iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21h

🎯

I was then perplexed by the Vanderbilt/Washington University report. Health inequity and disparities, lack of diversity, urban racial segregation, structural racial discrimination, each of which is taken as an a priori societal ill to be addressed, are seemingly proper objects of study, research and, yes, at times advocacy, across much of my university’s vast research enterprise. And yet, for my colleagues in the humanities, the report casts the same a priori assumptions as suspect, as political goals that threaten to “distort the scholarly enterprise.”

26723

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026

I'm a scientist concerned about trainees using Chat, Claude etc recklessly Imagine if that internal employee ID number was protected human subjects information, like the email address of a participant, or a confidential diagnosis or worse

47921

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Learning about bristlemouths this week for #SundayFishSketch

A pen and ink drawing of a bristlemouth fish, with black background and heavy black shadows, blue red and green crosshatching, and a wide open jaw reminiscent of a xenomorph

05515

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've been trying to get back in the habit of stretching my #sciart muscles with regular #FossilFriday drawings; I'm still agog over these trilobites with the massive eye towers that I drew/learned about last week

141

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.

nsf.gov

NSF leadership in a new golden age of science

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

8323170

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 15/08/2026

The availability heuristic is one reason why it's crucial to get off of Twitter, even if you're staying for some nominally sensible reason. People have a natural tendency to give credence to the values they see the most. If you're marinating over there, it's almost certainly affecting your judgment.

1027385

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Realizing I only have a couple more weeks to put a dent in my summer reading list

000

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hey remember that ancient technology we used to have called "a working spellcheck"? Why does Word think I'm French when all my settings are to American English?

010

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Anyone who wants a healthy Chesapeake should be really worried about industrial mining at the mouth of it. Oysters, crab, seagrasses, menhaden, osprey... you name it, it will feel the effects. The science of impacts is not complicated. But the Administration...

0124

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I know when I think New Orleans in August, I think "so hot the instruments melt out of your mouth." You hold a guitar strap in your mouth, right?

an AI generated image of 3 street musicians with malformed instruments

an AI generated image of 2 street musicians with malformed instruments

110

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Pretty frustrating to see an official @boston.gov event that supposedly celebrates "the best of Boston's local food scene, artisan makers, and cultural entrepreneurs" using AI instead supporting actual local artists and designers #SailBoston

001

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/07/2026

Not just that but the new NYC subway maps in cars have no connection to the underlying terrain. "Modernization" has stripped the train lines from their sense of place.

36210

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This has been a fun occasion to remember that GPS, relied on absolutely, is one of the ways we surrendered some of our powers and capacities early on. If you fully externalize your navigation to blindly obey a device, you remain permanently un-oriented.

512413

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/07/2026

Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting a comment to stop the administration from dismantling U.S. science. There are nearly 280,000 public comments filed so far! But! Do not assume they are all, or even most, against the proposal. This is a key pillar of Project 2029 - wind down federal R&D.

17261

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I've never seen this before, but making sunscreen readily accessible like hand sanitizer dispensers is such a wonderfully intuitive idea. Hopefully it was put to good use by all our northern European visitors during the heat wave!

A photo of a free sunscreen dispenser at the Boston Public Garden installed by MassGen Brigham

041

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

235029874

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Lots of us pointing out the unsupervised algorithmic decision & $39.95 charged for blank page that says, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” But Springer Nature also killed an editorial that the editor-in-chief of Naturwissenschaften planned to write about the retractions.

17734

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm spending the week at @uofwa.uw.edu's Friday Harbor Laboratory in the San Juan Islands, doing some #scicomm work and (hopefully) writing papers, if the scenery is not too distracting

A sketchbook with a pencil drawing of an oak tree with a coastline in tue background held up against the same view in real life

A black and white pencil drawing of an oak tree in front of a coastline

A photo of an oak tree with grass in the foreground and the sea with an island coastline in the background

161

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

7467158

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 25/06/2026

Very intense earthquakes have just struck northern Venezuela, especially the cities of Puerto Cabello and San Felipe. Early automated estimates are more than 10,000 people may have died with damages of 2-20% of GDP This is likely a humanitarian catastrophe needing an international response.

USGS PAGER estimate shows a Red Alert for estimated fatalities and a Red Alert for estimated economic losses.

3% chance of 100-1,000 deaths
22% chance of 1,000-10,000 deaths
44% chance of 10,000-100,000 deaths
30% chance of more than 100,000 deaths

Estimated economic losses:
24% chance of 1-10 billion USD
39% chance of 10-100 billion USD
30% chance of more than 100 billion USD

516687

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

SciAm layoffs announcements are rolling in so many incredibly talented science journalists booted from the once prestigious publication science journalism is on its last legs y'all and it's one of our most IMPORTANT forms of journalism. These are the educators and the myth busters. it's sickening

316653

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

more of this real journalism pls #SciArt #comic

fake news screenshots, the left is colourful people one getting vaccinated all giving a thumbs up while confetti fly around! the text is “New vaccine saves billions! Everyone is happy, lives long”
the right is a yellow scorching desert with skulls and bones and dead plants, the sun blazing with a :T face and just a giant black cube in the background that says DATA, the text is “Heatwave kills thousands, But the AI CEOs are even richer”

41972749

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It is #makeaterriblecomicday2026 and I am at a conference, so I'm doing terrible not-quite-a-comic panels about decidedly NOT terrible #IASNR talks #makeaterriblecomicday

141

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/06/2026

Someday, someone is going to write a book about the Era of Fencing in DC, beginning with the fencing of Lafayette park in the aftermath of June 1, 2020. And I tell you what, that book is gonna be way more interesting than it has any right to be.

917845

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

7719981152

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If other news was reported like climate change:

A picture of a couple driving and laughing with the text "road fatalities highest in ten years"

1726661028

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

8153382302

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

1041711907

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

IASNR round 1 done! Really great poster session, losing my voice talking about deep sea mining 😅

120

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

15860371108

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Morgan @mport25.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The USMNT can't park the bus because our country lacks the funding for public transportation.

141634333

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The USMNT are playing so well, I thought it was the US women’s team?

1218723

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Who is going to be the first to photoshop Hurricane Shark into the Reflecting Pool? Has it already happened?

020

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm determined to 1. use my patio more and 2. get through my reading list this summer

Photo of "Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils," by David Farrier. The book is held by someone sitting with their feet up on a lawnchair in the sun

130

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications. A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders “The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.”

Today, he told us that E&E News as we know it is gone. Energywire, Climatewire, Greenwire, E&E News PM, E&E News Daily, PowerSwitch--six publications are being killed this summer.

This is information that management should have had, and should have told us, while our colleagues were making the decision about taking a buyout earlier this year. PEN Guild’s Labor Management Committee has questioned POLITICO monthly since January--including Jonathan Greenberger himself--about the vision for the newly combined energy and environment teams. At no point was sunsetting the E&E News publications ever mentioned--not even at our most recent meeting on Thursday, June 4. And yet somehow Semafor had the exclusive at 9:17 a.m. today.

This is the second time management has lied to employees in six months--the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later.

Management says that none of us should be shocked, that change is part of the news business, that they did not lie and that they only finalized this new plan last week. And yet the question remains why such ground-shattering, publication-killing plans were not part of the “new vision” management announced in January? Why were our subscribers only surveyed in May?

This is not leadership. This is unacceptable.

36734

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

On this #WorldOceansDay , more scientists speak out on the possible loss of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), which hits hard where I am right now, back “home” in Corvallis, Oregon katu.com/news/local/s... #OOIDataMatters 🌊 🦑

katu.com

Scientists warn Oregon could lose critical ocean data under federal cuts

A federal decision to dismantle ocean monitoring systems off Oregon's coast could impact forecasting, fisheries, and climate science.

1217

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Book recs from the T: I saw someone reading a book called "Let Geography Die" last week and immediately had to know more #mbta

Cover of: Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard,
By
Alison Mountz,
Kira Williams

120

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"Though Cook is remembered today as the charlatan who lied about reaching the North Pole, he may yet find redemption in the next phase of human exploration: manned missions to Mars....When we do reach Mars, we will, in some small part, have Cook to thank." (Madhouse at the End of the Earth) #sciart

A gouache and watercolor painting in blue, white, and pink tones, divided diagonally. On the lower left is a white space shuttle with red details, over a planet and a dark space background. On the upper right is a dark three masted sailing ship with steam pipes, sailing across a light background of icebergs. The spaceship and sailing ship are connected by a red line and seem to be emerging from each other.

A gouache and watercolor painting in blue, white, and pink tones, divided diagonally. On the upper right is a white space shuttle with red details, over a planet and a dark space background. On the lower left, upside down, is a dark three masted sailing ship with steam pipes, sailing across a light background of icebergs. The spaceship and sailing ship are connected by a red line and seem to be emerging from each other.

141

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

M 7.8 earthquake 24 km WSW of Burias, Philippines earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The location of the earthquake is marked with a star.

814169

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 05/06/2026

Recency bias: Every single story on the post office’s woes should include a paragraph explaining that no one thought it needed to break even until Reagan came along. It’s a public service. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

nytimes.com

Postal Service Frees Up Enough Cash to Keep Operating for ‘Several Years’

6529170

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Some excellent creatures at the @mfaboston.bsky.social Framing Nature special exhibit

020

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · 04/06/2026

As we kick off the 2026 midterm election season, we're resharing our guide to Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation. Read about the legal risks scientists face from politically-motivated attacks, & how to defend against them: www.csldf.org/resource/poc...

csldf.org

A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Handling Political Harassment and Legal Intimidation - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

We produced this guide to educate scientists about the legal risks they may face from politically-motivated attacks.

087

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If you want people to take your energy transition technology seriously, may I suggest #scicomm efforts that include...not this

An AI generated depiction of underground hydrogen storage, with nonsensical labels and inaccurate visual depictions

130

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

1745251282

Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I've been reading through hundred of public comments and hearing transcripts on this, and it's so wild to see ppl argue for DSM bc "better the seafloor than rainforests and child labor!!" It's not an either/or situation, it's the same playbook all the way down 🫠🫠🫠

010

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Andy Whitmore @more-whit.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is how local actors fight back - using any tools at their disposal. Even as the US imposes its will over deep-sea mining this bill deters the use of the island as a staging area for mining operations. "Guam bans seabed mining as federal offshore leases loom" www.postguam.com/news/local/g...

postguam.com

Guam bans seabed mining as federal offshore leases loom

The Guam Legislature voted Friday to ban deep-sea mining from island waters, a symbolic but pointed rebuke of a federal push that has already moved faster than most island leaders

0158

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

The Onion @theonion.com · 29/05/2026

Trump Executive Order Kickstarts Deep Sea Mining Rush theonion.com/trump-executive-order-…

“It’s crazy to think that 95% of the ocean hasn’t been exploited for profits.”

Curtis Baskin, Meat Baster

842443

Reposted by Dr. Cat Lambert

Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

From NSF...“aligns with N.S.F.’s wider strategy to have a nimbler approach to prioritizing support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies as well as a deliberate approach to smart life cycle management within its portfolio of research infrastructure.” 🧪🌎

nytimes.com

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

255