Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2026"I have to say I've never been more shocked by the so-called climate "movement." I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't the immediate cowering that so many organizations and politicians are doing" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social drilled.ghost.io/the-problem-...drilled.ghost.ioThe Problem ClassSometime last year, I was asked to participate in a closed door conversation in which a mix of academic researchers, journalists, and climate campaigners were asked to share their unvarnished thoughts... 14013
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 14/08/2026What a cool job opportunity. Note the specific interest in evolutionary genomics 011
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 06/08/2026For more on this, why it's a grift, and how we got here - season 15 of @drilledmedia.bsky.social 200
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This write up is super helpful and a good way to signal to colleagues that more clarity on what you can/cannot do and what you can/should expect from one another is always nice :) So, thank you! 131
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I want to quote screenshot this whole excellent piece from Marisa, but this especially - we *make* the words, we don't just regurgitate without the feeling, without the things that makes us human. 337889
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 6228441231
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Tracks with recent docs I've seen on pollutant discharge and lowering of water quality standards around new and proposed data center builds in Ohio as well... 110
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/01/2026This is something I have been warning about for months. The US is one of the world's most polluting economies, and it has been exceedingly difficult to breakthrough the dismissiveness. bsky.app/profile/keta... 12515
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 04/12/2025heated.world/p/data-cente... from @emorwee.bsky.socialheated.worldAI’s water problem is worse than we thoughtA new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis. 050
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6253660811257
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannAngelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Fisheries: Creating marine protected areas only displaces fisheries and does not benefit the ocean Costello: No they don't and yes they do www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgFully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries | PNASFully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries 34111
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannSarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella. 156
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Beginning of semester me: *sets aside Tuesday and Thursday for research* Me now: Spends all of Tuesday and Thursday grading and writing emails. :( 000
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannLaura Williams @laurawilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2025NSF GRFP solicitation out. App deadlines now in November. As others noted, eligibility rules for current graduate students now exclude 2nd year grad students. See the solicitation - they’ve emphasized “first year” and “less than one academic year” in grad program. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...nsf.govNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 1416
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Reason No. 324 why no-one should think that "AI" (artificial but certainly not intelligent) is an unmitigated Good Thing: it's mathematically inevitable that AI will hallucinate. We need far more discussion of the risks of all this and less frantic hype. I mean, really, what's the hurry?computerworld.comOpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flawsIn a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi... 97027
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2025CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲 814439
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 04/09/2025New press from Bates on what my summer students were up to www.bates.edu/news/2025/09... Read all about our journey across the Maine intertidal :)bates.eduPulling mussels: Bates researchers spend the summer studying Maine’s disappearing shellfishA research team from Bates spent the summer investigating Maine's disappearing shellfish, the blue mussel. 010
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I present to you- my lab as trees. My students said we needed “more whimsy”, so we have it now. Great summer working in mussel physiology with these awesome students 020
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Sounds good. My own experience is that green crabs often have some blue coloring on claws and elsewhere. I’d guess is not a hybrid. But the blue is very blue and there are people who might be keen to test it out! 020
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Can you elaborate on the location (what bay, for example) and how common this blue morph is? Any more photos? 100
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025We can’t even get everyone to read the syllabus 😭 317528
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannSteph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I used to tell biology/forestry/ecology graduate students that being a Federal Agency Research Scientist was a great career to shoot for, but they might not even exist next year. 38531
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere. The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places. 20602189
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I wrote about chemtrails, Lee Zeldin, and how his EPA routinely brags about its participation in a conspiracy to let corporations poison us newrepublic.com/article/1978... 214855
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock. 7769246
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/08/2024Listen: this is obscenely important. There is a growing complacency that over-achieving solar can make up for under-achieving wind, and it is *not true*. Wind and solar generate in a complementary way. Solar might max out. Wind needs much more support!! ember-climate.org/insights/res... 645568
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/06/2025New @sashamtl.bsky.social et al paper - assessing whether machine learning model developers disclose basic environmental / energy information with their models. They mostly do not!! Grim results for most of the big companies: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572 huggingface.co/spaces/sasha... 1227
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology. 11977762329
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannTiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Today on Juneteenth, I am amplifying #BlackInTheIvory anecdotes that were shared by Black scientists 🧪 in summer 2020. Screenshots from Twitter presented in anonymized format 2025 is the era of the "anti-DEI crusade". 23415
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism. 512666546
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 19/06/2025But the idea that “the product doesn’t suffer” seems so questionable. And also (per other comments) just doesn’t seem possible 000
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Peer review is slow! This is a pre-print that is ideally in the review process now. Pre-print sharing is common in academic spheres. Though grain of salt required… No idea if these authors have submitted this for peer review or not. 130
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...statnews.comHundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rulesA federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.” 07417
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Super important point here-- privatizing GRFP or really anything funding science makes folks doing the work beholden or at least feel beholden to whatever special interest is funding. This drastically impact messaging, results, and even the questions that are asked. 030
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannJulia McHugh @drjmchugh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The Invertebrate Paleontology department at the AMNH is seeking a full-time Museum Specialist. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...indeed.comMuseum Specialist - New York, NY 10024 - Indeed.comAmerican Museum of Natural History 13420
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025This seems accurate to me! Thanks for chiming in :) 000
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Cutting NSF, NIH, etc funding in this manner prevents knowledge generation, innovation (even though I hate that concept), risks human/public health, and keeps the populous less informed. That, my friends, is fascism. 000
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Where do our graduating students go to find employment? What happens to the huge number of super qualified and experienced experts that were laid off by federal agencies? How do we support a scientific enterprise without funding? Taking that funding is definitely illegal, but somehow... here we are 100
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A list of 1753 terminated awards from the NSF. See previous post re: overall funding lost. This is a brain drain and an attack on science and knowledge. It's also NOT strategic at all and places the US at a significant international disadvantage. AND so much more... 120
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025As a conservation scientist, I am perhaps more used to the idea of “wow, a neat visualization of some fucking horrible disaster” than some of the scientists on my feed seem to be. But yeah this is a great visual 0378
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Love a good typo in a bluesky post. "In" should be "I'm". 000
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025But also, The rise of AI and the casual sweeping under the rug of the env / social justice impacts in this admin is not a coincidence. Post truth world + “what you want to hear” generators that aren’t backed by any interest in fact and are powered by fossil fuels in a post truth and deregulated US 120
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025There are a lot of articles about AI going around. I strongly suggest you start here. If folks want to talk about AI in the higher Ed classroom, it’s something in thinking about a lot! Always looking for ideas and feedback- it’s hard out there 110
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The AI jobs crisis unfolding before us is linked to the crisis in education described in the big NYMag piece on ChatGPT cheating going around. It is a great displacing of work that demands critical thought for the sake of automated content generation—in the classroom then everywhere else. 08326
Dr. Justin Baumann @jbaumann3.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Anyone want to do something fun? Help with species ID on these! I'm not freshwater mussel expert... Found in a lake in Ohio -- man made, connected to Erie (kinda) and also to Ohio river (again, kinda) Any ideas? 000
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 04/05/2025🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech. From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022: 219095
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial. 4182159
Reposted by Dr. Justin BaumannDr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025No, deep sea mining is not benign, it is will harm ancient ecosystems vital to the deep sea and our planet. Pillaging the earth is not NOAA's mandate. phys.org/news/2025-04...phys.orgDeep-sea mining study reveals significant environmental and economic risks to coastal communities and businessesDeep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching implications for coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), it... 051