Professor John R. Hutchinson

Slop graphics in academic journals Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:

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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter

𝘖𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘴 a blind cave-adapted crayfish native to Kentucky & Tennessee, this one spotted at Mammoth Cave National Park. #crustmas

Blue shark CT scans of swordfish interactions

Pathology of stranded blue sharks (Prionace glauca) impaled by swordfish (Xiphias gladius) 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The final PDF of our XROMM study on bird shoulders w/ @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social is now available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social!

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Rosa Parks Day Rosa Parks Day honors a very important American hero who made a pivotal contribution to the civil rights movement.

It is Rosa Parks Day. 🥰

Final pdf is out! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨

Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge!

1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!

🚨 Job position @cam.ac.uk 🚨

Project Coordinator for 5 years at 0.5 FTE on the ERC Funded STEPS project. Closing date for application 2nd January 2026, interviews ~3 weeks later!

Apply here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project...

@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.

Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Please consider supporting Biodiveristy Heritage Library, which preserves so many key historical publications you can't find anywhere else online!

Preserved cranial elements of Telkaralura coniceti (PULR-V 057) with outline of the skull. Grey reconstructed 3D mesh from uCT scanning; shown in left side view, with most of the front of the cranium and part of the back.

Ooh! "New" (re-interpreted problematic skull) gracilisuchid!
Telkaralura coniceti www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...

The Eye of Sauron in Still life with Oranges by Paul Gauguin.

the fellowship of the arts: thread

What a great headline

How to stop the revolving door of German academia Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

Managing AI-Generated Content Hiding AI-Generated Content   AI-Generated content is set to viewable by default. When logged in you can choose to view, or to filter out, AI-Generated content in your Account Settings:   From the...

There is an option now to filter out AI-generated content on DrivethruRPG. I'm not sure if everybody is adding these filter options for their products retrospectively, but nonetheless useful.

#ttrpg #pnpde
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Screenshot of Bluesky thread. Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Our oven has suddenly decided it's not going to get hotter than 315 degrees. Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Can you fit a space heater inside? U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov What in the name of BEN FRANKLIN is going on here. Nov 28, 2025, 10:37 AM

OK, who narced?

AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated

Katrina Moore

Read more about this research in our interview with Katrina Moore, a PhD candidate in @birdbiomech.bsky.social's lab at UC Irvine, USA, investigating how wildlife behaviour changes across different contexts and how these insights can guide effective conservation strategies. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Six mottled blackish-green adult Alien "xenomorphs" at a dinner table in a room next to a smaller table of five pink wormy "chestbursters" (like children in a family dinner). One "child" has burst through the top of the turkey on the table and another is looking at the "adults", complaining "Mom! Bobby Joe's playing in the Turkey!".

Gary Larson's Far Side comes through with another great one.

Hey conference-organizers (sorry for addressing you in one of your professional capacities on a holiday).

I posted this 5 days ago, and 65 artists have already applied. Many of them are PSYCHED, and many of them are extremely qualified.

There's HUGE interest from artists in working w/scientists.

This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”

This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq

YouTube video by Jacob Rheams Is the rainbow sea slug the MOST COLOURFUL animal in the UK!?

Wow that really IS a gorgeous nudibranch!
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I immediately thought of Skittles candy-- mmmm, forbidden sea slug sweetness?

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

A roast turkey, shown belly-up in a roasting tray, with side dishes beside it. The browned skin of the turkey has two blackened patches like eyes, above its gaping thoracic cavity, which looks like a wailing, toothless maw.

Happy Thanksgiving to my USA friends.
We're doing our festive dinner on Saturday.
I miss live American football.
Beware of demonic turkeys!

And cats

In space no one can hear you gobble.

YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films Kraken | Official Trailer HD

I'm liking the vibe of this trailer. Doesn't give too much away, either.
youtu.be/EUTatY1-oBI

Gorgonopsid Space Liches Jonathan Kuo Buckle up, ladies and gents, it's time for gorgonopsid space liches. Please pardon the fellow above, he is out of costume. ...

When my pet interests collide: #Mothership #TTRPG and palaeontology. RESULT: throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2018/05/gorg...