Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hey Cornell faculty. Sweeties. Honeybunches. Y’all need a union. Because what the hell is this?! 4173
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026does anyone know how to learn slowly? does anyone know how to learn? does anyone know? 4102
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that. 2540121399
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 391572915
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 15/06/2026I wanted my Cat’s Paw Nebula to capture the essence of image processing & how we study the universe in different wavelengths of light. Visible light painted using only black & white is combined with colorized infrared from JWST (the rectangles). Prints & the original available next week! #SciArt 19317
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/06/2026They built the scaffolding too high in an attempt to reach God Now God has made it impossible to communicate So they're just still going off their last orders and building more scaffolding The crowd is telling them to take the name down but tragically they don't understand anymore 15519100
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Ok I know search engines (and particularly google, which I am avoiding) have been deteriorating for a while now, but I feel like every platform I know has completely collapsed in that past week. Searches that worked a month ago return complete garbage now. Anyone else noticing this? 110
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsEllen Prager, PhD @elprager.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Excellent piece about second highest tsunami on record in Alaska fjord 2025, link to climate change, and increased risks to cruise ships and tourists in the region. Based on Science article led by Daniel Shugar, Univ. Calgary (DOI: 10.1126/science.aec3187). 🧪 eos.org/articles/the...eos.orgThe Forensics of a Skyscraper-Sized Tsunami - EosA landslide in Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska created the second-largest tsunami on record. A new analysis links this abrupt event to the retreat of a glacier and, ultimately, to climate change. 23018
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/05/2026For no reason at all the email for cornell alumni affairs is alumniaffairs@cornell.edu 15914
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Yeah I’m coming out of social media retirement for this one. This man is an absolute monster. But so are some of the trustees who were/are his staunchest supporters. Cornell needs to clean house. 082
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsShane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 05/03/2026What's amazing is that in the 80+ years since WW2, simply opposing every war, knowing nothing else about it, has shown it will become the correct, accepted position over time. It's the political stance equivalent of investing in the S&P 500: safe, a little boring maybe, but outlasts all others. 1246
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsAndy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: We try to keep fresh fruit around, though it can be challenging out of season, yeah. CHOTNIER: So the icebox, obviously, would keep things from going bad as quickly. WCW: Exactly, yes. C: Is the food communal? Do you just grab whatever's in there? WCW: Isaac, look. 1142
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I shattered my left shoulder by tripping over my own left foot, trying to stumble and then tripping over my own RIGHT foot. Went airborne, landed on my outstretched arm. This happened in a state park, on father’s day. Soooo many people saw it all. 120
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Reached one year cancer free. Went to Iceland, accidentally witnessed an erupting volcano. Learned to solder. 091
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsFen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025'Unfurl', 2023, acrylics on 20x24-inch canvas. Part of a small series of macro ostrich fern paintings. #ArtAdventCalendar 25611
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise? Yeah. 10535232
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Without planning on it at all, we caught part of the eruption in the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland a few days ago. Also saw some of the lava scars from last year. What an otherworldly place. 120
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 25/07/2025I met some puffins yesterday! They are much smaller than I expected, though just about as cute as I expected. They all had adult coloring, but many of them seemed to be rather new to adulthood :) 020
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsBrad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy. 10568271974
Reposted by Saramoira Shieldsjulie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm 50186675875
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I’ve been watching all the videos out of Minneapolis and LA and at this point I’m wondering if the majority of armed dudes in masks wearing “ICE” gear are even employed by them. Like ICE should be abolished *and also* most of these guys are just claiming to be them in order to terrorize people. 2203
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Read my brilliant pal Matthew. 12312
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsAnnalena Kofler @annalenakofler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Two LIGO sites are essential for independently validating observed gravitational wave signals. Without the second site, we can't constrain the sky position well enough for electromagnetic follow-up searches of binary neutron star mergers. This would be devastating for the whole field ... 0146
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 30/05/2025it is quite literally not LIGO without two antennas 1376
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsLaura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025My people, we need two LIGO sites to prove sources are astrophysical and not, like, a rabbit hopping nearby. ⚛️ 12487169
Reposted by Saramoira Shieldsfranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025petition to call apps with unnecessary, intrusive, non-toggleable predictive tech "AI-infested apps" 110114
Reposted by Saramoira Shieldssamjshah.bsky.social @samjshah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025If anyone in my network knows any mathematical artists on blue sky… or artists who use math in their work on blue sky…. Can you let me know? I’d love to follow them. (I had a bunch on Twitter but I deleted that a while ago and want to see more in my feed.) 101810
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/05/2025Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science. 21961811672
Reposted by Saramoira Shieldsmankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you 60151095120
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025People need to stop following executive orders like they’re laws 25618
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025It’s even more offensive because they ASKED US FOR THIS POWER and they’re not using it! They’re shrinking away from responsibilities that they actively campaigned for! They’re spending more time trying to keep their jobs than to do their jobs! 17310
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025At this point, I don’t take seriously any elected official who doesn’t throw themselves into the gears of the machine because the machine is creating fascism 831852
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025No one likes this but it remains true that you can’t just oppose a message and expect people to pick it up; you have to actively, aggressively build an affirmative narrative for people to support in order to counter opponents. “You’re wrong” isn’t as powerful as “this is what right looks like” 833369
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I… did not know about this. This is so bizarre and unsettling. 040
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Oh wait there is one in NYC! And it costs $45 to get in! Are you fucking kidding me?! streicker.nyc/events/schumerstreicker.nycSenator Chuck Schumer with Representative Ritchie Torres – The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural CenterSpecial events and programs at the Streicker Center: our mission is to spark curiosity, engage the intellect and infuse our lives with rich Jewish culture. 010
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I’m seriously asking myself this question. First stop is Monday in Baltimore. I just… beyond the crassness and abdication of responsibility that is doing a BOOK TOUR when an unelected billionaire is actively destroying critical government agencies, it’s notable he’s not scheduled to show up in NY. 2197
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/03/2025between Eric Adams, Columbia, and Gillibrand and Schumer, New Yorkers are straight up not having a good time rn 814924
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I don’t want to wait nearly four years to primary Schumer. I want every moment of his existence to be a struggle, right now. I want him to feel like he can’t go out in public without being reminded how much he has hurt people. No rest. No acceptance. Same for the rest of them. 140
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025So I read the filing from Citibank re: Climate United, but apparently the FBI also requested freezing the accounts of the New York State Dept of Taxation and Finance last month? Did Citibank comply with that one too, or are they cherry-picking? I feel like it would have been a news item if so… 010
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsChristina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“But Accu-Weather!!” They get their data from NWS. “But my local TV station has their own radar on a truck!” Sure, and they use it to fill small geographic gaps in the broader radar coverage that’s provided by NWS. “My weather app!” It’s getting its data from NWS. 12622192
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2025I, a person who has taken and taught general relativity and passed a qualifying exam based on Wald (!), pointed out the earth is round in response to the suggestion that flight paths should be straight and a man who is a genomicist came into my mentions and told me I didn’t understand curvature 2657448
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Remember to keep joy in your revolution. Community justice is also about the right to have spaces that *aren't* just concerned with survival. 18821
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025If your revolution excludes developmentally and intellectually disabled people, your revolution sucks. 133884
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments. 10128261151
Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025My heart is in a dark place. I just spent the past year in surgery, chemo and radiation for a rare and rather deadly form of cancer. The research output of even just the past 5 years has likely saved my life. This is so horrific. 060
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons 16665205410691
Reposted by Saramoira ShieldsDr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I think pushing a whole new type of technology so hard it is basically unavoidable should count as experimenting on people without consent. 312938