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 · 2w 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

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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

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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

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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 😎

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Since They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI

"Everyone now kind of sounds the same."

tech.yahoo.com

update: the sequencing came back perfect so I guess life uh, finds a way 🤷🏻

Lauren@gramnegativity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Did an experiment in our teaching lab where students clone GFP-FLAG into pUC18 & blue/white screen. Can someone tell me why despite the stop codon in our construct, removing 17 AAs from lacZ, AND introducing a frame-shift to the remaining sequence, the colonies are STILL FREAKING BLUE

Yup. It's so tiring hearing that we (as teachers) MUST "prepare our students for an AI future" & "get on the AI train or else be left behind," & I'm aware that some professors are using AI for grading or creating AI lectures using avatars of themselves, but I think if "AI is the future" we're fucked

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.