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These road signs give the public at least an inkling of what benefit they derive from their tax dollars. Why don't we have similar "signs" on cancer drugs, hurricane forecasts, GPS, vaccines, Google, clean air and water, the Internet, and everything else publicly funded research has given us? 🧪

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From the blog: The USPS says this small Priority Mail box has a maximum allowed weight of 70 pounds. But is it physically possible to put 70 pounds of anything inside it? (spoiler: Nope, at least not in this solar system) groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2024-... 🧪⚗️ #SciEd

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If you’re passionate about scientific discovery and innovation, now’s the time to join our Biosciences Area. We’re looking for talented individuals to help drive groundbreaking research in computational biology, biophysics, metabolomics, and more! 🧪 ⬇️ jobs.lbl.gov/et/rWgbpVSH/...

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“Physicians in the Inland Empire are seeing 60% more patients than physicians elsewhere in the state.”

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I seriously credit watching this as a kid for not only my love of pinball but probably also my career in engineering.

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1994: A bug in early Pentium processors causes about 0.00000001% of division operations to give slightly wrong answers. Intel recalled the chips at a cost of $1B in today's dollars. 2025: Google's AI Overview admits it may be inaccurate in around 40% of searches. GOOG stock up 27% over past year.

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Dear $[PREDATORY_JOURNAL_NAME]$, Please go $[RUDE_EXPLETIVE]$ yourself. Sincerely, $[AUTHOR_NAME]$

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This is 100% correct (though I'd add "4. Replace with a for-profit version"). To all of us in public education (at all levels): this is what's coming. This is what we have to be preparing to fight.

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We have a sweetgum tree in our yard but in my mind it's always been the "Mathematica Tree" @stephenwolfram.bsky.social

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Obituary for computational chemistry pioneer Martin Karplus in the New York Times (gift link). #CompChem #ChemSky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/s...

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UC Riverside student Henry Wang made an iOS app for tracking the beloved burros that wander around our campus, and this is officially the greatest icon in the history of apps:

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Memorial Tribute to Alex Pines on January 13, 11 am EST / 5 pm CET, online, zoom information to be posted at ismar.org on January 12, please contact Rob Tycko if you would like to contribute, for more information -> listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/arc/nmr/... posted 12/26/2024 #NMRchat 🧲

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Science Olympiad at @ucriverside.bsky.social

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“We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” Edward R. Murrow

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It's probably just me being a sore loser, but I swear it seems unfair for anyone to have home-field advantage in the playoffs. #CFP

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In 1990 I was one of over 3 million students who were given the opportunity to grow tomato seeds that #NASA flew in space. I vividly remember being awestruck holding the seeds. Turns out you can still get space seeds for your classroom! www.firsttheseedfoundation.org/program/toma... 🧪🪐🍅 #scied

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Deleting old Twitter stuff and I found this from January 2016. I got the name wrong—IUPAC chose "tennessine" to be consistent with the other halogen "-ines"—but Tennessee got its element! @utknoxville.bsky.social #ornl 🧪

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My new strategy for combating AI-based cheating in my classes:

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My reminder to buy from Cellar Door Bookstore in Riverside, CA. Amazing book selections! Knowledgeable staff! Inclusive and diverse community events! Fun and enlightening book clubs! And you can always buy online! www.cellardoorbookstore.com

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On Friday a teenager died in a horrible car wreck in our neighborhood. Today if you google his name, 80% of the results are AI-generated "obituary spam" that uses a dead teen's name to drive grieving friends and family to their ad-filled error-riddled "obituaries." Disgusting and infuriating.

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Exactly. I've got many reasons for opposing AI in education, but this is the biggest. The act of writing up my research reveals things about my work (strengths, weaknesses, next steps) that I would have never found if an LLM wrote it up for me. I don't really know my work until I write it up.

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My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990

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A lot to say about this story on an AI-generated course at UCLA—the professor gleefully accelerating her replacement by AI, the press release being basically an ad for Kudu—but the story's nonsensical AI illustration of the course ("AN EVOOLITUN ON NANCE LANGUSAGES") kinda says everything. #HigherEd

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Shoutout to ChatGPT for providing this glowing review of the (absolutely fake) "California South University":

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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

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