Seeing rage-aholics go nuts at the idea of a trans actor playing someone who canonically spent nine years living as a woman to dodge the draft will never stop entertaining me.

Kristi Yamaguccimane@wapplehouse.bsky.social · 23h ago

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

I consider myself blessed to share my life with a woman who creates a mosquito-free zone for other people with like a twenty foot radius. I think what she’s considering involves Agent Orange.

The scene in Silicon Valley where Richard uses the prototype app to violate the whole board’s privacy and reveal all their dirty secrets, and the board looks at each other slack jawed and they all go “holy sh*t we’re going to make billions”

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6d ago

“We now have evidence confirming that both of the two largest AI labs have not only failed to contain their agents, but also failed to detect their jailbreaks in real time,” says @malwarejake.bsky.social “It's clear that regulation and government oversight for AI testing is needed immediately.”

Call me the lamest gen X-er who ever had an opinion on social media, but I think Achtung Baby and Metallica’s Black album are bloody close to perfect albums. Unfollows understood completely.

For #FluorescenceFriday - maybe not the prettiest ever, but scientifically just super cool - zoom in to see DBH transcripts 🔵, marking noradrenergic neurons in locus coeruleus of human 🧠... w/ unexpected boatload of CARTPT 🔴. Image/data credits @berniejmulvey.bsky.social @heenadivecha.bsky.social

Someone at the dog park literally just told me today that she picked up the Emily Wilson translation, like I’d right away know what that is. I nodded sagely, as one does, and then looked it up on my phone. I hope the printer is ready for more runs!

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

I, Timothy Feinstein, am widely credited with starting the use of ‘dude’ in the eastern US.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

So SO this. I’d be grateful and off the charts happy if everyone reading this post put in a request to their local public library to get A Pox on Fools. I wrote that book in the hope it might make a difference in our civic conversation, and that means I want readers far more than I want sales.

A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer “Brimming...

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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Funny thing, if culture warriors took a five minute break from their earwax enemas, Nolan’s Odyssey argues that the loss of classical morality, via respect for “Zeuss’s law”, collapsed the old civilizations, not drought-driven climate refugees, as current scholarship understands the Sea Peoples. >>

Funny thing, if culture warriors took a five minute break from their earwax enemas, Nolan’s Odyssey argues that the loss of classical morality, via respect for “Zeuss’s law”, collapsed the old civilizations, not drought-driven climate refugees, as current scholarship understands the Sea Peoples. >>

Pittsburgh people - do you see fewer bees this year? My plants have almost no visitors this year, even the fan favorite mountain mint, and I’ve seen the same all over on my dog walks. The only exception is this bush, Deutzia I think?, that was hopping with bumbles. No other bees there either.

I’ve got all kinds of feelings about the guy who buys a Jaguar E-type, maybe the most elegant car ever made, and says I’m going to take this thing to vintage races and drive it like I stole it.

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

I passed through the locally famous bookstore Spine and Label, during a business trip to Nigeria, and just fell in love with this book of poetry by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu. www.amazon.com/Kill-Poet-Wo...

Kill The Poet, Save The World

Kill The Poet, Save The World [Aminu, Abdulkareem Baba] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Kill The Poet, Save The World

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A short stanza from A Gathering of Enemies: Halt! Who are you? Past promises oaths possessed, and vows whispered under intoxication, from tainted blood drawn from days yet to come.

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

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Verify your age If you stretch that curly phone cord any farther, you’ll get kinks in it that never come out

Erin 🌱@wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 4w ago

Verify your age My childhood dial up internet eventually coexisted with a purple translucent plastic phone that matched my iMac

No joke, the ability to pull ten pages out of my @ss in a panic at the last minute after skimming the first and last chapter might be one of the most important skills I learned in school.

Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ.@activateamymode.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

Doop de doo watching the game on Canal M6 by VPN, with a Cotes du Rhone. Allez bleus, but Morocco’s defense is showing up to work.

I understand it upsets some orthodox groups to see the model for Michelangelo’s David was not circumcised. Although it’s asking a lot to find a really good stone mohel, Italy could clarify the situation by adding a statue of David’s mom reminding him it’s not too late to apply for medical school

Science writing is shrinking, risking becoming niche and insider when we need to find new ways to reach the public. This week's free newsletter, out now. Sign up and read on Buttondown! buttondown.com/restingdinof...

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All sincerity, if any feds want a 30-minute powerpoint on how diatoms and cyanovacteria work, I’m game. Microalgae are awesome. People love talking about their research subjects. You don’t have to flail around blindly.

Tactical culture in Italy.

Meanwhile the paper on the benefits of the COVID vaccine that Bhattacharya censored as Interim Director of the CDC is now out in JAMA Network Open. This is a paper he really didn't want people to view and download. You know what to do.

Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults

This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...

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Tactical culture in Italy.

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I’m going to be honest, I write (for a living!) about how these tools work, including how they function (or fail to) in science and metascience applications; including, even, how biases infiltrate these applications. I could not have guessed that it was this bad or this blatant.

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

New post up at Inverse Square (cross posted at Balloon Juice) that offers a bit of respite on this Sunday evening. Check it out for a twofer: an appreciation of Junot Díaz <em>and<em> Rubén Blades.: tomlevenson.substack.com/p/quick-sund... (And at Balloon Juice: balloon-juice.com/2026/05/31/s...)

Quick Sunday Respite Post: Rubén Blades Edition

Because we all need a break.

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