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the most powerful force in the universe: a black lab running downhill after a toy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Kids like this that can be curious problem solvers are what we think of when we say that we've already produced thousands of Einsteins but we simply, as a matter of policy, have decided to create structural barriers that prevent them from having basic needs met so they may mature into realization.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

We at @es-ucl.bsky.social are hiring a Lecturer! Research area is broadly defined within the climate crisis, hydrogeology, sustainable resources, the energy transition, natural hazards, and planetary science. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

ChatGPT is asked to create a map of Ireland and ends up doing the "if your nation wore jeans would it wear them like this?" meme. [Posting with alt-text I've spent far too long writing, in an attempt to convey just how gloriously, horrifyingly shit this is]

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

Planning a hyperspectral drone mission in steep terrain, I ran into the usual issue: flying too close to the slope due to poor AGL handling. I built SMARTAGL, an R tool that creates terrain-aware flight lines with constant AGL. Open-source & field-tested. (github.com/ajcastanedag...)

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely stunning ultra-high resolution @planet.com SkySat imagery of the Klein Nesthorn landslide, which buried the village of Blatten, Switzerland yesterday. @davepetley.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social @kristencook.bsky.social @annepellegrino.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🛰️

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Moving forward I’ll be rebranding my idiosyncratic spelling mistakes and unique grammatical errors in emails and documents as “bespoke artisanal craftsmanship”

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This is going to financially hobble many universities and possibly bankrupt some. The damage these animals are doing to America will take a generation to undo.

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

genuine s/o to a @standupmaths.bsky.social youtube video for inspiring me to implement something that has made a noticeable improvement in automated gcp coverage (left: before, right: after)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

What an inaugural post on bsky.app. A (the) major glacier collapse at Bichgletscher/Kleines Nesthorn.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

An example of fauxtomation where the supposed benefits of AI instead mean work is passed on to the person who isn’t being paid for it (the customer/user). (Sadly not at all surprised to see academic publishing doing this -it’s a model already built on exploitation)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Excited that Noah Caldwell's work is officially out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology! Noah used satellite remote sensing to estimate how much ice is being lost to iceberg calving and subaqueous melt on 55 Alaska lake-terminating glaciers. Read more: doi.org/10.1017/jog....

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Just a reminder that these AI detectors are as garbage as the AI tools themselves.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

If they did it to any other UK university, however, the media elite wouldn’t even notice.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 22 days ago • 363 comments

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

submitted 24 days ago • 79 comments

had some fun looking at rocks by the water this morning ⚒️

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

There is no argument anymore. There is no ethical LLM, there is no LLM "from the left" - this is a tool of technofascism propped up by technofascists.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

I try not to be alarmist about Labour but if you're not white, the phrase 'island of strangers' tells an immediate story about how the government classifies you

submitted 26 days ago • 72 comments

Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

“Grok allows users to make deepfakes depicting things like Mickey Mouse wearing a Nazi uniform. Musk has called it ‘the most fun AI in the world.’ Boxtown residents say they have been paying for the images with their health.”

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

I think we are great risk of a future where unregulated use of tech turns America’s educational system into something even more segregated and classist than it is today - poor kids get largely automated “education” and surveillance discipline, rich kids get gentle low-tech instruction from humans.

submitted 29 days ago • 34 comments

I see the EHRC, Bridget Phillipson and the Supreme Court are #MakingWomenSafe "I said: “Would you like to see my tits?” "I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: 'No no no, don’t do that!'"

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

In case it’s unclear: products like this strip everyone of consent. It means that one person in a public space wearing these glasses has made a decision for everyone else.

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

This is what I mean when I say transphobes don't oppose "males" in "women's spaces"--they oppose trans women specifically and hope that disgust of us will help police how all women look and behave

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

PGC have been vital in processing and providing satellite imagery, digital elevation models, maps and other geospatial data to scientists for decades. Polar science needs this work to continue. #saveNSF #withoutNSF 🧪

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

You are now required to have a cellphone to citizen. That should not be allowed. You should not be required to have a cellphone to work. But many employers make a cellphone a de facto requirement. It’s anti-poor. But it’s also anti-democratic.

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments

Sorry but "a brutal time for young men" is absurd. People saying "try to be nicer and respect everyone" over the past 20 years is not why a kid named Big Balls is in charge of Social Security. Also maybe ask some non-white males how long they've been told "YOU'RE BAD". It ain't new.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

submitted 35 days ago • 79 comments