Okay genuinely asking— what does accountability look like for Holden Thorp and Hank Green? What I’d like to see: I’d love if @holdenthorp.bsky.social set a clear journalistic standard at SCIENCE and prohibited the use of LLMs for researching, writing, and editing publications at SCIENCE.

Debbie Gale Mitchell@heydebigale.bsky.social · 4d ago

So in the last two weeks EIC of Science and a famous science communicator have lost massive amounts of credibility because of their reliance on LLMs... Some examples of how to lose trust with your audience to share with my students I guess.

Thank you, @heydebigale.bsky.social , for both showing your vulnerability/humanity and taking an active (well earned) leadership role on this (demonstrating for all of us your integrity in your book writing process). We appreciate you!

Debbie Gale Mitchell@heydebigale.bsky.social · 6h ago

Okay genuinely asking— what does accountability look like for Holden Thorp and Hank Green? What I’d like to see: I’d love if @holdenthorp.bsky.social set a clear journalistic standard at SCIENCE and prohibited the use of LLMs for researching, writing, and editing publications at SCIENCE.

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

Politico@politico.com · 10h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Say what, now?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

I just found out that there is a book titled Galactic Hellcats, and now I must read it. I mean, of course I'm sad that it's not a high-concept space-age rockabilly band. (That's a given.) But since it's a book, I must read it.

I have a friend who is an amputee, and who runs a nonprofit that makes sports accessible to folks with physical disabilities. It's called North Carolina Adapted Sports. It's great. And it's in the running for some needed resources. Please vote for them here. www.landroverusa.com/experiences/...

Heads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Grave Reservations

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Tim...

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I can't stress this enough: this organization is great. Anything you can do to help it out would be awesome. They make such a positive difference in people's lives, and they deserve all the support they can get.

Matt Shipman (he/him)@shiplives.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have a friend who is an amputee, and who runs a nonprofit that makes sports accessible to folks with physical disabilities. It's called North Carolina Adapted Sports. It's great. And it's in the running for some needed resources. Please vote for them here. www.landroverusa.com/experiences/...

I have a friend who is an amputee, and who runs a nonprofit that makes sports accessible to folks with physical disabilities. It's called North Carolina Adapted Sports. It's great. And it's in the running for some needed resources. Please vote for them here. www.landroverusa.com/experiences/...

I appreciate that folks are expecting @standupforscience.net to act like many organizations/institutions and declare a win, then take our foot off the gas. Unfortunately for everyone involved, we are declaring a win and PUTTING PEDAL TO THE METAL. NEXT ACTION STEPS FORTH COMING TEAM!

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Optimization models are powerful tools for solving resource-allocation problems. But they can take forever and use a lot of computing power. Researchers have now found a way to speed things up (and use less power). Pretty neat. 🧪 🛟 #SciComm news.ncsu.edu/2026/08/more...

A Public Health Challenge Has Led to a More Efficient Way to Allocate All Sorts of Resources

Researchers have demonstrated a way to drastically reduce the computing power needed to run large-scale optimization models while still producing near-optimal results.

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I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)

If any reporters are looking for sources on the cyclospora outbreak: food safety, supply chain, economic impact, public health tracing, etc. -- this list includes direct contact info for the experts. Please share as appropriate. 🛟🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2026/07/nc-s...

NC State Experts Available to Speak on Cyclospora

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Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

I will never understand parents who don’t value their children. This is absolutely wild to me. Moreno is clearly a spineless loser, and Miller is clearly a creep. Just…gross.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Should the congressman who is credibly accused of beating and throwing scalding water at your own daughter run for re-election? “I don’t know,” says GOP Senator Bernie Moreno www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

It’s as if the DA is trying to ensure that nobody trusts the DA’s office or the police department.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

The new Trashcan Sinatras album is good. That is all.

This is one of the most wildly irresponsible things I have ever seen a tech company do, and that is *really* saying something.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Make this the one thing you read today if you only read one thing. 🔥

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5d ago

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

Having just rewatched season 1, this is 100% why a show like Reacher is popular. There's a vicarious thrill to watching a very large, competent person punish a lot of malignantly stupid people.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

There have been more measles cases in the past 18 months than in the previous 25 years combined. 🛟 www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...

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100 years ago, my opa would have been 7. So, my job would have been feeding the neighborhood ice man’s horse in the Bronx.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I simply don't understand how the company didn't put limits on this stuff. It's not difficult to do?

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d ago

good stuff man

This thread provides an excellent overview of recent maneuvering by FIFA, and the international response.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 6d ago

So Concacaf sides with Uefa. FIFA's financial power grab is done. What's funny is Infantino would probably have just about got away with this if it wasn't for the Balogun thing. As i said at the time, that scared the absolute shit out of the European FAs. So they instantly closed ranks on this.

If any reporters are looking for sources on the cyclospora outbreak: food safety, supply chain, economic impact, public health tracing, etc. -- this list includes direct contact info for the experts. Please share as appropriate. 🛟🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2026/07/nc-s...

NC State Experts Available to Speak on Cyclospora

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I am still thinking about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Trump’s abuse of Kaitlan Collins. I am thinking about how society demands that abuse survivors provide proof of the abuse in order to be believed. But in this case, Trump abused a woman in front of an entire press corps. 🧵

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

The headline should read: Huge order of imported bacon from Canada sent back due to the lack of the US being able to inspect the bacon. Nothing to do with Canada. Headline is gaslighting as if it's Canada's failing. It is not.