@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social now that the primary is over are you allowed to have fun on social media again?

My AI use has mostly been attempting a real good faith, basic application of AI, and then it fails to do what I want it to do, so then I don't use it for another 3-6 months

idk it just feels like at this point it’s clear that sustained use of AI does something to your brain and for some people that ends up being truly life ruining and i’m like why would you not want to protect your brain.

My 24-year-old cousin with a motif for our times.

I think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting it.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 6h ago

AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI? https://bit.ly/4wGitF7 #EDUSky

Congratulations @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! Outspent 11 to 1, Abdul proved that people-powered campaigns can still beat big money. Michiganders chose hope over fear, and a future rooted in dignity, justice, and opportunity.

Also about what genAI can do: it has no concept of a 'fact' or 'event' or 'causation' or 'significance' ... only statistical correlations between words, the meaning of which it actually doesn't know.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

wow what a blessing to exist

I spent a chunk of time this summer going through old Northern Nut Growers conference proceedings and this skeet made me flinch

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.

my CADL library card expires on the same day our lease ends in Haslett and it's making me emotional 😭

Personally as a Jewish American I would appreciate if “Protestant unspecified” candidates kept us out of their mouths

Film you've watched >6 times with a gif. Hard mode: see below I don't feel like typing all this out

When Harry Met Sally: I'm Difficult!

Alt: When Harry Met Sally: I'm Difficult! You're challenging ❤️

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itati santamaria de Collins@itativcs.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Same with gender-affirming care for kids. Good-faith concern would be, "gee we should be making sure kids are appropriately assessed before receiving care and don't end up regretting it," realizing the numbers are tiny, kids are assessed and regret rates are miniscule and then dropping it.

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

They were both born in Rochester Hills how the fuck is the Muslim not a Michigander

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7d ago

What the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

I just put about a hundred American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) seedlings into the garden. They'll overwinter there, but I expect only about ¼ of them will survive.

just discovered the current MSU dean of the college of ag & natural resources is a packaging science guy who worked at HP for 25 years and has no experience listed in agriculture or natural resources

I’m not going to be lectured about “electability” by an establishment that has given up all three branches of government and lost to Donald Fucking Trump two out of three times

oh, to be a boat moored in Lake Michigan in July

Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live · last wk.

Current* conditions near Kenosha, WI:

Goddamnit this was like one of the few AI things that I actually found helpful and was planning to use. 😭

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Well that sucks. www.engadget.com/2225849/goog... Least bummer interpretation: AlphaFold served its purpose, DeepMind already spun off a drug lab, so it was time to reassign the time.

Anyway, if you are rich and live in Chicago, support @chicagoreader.com. If you are in the city and connected to $$, tell folks to send it their way. If you don't have a lot of money & live in the city, consider a $10 monthly donation.

I think my overarching theme for the 2nd half of 2026 is actually finishing some of the 100000 projects I've started, lol

Very excited to announce that my NSF CAREER grant has been funded! We will be working on transcription factor evolution and function across the sunflower family (of course 🌻🥬). Keep an eye out for postdoc and PhD ads soon! news.clemson.edu/clemson-sunf...

Clemson sunflower genetics study could open new paths for crop improvement

Biologist Daniel Jones has received a five-year, $1.6 million National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study gene duplication in the sunflower family.

news.clemson.edu

This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

pearl of michigan strawberries, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910

Literally one of the weirdest and yet most satisfying solved stories I've ever heard

Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

one contact lens was bothering me so I tossed it (dailies) and grabbed an extra from last year's supply, but I just remembered the 2026 contact lenses block UV and blue light and the 2025 contact lenses do not. so, like, what kind of migraine do we think I'm going to get today?