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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 23m

I feel like ProPublica Schools would probably be a great place to send your kids for a high quality K-12 education though

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 27m

He literally became Foghorn Leghorn

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 13h

If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this. **Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers** math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...

Currently, authors posting to arXiv have no control over whether bots scrape their full-text PDFs and LaTeX source files.

We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:

Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.

Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.

Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 22h

We know it down here in NC. The car dealer gentry control the legislature and it’s why our state is not really a democracy anymore

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 23h

Taking my university "active assailant" training. We tried to get them to talk with us last year about what to do if the "active assailant" was the federal government and HOO BOY do administrators not want to talk about that. But right now it seems like the most likely thing.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

If this happens I am early retiring to an obscure corner of Western Europe and starting a cat sanctuary

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Jacob Marley's Chain @archivesboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Democrats should introduce 27 bills of impeachment against Trump to match the 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence. We can do 1776 stuff too!

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Start with Vought, he’s the root of it. Then pick the stupider ones off.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Also, how many children did *actual COVID* kill because I feel like it was a couple of orders of magnitude more than 10 and might have been a lot more if there were not a vaccine

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Local Republicans getting desperate. Like I’m supposed to believe that somehow a Republican would be LESS Netanyahu-friendly than Adams? C’mon man.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

42 U.S.C. § 19055 (CHIPS § 10346) requires the Director to solicit SBE researchers for cross-cutting programs and to put them on merit review panels. Arguably this is Congress asserting SBE will exist! www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

law.cornell.edu

42 U.S. Code § 19055 - Social, behavioral, and economic sciences

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

My trust in the Chronicle has surely declined in the last year, I’ll tell you what.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

I never see crows in my neighborhood, not in all the years I have lived here but these sure seem to be crows in the tree at the strip mall half a mile from my house. How do I invite them to be my crows?🐦‍⬛

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

We can never again let the successes of agencies be so invisible to the public if we can get out of this mess. Reading Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk. Government trivia: which agency has a program that keeps geese from flying into airplane engines?

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Chatting with a visiting seminar speaker yesterday (virologist) and there’s something cool we could collaborate on if we thought this administration gave a shit about stopping people from dying of common viruses. Also we’ve both investigated where we could flee to in Western Europe.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

That’s it. If the Pope comes out on the side of basic research anytime soon I’m going to convert.

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Thomas Keepout @thomasworking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Russell Vought is trying to destroy American science & federally funded research by forcing into effect his disastrous OMB grantmaking rule changes. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev...

fight2win.standupforscience.net

Stand up for Science

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

I am struck by the contrast between the public’s avid love of, say, functional weather apps, and what this administration is choosing to starve.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

If this guy does not end up impeached what are we even doing

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Jail everyone still working at Palantir just to be safe

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

The Manhattan Institute can join Heritage in the bin

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Mamdani and the Pope both out here pushing human-created art today like it’s an essential and defining piece of our culture:

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Sharing this in honor of my undergrad research mentor, Mary F. Blackwell, who pipetted all manner of things by mouth but wouldn’t let us do so because we had our whole lives ahead of us and might want to reproduce.

inpreparation.substack.com

Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol

By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Trump should have to pay this back out of his grift funds

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

I think every poster who’s gonna share, or even “like”, YouTube videos that seem primarily pitched to be infuriating really needs to take the Digital Inquiry Group’s (free) “Civic Online Reasoning” training (which I happen to be finishing up today). Highly recommend. Lateral reading FTW.

cor.inquirygroup.org

Home

Free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

This is weird AF. Also, weirdos out there being mean to Claude “for fun” are weird AF. It learns from your project context, so if you fill your project context up with bad energy, I suspect it would reflect that back at you. It’s not that it’s independently intelligent, it just is what it eats.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Get their asses. Skin every last one of them. Metaphorically of course. Of course.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Get their asses. I hope this family has extremely smart and merciless lawyers.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

For all of those at public universities who will likely face austerity soon if we are not already:

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

He’s pondering whether a Claude subscription could streamline his getting petted workflow

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Today I had “Gemini Notebook”make me a five slide deck for something low stakes where I just needed a slightly more cartoony presentation than I typically do for, say, lecture slides. It looked decent, and had an aesthetic that fit the topic. BUT the text was fully uneditable.

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

404media.co

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

I was just reading Deborah Blum’s The Poison Squad the other day. 📚 (It’s excellent and you should read it, especially if you are a student in my class in spring) but holy 💩 do we really want to go back to the pre-FDA days of “microbial diversity” in our milk?

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

Lippman on removing vital functions from the sphere of profit:

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Once again, Russell Vought must be brought low. Impeachment is table stakes.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

When you watch this, remember that Eric Schmitt has a whole ass backstory and he is profoundly unsavory. From COVID conspiracies to white supremacy he’s the man who has it all.

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