Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsDr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Another really bad #DataViz! The worst kind actually: when someone makes a conscious decision to mislead its audience! #Brexit #Data #stats 🧪 1202
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4h(In case you're worried, any neutrinos managing to interact within your body will still do essentially nothing. You'd have to go to a LOT of trouble to be harmed in any way by neutrinos. But @xkcd.com has a nice explanation here if you want to know what that would look like. what-if.xkcd.com/73/)what-if.xkcd.comLethal Neutrinos 819616
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4hHow rare are neutrino interactions? A neutrino (of the type emitted by the Sun) could go through a light year of lead with only a small chance of interacting. They pass through the Earth, and each of us, constantly, without anyone noticing. 100 trillion neutrinos go through you every second. 616414
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsPlanned Parenthood Alliance Advocates - West @ppaawest.bsky.social · 21hFairbanks and Juneau voters, THIS TUESDAY is local Election Day! Local elections often come down to a handful of votes. Make yours count. plannedp.info/ak-endorseme... #Alaska #AkLeg #AkElect #AlaskaSky #VoteLocal 254
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsDeclan Troy @troydeclan.bsky.social · 4hIt's not just bulls. Here's an earnest looking cow on the hunt for some leafy greens before they all drop for winter. Anchorage #Alaska #moose 🦊🫎 0172
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsPat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 21h#akleg Good reminder, don't get your elections news from AI. 092
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsErnest Pons @epons.bsky.social · 10h#stats #science "International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science" 📅 Hoy, de octubre de 2026 www.idwsds.org cc/ @socestadistica.bsky.social 001
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsAlaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 22hCOMMENTARY: We’re making a tough call on an upcoming U.S. House debate alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/05/w...alaskabeacon.comCommentary: We’re making a tough call on an upcoming U.S. House debate | Alaska BeaconThe Alaska Beacon is dropping out of a debate that it had planned to co-host with the Alaska Landmine ahead of the general election. 10348
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsVincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 15hAurora starting here south of Fairbanks. 8:44 pm. iPhone photo. Naked-eye visible. 06410
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 23hChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 7936881451
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsCarrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 22hThank you to the crew at the Alaska Beacon for making this call! I am certain it was the right thing to do! alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/05/w...alaskabeacon.comCommentary: We’re making a tough call on an upcoming U.S. House debate | Alaska BeaconThe Alaska Beacon is dropping out of a debate that it had planned to co-host with the Alaska Landmine ahead of the general election. 0286
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026thesovereigninstitute.org/articles/77-...thesovereigninstitute.org77% of Your Employees Are Pasting Confidential Data Into ChatGPT Right Now## The Shadow AI Demand Signal Your Security Team Cannot See ### The Problem Cyberhaven monitored 1.6 million workers across 639 organizations and found that 11 percent of data pasted into ChatGPT..... 714011
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026chat is this good 6351831169
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists. 271051202
Leah Berman Williams @leahwrenn.bsky.social · 18hI'm still willing to answer my phone if I'm not doing something else, but if you're not willing to identify the "national public opinion firm" you're calling on behalf of, I'm not going to answer your survey. 080
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsLucky Budd @luckybudd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Saturn is at its closest to Earth this year :) I caught it with moons Thetys and Rhea on Oct 3. Just as Earth tilts on its axis, so does Saturn—making the ring angle shift noticeably year after year. SUCH a cool planet to see! Imaged from my backyard in Victoria, BC. 🔭 #astronomy #astro #saturn 26117
Reposted by Leah Berman Williamstenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026University of Pennsylvania is hiring: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Algebra or Analysis #assistantprofessor #mathsky #algebraanalysis 111
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Atigun Pass webcam. @alaskawx.bsky.social 3875
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Both candidates in Alaska's Senate race support the oil industry because of the jobs it creates in the state. But 40% of the workforce are nonresidents, and only 2.5% of total employed people are in oil and gas. From Alaska's own @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...prospect.orgIn Alaska, Senate Candidates Claim the Oil Industry Creates Local Jobs. It Doesn’t. - The American ProspectThe state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents. 46230
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsCerebro Digital @cerebrodigital.net · 05/10/2026Un recipiente poco profundo vibrado a la frecuencia justa convierte el agua quieta en cuadrados, hexagonos y espirales: las ondas de Faraday. 0216
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 05/10/2026Here's a sanderling taking a brisk run down the shore, for all your smiling needs. 😁 🪶 732245
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsCephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As you probably guessed, the Seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) has EIGHT arms! The males' hectocotylus (specialized mating arm) is curled up in a pouch which, along with their large, gelatinous bodies, makes it look like only have seven arms, hence their common name. #OCTOtober 26114
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 05/10/2026If 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... 75227
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ERIC SCHMITT: Mr. Smith, did you or did you not change your name to Mary Pickford and bill yourself as "America's Sweetheart" despite being Canadian? JACK SMITH: No sir, that was GLADYS Smith. 7968
Reposted by Leah Berman Williamsrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early 5688207
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 04/10/2026We just want healthcare 16532110
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/10/2026> an increase in thin papers of narrow scope, as well as ‘salami’ papers, where a single work is broken up and submitted as a set of smaller papers. There is also a marked increase in dense, AI-written papers. AI tools are making it easy for authors to flood arXiv [and others with] low-value papers. 321662
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsKate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It is a subtle decorative choice, wrapping the body in mint green chiffon with a swirl of piping around the waist attached with bridging stitches. Early #1940s style, soft layers and sleeves that seem to fold into themselves #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 821528
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsIvan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The commissioning of the _USS Ted Stevens_ at Whittier, Alaska, 3 October 2026 1113
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/20261️⃣ Alaska One of most important states this fall, no doubt: —Senate seat could flip, determine majority. —Dems hope to flip governorship, too. —An Indy is making a bid for US House. —Measure to repeal ranked-choice voting (again). —Bipartisan coalition seeks to keep legislature. 112947
Reposted by Leah Berman Williamsthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing. 481435426
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 8419911231
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this 16859275
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsAnchorage Daily News @adn.com · 04/10/2026As the use of artificial intelligence to cheat is becoming increasingly common among students at the University of Alaska Anchorage, the UA Board of Regents will consider adoption of a document guiding AI use across the university system later this year. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...adn.comAI policy coming to University of Alaska as student misuse increasesStudent use of the tools to cheat is a “steeply growing trend,” according to a report on generative AI use among UAA students. 241
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I didn't know folding old silverware like origami was an art form! 523064
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026*taps sign*lifeisasacredtext.comA Jewish Case for AI work exemptionsor: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun 314218
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Quarantining every single person who had contact with that woman is a very smart thing. And Public health works when we let it. 1858
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not a medical doctor, but a historian of medicine. Pneumonic plague is much more serious than bubonic plague. It's also much rarer. BUT, both are treatable with antibiotics if caught early. So, it's a scary story, but let's slow our roll a bit. 122544
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsDouglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026🧪⚛️ Some thoughts on the past and future of the arXiv, a genuinely remarkable repository for human knowledge. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...nanoscale.blogspot.comThe arXiv - where it's been and where it's goingBack in the ancient mists of time, scientists and mathematicians would circulate preprints of their articles among friends and colleagues vi... 1126
Reposted by Leah Berman Williams❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Macabre Spooktober grotesquery: in July 1793, the National Convention voted to exhume & destroy all the kings of France from the crypt of Saint-Denis (roughly France’s Westminster Abbey) dating to the 7th c. Merovingians parishistoryofourstreets.com/2021/10/15/t... mavcor.yale.edu/conversation...parishistoryofourstreets.comThe Desecration of the Basilica of Saint Denis: Part OneThe horrifying history of what happened to 1,000+ years of royal remains during the French Revolution 1167
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsJoshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026U Colorado Boulder Computer Science is hiring for three (3) tenure-track faculty positions in: - #Quantum Computing - #AI - Computer Architecture & Systems Links to each here: www.colorado.edu/cs/jobs Please help spread the word! #AcademicSkycolorado.eduJobsJobs Mailing ListThe Computer Science Department maintains a moderated Jobs Mailing List. The list is open to anyone, students, alumni and even the public at 078
Reposted by Leah Berman Williamstenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026University of Washington is hiring: Assistant Professor in Statistics #assistantprofessor #statistics 112
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Rutherford's puzzle about 'Napoleon's theorem' was published in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴' 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦: 𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑘. Interestingly, this woman's magazine was an important forum for math problems before more 'serious' math journals appeared in the UK in 1830. 0175
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026LEGO doors [📹 Brick Experiment Channel] Original post 013123
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"You do know you fail more [dissertation] proposals than any other committee member" A postdoc. On multiple dissertation committees. You can't just find and replace professor with postdoc, homies. 3702
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsRick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Friday. Most of the region north of Alaska saw temperatures near or below freezing all day. A bit milder south of the Alaska Range and still above normal southern Yukon Territory. #akwx #weather 083
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsTim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He painted the stars swirling and the sunflowers blazing. Here he is, made from both. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt 081
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker 862231450
Leah Berman Williams @leahwrenn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I wonder who's bothering to answer the phone anymore in Alaska -- so many "spam call" "political call" "surveys that are really push polls" that I think lots of folks have given up. I did get an Alaska Survey Research text poll the other day though, which I was excited to answer. 280
Reposted by Leah Berman WilliamsTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026literally in the next 48 hours! be aware! 5737488