Brandon Bishop
@brandontbishop.bsky.social
Seismologist, investigates the Andes and subduction zones, currently complexly affiliated with St. Louis University and looking for new projects.
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A bit less than 1/2 of this might be interesting, assuming it makes it through peer review.
And it'd need about a dozen peer reviewers to adequately cover the disciplines involved. Most papers get at most half that many.
And it'd need about a dozen peer reviewers to adequately cover the disciplines involved. Most papers get at most half that many.
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A bit less than 1/2 of this might be interesting, assuming it makes it through peer review.
And it'd need about a dozen peer reviewers to adequately cover the disciplines involved. Most papers get at most half that many.
And it'd need about a dozen peer reviewers to adequately cover the disciplines involved. Most papers get at most half that many.
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Striking for me as a physicist who also does social science work is the way these physicists were suddenly totally ok with autoethnography as data because they personally enjoyed using GPT-5. A case study in how values orient our empirical practices if there ever was one lol
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Striking for me as a physicist who also does social science work is the way these physicists were suddenly totally ok with autoethnography as data because they personally enjoyed using GPT-5. A case study in how values orient our empirical practices if there ever was one lol
This is a much more interesting question, to be honest.
Wait, are French Guyanais and British Falklanders, European or American (or a secret third thing, both)
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is a much more interesting question, to be honest.
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Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
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Imagine a British PhD student having to write entire thesis in fluent Chinese. Deliver talks & network at Chinese conferences and Chinese dominated social media. Without any support. Weird? That's a norm for every academic not born in an Anglophone country. And it's not treated as a crisis. 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Imagine a British PhD student having to write entire thesis in fluent Chinese. Deliver talks & network at Chinese conferences and Chinese dominated social media. Without any support. Weird? That's a norm for every academic not born in an Anglophone country. And it's not treated as a crisis. 🤔
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Not just the AI summary theft shit, but the actual search results now are meaningless for anything slightly obscure
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Not just the AI summary theft shit, but the actual search results now are meaningless for anything slightly obscure
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AI google search means I now have to look everything up in books again. Totally fucking useless
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
AI google search means I now have to look everything up in books again. Totally fucking useless
*Waits for the online people to discover the wonders of what's hidden beneath the demonym "Chinese"*
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
*Waits for the online people to discover the wonders of what's hidden beneath the demonym "Chinese"*
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FUUUUUUUUCK THIIIIIIIIS
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
FUUUUUUUUCK THIIIIIIIIS
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Ustad Mansur, Turkey cock (Meleagris gallopavo), Mughal, c. 1612.
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 12.2 × 12.8 cm, full page 26.4 × 39 cm.
Happy Thanksgiving, US friends! 🦃
1/3
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 12.2 × 12.8 cm, full page 26.4 × 39 cm.
Happy Thanksgiving, US friends! 🦃
1/3
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ustad Mansur, Turkey cock (Meleagris gallopavo), Mughal, c. 1612.
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 12.2 × 12.8 cm, full page 26.4 × 39 cm.
Happy Thanksgiving, US friends! 🦃
1/3
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 12.2 × 12.8 cm, full page 26.4 × 39 cm.
Happy Thanksgiving, US friends! 🦃
1/3
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I refer to people from the Republic of the Congo as Congolese. I refer to people from the DRC as Congolese
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I refer to people from the Republic of the Congo as Congolese. I refer to people from the DRC as Congolese
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
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USGS Shakemap projects moderate shaking at the epicenter following the M6.0 #Earthquake and light shaking in Anchorage, Eagle River, Kenai. ⚒️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
USGS Shakemap projects moderate shaking at the epicenter following the M6.0 #Earthquake and light shaking in Anchorage, Eagle River, Kenai. ⚒️🧪
"United Statsians"?
We're the Republic of Statistics or something? 🫤
We're the Republic of Statistics or something? 🫤
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"United Statsians"?
We're the Republic of Statistics or something? 🫤
We're the Republic of Statistics or something? 🫤
You can't really support a point by just making shit up!
*blocking time*
*blocking time*
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
You can't really support a point by just making shit up!
*blocking time*
*blocking time*
"It's Estados Unidos de Mexico"
No, it really isn't. Like, if you're going to bother calling it by it's official name in Spanish, at least look it up.
No, it really isn't. Like, if you're going to bother calling it by it's official name in Spanish, at least look it up.
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"It's Estados Unidos de Mexico"
No, it really isn't. Like, if you're going to bother calling it by it's official name in Spanish, at least look it up.
No, it really isn't. Like, if you're going to bother calling it by it's official name in Spanish, at least look it up.
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age's tagline is exactly the nuanced, multi-leveled critical review of Prehistoric Planet Ice Age:
"Discover the Ice Age like never before!"
"Discover the Ice Age like never before!"
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age's tagline is exactly the nuanced, multi-leveled critical review of Prehistoric Planet Ice Age:
"Discover the Ice Age like never before!"
"Discover the Ice Age like never before!"
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I've found it troublingly hard to identify AI-generated photos because we see so much overcompressed imagery now, wedged into tiny social media apps or squashed for videos. In some genres, distortion's normal—the image's existence is itself a signifier and the content doesn't really matter.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I've found it troublingly hard to identify AI-generated photos because we see so much overcompressed imagery now, wedged into tiny social media apps or squashed for videos. In some genres, distortion's normal—the image's existence is itself a signifier and the content doesn't really matter.
"I think we've reached the stage where we can no longer trust any image online unless it is guaranteed from a reputable source."
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"I think we've reached the stage where we can no longer trust any image online unless it is guaranteed from a reputable source."
"But digital composits stitched together can do that!"
...yes? Moderately to highly altered digital imagea look like completely fake digital images?
...yes? Moderately to highly altered digital imagea look like completely fake digital images?
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"But digital composits stitched together can do that!"
...yes? Moderately to highly altered digital imagea look like completely fake digital images?
...yes? Moderately to highly altered digital imagea look like completely fake digital images?
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A M6.6 earthquake just struck the subduction zone offshore Sumatra, causing some damage and injuries on Simeulue Island.
How does this event fit into the mosaic of large earthquakes that have occurred on this fault over the last few decades?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m66-earthq...
A M6.6 earthquake just struck the subduction zone offshore Sumatra, causing some damage and injuries on Simeulue Island.
How does this event fit into the mosaic of large earthquakes that have occurred on this fault over the last few decades?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m66-earthq...
M6.6 earthquake strikes Sunda subduction zone offshore Sumatra
Some building damage and injuries on Simeulue Island
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
⚒️ 🧪
A M6.6 earthquake just struck the subduction zone offshore Sumatra, causing some damage and injuries on Simeulue Island.
How does this event fit into the mosaic of large earthquakes that have occurred on this fault over the last few decades?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m66-earthq...
A M6.6 earthquake just struck the subduction zone offshore Sumatra, causing some damage and injuries on Simeulue Island.
How does this event fit into the mosaic of large earthquakes that have occurred on this fault over the last few decades?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m66-earthq...
Part of the problem with the AI slop is people have no idea how lens work and don't pay attention to how photos actually work.
Things fully in focus a couple centimeters away, a meter away, and several meters away (or more!) in the same photo is not possible. 🙃
Things fully in focus a couple centimeters away, a meter away, and several meters away (or more!) in the same photo is not possible. 🙃
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Part of the problem with the AI slop is people have no idea how lens work and don't pay attention to how photos actually work.
Things fully in focus a couple centimeters away, a meter away, and several meters away (or more!) in the same photo is not possible. 🙃
Things fully in focus a couple centimeters away, a meter away, and several meters away (or more!) in the same photo is not possible. 🙃
Eh, fine. The obvious tell to this image.
Where is the "camera's" focus?
I mean this literally.
Where is the "camera's" focus?
I mean this literally.
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Eh, fine. The obvious tell to this image.
Where is the "camera's" focus?
I mean this literally.
Where is the "camera's" focus?
I mean this literally.
"this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get."
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get."
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Same with music or anything else creative. I've sold thousands of albums and as many streams but make nothing from them.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Same with music or anything else creative. I've sold thousands of albums and as many streams but make nothing from them.
"I don't disagree. But if practice in California (albeit this issue is less for me) is any guide, this is about to be catastrophic for the courts. The authenticity of photos is taken seriously, but without a halting change in procedure we're going to see tremendous error and then more change,"
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"I don't disagree. But if practice in California (albeit this issue is less for me) is any guide, this is about to be catastrophic for the courts. The authenticity of photos is taken seriously, but without a halting change in procedure we're going to see tremendous error and then more change,"