Kyle Copas

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

Nikolai Yezhov (right) was unavailable for comment.

Supervisory Data Scientist (Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science), IS-1560-15 Job Opening: Supervisory Data Scientist (Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science), IS-1560-15 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

The Smithsonian is hiring trustcareers.si.edu/postings/6f3...

“The Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science will be at the forefront of transforming how NMNH leverages data and digital tools to advance its mission.”

This position is not federally funded, closes August 7th.

I’m eager to find out! My kin connections with these nations have lapsed in the most recent generations. I’m shocked to find myself the elder, the keeper of what remains. I hope that there’s a chance to restore a proper relation, prob starting with the #Stockbridge, who are familiar with Labels.

As a descendant of the #Stockbridge-#Munsee #Mahican, #Oneida, #Lenape, #Brothertown and #Montauk peoples, I struggle to express how much it means—personally and professionally—to support the work of the task group and @localcontexts.bsky.social in shaping #IDGov #IDSov within the @gbif.org network.

Yes, “hard to make them useful” in the seven peer-reviewed papers that use them each day, plus a few thousand Red List assessments…

#openData & #openScience require transparency. Your black box eliminates credit to 2,500+ data publishers worldwide. Are methods & sources not part of the experience?

Don’t forget the Clinton phone and the Clinton cryptocoin!

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

The public stain of pardoning a convicted child rapist is so grave that it really does imply whatever she would "exonerate" him for (in exchange for said pardon) must be somehow worse

screenshot of pricing tiers for a startup reselling scale-dependent access to open data on biodiversity without acknowledgement or attribution

Congratulations, @gaia.eco on establishing a niche as a #reseller of #openData on #biodiversity from @gbif.org.

Why acknowledge the cow (or credit the community that cares for it) when you can charge scale-dependent pricing tiers for the milk?

Muscogee Nation court rules descendants of enslaved people are entitled to citizenship The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two descendants of former slaves held by the tribe.

This is huge.
apnews.com/article/musc...

ICJ says countries must address climate change threat The United Nations' highest court has said countries must address the "urgent and existential threat" of climate change by cooperating to curb emissions, as it delivered an opinion set to determine fu...

Today's opinion by the International Court of Justice on Climate is huge. It establishes for the first time an obligation in international law that states must meet the commitments they signed up to in climate treaties, and must work with each other to achieve this
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

The Heat Will Kill You First is one of three books recommended by @newyorker.com to help you make sense of our accelerating climate chaos. Thank you @elizkolbert.bsky.social

New #occurrence dataset in @gbif.org: Culex mosquitoes distribution in Ghana (223 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/c2aa20d7-1692-42e6-a5ee-14ed95675681

@washingtonpost.com should be commended for its commitment to fixing recent softness in the stenography market…

My book, Nothing More of This Land, is out today! It’s an exploration of Indigenous identity from my Wampanoag homelands on Martha’s Vineyard to Indigenous land around the world. Get yours at your favorite bookstore or via the link in my bio!! 🌊🐋

As good a moment as any to note that George Washington’s brothers set up the Ohio Company of Virginia as a trans-Appalachian real estate scheme in New France in 1748.

America: Out of the cradle, endlessly grifting…

With terrible kerning problems, to boot.

A Clean, Great Whited Plaice.

The Sharks of Kilimanjaro.

For Whom the Shark Trolls

Season 2: Big Two-Hearted Shark Week

Cleveland Colonists. Washington Rednecks.

Oh, and release the Trump-positive files from the FBI/Justice #Epstein document review, while you’re at it.

If he goes to Scotland, he’ll hear much worse…

YouTube video by Raw 99.9 Norm Macdonald Tells The Greatest Joke Ever Told

This is even better than I remembered it, mostly because of Conan's increasing discomfort. (It's possible that @joshgondelman.bsky.social first shared this years ago.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-MJ...

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

I write serious history—via biography—for a non-academic audience. So I'd like to say something about Ken Burns's remark, something that also explains why AI can't write history.

Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
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Let me add that AI can't do this. Consuming the historiography leads to new questions leading to new sources leading to new discoveries. This is a creative act. But facts alone are never enough. Facts must be interpreted. That means immersing oneself in historians' understanding of context.
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