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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1h

Ours does too, and I’d *really* like a word with whoever came up with that idea.

Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1h

I swear to everything holy, going to Wegmans is like playing a video game where all the NPCs are programmed to predict your travel path and then STAND IN IT.

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · Aug 27

All crew,

Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu

Worf

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 6h

To be fair to the writers of the new season of the Witcher - I’ve read the books, and the suck quality of the writing in the show is not so much *new* as a return to the original author’s style.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 8h

It seems to be a common feature of bluetooth earbuds generally - I’m thinking impact-based polarity reversal on the magnets for charging. (she grumbles as she picks her Technics earbuds out of the shrubbery for the umpteenth time)

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h

The data’s in Excel.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 1d

Data available upon request

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t speak to all of the colors, but I had a teal that worked fine ~5 years after I bought it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h

We had to stop because we were playing with a lot of the new grad students, and J can’t spell for crap, but he can bullshit like a god. It was becoming too much of a “learning experience” for the ones that had to work for him.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h

We used to have a scrabble house rule: “it’s a word if you can convince a majority of the players that it is (or should be) a word.” It makes games *much* better.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 17h

I would 10,000% play scrabble with you just to watch you try.

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 4d

⚡Shocking truth⚡ about fish lice:
I've written a post about Dolops discoidalis, a species of fish louse which also happens to be the first ectoparasite to be documented from the electric eel 🧪
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolo...

<i>Dolops discoidalis</i>

The electric eel , also known as poraquê , is a formidable animal. Not only is it capable of stunning its prey with an electrifying shock, ...

dailyparasite.blogspot.com

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 17h

Once, notably, my housemate tried to toast a bagel in the oven on broil, then left for work - and our smoke alarms only went off when the entire downstairs was blue with smoke and the bagel had been reduced to circular charcoal.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 17h

I think I’ve mostly had Landlord Crap Grade smoke alarms, which tend toward the “you could light the alarm itself on fire and not get noise” end of the spectrum

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18h

Using one’s shower feels like the *opposite* of a thing that sets off a smoke alarm…?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, I bounced off that trilogy recently for exactly that reason - incredibly compellingly written, but just *not* what I could cope with right now.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18h

I’m currently holding out on *not* hate-reading the second and third books of a terrible trilogy that seduced me with gorgeous dragon-printed sprayed edges, so I know that feeling.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h

And no, I shan’t tell you what the book is, that’s *rude*.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h

I’m 3/4 of the way through a book that I’m absolutely hate-reading and I don’t even know why. I have SO MANY good ones I could read instead, how I still reading the dreck?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h

TFW you want another Last Word but you used the last of your cherries in the last Last Word…

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h

MOOD.

LIFE.

Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Sunday! 🪼

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h

Laser Discourse is usually more fun than it currently is. Check back later after the idiots get bored.

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