Gabriel S. Jacobs
@gsjphd.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Schoolteacher. Big galoot. Bespoke homemade opinions. (he/him)
Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious.
Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.
Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious.
Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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"went through two rounds of review"
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"went through two rounds of review"
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UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
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My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
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MOAR Lophophore excite! living #fossilfriday Terebratulina www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Northern Lampshell (Terebratulina septentrionalis)
Northern Lampshell from North Atlantic Ocean, Halifax, NS, CA on September 2, 2023 at 10:51 AM by Hunter Stevens
www.inaturalist.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
MOAR Lophophore excite! living #fossilfriday Terebratulina www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors fled pogroms to build a new life in America and he would spit in their faces because he’s a kapo of the lowest order
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors fled pogroms to build a new life in America and he would spit in their faces because he’s a kapo of the lowest order
reading a chapter about one kind of drag and selectively mining it for quotes that sound like they might be about the other kind of drag.
"...the more skin (surface) a body exposes...the more skin friction it will experience."
"...the more skin (surface) a body exposes...the more skin friction it will experience."
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
reading a chapter about one kind of drag and selectively mining it for quotes that sound like they might be about the other kind of drag.
"...the more skin (surface) a body exposes...the more skin friction it will experience."
"...the more skin (surface) a body exposes...the more skin friction it will experience."
My grandpa Mort (z''l) lived as a child in Erie, PA. Upon returning as an adult, he called it "the most aptly named city in America".
Hello Erie. Goodbye Erie.
Hello Erie. Goodbye Erie.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My grandpa Mort (z''l) lived as a child in Erie, PA. Upon returning as an adult, he called it "the most aptly named city in America".
Hello Erie. Goodbye Erie.
Hello Erie. Goodbye Erie.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for Centuriavis lioae, a 10 million year old fossil relative of turkeys. It was a lot of fun describing this stunning specimen with Catherine Early, Kate Dzikiewicz, and Amy Balanoff. The fossil is named after our amazing museum colleague Suzanne Lio.
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for Centuriavis lioae, a 10 million year old fossil relative of turkeys. It was a lot of fun describing this stunning specimen with Catherine Early, Kate Dzikiewicz, and Amy Balanoff. The fossil is named after our amazing museum colleague Suzanne Lio.
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
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in a sane world, openAI execs would be driven from the village with pitchforks for the audacity of this
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
in a sane world, openAI execs would be driven from the village with pitchforks for the audacity of this
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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TODAY: We staged a die-in in front of the National Security Ministry to protest our government’s racist policy of ignoring crime and violence in Israel’s Palestinian community. Just this year, 231 Palestinians in Israel have been killed – men, women, and children. (1/2)
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
TODAY: We staged a die-in in front of the National Security Ministry to protest our government’s racist policy of ignoring crime and violence in Israel’s Palestinian community. Just this year, 231 Palestinians in Israel have been killed – men, women, and children. (1/2)
1. I was a Dinosaur Kid who never really grew out of it
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
1. I was a Dinosaur Kid who never really grew out of it
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
Myth: men aren't interested in women who pursue advanced degrees
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Myth: men aren't interested in women who pursue advanced degrees
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
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Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
No Two Snowflakes Are Alike—Especially under an Electron Microscope
Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
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We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
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lest we think that tenebs are the only beetles who like to get weird with it, here's the brentid weevil Calodromus with his signature defensive move (stick he leggy out)
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
lest we think that tenebs are the only beetles who like to get weird with it, here's the brentid weevil Calodromus with his signature defensive move (stick he leggy out)