A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics.

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 21h ago

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

I never noticed that, he said, not disbelieving me exactly, but that's what such an apparently impartial observation is doing. But you wouldn't notice it, would you, I said, when the system is working for you. #AcademicSky

An undergrad professor once shared that at one of her previous offices, she'd often have students asking her to make copies. Initially, she thought they just wanted help working the copier but eventually realized that, despite her having her own office filled with books and it saying "Prof. [Last

🏺 Wie sprechen wir über archäologische #Objekte und wie können wir ihre Daten besser vernetzen? Am 12. August, 13 Uhr, stellt Victoria Biesterfeld die AG #Archäologiethesaurus und den Archäologischen Objektbezeichnungsthesaurus (AOT) vor. ℹ️ Alle Informationen: www.nfdi4objects.net/events/n4o_a...

Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 8h ago

The last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.

Tawny has sensed that Motley is under the weather and has decided that they must be touching at all times

"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.

BMW verzeichnet Umsatzeinbruch. BMW: "Waruuhumm?? 😭😭😭" Auch BMW:

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

Dreamt that I bought a t-shirt for the first day of classes that says “Maybe WE are the Sea Peoples” and honestly need to make this happen.

"Noses" is not how I've heard that saying actually said.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 20h ago

The saying goes that opinions are like noses, everyone has one, but I find that is not actually true. People WANT opinions but don’t necessarily have any ability to form them on their own and seek out opinions to adopt.

Jason Stanley: "das ist kein akademischer Markt, das ist ein Prekariat". #PDprekär #IchBinHanna

Lukas Mengelkamp@lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · last yr.

#Spitzenforscher Jason Stanley zur Frage, ob er sich vorstellen könnte in Deutschland zu lehren:

Bald kostet der Liter Sprit 5€ und das ganz ohne grüne Politik. Einfach nur wegen Krieg, #Lobbyismus und #Klimawandel. #cducsu www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/n...

Wie Niedrigwasser der Wirtschaft zusetzt - ein Überblick

Das Niedrigwasser am Rhein hat teils neue Tiefststände erreicht - die niedrigen Pegelstände haben auch Folgen für die Wirtschaft. Darum geht's.

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Notsofunfact: Wenn deine Kinder jünger als 12 sind, kannst Du eine Pflegestufe bekommen für sie bei Typ 1 Diabetes und wenn sie krank sind Dich auf die Kinder krank schreiben lassen. Wenn die Kinder über 12 sind, kannst Du all das nicht, obwohl Du nicht zwingend weniger Probleme hast.

friend got suspended from here, i jokingly asked if it's because they said something mean about a billionaire, and i was right 🫩

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

"Okay. I forgot to prep. I spent all week having Grok generate images of my female coworkers in cosplay and forgot to engage with my hobby's most fundamental expectations. We start in a couple hours. Which one of you anti-AI warriors are going to do this for me 😎"

It's kind of how you can't even ask taxi drivers for directions anymore, since Satnav became a thing.

Sean@flyingwalruss.bsky.social · 2d ago

AI dependent people losing their very basic problem solving skills is as embarrassing as we all thought

God forbid you have to ask your players to use the boundless power of their imagination while playing a make believe game

how do you even play a TTRPG without any creative urge or curiosity and would prefer to offload that to AI my high school D&D group would do so much cool shit for campaigns - watercolour maps, tarot cards, our own painted mini figures. once, we did a maze built in Minecraft!

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

TREES ALSO PROVIDE SHADE FOR CROPS SILVOPASTURE AND AGROFORESTRY ARE THINGS YOU CAN PLANT TOMATOES UNDER A TREE THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE

Ouaquaga on Chenango@jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · last yr.

"But we need solar over fields to reclaim farmland" Me: plant a tree, rewild, put solar on buildings "But we need to reclaim farmlands!" Me: plant a tree, rewild "But we need solar!" Me: put it on buildings, over pavement "But what about the farmland- it needs a use!" Me: BITCH PLANT A TREE

Smoking gun: "Ancient #DNA [from Chilean mummies] confirms historical accounts of how #smallpox got to the #Americas" (Spoiler: It's exactly who you might've been suspected.) 🏺🧬 www.science.org/content/arti... by @lizziewade.bsky.social via @science.org

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

“Landmark” paper finds disease originated with European contact

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I usually just say "Neat" when archeology (etc.) is awesome but I am not sure that's appropriate for smallpox. Either way, slam dunk scholarship and yet another nail into the coffin of pseudoarchaeology.

Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 3d ago

Smoking gun: "Ancient #DNA [from Chilean mummies] confirms historical accounts of how #smallpox got to the #Americas" (Spoiler: It's exactly who you might've been suspected.) 🏺🧬 www.science.org/content/arti... by @lizziewade.bsky.social via @science.org

Beautiful, breathtaking, endangered 💔🏺

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d ago

For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of...🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

Water historian here. What the world needs (soon) is a desalination moonshot. We're going to need A LOT more fresh water. Desalination is very energy intensive. China's massive lead in renewable energy gives them potential advantage. But the USA or EU could conceivably get it done if they start now.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a desert

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a desert

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✨mostly sunny✨

John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s 49C in Basra, Iraq today. Coolest it will get overnight is 36C. Temperatures will top 50C next week. #Climate breakdown is already well underway. Furnace-like conditions like this will continue to spread, year after year.

It's time to stop making excuses for climate change deniers and 'don't knows'. Do we want to survive? Dow we want people's children and grandchildren to survive? If the answer is 'yes', then stand up and fight for your survival. And I mean fight: take the fight to the enemy that would kill us.

yall wanna hear the little babiest meow you ever heard?

GO Katie!!! 👏🏼

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

Katie Phang vows to release the Epstein files if her lawsuit is successful: "The law was to benefit everyone -- especially the victims and survivors of Epstein, Maxwell and others, who continue to get the stiff arm, short thrift asshole treatment by Todd Blanche."

Mfw the local shelter just got more kittens in

Am never going to stop saying these things, even once British HE feels like a cold, dead moon.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...