If you're a scientist, @anthropic.com's Fable is 100% unusable. I was curious to try it as a learning tool, but I'm 0/5 on requests it will accept no matter how benign, because all my questions have SOME biology connection. Pretty sure asking to spell the word biology would fail. Total garbage.

At the Greenwood car show in Seattle thinking to myself @bwjones.bsky.social would absolutely love this.

“I proposed to christen mine Claudia, and she was pleased.” … … …🤮

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3mo ago

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

“We have a population that has learned — correctly — that pharmaceutical companies have lied, that institutions have failed them…But the response has not been better skepticism. It has been the migration of trust from one set of financially motivated actors to another.” Great point here

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

You know what’s wild? I haven’t used the Windows side of my dual boot PC in like… 6 months. Between ads, user-antagonistic design, AI everything, and Windows updates seemingly breaking major systems ~50% (charitably) of the time, it take a “no other options” situation to get me into Windows now… 1/

I’m one, maybe two unprompted “by the way… I have some new capabilities if you enable Gemini” ads away taking a sledgehammer to every Google home product in my house… I don’t want your garbage autocorrect controlling my lights, leave me TF alone.

Princess Bride and puppy snores, not a bad way to close out the year : ) Happy New Year everybody 🎆🍾

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Please be sure to check your kid's candy VERY carefully. I just found an unbalanced centrifuge in a Snickers bar. 🍬☠️💥

This only happens to you once

Reading the Lord of the Rings for the first time in ~20yrs and I forgot how much of Fellowship is just songs. Feeling so cheated that the movie left out the song about the cat, the dog, and the cow that got super drunk one night, broke a fiddle, and scared the cow so bad it jumped over the moon…

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with the words what a waste above him .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with the words what a waste above him .

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We are pleased to announce that Webvision has been fully migrated to our new home at the University of Pittsburgh. www.webvision.pitt.edu All traffic should not automatically be redirected from the old URLs, but please update your links. Heads up: @pittophthalmology.bsky.social

FINALLY! Although knowing Microsoft this’ll also automatically invoke CoPilot for some godforsaken reason, just to juice the numbers… www.theverge.com/news/767551/...

Windows is getting a better em dash keyboard shortcut.

Rejoice, Windows and em dash fans! Microsoft is finally adding an improved Windows-wide keyboard shortcut for em dash and en dash. The change is part of the latest Windows 11 Dev channel builds, so it...

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“But is there a rootier cause? Only wellness influencers know for sure…” youtube.com/shorts/R-XO5...

The Root Cause Of Disease

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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Installing Ubuntu on a separate SSD so I can dual boot my PC… so this is what a slippery slope feels like

This… this is my Elysium #ColorimetryNerdHeaven

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m judging the 2025 TV Shootout today, just staring at OLED TVs in a dark room for 8 hours with a dozen other display nerds. I am in heaven

The local Safeway just started locking up their ice cream and I wanna take whatever moron executive thought this was a good idea and toss them casually into a wood chipper… this might seem extreme but I feel it’s justified. NEVER get between a stressed out grad student and their Ben & Jerry’s

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

Literally the only macro on my phone and computer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s mapped to the word “shruggie” 😂

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · last yr.

I actually do keep that shortcut on my phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?" Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."

It’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:

Exoplanet System xkcd.com/3103/

PSA: around 5-8% of the population has a color vision impairment for red/green. Many talks at #2025ICDB still use red-green LUTs on slides that are not accessible to everyone. Changing to more accessible colors is doable and easy. We can do better. #devbio #ICDB2025 #WeTheColorBlind

Question for my science peeps. I’ve been resisting using AI coding tools for almost anything beyond documentation looking while building my data analysis pipeline for a few reasons. From most practical to most personal: (1/n) 🧵