Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn
@carrielynnland.bsky.social
#PhD candidate in #ScienceFiction; master's on #Dune; podcaster & host of New Books in #Secularism; #academicsky
Just so, so, so, so tired of having to spend so much of my time, effort and mental energy on thinking and talking about a theft-based ecocidal socially harmful technology whose core public face (the LLM-slop type) has zero - ZERO - proven use cases in education and academia.
Had a fun chat about Disbelief with @carrielynnland.bsky.social for New Books in Secularism, check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/5oJK... 💙📚 🧪
Will Gervais, "Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species" (Prometheus Books, 2024)
New Books in Secularism · Episode
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I knew that some folks will not be delighted by this review of Graham Farmelo's new biography of Hawking, but so be it. The book itself is good - as I say, Farmelo lets people's words speak for themselves, and many are quite damning. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Hawking by Graham Farmelo review – the dark side of genius
A biography of the physicist recognises his achievements, but also reveals the selfish narcissist underneath
theguardian.com
The more I learn about Vladimir Nabokov, the more I love. This is SO Nabokovian 🦋
If you rely on scraping to collect data for your academic studies, be aware that AI poisoning is a thing. journal.messyfounder.com/why-brands-a... #academicsky #phdsky
Why Brands Are Secretly “Poisoning” Their Data to Stop AI Scrapers
AI isn’t sending you traffic anymore — it’s stealing your IP
journal.messyfounder.com
Great topical premise for a sci-fi movie right now - the cliché robot butler, but it’s such a shameless kiss-up bootlicker they have to kill it for the cringe factor lol. Someone make this please.
Etele Plaza's Interactive Kisrobot
Alt: A robot butler called “Kissrobot”
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That’s it, this will forever be atheism’s mascot in my head-canon, I will never get this image of Dawkins out of my head 🤣 Thank you, @willgervais.com
![The preface describes an image of Richard Dawkins, “burst[ing] through the wall like Kool-Aid Man yelling “Oh yeah, God’s dead!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:weiiensj6b5aaeluqvhywupb/bafkreigaz34w5tuxdtukybwppdqtrbzg7nqeoemqp2jte2llwhnjqxt4zq)
What a fantastic success story. Intelligent, targeted law-enforcement responses are more effective than resource-heavy brute force. ICE could learn from Baltimore.
A relic of the future 🖖 #StarTrek
Decades after it was lost, original ‘Star Trek’ USS Enterprise model found and restored
It's not every day a piece of science fiction history is discovered, but that's exactly what happened with the original 33-inch USS Enterprise model from "Star Trek: The Original Series."
yahoo.com
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
theverge.com
🚨 New online: in this discussion piece, Madhav Joshi presents 5 shifts in international peace building practices which underlie recent increases in armed conflict and the slower implementation of peacebuilding processes.⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky
With the first book in our CINEMAS OF ASIA series coming out in just a few months, I really want people to know how awesome this series is. And that we want your ideas! We're on Open Access publisher and we *pay* our authors for their books. Plus our print editions are beautiful and affordable.
Cinemas of Asia
Lever Press is a scholarly press supported by more than 50 liberal arts institutions. It publishes peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to authors or their academic instituti...
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Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
#FiveAlive 5 ALBUMS to get Sun Ra virgins on the road. 1. The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 2. Space is the Place 3. Other Voices, Other Blues (Sun Ra Quartet ft. John Gilmore) 4. The Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection, Vol.2, 1962 - 1991 5. Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Johnnie Johnstone@johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 4mo agoDay 38. #FiveAlive We’re going to mix it up with the last 13. For today, well, we simply can’t do justice to Sun Ra and his prolific output by picking only 5 tracks, so let’s see your 5 ALBUMS to get Sun Ra virgins on the road.
Why do we create art, why do we write, when it feels like the world is ending? Ed Simon joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss his latest book, WRITING DURING THE APOCALYPSE (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social) which addresses these very questions. newbooksnetwork.com/writing-duri...
Is it possible to devise a system of morality and ethics from math? From physics?? From the Laws of Thermodynamics??? @dmdalton.bsky.social says YES in his latest book from @nupress.bsky.social. Give a listen to our discussion on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-matter-o...
There are lovely people in the world. It helps me to remember that. I’ve never set foot in a lab but I feel like I could instantly be friends with all these people.
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat's your favorite lab noise? Inflection Point co-host @ginacvitale.bsky.social caught up with attendees at #ACSSpring2026. #chemsky 🧪
In AI news: AI is still bad at things …
REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny
Enjoyed speaking with Elliot Hanowski on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. In this #AuthorInterview #podcast, we talk about notable atheists and unbelievers in Canada during the interwar period, including their activities and their opponents. #Booksky newbooksnetwork.com/towards-a-go...
Elliot B. Hanowski, "Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
@drkarlnadolsky.bsky.social & @drnadolsky.bsky.social just listened to your episode with the debate between Dr Stacy and Dr Lauren from Sept 2025 and had to respond with my experience/anecdote, as a perimenopausal woman who lifts 4-6x/wk and started at 19 yrs old.
My school, Université Laval, is looking to hire a full-time, tenure-track professor of Making Maple Syrup 🍁Not making this up: www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Maple Syrup Production | Ressources humaines | Université Laval
A privileged living environment in the heart of Quebec City and the first French-language university in North America, Université Laval is a major university open to the world and recognized for its culture of excellence in teaching and research. Thanks to the Department of Wood and Forest Sciences of the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Université Laval is the only university in Quebec to offer undergraduate programs in forestry and wood engineering leading to the Quebec Order of Forest Engineers or to the Quebec Order of Engineers. The Department of Wood and Forest Sciences is also responsible for the integrated multi-faculty bachelor's degree in natural and managed environments and the only graduate program in agroforestry in Canada. It has 35 full-time professors and lecturers, five research chairs, a teaching leadership chairs, a research consortium, two research centers and over 500 undergraduate and graduate students. Collaborations with the Departments of Geography and Geomatics, as well as with other faculties at Université Laval, offer interesting opportunities for multidisciplinary research.
rh.ulaval.ca
