Cassandra
@historycass.bsky.social
She/Her HIST/PHIL faculty at a Texas CC. Lover of old garden roses, Austen, Tolkien, sci-fi, romance, history, and philosophy. Ed.D in Educational Technology. I read a lot. 💙📚🍎🏛️🗃️
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias
Carson is the second female Nobel winner in recent years to have been denied tenure. Katalin Karikó was denied tenure at Penn www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
Researcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To Apologize
Katalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.
forbes.com
This is amazing. I’m slowly exploring these playlists. I’m a new wave girl but love all the history here.
Matthew Perpetua@fluxblog.bsky.social · 3d agomy master list of playlists laying out a history of alternative rock has expanded again, now up to 47 fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...
Beautiful Rosa ‘Desdemona’ with hot pink Japanese Anemone dancing around her. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #UrbsInHorto #Chicago #FlowersOnFriday 🌱
I found this a fascinating conversation and certainly indicative of what I'm seeing from my students and even experiencing myself. Reading long, complex books is more difficult than it used to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...
Opinion | That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages (Gift Article)
Welcome to the postliterate era.
nytimes.com
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
cara giaimo@cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 4d agoi was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
Fall of 1987 I filled out a single, double-sided sheet of paper to apply to the University of Illinois.
Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · 4d ago"Hundreds of thousands of US teens use ChatGPT each week to plan for college. They’re using it to plan applications, track deadlines, research schools and understand financial aid. That’s why we’ll soon be adding College Planner to ChatGPT for Teens." sigh openai.com/index/teens-...
Why does today feel like another Monday? Anyway, here's another owl video. #birds
There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.
Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
nyti.ms
Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
news.mit.edu
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · 2mo agoMargaret Hamilton, a pioneer of software engineering who led NASA's in-flight software team for the Apollo mission, was born #OTD in 1936. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 Image: NASA
Isn’t is obvious that, posthaste, we need to rename all schools, colleges and universities “brain gyms”?
Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · 5d agothe tech industry is about to invent books
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 5d ago"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin
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[AI] Know before you go
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Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau
How to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST
Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack
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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo agoI am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
A fun fact about neutrinos is that they come in three “flavors” (types) and also in three masses and you would think that this means each flavor has its own mass and you would be absolutely wrong about that.
Parisians dressed their dogs up for Paris Fashion Week. Video via @reuters.com
Nobel prize for optogenetics! Congrats! 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique that uses tiny lights to activate neurons in the brain.
nytimes.com
This is the oldest sample of Hebrew text with European musical notation. It's an autograph manuscript of Obadiah the Proselyte, a Norman-Italian priest who converted to Judaism in 1102. He traveled to Egypt and Syria, using his knowledge of Gregorian Chant to record Hebrew poetry. @theul.bsky.social
Not a medical doctor, but a historian of medicine. Pneumonic plague is much more serious than bubonic plague. It's also much rarer. BUT, both are treatable with antibiotics if caught early. So, it's a scary story, but let's slow our roll a bit.
