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Academic, writer, immigrant. Queer vegan. I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of minds | they/them Represented by Anna Ange at Liza Dawson Associates Profile picture by @ancientwinters.bsky.social

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · yesterday

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

For the actual figure, use matched populations and treatments in both panels, with means and uncertainty. The teaching point is immediate: hybrids survive better, but wild plants reproduce more—viability and fecundity selection oppose one another. fucks sake don't make up the data You’re right. You asked for a sketch from Mercer, and I gave you invented bar heights. Labeling them “illustrative” doesn’t make that appropriate. I should have obtained the actual data or told you I couldn’t access them.
Abigail Nussbaum@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22h ago

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis)@avishaybsg.bsky.social · yesterday

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · last wk.

Don't get me wrong: it's very bad that a centuries old town hall caught fire, but a society that thinks this is worth getting preoccupied about and doesn't seem to much care about people losing hands and eyes and life is a society that needs a serious rethink of priorities

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 2w ago

the reason "con" is such a useful way to think about tech companies is that it helps you make sense of their playbook, which is the con-man's playbook razzle-dazzle, escalation, claims to authority, scaring people about being left out, offering to let you in on the secret BUT YOU HAVE TO ACT NOW

B. Pladek@bpladek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

using this as an excuse to post an extraordinary description of shearing a sheep from Wescott's 1924 novel The Apple of the Eye. such perfect minute observation--the click of the shears on dried dung! the pith color of the inner fleece! even the choreography of sheep and human bodies is so exact

The shearer clipped down where the wool was thin over the belly, folded back the matted fabric, and cut between the skin and the two lapels thus formed, widening them quickly. When he came to the legs he slit open the bedraggled fringes, and as if he were skinning it, freed a tapering limb of wool. Where the ankle was hung with lumps of dung as large as birds’ eggs, the shears made a brittle click. The wool, solid like a hide, began to separate from the ewe’s body, and at last was attached only to her sharp back, from which it hung limply. Then he twisted about, pressed the head and forefeet in the crook of his arm, and worked downward along the spine. The wool, on one side grey with dirt, and yellowish on the other like the inner skin of an orange, sank in a soft heap on the floor. He straightened up and stepped indifferently away. The sheep staggered a moment in her semi-human position, and fell forward on her feet; the pointed hooves struck the floor; the ankles crumpled forward and straightened; she kicked out her hind legs nimbly, and stalked helplessly forward. Her yellow, emaciated body, planed and pitted by the shears, looked raw and unfinished between the wedge-shaped head and the bony grey feet. She stumbled, and nodded her head sickly. The two men, moving forward, herded her toward the stall. On the floor, dented and crushed into splinters by the feet of the horses which had been driven in with loads of hay or grain, the fleece lay bright, warm, and limp like a skin.
K.M. Veohongs@kmveohongs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very excited to be a Round Table Mentor this year! My writing community has made such a difference in getting me to where I am now, so I am excited to help someone else up the ladder.

Graphic of mixed race Thai woman, KM Veohongs, participating as a mentor in the Round Table Mentor program, open to adult books in genre's including speculative, literary, women's fiction and "genre weird" books.
Round Table Mentor@roundtablementor.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are SO excited to announce our 2026-2027 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible! Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open on Friday, November 6th, 2026, so mark your calendars!

Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 2w ago

This bibliography of Central and Eastern European and diasporic feminisms, created by researchers in the UK diaspora, is still being passed around. It “only” covers a few recent years, and so much new CEE scholarship on gender, power, and justice has already come out since. We need a whole archive!

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Athena Kugblenu@athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Museums at their core, tell stories they evolve as stories are not static. Museums are part of an artefacts' journey. They are custodians, not owners. There are endless ways to educate visitors about history whilst correcting the thefts of the past. In fact, there is no other way to tell this story

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 3w ago

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

Bryn, Make me a transwitch 🏳️‍⚧️@brynstone.bsky.social · 4w ago

Truly, the first time I've read an AI critique that ties into cultural competency, and I'm honestly embarrassed I never considered that angle (mostly because I find using it to be morally radioactive to begin with).

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4w ago

My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence.

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Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev · 4w ago

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.