Reposted by Kelly SovacoolTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks. 321874305
Reposted by Kelly Sovacoolc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly. 726589
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...en.wikipedia.orgStanislav Petrov - Wikipedia 11568206
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Had my first email arising from what seems to be an LLM-guided spite-check of my published code. Anyone else experienced this yet? I'm pulling the repo and verifying the possible error, will happily correct if need be but this seems like a great way to DDoS scientists. #metascience #AcademicSky 10556
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The nightmare of how LLMs will be used to attack researchers. I can see this also being used to attack academics in general for not agreeing with the tech overlords. 1144
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolMark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026The idea of AI curing all diseases is, IMO, silly. Biomedical research is mostly limited by data, not ideas. Imagine saying AI will build a world-champion basketball team by replacing basketball coaches with hyperintelligent AI. You see the problem. Someone still needs to dribble and make shots. 925539
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple weeks ago I heard a joyful shriek from across the street. My neighbor kids, who I planted milkweed for, found 2 monarch caterpillars by their stoop. This week, those monarchs hatched. Our block is fully concrete, .3 miles to the closest green space. But we’re supporting the life cycle 🥰 1459681
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026Papers are written by humans and for humans and there is no technological intervention that is going to turn them into a noiseless transmission medium; sometimes you just have to read what the other guys wrote and figure it out as best you can 2252
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE 7645160
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15/09/2026i've been sending my robot to the gym all year but i still have trouble lifting things 152
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 14/09/2026you know it's bad when IT starts typing sudo commands in your terminal... 010
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how). 4156791561
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolMinnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's actually surprising how important machine learning is but how worthless LLMs are. Tons of drugs have already been developed with machine learning 0161
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolTrans-Inclusive Misogynist @deletethenats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's also not the same computer, they just really want you to think it is. 1704
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Almost everyone in a library is existing as the best available version of themselves. 2659
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside." 4542135
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolDaniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 10/09/2026CS talk challenge: Give a talk where *all* the slides are just xkcd comics 083
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 03/09/2026When you cook for someone a special meal you know they‘ll love, and then they scarf it down and ask for more… You can get that feeling by planting native plants!! 140
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 31/08/2026either Zenodo or Zotero should consider switching names. I don’t care which one! There’s just only enough room in my brain for one 6-letter 3-syllable Z-word related to publications / citations. 100
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A writer I work with sent a colleague a letter to review and she responed with edits and a note that she "asked AI for help." Please don't do this, especially if it's something that is supposed to be attributed to you. We don't want AI feedback! We want to make sure it's consistent with your voice. 1304
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 12/08/2026First-year butterfly milkweed in bloom — the first to bloom in my new native garden! Featuring a monarch caterpillar munching away. 150
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolErin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It has been an incredible day to watch butterflies and hummingbirds from my office window. Native plant gardening freaking rules 0342
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 361563629
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language! 492511700
Reposted by Kelly Sovacool Tom-The Accursed Poster [3.89 cubits] @siropsalot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026As someone who has been in the daata center space and Data/ML space for a long time it's wild how they've managed to take such boring subjects and absolutely trash their reputation. 110910
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat. 582327428
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 06/08/2026hot take: it is better not to have an image/graphic at all for your blog/talk/flyer/poster than to make one with genAI 0115
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolKrista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One of the things that frustrates me most is that LLMs are being sold as an everything tool, which means you’re all in or all out. It’s turned into this weird purity thing. But I want there to be room for nuance and conversations about appropriate use-cases and the philosophy behind objections. 1434
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources. 211899349
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 06/08/2026it sucks when GitHub Actions is down, merging pull requests with happy little green check marks is where I get about 60% of my dopamine on a given work day 030
Reposted by Kelly Sovacoollauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/08/2026i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal 582562379
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/07/2026A reminder that running the dishwasher twice is actually still superior to handwashing. 631439
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026My colleagues have been far too cautious to embrace the Leopards Eating Faces Health Action movement, for reasons I cannot understand 0489
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 19/07/2026Manual transmission is wayyy more fun to drive. But when we were looking to replace my car, the math wasn’t mathing: an Equinox EV ended up being better financially as long as we keep it for 5 years or more. And we usually keep our cars til death (catastrophic breakdown) do us part. 030
Reposted by Kelly Sovacool▲ndrusi @andrusi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Using ChatGPT as your search engine is like using a refrigerator as your air conditioner. 518532
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad. 252383344
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Let's learn a lesson from the nearly 500K of us who mobilized to comment on the OMB rules. We can leave the sidelines, take action and it can make a difference. After 15 months of inaction, our scientific societies finally woke up and mobilized members. It doesn't stop there 1/n 314356
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 13/07/2026I'm presenting poster C-049 at #ISMB2026 #BOSC2026 on Wednesday: "Anatomy of a modular toolchain for reproducible bioinformatics workflows" (Poster C-049). Please reach out if you're here and would like to meet up, and stop by my poster if you want to talk about reproducible software! 131
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 08/07/2026I‘ve resisted the urge to build a wildlife pond all spring and summer long, so as I treat I can make a mini barrel pond now, right?? 230
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolJason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs? 16671176
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/07/2026When I explain to peeps how much we do in research labs for how few $$, they simply don’t believe me. I once explained it to a famous person from Pixar, he looked me square in the eye and said “You mean all the cancer, vision, and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be %#ing kidding me!” 8583179
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolMOTH👑MONARCH 🤖🔪 Robot Knife Fight Recovery Zone @mothmonarch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025how have so many people become entranced by this idea the chatbot can "know" anything or is even capable of "truth" or "lying"? it is an algorithm that will spit out text that statistically most likely answers your question. it has no awareness, no knowledge. it is foolish to anthropomorphize it. 7836
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 30/05/2026Currently listening to a playlist that so far has included Herb Alpert, Tame Impala, Star Wars soundtrack (Duel of the Fates), and now Lil Nas X. Confused by the range but not upset about it! 040
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolStephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 24/05/2026That's what I don't understand about professionals using A.I.: Don't they have something they really want to say? Isn't that why they're writing? 1341
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22/05/2026For anyone else who wants a not-AI search engine:theguardian.comLeave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and moreA handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives 06131
Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 21/05/2026The new "I do my own stunts" in the age of genAI: I make my own diagrams and presentation slides 😎 021
Reposted by Kelly SovacoolLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I asked my slack group of learning scientists - from @ludmilanunes.bsky.social Morehead et al. (2019) did a meta-analysis that showed a very small advantage of handnotes. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Flanigan et al. (2024) showed the same pattern link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comHow Much Mightier Is the Pen than the Keyboard for Note-Taking? A Replication and Extension of Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) - Educational Psychology ReviewMany students use laptops to take notes in classes, but does using them impact later test performance? In a high-profile investigation comparing note-taking writing on paper versus typing on a laptop ... 162
Reposted by Kelly Sovacoolhmenager.bsky.social @hmenager.bsky.social · 24/04/2026🧬 Join us for the @openbio.bsky.social @bosc.bsky.social CollaborationFest (CoFest), focused on open source and open science — happening right after #ISMB2026 and #BOSC2026! Registration (free!) and organization details can be found at: 🌐 www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...open-bio.orgCollaborationFest 2026CollaborationFest 2026 will be a collaborative work event at which participants work together to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases. If... 044