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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 22h

This is the end-point of extractive AI. First get people to upload everything, then suck everything out of it, then get AI to generate all the answers. I wonder how this cycle continues. (If it means Chegg can't continue the cycle…paint me so sad.)

On Monday, the online-learning company Chegg said it would cut 388 jobs globally, about 45% of the workforce, as it pivots to an AI model that automatically answers students’ questions.
From: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-collar-jobs-ai-324b749c

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Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 21h

Time for a #loebotomy!

Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 1d

as a science journalist I agree, this is not good journalism. You don't need to interview antivaxxers on every story about vaccines, you don't need to interview flat Earthers on every story about ... anything, and you don't need to solicit Avi Loeb's crackpot views on comets. Time for a Loebotomy.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1d

At this point, publications that platform Loeb's comments, or feature him as the story lede (i.e., "Harvard Astronomer says....") deserve to be ridiculed and not taken seriously.

If you choose to look away from the hugely negative impact is having for the sake of clicks, then that's on you.

Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 21h

Wonder what 12 yrs of 'big bang thry did to public trust/understanding of science. God that show was EVIL

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Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 22h

This is y I switched to studying geology and learning how minerals and continents grow. Also I should learn how th complex surface of the sun works. There's certainly enuf energy flow there for interesting processes.

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WLR2678 @wlr2678.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #CometLemmon, all the best on your journey!

I captured the comet in this composite with a 40-year old vintage Minolta lens (MD 50mm f2). The foreground was shot at 17mm f1.8, all on a small MFT pocket camera.

#Astronomy #Astrophotography

A composite photo of comet Lemmon and myself

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @tayloreric.dev · 23h

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 2d

Telling scary stories around the campfire to young people:

"...and you had no way of knowing who was calling. You just had to pick it up."

"...co...couldn't you put it on silent?"

"There was no silent. And anyone in the house could answer. Even if the call was for you."

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 1d

Great work by @prczhaoyansong.bsky.social, once again elucidating how much flow of information there is in complex microbial ecosystems.

Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2d

@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Jumbo phage–mediated transduction of genomic islands | PNAS

Bacteria acquire new genes by horizontal gene transfer, typically mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). While plasmids, bacteriophages, and c...

www.pnas.org

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Deadline Dec 1!

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Sep 5

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy

Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · 1d

Day 28 of #Croctober, we're racing towards the finish line
This is one of my favourite images of Dakosaurus for two reasons
Reason 1: it nicely shows just how enormous this animal got
Reason 2: it also shows how stupidly tiny its arms were
Photo by Sven Sachs ft. Joschua Knüppe

A photograph of a Dakosaurus specimen preserved in a stone slab next to paleoartist Joschua Knüppe for scale. Dakosaurus has a triangular skull and incredibly tiny arms. The hindlimbs are comparably long and the tip of the tail curved down indicating the presence of a fluke. There are no osteoderms.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I am talking about!!

beckytaylor927.bsky.social @beckytaylor927.bsky.social · 1d

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

A pile of Maryland edition zines of How to Report Ice to Help Keep Your Neighbors Safe.

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Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 1d

Well that valley probly needed a good scrubbing

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.

Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa

www.nytimes.com

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Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to hear about ur sib

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Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 1d

Right. I'm glad tho I am blissfully ignorant of wut public discourse this us. Since my little nephews in this town have tons of friends th whole town knows me as uncle Barry.

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 2d

These low-angle glacier detachments are, mercifully, rare, but can be incredibly destructive. Good review here, though several events since it was published in 2021: tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/...

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Barry Goldman @barrygoldman1.bsky.social · 1d

Slush?

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Dance lessons return to Portland ICE protests as city awaits ruling on troop deployment: Get caught up

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/dance-lessons-return-to-portland-ice-protests-as-city-awaits-ruling-on-troop-deployment-get-caught-up.html

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1d

Y'all .... are you following @astronerdika.bsky.social ?

Brilliant scientists, but also - fantastic science visualisations, infographics and art.

Like I am totally biased (Shanika is a @spaceaustralia.com #SpaceFam!) but .... these are so good.

Check out the new @ligo.org results by her!

🔭🧪

Infographic showing the results from the latest science papers from LIGO. This one is for the gravitational wave event GW241110. It shows two black holes, one of 17 solar masses the other of 8 solar masses inspiraling and radiating gravitational waves. The larger of the two has two smaller black holes merging prior to lead to the larger mass. The system is annotated as being 2.4 billion light years from Earth, and on the side, the LVK detectors are listed.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 2d

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 3d

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social