Reposted by LTurculetKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4hOne of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control. 653975
Reposted by LTurculetgeri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 4hMight as well light the Constitution on fire at this point. 681422347
Reposted by LTurculetJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 24040011041
Reposted by LTurculetOrlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Must read @patricklennox.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...thewalrus.caAlberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie | The WalrusDanielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis 04427
Reposted by LTurculetlog̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yes brother I'd say it matters and I won't be told otherwise by a dolt who can't remember 5 digits 56713
Reposted by LTurculetBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My personal rule is, always vote. Pick the least worst candidate. Pick the best referendum answer. The worst people don’t want you to vote. Vote 19564167
Reposted by LTurculetTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Surveying the AI ‘moment,’ Nathalie Maréchal says "the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free."buff.lyWhat Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AINathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs? 05336
Reposted by LTurculetMicah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026some of them will but the unfortunate fact of the matter is that nothing really gets close to matching the United States for science funding - the rest of the world doesn’t have the capacity to just freely absorb what we’re losing here a lot of folks will leave the profession entirely 1160466
Reposted by LTurculetKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 17/09/2026I think even the I Never Thought Leopards Would Eat My Face people are getting to the point where they’re saying “Look, I’ve got my pride—I thought at least my face would get eaten by, you know, a leopard, not by this giant fucking dummy.” 838168
Reposted by LTurculetEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 15/09/2026A good day to remind you that if Mark Carney wants investment in important things (i.e. the knowledge economy), he could just do it. But instead he's cutting those things in favour of massive military spending while soliciting foreign ownership over Canada's future. 418759
Reposted by LTurculetjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance 358155522729
Reposted by LTurculetJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 1773207927
Reposted by LTurculetKatie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 302666905
Reposted by LTurculetKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money 512310633
Reposted by LTurculetKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just expel him, Canada. 34763071043
Reposted by LTurculetJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 29/08/2026University governance is completely fucked everywhere; this thread is a very good illustration of how and why it's fucked at Stanford. The specifics will be different at other universities, but the fundamental dynamics are the same. 04918
Reposted by LTurculetGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/08/2026A reasonable conclusion might be that President McInnis serves the CEOs and MBAs on the board of the Yale Corporation instead of the students and faculty of the actual university. 214837
Reposted by LTurculetShannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I mean this very, very seriously: It is absolutely an option for us to ignore his idiotic Lake America stunt. We can do that. We can just tune it out like you would block out a child howling at you in the cereal aisle, recognizing that to do anything else would be to give the whiner what they want. 1229074
Reposted by LTurculetAvi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/08/2026Eyes, teeth, mental health and medicine: they’re all part of our health! They should all be part of our universal public health care system. 313835
Reposted by LTurculetEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/08/2026This program was flawed from the start, in large part due to it coming at the same time university budgets are being destroyed by the provinces. We'd have no problem attracting int'l talent - and building domestic talent - if we maintained adequate institutional funding. 67023
Reposted by LTurculetAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total). 44621
Reposted by LTurculetProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/202623% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 271256476
Reposted by LTurculetMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The only country that has threatened to invade Canada is us, & it should have immediately ended this presidency. Also, stop lying. It's not a Freudian slip. Grow up & act like the Vice President of the United States. Or even better, resign. 2026868
Reposted by LTurculetKate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I have no doubt that some researches will find, and have already found, beneficial uses for AI. But this does not require a university-wide restructure nor a university-wide demand that each faculty member individually reinvent their courses to “train students for Ai” (whatever the heck that means) 1170467
Reposted by LTurculetjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperationyoutube.comWhat Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnellYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 15360241281
Reposted by LTurculetBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Degenerates like Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and RFK Jr. should not be effectively immune (civilly, politically) for defaming civil servants—or any civilians—for propaganda or fundraising purposes. What they're doing to Anthony Fauci right now is horrifying. As things stand, they'll get away with it.offmessage.netRepublicans Should Suffer For Their SmearsThere should be consequences, from civil liability to expulsion from Congress, for lying about citizens for propaganda or fundraising purposes. 221051254
Reposted by LTurculetJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026space x plans to explode more rockets, destroy a wildlife refuge, and eventually collapse into the rot of its own viscera 711611
Reposted by LTurculet💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media 523228086488
Reposted by LTurculetKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026People in this country used to be afraid of announcing to the world that they were stone-cold idiots who shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of a car. Now they're out here bragging about how dumb they are. 58826133
LTurculet @lturculet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026State of play: ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence weaponized so that a handful of horrible people can profit at a level that is incomprehensible to the average human. Increasingly happening at a tipping point that has us fumbling towards apocalypse. 020
Reposted by LTurculetTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My response to Elon Musk. 691997615
Reposted by LTurculetAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."publicnotice.coThe new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a griftTrump wants to run scientific research like his family business. 881794562
Reposted by LTurculetLisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If someone cornered you at a cocktail party and said something like this, you wouldn't just try to get away from them. You'd bounce from the whole event because wtf. But elected Republicans get up every day and say unhinged stuff like this in Congress and I honestly do not know how to unfuck this. 871861390
Reposted by LTurculetBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin 654127647
Reposted by LTurculetKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence. 642756892
Reposted by LTurculetYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Elon Musk, Royal Society Fellow SHAME @royalsociety.orgroyalsociety.orgMr Elon Musk FRS | Royal Society FellowElon Musk is the CEO and co-founder of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and The Boring Company.As lead designer at SpaceX, Elon oversees the development of rockets a... 615846
Reposted by LTurculetJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026@jamellebouie.net calls Musk what he is. Gift link. Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there? 518269
Reposted by LTurculetPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction 23608107
Reposted by LTurculetKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It's darkly depressing that the entire GOP -- from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court -- insists that the president and his aides cannot be held accountable for all the very clear crimes that they clearly committed, but they think Dr. Fauci should hang for alleged mishandling of COVID. 763133652
Reposted by LTurculetDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.dropsitenews.comIsrael Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence. 7123521232
Reposted by LTurculetBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is an epistemological change on the level of science supplanting religion as the dominant form of knowledge. GenAI is making people dumber by the standard of scientific knowledge. But it’s also creating a new standard of oracular knowledge with techbros as the new priests. From 2024.cigionline.orgChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World ViewExpertise with data collection and manipulation has all too often been equated with deep understanding of that area. 12910
Reposted by LTurculetEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/07/2026I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud. 915233
Reposted by LTurculetAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026For the love of Coatlicue, don't use LLMs to summarise! Those things have no cognition. They put text together that looks "coherent" but since they cannot understand it is all based on statistics. An author who writes about truth & technology yet doesn't understand this? 🤡 #academicsky 2237
Reposted by LTurculetConor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Our Prime Minister is following this man's policy wants nearly to the letter: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... You want oligarchy? Keep believing in 4d cHeSs, fail to stand up. Keep believing all the neoliberal crap is necessary for national unity. Let the Trojan Horse inside the gates. #CDNpoli #Carney 26938
Reposted by LTurculetMark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026wow the revamped ACS website is terrible 4344
Reposted by LTurculetDmitry Eremin @dmeremin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The new web interface of @acs.org publications is agonizing. TOCs missing from ASAPs/misplaced in issues, terrible URLs, and reading that’s now painful on both mobile and desktop. If page views and readership matter to ACS, this is an emergency. I hope ACS leadership is listening. 182
Reposted by LTurculetMike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The costs of net zero are a lot lower than the costs of current policy 48542