Michael Byars

ATTENTION MOTHERFUCKS WE'VE GOT A CLASSIC COLORADO WEATHER HAZARD MAP UP IN HERE FEAST YOUR EYES WE'VE GOT WINTER WEATHER WE'VE GOT SUMMER WEATHER WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Is there a section on what you should say if a student challenges a grade b/c they found out you used ai in creating/evaluating assignments or are you on your own for that

(I'm guessing there's a "don't use this for anything super important" wink wink nudge nudge disclaimer up top but still)

I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.

I always assumed that I was one of the least motivated and diligent people in whatever cohort I was in but then after seeing academics just casually embrace using AI to do their jobs for them I've learned that, no, it turns out I've been taking my work more seriously than a lot of people out there

They never have a good answer for this question because to answer it they'd have to admit they don't actually give a shit about whether what they say is true b/c they are one of the people for whom if the shortcut is good enough that they won't get caught most of the time then that means "it works"

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall

tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get

…

tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

I still can't get over how almost every site had keyword search down pat until like ~2018ish when search just stopped working on almost every site.

I don't think we can blame LLM slop for this because of the timing and I'm not sure you can blame SEO for a website borking its own internal search

Some academic habits are maladaptive in wider society. But “cite your sources every time” — and information literacy habits more generally — deserves to be educational priority number one right now

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Colorado Springs folks, please take a moment and offer public comments of support for the new mosque being built. There are several hateful comments, very few supportive comments.

Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com

Colorado senators’ bid to save NCAR funding fails as U.S. Senate passes spending bills “In the face of unrelenting political attacks from President Trump, we are standing together to protect institutions like NCAR that are vital to our state and our economy,” Sen. John Hickenlo…

Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.

They are building this massive new data science and AI institute (that will house 100 faculty) next door to the department that studies climate change (which, checks notes, has 15ish faculty) in a building that is non-functional most days.

Which says just about every fucking thing about 2026.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

please bring back the lyme vaccine. i deserve it. i do not want lyme. i will accept fake knee pain for the vaccine. thank you.

On the same night NCAR is being defunded, Boulder county is cutting power as a precaution because of the dry and windy conditions today. Last time we had similar conditions a thousand people lost their homes in the Marshall fire. The irony could not be more poignant.

No, there is not plenty of water for data centers And, yes, we should worry about it, along with the facilities' power use

I was going to unload on Matt Yglesias' recent flow of utter bullshit re. data centers and western water, but Jonathan Thompson has saved me the trouble. Abundance mindset really fails in places where there really is not abundance.
#westernwater #drought
www.landdesk.org/p/no-there-i...

No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.

just saw a commercial featuring a dude who said he’s a marketer in Seattle, and sometimes he hits a wall creatively, so he likes using an A.I. tool to write marketing materials for him. in a just world, this would be a fireable offense and it would be too humiliating to admit this in public

Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago (1927). Much of it remains insightful, and the Conclusion still resonates.

An enormous part of the reactionary pushback has been men mad that anyone could contradict them, let alone call them out, so ofc they love the endless, unthinking fellatio offered by AI.

Now that we are being transported back in time to the rise of these contrarians - we need to be even more clear that these movements were never about science. Manufacturing doubt was/is sadly a highly effective strategy to undermine science and public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's finally out! This paper took quite a while but I'm so excited to share now! For anyone who studies sex chromosomes, take note: we found a rare "slower X"! (dN/dS_X < dN/dS_Autos) 👀

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

as a zoology student I can confirm that if you get a prairie dog on enough gear and have it do enough reps it evolves into a Himalayan marmot

it's because he wants to eat the ostriches after they die

HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason.

@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky: