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kchew.bsky.social
Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
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News is awful. Post a Godzilla.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

This week in my graduate-level Science Communication class, we're discussing scientific conferences, including how to find a conference that's helpful for you, how to make the most of attending a conference, networking, and effective presentation skills. Anyone have any advice to share? 🧪🦑🌎

submitted 29 days ago • 48 comments

"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

submitted 7 days ago • 149 comments

Screaming into the void 🪶

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

The best. @aiabx.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Yeesssss.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

He taught me to appreciate poetry and Shakespeare, to play a cool guitar fingerpicking pattern he developed himself, and that being weird was good.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite headline of the week. The dek makes it perfect. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It really is scary right now, so here is Kelli O’Hara singing in a performance that never fails to make me happy. Take care of yourselves, inside and out. youtu.be/Q2PBOAbdIcU?...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

(Knock at door) Me: Yes? Tween girls with water pistols at their sides: Is Hudson here? Me (regretfully): I’m sorry, but there is no Hudson here. There’s no Hudson in the houses beside us either. Try two houses down that way. Tween girls: Thanks. RIP Hudson, whoever you are. You are dooooomed.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Post a banger that’s not in English. youtu.be/02Sg9H2T_TQ?...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Me (working from home): Damn it, I need to start work in 10 minutes and I haven’t made coffee yet. It’s faster to go to the corner place and buy a coffee than make one myself. [Goes to front door, looks out at sheets of cold, pouring rain] Me: Goddamnit. [makes coffee, grumpily]

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Mirror Universe Goose 1, Regular Goose 0.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

After having dinner with a colleague, during which we talked about the consequences our students face if they use AI, I come home and get to read this. Flames. Flames on the side of my face. www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It’s #WorldBeeDay! Stuff some native plants in the soil, put off taking your leaves, and give some love to those amazing little units.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s adrenaline spike: trying to open a pdf with over 800 edits in it and being told the file was corrupt before remembering this was the wrong file and the file I wanted was in the subfolder beneath the wrong file. Off to delete bad file now (why do we even have that file?!). Whew. #amediting

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I could never pick just one, but this one is pretty memorable.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I picked up Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent, and am really enjoying it, but I made the mistake of picking up Oliver Darkshire’s Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil today and now I am enjoying reading it too. But I can’t read both books at the (literal) same time, augh, dilemma. 1/1

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

submitted 46 days ago • 120 comments