I have the volcano, as one might expect given my field of interest.

Hawai‘i has some banger options.

The fact that “do a good job at teaching people about stuff” wasn’t on that list is pretty telling for academia. Maybe prioritizing grants and prestige over education is why we keep churning out new sets of ghouls and predators into the pipeline?

Isabella Bird is another person to add: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabell...

Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming.

Start the rapture, I’ve seen enough.

Yeah, I have a series of photos but they’re rough at best.

I’m unsure, but the sky photographed differently than it normally does and so we might have gotten something. People were able to see aurora last year and so it’s possible.

Maybe just have them put on different body type suits and try to use their own equipment. I’d sponsor that as a networking event, they can stay.

I use it as an opportunity to complain at manufacturers if their equipment fits like shit for people who aren’t the same size as an average middle aged dudes.

I’m feeling more confident that we are getting some of it down here. No other reason here for the diversity in colours I’m picking up in quick succession on a crappy 3-second iPhone photo.

It’s possible that the glow is related to the Mana Road fire on island. The skies are very clear and we usually have an inversion layer in the area of the fire. It looks like the view shed for the aurora have extended well beyond the forecasted limits, and so who knows. Interesting either way.

We had a faculty discussion and someone (not in my department) stated they intended to teach the ethical use of GenAI. I bluntly asked how they intended to do that given it is an environmental disaster and is trained off of stolen intellectual property. I killed that conversation in record time.

I came across a post stating using AI “…feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you are felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.”

I frame my thoughts about AI use in a similar context. The main point is the prep + process, rarely the final product.

I think it also depends on the faculty skills. Both the new faculty member we hired and I use a lot of computational methods; because we can both teach those skills, we’re working on how to integrate them into multiple classes. This wasn’t an option when I was the only new hire since 2008.