You have brains in your head
And a CV for miles
(Or so we have read
In your annual files)
But tenure is coming, just a few more years—
And the shit you’ll do, it’ll bring them to tears!
You have brains in your head
And a CV for miles
(Or so we have read
In your annual files)
But tenure is coming, just a few more years—
And the shit you’ll do, it’ll bring them to tears!
"A junior scholar with good ideas and Claude Code can now produce *new knowledge* at a pace that would have required a full lab a few years ago. But so can everyone else, and the evaluation criteria haven’t caught up."
Now: which makes more sense?
"A junior scholar with good ideas and Claude Code can now produce *words in order* at a pace that would have required a full lab a few years ago. But so can everyone else, and the evaluation criteria haven’t caught up."
compare that to...
(1) Read, and replace any mention of 'work' or 'papers' in your mind with 'words in order'.
(2) Repeat, replace the same with 'new knowledge'.
Which makes most sense?
If the article is about words-in-order, discard. If it is about new knowledge, read it carefully to see if the author is loopy.
I'm not mad about this, I don't have time today.
However, I find myself appending the same mental note to anything else under the heading of academic 'productivity hacks'...
Yes! That!
04.03.2026 03:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is absolutely bizarre, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I still don’t know what to make of it.
04.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
Kirill, whoever you are, I owe you one.
03.03.2026 13:52 — 👍 53 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Purina Debuts New ‘Slovenly Feast’ For Nasty-Ass Shelter Cats
Purina Debuts New ‘Slovenly Feast’ For Nasty-Ass Shelter Cats https://theonion.com/purina-debuts-new-slovenly-feast-for-nasty-ass-shelte-1820086710/
02.03.2026 15:00 — 👍 1301 🔁 109 💬 53 📌 19As an academic community, why can't we have just one format for references? If you never hear from me again, it's because trying to reconcile journal reference sections, bibtex, doi.org, crossref and openalex formats has murdered me.
27.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0Then it's likely ideal.
27.02.2026 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bambu would be the traditional answer. They are a horrible company who ruined their open source ecosystem but you won't spend too much money finding that out. And they work.
27.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We and @theopennotebook.bsky.social are thrilled to announce The Retraction Watch Research Accountability Reporting Fellowship!
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bort robots you are not helping
26.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the spirit of weird bands: The Lord Weird Slough Feg.
Probably the single most underrated band of the last twenty years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GcB...
i think we're well past the point where complex sociocultural questions require nuance don't you agree
26.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
bsky.app/profile/jame...
26.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's time to play the daily game of 'is that a huge scratch on my phone or just another cat hair?'
25.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Right, that classic demographic of well adjusted Spicy Hugs practitioners.
25.02.2026 01:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It Only Tuesday
It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
24.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 6840 🔁 1823 💬 78 📌 105
If you write 'chai squared':
(1) I don't believe you actually ran the test, and
(2) I hate you because now I'm thirsty.
'hey we stole that stuff fair and square'
www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g...
LLM companies complaining that people are stealing their stuff via distillation attacks is very, very funny.
24.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Bluesky is dying, see you all on the eRA Commons
23.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3yes
19.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yeah you just need this one.
youtu.be/rixS3m5zfjw?...
Bill Bramhall cartoon.
19.02.2026 00:21 — 👍 8343 🔁 2240 💬 117 📌 111
archim.soc.srcf.net/publications/
It's hard to find, but it's here -- issue 6. It's quite short and very charming.
From Haldane's legendary 1941 paper on faking data.
18.02.2026 18:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0