Coral Nerd, Ph.D.

the cool thing is, huge corporations have invested billions into AI, hoping it will pay off. so, if we manage to bully AI out of most spaces, those corporations will also lose billions of dollars. it's the best two-for-one special i can think of.

definitive proof that all those miserable spam texts you hate and can’t get rid of aren’t even raising money for the candidates they say they are

shut the entire machine down immediately

"Don't be your child's first bully" is pretty good advice.

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, new UN report finds: 'Fossil fuels are running out of road' Two new reports from the United Nations pointed to huge milestones in renewable energy sectors.

now THAT'S the kind of tipping point we like to see

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, new UN report finds: 'Fossil fuels are running out of road' www.goodgoodgood.co/...

Fantastic news for artists: The lost functionality of Google Image Search as a reference image source has been recreated.

"The limitations of the artist as a singular voice, rather than the endless repetitions of chewed-over mush that LLMs provide, are actually the strength of the art. We should be teaching our students to find their own individual voice, and the best way is by learning from the best."

"Shakespeare is not important because he spoke of universal feelings, but because he spoke of his own feelings and we readers found universality in them. LLMs get this backwards, and therefore can only ever limit human imagination."

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@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 819 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Vinay Prasad The Steve Urkel of COVID Twitter turned out to be incompetent at both drug regulation and being an authoritarian apparatchik

Angie Rasmussen takes a blowtorch to Vinay Prasad #scicomm

Washington Post breaking news pop-up saying: Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash involving driver-assistance technology; jury orders $200 million in damages

Reminder that there’s a plausible theory that pushing Tesla stock down to $114 will trigger a margin call that will make Musk default on his loans and could plausibly bankrupt him.

This might be just the chance we need. Its stock value is filled with nothing but hot air anyway.

Apparently “you gotta keep them separated” actually refers to Petri dishes of different strains rather than…you know…

A faked video of bunnies jumping on a trampoline is depressing a lot of folk right now because it turned out to be just more AI slop, so here's a reminder that in real life, it seems animals *do* want to have fun for the sheer joyous hell of it, even if we don't often see it happening. 👇

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.

More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.

i hate to quote that guy but "arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

DOGE Wasted Tens of Billions While Chainsawing the Government in the Name of 'Efficiency': Senate Report | Common Dreams Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the longterm it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths.

Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the long term it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths.

www.commondreams.org/news/doge-wa...

And also scissors don’t make any sense for field work. The pocket knife won’t poke through things or I don’t need a special “scissor sheath”

I want a leopard print multi tool so no one would steal it 🤣
(I’m assuming any person who likes it is also cool enough not to yoink it)

Good thing the EPA will stop all research into PFAs levels 🤦‍♀️

I also grew up where pocket knives were normal to carry and started carrying my own pretty early. 🤷‍♀️
I’d also never pay $400 for a pocket knife 🤪

Motherfucking wind farms…

I know comparisons with 1933 are cliché, but they're also *accurate*

Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed

u.afp.com/Sg9Z

This feels like a perfect thread for that “would I date him” guy. I can’t decide which one is the hoe

Yes. First, Ghost has a concierge who can lead you through the transition without losing the followers you have or disrupting service in any way. Second, you will actually give yourself a raise by moving, b/c Substack takes 10% rather than a set rate based on your total number of subscribers. (1/2)

Will be updating this in a bit now that the announcement has dropped. Stay tuned!

One thing very few people know, even in the climate-health research space, is that - in addition to NIH / NSF / NASA / EPA blocking any new research on climate change and health - all the philanthropies have decided to take NGO-shaped roles rather than fund research, and so they aren't stepping in.

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...