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nicolestdenis.bsky.social
Scientist, science communicator, smartass. Founder and Principal @ High-Fidelity Science Communications. Thoughts are my own, but then so is the company. She/Her
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An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers. ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote. The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

I have two: 1. I once bitched out Gob for trashing a dressing room that I had to clean afterwards, including scraping *something* that spelled “Gob” off the wall (they insisted that Sum41 had framed them, but also avoided eye contact with me for their entire show and left the room spotless) 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Um, this is amazeballs. Please share widely so it reaches as many American friends as possible!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When planning your next vacation here are some good tips on avoiding ICE, the US Marines, having your phone seized and illegal detention.

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

submitted 15 days ago • 111 comments

It is impossible to do demolition work without getting Peter Gabriel stuck in your head. I haven’t decided if that’s good or bad yet

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

submitted 19 days ago • 333 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 19 days ago • 639 comments

🇨🇦🚨Job Alert🚨🇨🇦 Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget) U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath *Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?) Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦? research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

We were so close to eradicating HIV in our lifetimes. I will never get over the cruelty & hate.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

submitted 30 days ago • 45 comments

Spot-on thread

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Hi. Hello. Take your best 100 level lecture to a patio with queso and margs…and call it a teach in. This is not hard, y’all! #standupforscience #summerfightforscience

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Holding Israel accountable is not support for Hamas it’s support for humanity and the rule of law. Without it, we are not a civilization but a collection of beasts walking upright.

submitted 36 days ago • 56 comments

Your semi-regular reminder that academic publishing is the biggest scam there is

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I will never not crack up at the sheer adorableness of the provincial—yes, provincial—phone book

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Today in not at all shocking news

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Saw my first cybertruck in the wild today and holy shit. Somehow even uglier and more absurd than in photos

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

LinkedIn has always been fucking terrible but if I have to see one more post about em dashes being invented by AI I’m going to go on an expletive-filled rant. I’m trying to be all ✨professional✨ and shit over there and the ignorant douchebag suits are PISSING ME OFF

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments