"I have to say I've never been more shocked by the so-called climate "movement." I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't the immediate cowering that so many organizations and politicians are doing" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social drilled.ghost.io/the-problem-...

The Problem Class

Sometime last year, I was asked to participate in a closed door conversation in which a mix of academic researchers, journalists, and climate campaigners were asked to share their unvarnished thoughts...

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What a cool job opportunity. Note the specific interest in evolutionary genomics

Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠@jutfelt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tenure track professor in Rapid Marine Adaptation at the University of Vienna! Deadline: Sept. 15th jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

For more on this, why it's a grift, and how we got here - season 15 of @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Josh Gabbatiss@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 4w ago

Carbon capture and storage is the subject of considerable hype – but as it stands, very little CO2 is being captured and stored.

I want to quote screenshot this whole excellent piece from Marisa, but this especially - we *make* the words, we don't just regurgitate without the feeling, without the things that makes us human.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is something I have been warning about for months. The US is one of the world's most polluting economies, and it has been exceedingly difficult to breakthrough the dismissiveness. bsky.app/profile/keta...

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

- The now-rising emissions above relate mostly to record-high power demand - Most rising power demand in the US comes from new data centres www.iea.org/reports/elec... - Most US data centre expansion comes from generative machine learning applications iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/b8a83...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Fisheries: Creating marine protected areas only displaces fisheries and does not benefit the ocean Costello: No they don't and yes they do www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries | PNAS

Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries

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Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella.

Beginning of semester me: *sets aside Tuesday and Thursday for research* Me now: Spends all of Tuesday and Thursday grading and writing emails. :(

NSF GRFP solicitation out. App deadlines now in November. As others noted, eligibility rules for current graduate students now exclude 2nd year grad students. See the solicitation - they’ve emphasized “first year” and “less than one academic year” in grad program. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Reason No. 324 why no-one should think that "AI" (artificial but certainly not intelligent) is an unmitigated Good Thing: it's mathematically inevitable that AI will hallucinate. We need far more discussion of the risks of all this and less frantic hype. I mean, really, what's the hurry?

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 12mo ago

My provocation: By 2035, methane - not carbon dioxide - will be the main driver of climate change. Absent significant policy intervention, fossil fuel infrastructure will continue to emit methane at high rates even if fossil fuel combustion, and associated carbon dioxide emissions, drop sharply.

New press from Bates on what my summer students were up to www.bates.edu/news/2025/09... Read all about our journey across the Maine intertidal :)

Pulling mussels: Bates researchers spend the summer studying Maine’s disappearing shellfish

A research team from Bates spent the summer investigating Maine's disappearing shellfish, the blue mussel.

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I present to you- my lab as trees. My students said we needed “more whimsy”, so we have it now. Great summer working in mussel physiology with these awesome students

We can’t even get everyone to read the syllabus 😭

wokepopesAIcrashout@rebeccajunelane.bsky.social · last yr.

This. These people assume kids do WAY more listening to professors than they do. It’s not the classes. It’s the chill AF Iranian girl with the good weed hookup and the hot queer boy who is nicer to you than any of your friends back home that change your brain chemistry. It’s the possibilities.

I used to tell biology/forestry/ecology graduate students that being a Federal Agency Research Scientist was a great career to shoot for, but they might not even exist next year.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.

But literally everything I’ve been able to tell a student for 15 years is now just…gone. Gone. I had the same issue with a family friend reaching out about scholarships to help bridge her son’s financial aid gap. I had to explain that everything I knew about is mostly gone and/or frozen.

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere. The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Nancy Parmalee@nparmalee.bsky.social · last yr.

People are talking about the imminent brain drain of US researchers to other countries but that’s not the only way it’s going to look. There is going to be a brain drain out of science and into other US sectors. There are a lot of non-science things you can do with a Ph.D.

I wrote about chemtrails, Lee Zeldin, and how his EPA routinely brags about its participation in a conspiracy to let corporations poison us newrepublic.com/article/1978...

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

Listen: this is obscenely important. There is a growing complacency that over-achieving solar can make up for under-achieving wind, and it is *not true*. Wind and solar generate in a complementary way. Solar might max out. Wind needs much more support!! ember-climate.org/insights/res...

New @sashamtl.bsky.social et al paper - assessing whether machine learning model developers disclose basic environmental / energy information with their models. They mostly do not!! Grim results for most of the big companies: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572 huggingface.co/spaces/sasha...

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

davidpham5@davidpham5.bsky.social · last yr.

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

Today on Juneteenth, I am amplifying #BlackInTheIvory anecdotes that were shared by Black scientists 🧪 in summer 2020. Screenshots from Twitter presented in anonymized format 2025 is the era of the "anti-DEI crusade".

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules

A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

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Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · last yr.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Super important point here-- privatizing GRFP or really anything funding science makes folks doing the work beholden or at least feel beholden to whatever special interest is funding. This drastically impact messaging, results, and even the questions that are asked.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

And remember, they are talking about privatizing the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, making instruments of government dependent on the largesse of the billionaire military-tech complex www.aip.org/fyi/nsf-seek...

The Invertebrate Paleontology department at the AMNH is seeking a full-time Museum Specialist. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Museum Specialist - New York, NY 10024 - Indeed.com

American Museum of Natural History

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A list of 1753 terminated awards from the NSF. See previous post re: overall funding lost. This is a brain drain and an attack on science and knowledge. It's also NOT strategic at all and places the US at a significant international disadvantage. AND so much more...

Dr. Diaz Eaton up to Good Trouble@mathprofcarrie.bsky.social · last yr.

NSF just released a public list of terminated awards. It’s linked on the bottom of the FAQ page at: nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities#termination-list