensouled, sentient, whatever language you want to use; but I do know that we should be very suspicious of those who a) make money off of people thinking they are [C,E,S,w/e] & b) try very hard to nudge us into thinking they are
