Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday
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Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday
Set your alarms for very early Tuesday morning - or stay up late on Monday! There will be a lunar eclipse from 1:49 - 5:18 am. If the skies are clear, look to the southwest and see the ruby-red moon at its full intensity around 3:30 am.
It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and
@reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).
From February 25, 2026: Meet Einstein. The personal tutor every student deserves. Einstein connects to your Canvas, knows your strengths and weaknesses, and guides you step by step throughout your entire educational journey.
From February 22, 2026: Meet Einstein. Einstein is an AI with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.
Props to POD Network's AI in Education SIG for pointing this out... That Einstein app did a rebrand this week. First image is from the website today, second image from three days ago. Today he's a "personal tutor." Earlier this week he "watches lectures, writes essays... and submits your homework."
RNA: simple alphabet, complex grammar
— Sandro Bottaro, 2017
The most consistent thing I have learnt about RNA is that my intuition based on proteins tends to fail when applied to RNA
Going thru my archives again. I need to do more surrealism. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/things...
You need to hear the goal call in Inuktitut.
All the buzz about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering H, & Elordi's Heathcliff makes me wonder why nobody has as yet mentioned "Dude Watching with the Brontes" (by the brilliant @katebeaton.bsky.social, who has long since anticipated all we mere mortals have to say):
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
An Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) card game created by an Indigenous designer right here in #Winnipeg.
Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.
In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, here's an interesting article about the experiences of early career women in physics. Though we have made some progress, there is still a lot of work to do to improve the culture/climate in physics. 👩🔬⚛️🎢 #IDWGS
The economic benefit is there for the taking. Cities struggling with deficits (like San Diego) can offset road maintenance and health burdens with this one simple trick, make it safe enough for people to choose to bike.
Interesting paper. Short version is they used comic artists as a control vs. illustrators, the argument being that comic artists, during the period studied, were less AI-exposed. There is evidence for this:
A path runs along the left side of the image through a woodland garden setting. On the right of the path is a bank which is covered in flowering snowdrops. Their delicate white heads create quite a spectacle! No one is in view and the image feels calm and tranquil
Want to walk in a place like this?
Here are our top spots for snowdrops: buff.ly/s4UXavw
📷: Richard Pink
@beristainlab.bsky.social !
BC peeps, now's a good time to consider boycotting Jim Pattison's companies if he lets this sale go through. Pattison owns Save-on-Foods, Quality Foods, Western Foods, and Everything Wine, among other outlets. 🇨🇦
✨ 2025
A few clips from a phenomenal year celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen in 2025.
Not featured here are the copious amounts of tea and biscuits consumed, all the friends made and the communities built through our shared love of Jane Austen.
✨ We can’t wait to see what 2026 brings!
"This is the world as it is, no matter what we may wish it to be" Excellent piece (gift link) by @sproudfoot.bsky.social: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cb0fda6...
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
@sfuscience.bsky.social yikes.
If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
Photograph. A large woodgrain-lined cabinet designed to hold and vend videotapes. On the right is the CRT screen interface and cash/coin insert. Instructional and "VIDEO VENDOR" signage overhead.
If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped.
www.facebook.com/commerce/lis...
Hiiiiii Bluesky 👋 It's been a while. While I haven't been posting here, I have been writing about teaching and grading. Lots to say about grades! ✏ Here's a thread of recent blog posts...
@sfubiosciences.bsky.social ?
"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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Today would be a good day to pie
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
A book bound in red cloth with gilt titles and decoration, turned so you can see the ragged cutting on the right edges of the pages
I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter....
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