I can never get enough of crows. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.

Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says

Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.

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Dunno about you but I'm looking forward to watching the UW Huskies play the Atlanta Hawks in a couple of weeks.

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

While I'm throwing out Americana recommendations, check out the latest from Mary Gauthier. The opening track Alcohol and Adderall is as good place to start as any. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrf...

Mary Gauthier - Alcohol and Adderall

YouTube video by Stevie's Concertos 2

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After a long wait, brilliant Americana performer Ian Noe is back with a double album, The Canyon Falls Trailer Band. Listen to the whole thing—but here's one of several uptempo numbers that are a fun switch-up after the first two records.

The Heidelberg Fisherman's Ball

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

I'm going to try to post more positive, uplifting content. Let's start with Ian Noe. The album is a few years old now, but find me a better Americana debut in the past decade. And if you can do that, bet you it doesn't start as strong as this one does. The first four tracks are ridiculous.

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

C. Brandon Ogbunu@cbo.bsky.social · 5d ago

In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...

Seriously, guys, just leave Gary home.

WIRED@wired.com · last wk.

Long gone is the cliché of the optimistic tech guy in flip-flops and a ratty old hoodie. The tech industry is now seen as the locus of unchecked power, making the men who work in it a whole lot harder to fancy.

The RT was annotated in the sequence previously for sure, but what was discovered was the associated clustered repeats that are expressed and appear to associate with the RT, i.e a potential anti-viral system of unknown function but potentially programmable in some way

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 5d ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

I would be embarrassed to push a piece of software that lied to and defamed its users like this.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 5d ago

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

IANAL but this is an easy win as a false light tort. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_l...

Lex Roman@lexroman.com · 7d ago

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

We desperately need much stronger disclosure, norms in academic publishing and we need publishers to step up their game in enforcing them.

Os Keyes@okeyes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

Haiku for the tech press.

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 7d ago

omg I got DOZENS of crows in front of the Moon, mostly like this shot. can't wait to go home and find the best one. tho. I can. because I need to buy some broth first. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

Tech journalists do even the bare minimum of work in assessing the credibility of your sources challenge.

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 7d ago

Deeply troubled of course by a lot in this article but it’s wild seeing the character from Cade Metz story, Cameron Berg, become a “computer scientist” here.

Hanlon's razor is a Möbius strip with these people. Malice? Yes. Stupidity? Yes. They're one and the same.

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 7d ago

Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.

Wrong answers only.

and yes, before anyone asks, I am absolutely familiar with Pascal Jousselin's Mr. Invincible (as it's called in English)! As good as I thought it was when I just seen a few pages online, when it finally came out in english, I was shocked how relentlessly creative he was page after page - so good!

Honey that's what we had in school in the '80s.

Y'all are really phoning it in with this one. Take this graph. It's useless because you didn't bother to describe the denominator. (These are protein amounts per 100g.)

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

Given that protein is all around us, it’s natural to wonder: What is the most affordable way to get your daily dose? Meat is a particularly dense source. It’s easy to digest and rich in amino acids. But it’s by no means the only way, or the optimal one:

a monster in bushwick@zombie-nyc.bsky.social · last wk.

cool cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm one of the those old-fashioned sorts who takes delight in meeting my colleagues around the world, breaking bread with them, and enjoying friendships worldwide for decades thereafter.

Friends in Adelaide and South Australia more generally: I'm looking at a birding trip (Gluepots/Flinders) in early August 2027. I'd love to swing by the university or anywhere else to give a talk. If you're interesting, drop me a note. cbergst@uw.edu Or just tell me where to go while visiting.

Thinking back to the good old days when publishing a paper every three days required some human to be insecure enough to write up two ideas that didn't deserve to see the light of day every single week.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3y ago

I fixed the headline. And I honestly don't understand how any journalist could write this story without mentioning the study author's own "extreme productivity".

Friends in Adelaide and South Australia more generally: I'm looking at a birding trip (Gluepots/Flinders) in early August 2027. I'd love to swing by the university or anywhere else to give a talk. If you're interesting, drop me a note. cbergst@uw.edu Or just tell me where to go while visiting.

It's increasingly hard to explain what exists without relying on metaphysics. Nice.

If you’re like me, immunologically, you have probably suffered a fever for one (Moderna) up to the (Pfizer) days after getting a Covid vaccine. Yesterday I tried Novavax instead, and had absolutely zero side effects (at the same time as my flu shot no less). It’s well worth a try if you haven’t.