What an honestly wonderful way to start the week. Intentional sub-tweeting as it's about work... but when you ask for ABC, and they send you ABC, in order, labeled, in a nice folder...
Hannah
@paleodarcy.bsky.social
I’m a former paleontologist with a day job now Supervisor of an empty headed orange boy 🐈
what "Google Earth on the web now has image generation built in, powered by Nano Banana 2. It went live today, worldwide, for everyone." WHAT "You open Google Earth. You zoom to any coordinates on the planet. You click 'create image'. You type what you want to see."
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
Watch this discovery in either octopus or squid lead to the end of prion diseases, like how gila monster venom studies are ending obesity. Fund basic science
Meg Mindlin@invertebabe.bsky.social · last wk.New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
The moment I step into West Virginia or Tennessee 👀
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you
Studying single-cell biodiversity feels like going back in time 200 years. No one has any idea what's going on (in the best possible way). BASICS about life are still being discovered. If you'd like to learn more, & see more videos, check out the study here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora
“Kingdom-level” branches are being added to the tree of eukaryotes at a rate approaching one per year, with no signs of slowing down.1,2,3,4 Some are …
sciencedirect.com
hate bringing my passport to olive garden but the breadsticks are worth it
"So he's an academic lured by the promise of long-term funding for his research? What did you name him?" Crichton: "Dr. uh.....Dr. Grant."
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
I saw someone call Tate’s arrest outfit “Doflamingo without the feather boa” and now I can’t unsee it
of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it
Incredible that The Hobbit is three movies and The Odyssey is one movie
dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked
Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 2w agothis shot is so bleak lmao
Taylor Farms supplies all these places but the only one who proactively pulled produce from menus last week was Taco Bell. They’re getting a bad rap when they’re the only ones who did the right thing. Blame Taylor Farms! Side note, Whole Foods shoppers you’re paying 3X more for Walmart lettuce 🤣
It’s ok, because after all these federal budget cuts, labs won’t be able to afford grad students anyway 🙃
Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3w agoThe typical PhD lasts over 5 years. The new rule limiting international students to 4 years will absolutely devastate graduate degree programs in the US.
“Nothing short of a theological reorientation of our relationships with the ecological web of life will begin to approach the tasks ahead of us in facing the planetary polycrisis alongside the larger earth community.”
Theology RSS Reeder@theological.me.web.brid.gy · 3w ago
Folks should familiarize themselves with official guidance for food safety in developing countries, especially as our country de-develops. I’ll make a similar post in ~2yrs about boiling all your water
Hell yeah, this generation needed its own linguistic version of “Hoovervilles” #Trumporrhea
JeffTrnka@jefftrnka.bsky.social · 3w ago
A Jewish case for AI work exemptions based on morals, ethics, rights and responsibilities. So, we’ve got this argued from a Catholic and Jewish perspective now. Any other religious arguments you’ve seen out there?
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 3w agoSo. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love?
top tier work the last week, big guy, hope you were just warming up for the main event
God@thegodshow.com · 3w agoLindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell
This sounds like an exaggeration, but the last point was 100% in the books
Steven Lumpkin@silent0siris.bsky.social · 4w agoNote to self
I took this job to work with people. But I’m working with email. I feel like Ian McKellen breaking down on the set of The Hobbit