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jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 3w ago

I saw one of those "ADHD life hacks" on instagram that said if you have a hard time ordering yourself to do things, put it in the form of a question, and I've actually had great success with it! namely asking "how pissed off are you going to be tomorrow if you don't do this right now"

Mr and Mrs Trellis@thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 3w ago

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s. They knew how damaging their industries are to the climate, environment & biodiversity - their response is greenwashing & gaslighting... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global heating

theguardian.com

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor@chadtopaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is VERY ANNOYING that @pwr2dppl.bsky.social can just brilliantly pluck an important and unanswered question out of thin air, randomly, in a text chat. But also, yay, because now we wrote this paper together on how institutions full of decent people can produce harm anyway. Check out our new work!

Institutional Harm through Threshold Cascades

Can a population of people not individually inclined to harm others nonetheless produce harmful collective outcomes, purely because of the institutional structure they inhabit? Social scientists have ...

arxiv.org

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 4w ago

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

FIGURE 2 Open in figure viewer PowerPoint Operational biological sex definitions applied to hummingbirds (Bleiweiss 1992; Bleiweiss 1999; Bleiweiss 2001; Diamant et al. 2021; Falk et al. 2022; Falk et al. 2021) where sex is operationally defined by binary plumage phenotypes in the field. Each row depicts a wild individual hummingbird with morphological traits (beak length, plumage coloration), behavioural traits (territoriality) and their unobserved gamete type. This example illustrates how the same individual can be operationally defined as one sex in the field (based on external phenotypes) but classified as a different sex based on their gametes (which cannot be easily observed in the field), highlighting how definitional choices shape scientific reporting of sex.
Andy Lee, PhD@andylee.bsky.social · 4w ago

In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)

Andromeda Yelton@thatandromeda.bsky.social · 4w ago

OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!

ReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for Libby

Discover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby.

reciprocard.com

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wind up in spaces where people are very committed to focusing on presidents but, for my money, I want more ways to give faculty and staff the capacity for something like this

Will Jones@willpjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 4w ago

"don't lash out at people loving what you do" is a sweet way to say it. I agree that loathing your work is just part of the improvement cycle, but sometimes your *current* skill level is someone else's goals and telling them their goal is shit isn't very kind to them.