I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Right on cue, it's time to subsidize drivers at non-drivers expense again, as is tradition.
Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton
THREAD: Weirdest athlete/president combos from Leaf’s bizarre President’s Day set
Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton
If I know you use this I will literally never cite your work again, because there is literally no way to trust it or you
YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS
AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA.
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
@tomflood.bsky.social
My Physics warm up slides today. The last one is for those students that wanna argue with me about who should or shouldn’t be in the street.
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
*stares in academia*
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
i AM an artist and my studio is
R STUDIO
📝 New blog post: Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0 - What’s Changing and How to Prepare
A major ggplot2 update is coming and may impact Bioconductor packages. What’s changing, how to test, and where to get help 👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0...
#Bioconductor #RStats
In this blog post, I use #RStats to analyze ICE detention data. #Datavisualization shows record numbers of detainees without any criminal records. Further more/bigger ICE facilities are popping up far from the border.
Code along and take a look for yourself: jef.works/blog/2025/07...
#CodeTutorial
I cannot believe I haven’t shared this on here. Spot on Christine Brennan parody.
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
Thanks! And yeah, definitely inspired by 538. I looked all over for their versions of the Elo plots, but couldn't find them.
It could be related to that, and I do think the top two are REALLY good. But I think it's also related to the Valkyries starting out at 1300, which brings the league average down a bit.
