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Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhD

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Last night I met a guy who said everyone in his office uses ChatGPT "because you just type in two lines and it generates a whole email for you!" And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Scene from the Star Trek The Next Generation movie, "The One with the Flowey Ribbon Monster that Sends You To Nirvana." Picard, looking out of place in his uniform, is walking through a bougie Victorian home that is decorated for Christmas. There's a large Christmas tree filled with lights and bright colors, and a couple of ornate toy horses that aren't huge but aren't small either, and a large red and white candy cane? Sort of looks like a barber shop pole, and it extends through the whole picture, I think it's a carousel thing for the horse we discussed earlier in this alt text. Anyways, the rest of the house is just normal old fancy house stuff, furniture, drapes, chandelier, lamps, etc. No caption, but you know, because like, it's Christmas next week and all.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It matters for all of us scientists, but particularly for ECRs, because developing good writing (and thus good thinking and reflecting) is hard. It takes time, and it is supposed to be filled with friction. Generative AI takes away the friction, and thus the opportunity to learn
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Writing is hard, and it’s supposed to be. Hard is good. Hard is the point. Don’t let gen AI take that from you. Don’t let the tech bros make you less human and take away your chance to learn through struggle and failure.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/12/2025
"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
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Knowledge Is Worth Your Time
A few thoughts about why we must embrace the hard work of learning.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Locally, there are private schools wholesale adopting AI. Can't wait for my dentist to be a fraud cause he used AI for everything in school.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/11/2025
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Voyager scene. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct adjunct of Unimatrix-01, is seen up close absolutely devouring a big ol' turkey leg like some kind of vicious animal. It's one of those tin foil wrapped Renaissance festival turkey legs, absolute unit. Closed caption reads: (ravenous growling)
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Deep Space 9 scene. The Sisko, Bashir, and Odo (🎵 buckets of fun🎵) are in the kitchen and shoulder to shoulder hovering over a bunch of food. Sisko is wearing some of that classic shimmery & colorful DS9 loungwear and cooking over a stove. He's holding out a spatula for Bashir to take a look or do a taste test. (Side note, I always wonder, does it go back in the pot? Do they use 20 new spoons doing taste tests?) Anyways, Basir looks nervous at whatever it is he's seeing. Odo, like a little brother wanting to be included in the party, stands just behind the two looking over Bashir's shoulder with great curiosity. Closed caption reads, "Beets are a very misunderstood vegetable."
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 23/11/2025
PLEASE this. And also to scientists writing press releases, too - calling something "AI" when it was actually your student spending 12 months fitting and validating a model is disingenuous
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's the weekend, baby
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
People learn through practice and challenge; not by receiving answers. But a deeper problem is that an essential aspect of teaching is helping someone organize their thinking in new ways. LLMs — systems which cannot think or appreciate thinking — are incapable of doing this in a meaningful way.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025
can’t say what’s going through my head right now But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Key Findings: Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion.
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Colin Moore @colinmoore.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"knowledge is humanity's spiritual birthright. Making it, playing with it, revising it, sifting through it, making sense of it -- it is baked into who we are as a species. [...] Every generation is responsible for protecting this legacy for the next generation." Printing this to hand to my 13yo:
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This week's Citified features a guest post from Ray Angod where he shares concerns about losing natural spaces in the city, especially wetland areas in and around the Huron Natural Area.
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Keeping the “Natural” in Huron Natural Area
Guest post by Ray Angod
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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 02/10/2025
I don't know how many times this needs to be posted, but clearly it is MANY TIMES. Sigh.
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Stuart Chambers, PhD @progstu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We need professors to point out that dipshits like this are clueless about what goes on in a university: www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
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When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores” Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT
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glenwillgo.bsky.social @glenwillgo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"... which isn't even particularily excessive" It's 34% over the speed limit. It's the difference between 6/10 pedestrians surviving a collision vs 1-2/10. Car brain is a hell of a thing.
Approximate survival rate of a pedestrian if hit by a vehicle at a certain speed.

30km/h: 9/10
40km/h: 6/10
50km/h: 2/10
60km/h: 0/10
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 15/08/2025
Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2025
Abandoning the vision of liberal arts education is at the heart of how fascism has come knocking. Scientists speaking of abandoning humanities have not learned the core lessons of our history - and by our history I even mean THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Science is never separated from society.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2025
Academia has now spent several decades trying to drape itself in capitalism - focusing on "job-oriented" majors, talking big about connections to industry, and conversion of student loan $s to income down the lane.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2025
I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Using AI is bad scholarship; passing it off as your own work is academic misconduct.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 01/07/2025
Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A very cool model for developing a standard data management policy for an entire department, team, or organization! geo-data-support.sites.uu.nl/faculty-rdm-...
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Faculty Research Data Management Policy
On this page, you can find the current and past versions of the Faculty of Geosciences Research Data Management Policy.   [button target=
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.
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Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 13/12/2024
More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I would love to see more research teams employ data managers. While roles like data scientists and research analysts are crucial for analyzing data, those roles often don't have the time to develop standardized and documented processes that lead to better data. #databs cghlewis.com/blog/hire_da...
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
VERY valuable thread for geoscientists, and all scientists who are looking for the right questions to ask their professional societies. Even after they walked back some of the advance compliance, it was still extremely troubling to see AGU damage the trust they'd built with their diverse membership.
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Julie Libarkin @holdingupthesky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It's the eighth anniversary of the shooting attack inside the Great Mosque in Quebec City. We will never forget Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzedine Soufiane and Aboubaker Thabti. Here's a video of the commemoration, held on Saturday.
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Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity. It can't not.
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