maybe try a laser printer from Brother
Brother laser printers are the only printers that I don't completely hate. Niche feature that might not be relevant but most brother printers are reliably linux compatible.
We (with @dornhaus.bsky.social) finally wrote up our class on how to teach modeling to biologists, which ends up being a non-trivial exercise in understanding the roles that theory plays in the scientific method. We hope others will use our class, or simply enjoy the manuscript!
UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization:
www.ucs.org/sites/de...
man morale at the AP is real bad huh
honestly I'm relieved to see that the cholula girl survived the anti-DEI purge
Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?
A desert iguana standing in partial shade.
A desert iguana near Flat Cat Canyon this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
Every term without a fault an undergrad tells me "I spent 2 hours on this problem and you identified it in under a minute", and every term without a fault I answer "it took me over a decade to identify it in under a minute"
desperate for that Thiel money
As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.
Cracked cement, broken stairs, orange sandbags seem to have been there for years
One of the ways that #NIH is collapsing is its buildings and infrastructure. This is one of NIH’s most impressive buildings, the Porter Neuroscience Center.
Water is pooling, permanent sandbags hold back floods, and stone walkways and cement steps degrade and are not repaired.
Why?
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Figure showing the evolutionary diversification of Lepidopteran larval appendages.
Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."
A gift to be read by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social (thank you!!), whose words about this poem feel intimately true to the way I think about poetry: a way of memorizing moments. ❤️
I just don't see corporate leadership valuing actual expertise over and above "people who can use ai" without a massive catastrophe
how do we know it's not gonna be a 2 tier system of:
1. a small number of overconfident vibe coders drawn from a very small incestuous network that only considers guys who are legacy admits to stanford
2. an army of code janitors / ai trainers that gets purged every six months to prop up group #1
it's also gonna be funny when the people who survive that wave of job cuts retire / burn out and almost all of the potential replacements only know how to vibe code because we've completely borked the training pipeline / CS education in universities. Night and day diff from just five years ago.
editing stuff on the same day you wrote it is nowhere near as good as editing after you've had a day to sleep on it and push what you were intending to write out of your brain b/c with same day editing you see what you wanted to write even if it isn't actually on the page
(from a lit professor)
Is there a section on what you should say if a student challenges a grade b/c they found out you used ai in creating/evaluating assignments or are you on your own for that
(I'm guessing there's a "don't use this for anything super important" wink wink nudge nudge disclaimer up top but still)
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
I always assumed that I was one of the least motivated and diligent people in whatever cohort I was in but then after seeing academics just casually embrace using AI to do their jobs for them I've learned that, no, it turns out I've been taking my work more seriously than a lot of people out there
me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
Some academic habits are maladaptive in wider society. But “cite your sources every time” — and information literacy habits more generally — deserves to be educational priority number one right now
i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Colorado Springs folks, please take a moment and offer public comments of support for the new mosque being built. There are several hateful comments, very few supportive comments.
Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com
Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.
They are building this massive new data science and AI institute (that will house 100 faculty) next door to the department that studies climate change (which, checks notes, has 15ish faculty) in a building that is non-functional most days.
Which says just about every fucking thing about 2026.
