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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Instead of having to go to work everyday, I think I just want to be one of those rich guys with hobbies. How do I make that happen?

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every year I feed some of my class assignments into the most recent (free) versions of the chatbots, just to see what I should expect if students do the same. The chatbot got a 50% on an upcoming plant ID quiz, which seems to me like a skill it should be good at by this point.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Conservatives in 2026 are like: “When we said Barack Obama was like Hitler we meant it as a metaphor for something bad, not a reference to real Hitler who we think is cool but not in a way that lets you say we’re racist.”

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Dan Charles @dancharles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Way back in 2023, NIH said people can't use LLMs for drafting peer review text, in part for exactly this reason. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Science funding agencies say no to using AI for peer review

Concerns include confidentiality, accuracy, and “originality of thought”

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've now recieved a rejected manuscript review where a reviewer submitted LLM-generated content (100% confident), and a rejected grant review where a reviewer submitted LLM-generated content (80% confident). On it's own, this is somewhere between frustrating and infuriating. But my main concern:

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How many times did you realize this - once or twice?

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have travel bottles of toothpaste and shampoo that are similar in size and shape. This morning in my hotel room I realized this is not ideal.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A lot of the discussions about AI in academia have focused on students, grading, etc. But I think there is even more of a problem in academic research... Just had a manuscript clearly "peer" reviewed by an LLM. And who knows how many AI written and AI reviewed grants are in the system.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reports like this are almost certainly going to increase as these tools become more trusted. "Farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI-generated weed and pest control advice." share.google/uDDq4j9nOXJw...

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Chinese farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI-generated weed and pest control advice — farmer trusted pesticide recipe after months of successful advice

AI is useful, but you should never blindly trust it.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 13/03/2025

Pleased to see our work published: The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies. Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

A circular dendrogram (phenetic tree) of knots, made using the ggtree package in R. A text-readable and high-resolution PDF-version of the tree is available as a supplementary material.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There are a LOT of products out there being marketed to farmers. Many of these products have little to no independent testing to evaluate whether they work. A couple years ago, we tested two products marketed as "soil detoxifiers" - and we found they didn't seem to do anything.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New publication out today: "Can soil detoxifiers mitigate crop injury from residual herbicides?" doi.org/10.1002/agg2...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/07/2026

Iran War Enters 6th Justification

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

When grant programs are posted only 6 weeks before the deadline, but then funding decisions aren't announced for another 9+ months, it really makes managing a research program stressful...

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A great blue heron coming in for the landing. Captured this morning. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

A photo of a great blue heron with its wings spread wide and its long legs extended down as it prepares to land on a rocky riverbank.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

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Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Potato Oles from Taco John's. Preferably with nacho cheese, but not necessary to be the best.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

From yesterday - a thread about a new publication where we look at seed germination ecology, and how two species might respond to cover crops for weed management.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New publication out today ('preproof' version). Some really cool work from my former PhD student Jonah Ziyaaba looking at how seeds of two weed species (kochia and common lambsquarters) germinate in response to light quality. doi.org/10.1017/wsc....

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Light Quality Differentially Regulates Germination and Dormancy in Kochia (Bassia scoparia) and Common Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) | Weed Science | Cambridge Core

Light Quality Differentially Regulates Germination and Dormancy in Kochia (Bassia scoparia) and Common Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album)

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I don't take pictures of the Mallards very often because they're so common. A reminder that common things can be pretty amazing. #BirdsOfLabontePark #birds #photography

Mallard duck on the water. He has a very green head.

A female Mallard duck with her bill pointed back into her wing feathers.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)

Treat lies like obscenities.
Kate Cohen
Former Post contributing columnist
My dream new journalistic standard would make it unacceptable to quote a lie in a news story. In the deep-fake, bot-infested Trump era, it’s no longer enough for news organizations to seek truth; we need them to protect the public from lies. Lies should be treated like obscenities, graphic violence or sexual content. That means literally refusing to repeat a transparent lie — not quoting it early and then offering corrective facts two paragraphs or 30 seconds later. Sure, sometimes it’s a judgment call whether a statement falls just to the spin side of the mendacity line. But sometimes it’s obvious. You know how news stories avoid quoting profanity by saying things like “he said, adding an expletive for emphasis”? That’s how reporters should deal with lies: e.g., “he said, before repeatedly lying about …” As for lying on live TV? Bring on the bleeps!

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#BirdsOfLabontePark An eared grebe. Disappointed I didn't get a better photo of this one. The bright red eye and light feathers around the face is really distinctive.

A dark brown bird with white feathers on the side of the face and a bright red eye. The bird is on the water.

An eared grebe and a Wilson's pharalope on the water.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

sinceyouarrived.world

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How are other academics dealing with the "Countries of Concern" disclosures when submitting Federal grants? My institution is asking me for a list of Co-PIs from the list of countries, and I have no interest in playing that game... Am I alone here? #adademicsky

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/05/2026

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Better Off Ted Arrested Development The Simpsons Seinfeld Jessica Jones M.A.S.H. House Bob's Burgers 30 Rock Andor West Wing Stranger Things Schitt's Creek Parks & Rec The Bernie Mac Show

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Was screaming at me for a while before I finally saw him/her.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My kids are having a 'contest' to see who can sound more like Beaker, and it is exactly as annoying and hilarious as you imagine.

media.tenor.com

a stuffed animal with red hair and big eyes is wearing a lab coat and a tie .

Alt: Beaker, from the Muppets.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Why isn't this headline "Senate Republicans continue to support Iran war." Why do we let them off the hook for their actions with this half-assed description of what they're doing?

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This episode is worth listening to just to hear Brandon Jovanovich laugh. It is so cheerfully genuine. I mean, the content of the episode is great too. But that laugh... 😊

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is a really helpful thread, for those of us who are annoyed with major journalism outlets, and even more annoyed with their 'opinion' pages.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Until today I'd never heard or seen the word 'looksmaxxing' and would have assumed clavicular must be something shoulder related. Based on the tiny bit I've learned about these things today, I am extremely glad I'm not as online as I used to be...

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump has lost the 'fringe' wing of the party. It is the *mainstream* GOP that supports the threats of war crimes. And they are not 'conspicuously silent' as stated in the article. Many are full-voiced in support. History will not be kind.

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Along with [Marjorie Taylor] Greene, former Make America Great Again allies such as Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Candace Owens have described [Trump's] threats to Iran as a betrayal of his America First promise..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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