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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 04/10/2026

If someone’s going to AI-email me I’d rather see the prompt than the output. Because that’s where they decided to end and let the machine finish the job

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

something not a single person told me about having a baby is that you spend like 70% of your time cutting these things and searching for the half you dropped on the rug

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Transphobia is an interesting case bc gender difference is such an ingrained aspect of our society and also if you give it ANY THOUGHT WHATSOEVER you realize that enforcing a gender binary on any population in any public forum is a fascist nightmare.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was teaching 3h labs until 39w5d 🙃 the department generously purchased me a maternity lab coat for this purpose

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

in my defense this really is about the caliber of task I can handle immediately upon returning from maternity leave

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

my toxic trait is that if I inherit a document with two spaces after every period I WILL go through and fix them all even if the document is an 80-page lab manual

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(with sadness) back on my bullshit

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Chris @cperez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Principal investigators need cheap grad and postdoc labor to boost their own research profiles. Treating them like workers by allowing them to unionize disrupts the feudal lord-serf relationship that exists in most labs." There I fixed it for you

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In almost all ways I’m glad I waited until my mid 30s to have a baby, but one thing I could do without is waking up the baby with the sound of my joints cracking as I leave his room

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Definitely zipper ones lol, we got scolded once at the hospital for swaddling badly with a blanket and I think that was my last attempt 🙃

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

nobody warned me that putting the swaddles away would hurt so much more than putting the newborn/0-3m clothes away 😭

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As a component of aseptic technique, Bunsen burners do not universally decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's syllabus time again, and I'm seeing a lot of example AI policies that tell students: "It's OK to use AI to help your thinking; but you shouldn't use it to DO your thinking."

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

10+ years of seeing the mountain goats live at every opportunity and tonight I finally saw them play you were cool for the first time live 😭

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Qing Tang @qing-tang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We discovered a pathway that contributes to anti-folate antibiotic resistance and the persistent of S. aureus TD-SCV in the lung

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

when you don’t want to waste a cute outfit on nobody seeing it but also you’re only two months old

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

parental leave updates: realized I can add both a liquid IV and a caffeinated crystal light to the same huge water bottle and become basically unstoppable

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

thanks! it’s been a complete blur haha

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

my baby is 8 weeks old tomorrow and has already completely outgrown 0-3 month clothes. what kind of superbaby have I created

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 16/07/2026

I think rural red areas should have hospitals and mail and broadband but I want people to be clear eyed about what rural America is and isn’t, and what it definitely emphatically isn’t is a sleeping giant of left wing revolutionaries in waiting or even a reliable source of potential Democrat voters.

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 13/07/2026

High temps, low prices: it’s the CAT Days of Summer Sale! From now until July 20th all our books are 30% off (40% off for members). 😎 www.twolinespress.com/books

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

when students ask me a question I don’t know the answer to

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Thanks and congrats to you too! People will tell you all kinds of horror stories about the newborn trenches and like yeah it’s hard, but also not being pregnant anymore is *fantastic*

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have a 7 week old and ngl one of the things I’m appreciating about parental leave is just not being in public so much where people feel like they can comment on any and everything 🙃

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

this onesie was such a good purchase

Baby outfit comprised of a onesie with a drawing of a skateboarding hedgehog and some cute lil baby jeans

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”

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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

two things that were worth the 9-month wait

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Patrick S. Mitchell @psmitchej.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”

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Peter Chien @chienlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are hiring! Focus is on colleagues interested in protein homeostasis and human disease. Priority reviewing starts mid-June and will continue on a rolling basis. Here is the ad, hit me up if you have questions! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Locati...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Subscribe to @twolinespress.com. Trust me, just do this. Or @archipelagobooks.bsky.social or @deepvellum.bsky.social or @openletterbooks.bsky.social. All these are publishing the work of serious writers from around the world. Also Sandorf Passage and @sevenstories.bsky.social

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I love not using AI. I love reading books written by human beings, hand-sewing little creatures, watching for bats during dusk, listening to human experts to learn about a topic. Not using AI is very fun.

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