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As a professor, I can confidently attest that a reliable hallmark of AI-written term papers are messed-up citations:

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Reached the city of La Paz, but the thief has escaped again, and the route he's taking is known as the Death Road. What could possibly go wrong? #ZombiesRun

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For realz. Have I ever done XYZ before? No. Can I email folks until I have a working bibliography and a couple of successful examples? Yes? Alright. Let's do it.

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This is so true. I have continually learned new skills since grad school. It is a super power that most outside academia don't appreciate that higher degree holders have.

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NPR has sued Trump to block his illegal and unconstitutional order to freeze federal funding that Congress has already approved just because he doesn’t like their coverage.

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$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

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I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

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Rescued two young mutants from Trask's mercenaries with the help of Storm! #MarvelMove

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Oh, that's not a mystery, tbh. There's room for nuance, but overall? Things that are seen as being popular among dudes and young boys? Fun and good. Things that are mostly seen as being popular among women? Cringe, and being popular among young girls is worse. Straight up.

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This is such a bizarre headline for something as simple as “Costco locations close for Memorial Day”

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Does everyone’s 13-year-old son try to avoid spending time with their family, or does mine specifically hate me for some reason?

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The copyright statement of Elsevier now includes AI training.

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Not going to repost but JD Vance is whimpering about the voting habits of professors over on Twitter. It’s like “we said they were the enemy, we aimed to put them in trauma, we cut their salaries in half, we made their jobs impossible, and now they’re voting against us. I don’t get it.”

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This is a man desperately afraid someone will imagine him giving another man a blow job.

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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Sent on my first solo mission for the X-Men, but it's looking like I've been lured into a trap! #MarvelMove

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A citizen in possession of a REAL ID driver’s license. ICE is the fascist secret police. Nothing more. If there were such a thing in America as principled, honorable law enforcement, they would be lining up to condemn this lawless masked goon squad.

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Survived the training simulation with some help, and discovered the secret files about the sensitives #ZombiesRun

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Q: How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber? A: Ask them to pronounce the word 'unionized.'

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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

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Destroyed the Sentinel attacking the Savage Land but may have given away more than is safe! #MarvelMove

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It’s just so unreal to me that this is the news cycle while the Republicans are carving up the entire federal government and selling it for spare parts. Are they serious??

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What's this, good news??? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Things come and go, and I don't begrudge romantasy its moment in the sun, not in the least because when people come into the bookstore for that romantasy book, they sometimes leave with additional books in tow. Any book that brings people into the store is a good one for the rest of them.

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Okay, look: I am a department chair. I have an “endowment” I’m signatory on. The VAST MAJORITY of that is earmarked by legal agreement for scholarships. That’s what the donors wanted. My biggest single account by far is for professional development. I cannot reroute it to pay research costs.

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Yeah, universities use weasel words like “football is revenue-generating” to justify their spending on it. But “revenue” and “profit” aren’t the same thing. At many universities, sports overall are a money-loser.

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Saw someone post something to the effect that you’re not really doing mutual aid if you’re not like, posting gofundmes every day. Mutual aid is supposed to be about creating systems to meet each others’ needs beyond the state and capitalism, not just posting the capitalism bandaid every day.

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Scientists - consider writing to your hometown paper to explain the value of what we do: sciencehomecoming.com

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So, Thunderbolts* was pretty good.

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Am I reading this right? HHMI, which is a private organization, has cancelled existing funding competitions for which people have already done the work of submitting the proposals?

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