Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸
That's how it's done! Nice and easy.
Good job Mycological Society of America.
For Finnish colleagues: this is a good overview of what’s going on right now with American science funding institutions
www.science.org/content/blog...
I hope the faculty AI likes reading 40,000 student AI term papers about how The Great Gatsby is racist, because that is all CSU is going to be now:
openai.com/index/openai...
New preprint! Were Precambrian oceans devoid of planktonic cyanobacteria? Insights from metabolism
What does rise of marine picocyanobacteria ~500 million years ago teach us about Great Oxidation Event ~2.3 billion years ago? Follow along to find out... 1/
doi.org/10.31223/X5M...
curing cancer is woke now
I WILL pull this car over right now!
Sad to wake up this morning in Finland and seeing SoCal on fire. Thoughts are with my friends and family in LA area
Incredible
Wow, what are the odds?!
Very excited to share final version of our paper! What forces shape evolution of cross-feeding among planktonic ocean microbes, and how does it in turn drive self-organization of biogeochemical cycles? These are the questions we explore here:
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Temporal Changes in the Role of Species Sorting and Evolution Determine Community Dynamics
Ecology Letters by Julius Hoffmann, @slhogle.bsky.social, @teppo-h.bsky.social, and Lutz Becks
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢A new episode of The Green Light 💚, on this Friday episode we invited @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social, a molecular plant biologist and associate professor at UChicago, to talk about their journey from physics to microbial communities assembly.👇
youtu.be/yi_qFOIyCGk
I worry that the academic scientist of the future will just be some kind of middle management tasked with fulfilling bureaucratic deliverables. Makes sense that young folks are turning away from this. It’s certainly not aligned with the professional ideal I had when I was in my phd
Different but interesting question is what kinds of people and value systems do these conditions select for in academia 20 years in the future? We already know academia is atrophying young talent - young folks who passionately care about the world
Interesting read…
IMO more important that we are experiencing consequences of systematic gutting/defunding of science by govt and private orgs. Smaller pie + more seats at the table = more competition and thus potentially incentive to go against moral value system to professionally survive
RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...
huh i always thought it meant “liberated and tardy”
trying to convince my son it's pronounced “Bubba Fett”
niche one for the filipino finnish-politics heads out there
a far right Filipino/Finnish juice bar called Juissi Halo-halo
My longread on the man known as ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Dahdouh, and the killing of journalists and their families in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
HEY YOU PUT SOME BLACK PEOPLE IN YOUR STARTER PACK
wtf finland - you love deporting asylum seekers, building border walls, and having literal nazis in your government, but no love for Trump?
Trump would love it here!
Finnish gov just passed law allowing deportation of foreigners who have been unemployed for 3 months and has seriously considered eliminating “non-emergency” healthcare for non residents
Finnish immigration is one of the most restrictive in whole EU. basically all asylum applications are now indefinitely shut down
lol I live in Finland and they are literally building a gigantic wall on their eastern border right now
