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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier

@coastalseaside.bsky.social

290 followers 190 following 350 posts

Running, weights, books, beer. Not necessarily in that order. Mom, wife, educator. Teaching in the sun, sand, water, and mud. Evidence-informed, and hater of pseudoscience. Overly energetic. PhD: salt marsh foraminifera and meiofauna.

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Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 3h

Try to explain this headline to someone from the year 2010 as if it makes any sense at all.

Headline from the Telegraph which reads:

“Unmasked: inflatable frog tormenting ICE is non-binary ‘Antifa terrorist’.

Costumed figure, who called for death if Trump officials, has become symbol of Left-wing resistance.”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 12h

Weeee're your best friends, the Backyardigans!!! <3 In the place where we belong, though we'll probably sing a song!

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 20h

This is awesome.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 14d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 23d

WELCOME TO NEWS

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 1d

27,000!!! That response rate says it all.

"[The results]...paint a bleak picture of women censoring their health concerns amid a pattern of dismissal and bias within the health-care system."

Dismissed and depressed: Survey digs into women’s health in the Maritimes | CBC News

The results of a first-of-its-kind survey in the Maritimes paints a bleak picture of women censoring their health concerns amid a pattern of dismissal and bias within the health-care system.

www.cbc.ca

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes is right. Maple MAGA

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

yikes

CTV News headline reads: "Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents"

Conservative MP Andrew Lawton quote tweets: "Yes."

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 1d

God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the bus right now and a peninsula elementary school got on to go for a field trip. Chaos aside (lol) the fact that some of them are saying this is their first time on a city bus... when they LIVE in the city... #CarCulture 🙃

Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 3d

The number of drivers I see aggressively tear off after waiting behind a turning vehicle, or a pedestrian, baffles me. So, you have to make it to the next red light at 80 kph to make up for the 15 seconds you waited?

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 3d

Our 19yo is back after a 6mos co-op placement. Oh how quickly I've forgotten how much he eats.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 4d

Thinking you don’t fit in is agonising, whether you are starting at university or changing jobs. Our advice columnist, David Robson, shares some tips to change how you feel

If you feel you don't really belong, here is some science-based advice

Thinking you don’t fit in is agonising, whether you are starting at university or changing jobs. Our advice columnist, David Robson, shares some tips to change how you feel

www.newscientist.com

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 4d

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 4d

This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.

Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/lDxXk
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Jane Goodall's final lesson

Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in action

www.talkingclimate.ca

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 4d

I stopped by after 1 on my way out, you must have stepped out for a smidgen!

Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 4d

I still haven't left Bedford, hahahha.

Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 4d

I only need to physically go into work today for a couple of things and a meeting. Thank goodness, because working in a windowless office when it's still summer outside would make for a very sad Monday.

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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 5d

Academics take one headshot at the start of their career and then use it for the next 40 years.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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