John Wilbanks

John Wilbanks

@wilbanks.bsky.social

Probably off thinking about scientific data or college sports. Boston-ish.

1,217 Followers 1,017 Following 453 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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My annual March 14 suggestion to move π Day to July 22 since 22/7 is closer to π than is 3.14.

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Ooooof. Hope the teen has a better morning than the dad!

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A few thoughts (from 2019) on what happens when we start trying to own intelligence: www.cigionline.org/articles/own...

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Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678 arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

Big news from #arXiv:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU and moving to NYC.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.

#OpenAccess #Preprints #ScholComm

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Too icy to run.

Thinking about eating pizza instead.

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They are so cool! The time I went there was a thunderstorm so we were not allowed out on the sand…

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4 days ago

WTF have y'all seen the spectre haunting europe

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@universalhub.com Lincoln St Dorchester this morning

LOL

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In memoriam: Philip Bourne, founding dean of the School of Data Science The leader, who propelled the school from a concept to national recognition, had battled mesothelioma.

Oh Phil, I didn’t know how sick you were. He was such a giving human. news.virginia.edu/content/memo...

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5 days ago

stay vigilant. the cow cats are always lurking. and growing stronger.

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6 days ago

I don’t know why people think Shinto or Animism are something they should use to mock Will’s point. Consciousness is the Hard Problem, and I doubt it’s going to be solved by amateurs arguing ideology on Bluesky dot app.

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6 days ago

Reminder that Tehran has a population greater than London, this is not a trivial amount of people we’re talking about here.

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1 week ago

The type of performance that's never even nominated for an Oscar, though top skills are required to say these words in this order without succumbing to a stroke from laughing

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BREAKING: U.S. Central Command is now saying internally that this war against Iran is likely to last through September, per POLITICO

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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as ...

Reading this account of the vibe at this party for Nick Land in San Francisco, I'm reminded of Stokely Carmichael's answer when he was asked, "What is the position of women in the Movement?" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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"I didn't a slice of the grandma pizza PROBABLY"

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"OK, if I'm going by Bob's in Medford MAYBE"

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Mapping the yeast atructural interactome with AlphaFold3: an open call for collaboration We are excited to announce the early-stage release of our S. cerevisiae  structural interactome mapping project. Using AlphaFold3 (AF3), w...

We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations.
www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...

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Hey is anybody else wracked with despair and up for some hero shit (canine edition) 👀

Because I’d like to see if we can try and get three (3) ABTCR hounds into new homes this weekend

🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Grandpa one was a minister (in a line of six generations of ministers). Grandpa two was a charmer who spent his and everyone else’s money.

Never met either of them.

I do have a great grandfather who started the east Texas bluegrass society, and I’d very much have liked to have met him.

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THE WORLD'S FIRST PRECISION CANNABIS
SIX PRECISE EXPERIENCES IN 20 MINUTES OR LESS

I rebuke Founder Mindset weed. That’s not weed that’s homework

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say what you will about bluesky, it has unquestionably become the platform party elites will accuse of Not Mattering, which was twitter's label for most of the 10's

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THE WHOLE PLACE IS DARK

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Sometimes when I get bummed I remember that Ben is out there doing this and I am less bummed. Good work!

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It’s time to let people who were born in 1947 have a chance.

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whole bunch of mutes

doing politics online

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That means: Glitch, randomness, indeterminacy in experimental practice; AI slop, degradation; Historical noise in art, design, science & tech; Signal/noise in communication channels & neural nets; Noise as resistance to deterministic paradigms, and Ideological / epistemological conceptions of noise.

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Call for PapersNoisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome, and online (Zoom),  4th and 5th June 2026

Our call for entries for “Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemologies and Computation” is open through 16 March. Here’s a 🧵⬇️ #cfp #ml www.biblhertz.it/3773193/2602...

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CONTRACTOR: *not really paying attention* yeah yeah I monetized the eschaton just like you asked

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