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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 2h

If you don’t show your work, I must fail you, Dr Oz, on this assignment

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23h

YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3h

This is professional misconduct.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 3h

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 17h

The irony of killing DEI programs because "merit" should be the sole deciding factor in everything, at the same time as wanting elite US universities to sign a "compact" where they would then get special treatment when it comes to awarding grants.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 17h

The irony of killing DEI programs because "merit" should be the sole deciding factor in everything, at the same time as wanting elite US universities to sign a "compact" where they would then get special treatment when it comes to awarding grants.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 18h

There is an iceberg beer from newfoundland

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 18h

When buying beer and wine for a glaciology conference you need to get the appropriate stuff. I don’t make the rules. 🧪⚒️❄️

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 22h

It’s unbelievable that nobody is pushing back

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23h

nuh uh

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23h

My order would be for a Montreal-style bagel, because New York bagels suck.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah the latter one (by @goldfinger300.bsky.social) was about coupled quakes but I don't think they said anything about them being within the same 24 hour period! Curious to see what @drwendyrocks.bsky.social described though. And really I know next to nothing about earthquakes so happy to learn.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah?

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa - how often have we had more than one >7 earthquake over the same 24 hours period, and in different places in the world? Surely that's not very common. 🧪⚒️

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Drake Passage.

Map showing location at tip of South America

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump

A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed "politics over peace" in awarding the coveted award to Venezuela's opposition leader.

www.bbc.com

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Geez - fingers crossed for a full and rapid recovery!

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Will there be any humanities departments left though?

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a plaid shirt is playing a brass instrument

Alt: a man in a plaid shirt is playing a brass instrument

media.tenor.com

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly this is a set of words I don't think I ever would have expected to be strung together

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Canada's House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has been studying whether equity, diversity and inclusion should be considered in awarding grants. It's telling that the three people quoted as being against this are all men, incl Pinker. 🧪

universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...

Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs

Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

universityaffairs.ca

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

I am curious to hear from American friends who are currently serving on academic search committees - are you seeing drops in applicant numbers from foreign nationals? #AcademicSky

Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 1d

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Very well could be - it’s from an NRCan website but I don’t know the location of the photo

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 2d

The Alberta government stopped tracking class sizes, and then the province's population growth really took off. @robsonfletcher.com set out to find out how the numbers of teachers compare to that growth, with the limited info available

Class size/composition is a strike issue.
#AbEd #AbLeg