Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

As a component of aseptic technique, Bunsen burners do not universally decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

watching baseball

It’s @catranslation.org mail day hell yeah

watching babylon 5

It's syllabus time again, and I'm seeing a lot of example AI policies that tell students: "It's OK to use AI to help your thinking; but you shouldn't use it to DO your thinking."

10+ years of seeing the mountain goats live at every opportunity and tonight I finally saw them play you were cool for the first time live 😭

What is PBS Kids doing telling 3rd graders to use Ai to write a poem???

We discovered a pathway that contributes to anti-folate antibiotic resistance and the persistent of S. aureus TD-SCV in the lung

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 3w ago

A c-di-AMP-controlled glutamine synthesis pathway promotes persistence of Staphylococcus aureus thymidine-dependent small colony variants in the lung https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741254v1

when you don’t want to waste a cute outfit on nobody seeing it but also you’re only two months old

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

parental leave updates: realized I can add both a liquid IV and a caffeinated crystal light to the same huge water bottle and become basically unstoppable

my baby is 8 weeks old tomorrow and has already completely outgrown 0-3 month clothes. what kind of superbaby have I created

I think rural red areas should have hospitals and mail and broadband but I want people to be clear eyed about what rural America is and isn’t, and what it definitely emphatically isn’t is a sleeping giant of left wing revolutionaries in waiting or even a reliable source of potential Democrat voters.

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

High temps, low prices: it’s the CAT Days of Summer Sale! From now until July 20th all our books are 30% off (40% off for members). 😎 www.twolinespress.com/books

when students ask me a question I don’t know the answer to

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · last mo.

sundry mystifications too tedious to detail

the four genders

Arcane Bullshit@arcanebullshit.bsky.social · last mo.

profound darkness

this onesie was such a good purchase

“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just start writing. My new post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

two things that were worth the 9-month wait

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

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We are hiring! Focus is on colleagues interested in protein homeostasis and human disease. Priority reviewing starts mid-June and will continue on a rolling basis. Here is the ad, hit me up if you have questions! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Locati...

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I love not using AI. I love reading books written by human beings, hand-sewing little creatures, watching for bats during dusk, listening to human experts to learn about a topic. Not using AI is very fun.

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Guess who survived their last day of work before maternity leave 😎