Dr Pamela L Gay

Stella, the mini Australian Shepherd is mostly buried into a pile of pillows, with her grey mottled butt poking out from a pile of grey pillows. Not shown: a massive thunder storm.

When in doubt, hiding in a pillow fort is always an option.

Especially when the sky goes BOOM.

Netting

Large Brussels sprout plant eaten down to stalks

The caterpillars won

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.

It’s fucked

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

ok, so to summarize
- Trump White House froze $584 million in funding
- They are demanding $1 Billion in "settlement"

UCLA's annual budget (FY23) was $11.5 Billion

So ~10% cut to a blue state uni.

Sources:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
ucla.app.box.com/v/acct-pdf-A...

He’s still going and this is amazing scicomm

At some point, the administration’s lying about everything all the time—for reasons big, small, and none at all—will catch up to our country, economy, and society.

Heck I’m starting to believe these things actually are self-aware

Blueberry Hill ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. B...

For posterity: kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Oh yes, very much related.

To be fair, I would also need to drink coffee at that speed if I worked on DS9 and my best friend was noted neurodivergent gifted kid burnout disaster twink Julian Bashir.

A very fluffy white and black Australian Shepard in a hammock looking doopy

This is Eddie.

Eddie loves everyone and everything.

He especially loves to carry around big fluffy toys.

We have twice had to yell at him to drop the local mama groundhog he was carrying around, unharmed, wet, and hissing.

He would like you to know, she’s friend shaped.

The cruelty is the point.

They want to make it so that we turn away like it was a particularly gruesome horror movie.

I’ve never failed at assembling anything from IKEA but will admit there may have been an instance where it was my Star Trek inspired “Kobayashi Maru” challenge that may have resulted in a creative solution.

Two things:

1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything.

2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.

an absolute betrayal, heartbreaking and infuriating in equal parts

Many Lego sets combined to have a flower, island with a Japanese maple, a dinosaur in water, and the start of a flower forest

My work in progress

I can honestly say as a deep-sea biologist and explorer that the greatest limitation to my work has been the lack of a Proutic Haripotator. #deepsea

This is my fav thing you’ve done.

I’m going to need more wall space.

Words to live (and eat) by.

Post from Bloomberg News - Apple CEO Tim Cook is using a familiar strategy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces: expanding existing initiatives to show he supports the president’s “Made in the USA” agenda. - with article

Post from Washington Post - Breaking news: President Trump said he would place a 100 percent tariff on all computer chips imported to the United States, but will exempt companies that commit to “building” on U.S. soil like Apple. - with article link

This is so funny (like lolsob, not haha).

There's 3-4 mins between these posts.

I learned that Tim Cook, one of the most powerful queer people on the planet and CEO of Apple, gave a random gift to Trump in an awkward video.

Then, Apple is exempt from the tariff.

Kiss the feet of the Emperor.

This is the perfect AI story - Google hires the labor of hundreds of skilled professionals, then pretends their dumb machines did it.

This is the story with so much automation - someone is still doing the work, just hidden from view.

Phrasing ;-)

YouTube video by LavenderTowne THE AI 'ARTISTS' ARE MAD AT ME

Watching a video on poisoning AI & discussing how college kids have to pay to access copyrighted materials (books) yet AI claims it would ruin them to have to pay.

So peeps graduate with vast student debt, but they AI -that can afford the debt- gets a free "education".

youtu.be/1L3DaREo1sQ?...

Van Hollen blocks FBI funding bill from floor debate over Trump headquarters dispute The Maryland Democrat said Republicans worry the president will “throw a fit” if they meddle in his headquarters decision.

The FBI HQ issue is blocking the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill from Senate floor debate. The news is covering it as the "FBI funding bill," but this bill includes the funding for #NASA, #NSF, #NOAA, #NIST, and more. CALL CONGRESS

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A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.

Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it.

From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han

flic.kr/p/2riELBn

May she have the bestest dreams and only the gentlest sheerings.

I needed this sleep in my timeline.

You need it too.