Bucket full of freshly picked tomatoes

The faster tomato pickers here can fill 200 buckets in a 6 hr shift. They carry 2 buckets at once & run in & out of the field to maximize earnings during the 4-6 week harvest. Temps often exceed 100° so the workers start at 4-5am to be done by noon to avoid the heat. #WeFeedYou

The Scientists Who Got Ghosted by the NIH Under Trump, their grant applications disappeared. What now?

Next, @stephaniemlee.bsky.social draws on internal NIH data to tell the stories of a dozen scientists who find their grants in limbo.

With peer review on pause, "they’re navigating constantly changing, legally dubious, sporadically communicated whims, with no clear way forward," she writes.

Is the dissertation dead? If so, what are the alternatives? Dissertation alternatives, such as capstone projects and applied group-based projects, could better prepare graduates for their future careers. Discover what these might look like

Dissertation alternatives, such as capstone projects and applied group-based projects, could better prepare graduates for their future careers, write academics at @bristoluni.bsky.social and ‪‪@edinburghnapier.bsky.social‬: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/disse... #ai #highered #academicsky

This article illustrates the incredible power of the scientific method and a tale of keeping an open mind when investigating sesn or observed phenomena.

Don’t know whether it’s appropriate to call this turtle, “beautiful”, but it sure seems apt to me - the shape of its head, the elongated neck, the eye profile…what a well-designed hunter! 😍

Always wondered what this beetle was, seen them for more years than I wish to admit 😛

…Mordor on Earth 2025

Later today I’ll be talking about my #sciart about pollinators and the future of pollination and you’re welcome to join us over lunchtime in this time zone 🐝🦋

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Which AI bot is best at writing? There was one clear winner in a test I just published @washingtonpost.com

I had ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude and a human (me!) draft 5 different kinds of tough emails. Then I asked 5 communication pros to judge them. wapo.st/3FFo34V

Pulp Librarian had a thread rundown on what makes something "pulp" and the description "Writers were expected to work quickly, often to a genre template, and were paid by the word. To maximise sales stories were expected to be vivid, impactful, easy to follow and full of exciting incidents. 'Show, Don't Tell' were their watchwords." (with a cover of a detective pulp magazine" reminds me a lot of MMM narrators :-D

#2025MMM Narrators 👀 🤔

Map showing public lands including the public access road to Wheeler Geologic Area near Creede Colorado is on Trump’s auction block. By selling the access road, approach trail, and parking area, Trump would basically be selling off public access to Wheeler. Even though Wheeler would still be protected, one person could buy that parcel and effectively privatize access.

Look at this! The area circled in red is Wheeler Geologic Area. The entire access road and the entry/parking area (circled in yellow) for Wheeler is included in the auction. This would basically privatize access. Just blatant grift.

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When you've spend hours looking for your little black kitten...

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Felt it useful to update my work on the bidirectional link between whites' partisanship & their views of Black folks with the recent ANES panel taking the tests to a new context and a new method to better tease out individual change. Results persist. We should stop treating racial attitudes as exog.

🤩 This photo represents an earlier, simpler era of when science thrived w/ perspectives looking out beyond "the horizon". While there were significant issues w/ societal bias, it tended not to be b/c of their intellect, their integrity and character, and the scientific curiosity of researchers.

Ben Lee became head of the theory group at the National Accelerator Laboratory (now Fermilab) in 1974. From left are Antonio Pagnamenta, Lee, Mary Gaillard, Shirley Ann Jackson, Robert Savit, Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Satish Joglekar, John Bronzan, and Jochen Bartels. (Photo courtesy of Fermilab.)

Absolutely stunning work of ⚛️ history in @physicstoday.bsky.social about Ben Lee, the Korean American who was the first head of theory at Fermilab. He hired the first Black woman particle theory lab staff in global history, Shirley Ann Jackson. #BlackandSTEM 🧪
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Kölle Alaaf!

Es macht das Herz voll, zu sehen, wie die Deutschen und die Japaner die neuen Technologien fördern, eine kulturelle Verbindung teilen und ihre Länder der Welt zeigen!

ドイツと日本が新技術を宣伝し、文化的な絆を分かち合い、自国を世界にアピールするのを見ると、胸がいっぱいになる！

New On-Campus Partnership Between Caltech and Meta Focuses Initially on Smart Wearables The collaboration establishes a new on-campus space where Meta employees can interact with Caltech students and researchers while also providing support for innovative projects related to materials, s...

Caltech and Meta have formalized an agreement that will bring together the Institute's innovative research approach with Meta research projects exploring how people interact with integrated technologies.

www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

Emails Shed Light on UNC’s Plans to Create a New Accreditor University of North Carolina system officials say it’s past time for a new accreditor, arguing the current setup fails to focus on students, emails obtained by Inside Higher Ed show.

SCOOP from @byjoshmoody.bsky.social: Emails show UNC in discussion with officials in Florida about creating a new accreditor that could be led by a Board of Directors made up of participating state systems #higheredsky www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

….cross-cultural awareness matters. Not a proper cuppa by any means 👋🏼

Awesome, congratulations, @zoewithoutawhy.bsky.social, on your dissertation defense - no small feat!! Your research sounds timely. I presume that there are hints on how to advocate for BAs - might there be some of your research publicly available to read, i.e. no paywalls? 😅 - on limited budget.

New survey aims to better understand public opinion in Puerto Rico The Puerto Rico Public Opinion Lab has launched a new survey across the island of Puerto Rico as part of a project to better understand the political opinions and experiences of Puerto Ricans.

🇵🇷 @umichnews.bsky.social spotlights the Puerto Rico Public Opinion Lab, a CPS-affiliated project led by @maraceci.bsky.social that's launched a new survey across the island of Puerto Rico to understand the political opinions and experiences of Puerto Ricans.

news.umich.edu/new-survey-a...

Musk, DOGE & Trump are merely window dressings that keep people busy & not paying attention to real threats: the technocrats who created the 2025 agenda. Their intentions are to hang 47 & Musk out to dry before being replaced by Vance & the embedded key techno personnel being seeded across the govt

Another day, another chance for Doug Ford to demonstrate his disdain for education.

Hey, you know what goes really fast, takes up a lot more space, emits a lot more pollution/noise/GHG emissions, costs a lot more public money, and is FAR more dangerous in cities than any kind of bike in a city where most don’t drive?

Cars.

So, about that “enough is enough”…