Gabriel S. Jacobs
@gsjphd.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Schoolteacher. Big galoot. Bespoke homemade opinions. (he/him)
Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious.
Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.
Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious.
Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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TODAY: We staged a die-in in front of the National Security Ministry to protest our government’s racist policy of ignoring crime and violence in Israel’s Palestinian community. Just this year, 231 Palestinians in Israel have been killed – men, women, and children. (1/2)
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
TODAY: We staged a die-in in front of the National Security Ministry to protest our government’s racist policy of ignoring crime and violence in Israel’s Palestinian community. Just this year, 231 Palestinians in Israel have been killed – men, women, and children. (1/2)
1. I was a Dinosaur Kid who never really grew out of it
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
1. I was a Dinosaur Kid who never really grew out of it
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
2. Seven years of grad school was preferable to going into the workforce
3. I made my escape from the Adjunct Mines
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
Myth: men aren't interested in women who pursue advanced degrees
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Myth: men aren't interested in women who pursue advanced degrees
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
Fact: I semi-regularly encourage my fiancée to consider grad school and she's like "I REJECT YOUR HONEYED WORDS FOUL DEMON, YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME IN SO EASILY"
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Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
No Two Snowflakes Are Alike—Especially under an Electron Microscope
Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.
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We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
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lest we think that tenebs are the only beetles who like to get weird with it, here's the brentid weevil Calodromus with his signature defensive move (stick he leggy out)
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
lest we think that tenebs are the only beetles who like to get weird with it, here's the brentid weevil Calodromus with his signature defensive move (stick he leggy out)
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honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards
Bessent: "If something happens down in Venezuela, we could really see oil prices go down even more."
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards
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While letters of yore would attempt to signal seriousness with exhaustive if often incoherent technical detail, the current crop of LLM-induced letters are hopelessly vague, carrying grandiose names (a unified theory of fractal cybernetic enthalpy) but without any detail, mathematical or otherwise.
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
While letters of yore would attempt to signal seriousness with exhaustive if often incoherent technical detail, the current crop of LLM-induced letters are hopelessly vague, carrying grandiose names (a unified theory of fractal cybernetic enthalpy) but without any detail, mathematical or otherwise.
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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Scientists have been crying "Lysenkoism!" since RFK Jr. took office, but what does it mean? RFK Jr. is reviving a dark chapter of history where ideology trumped evidence, with deadly consequences for millions.
Dissent is patriotic. We're fighting to #impeachrfk
Dissent is patriotic. We're fighting to #impeachrfk
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Scientists have been crying "Lysenkoism!" since RFK Jr. took office, but what does it mean? RFK Jr. is reviving a dark chapter of history where ideology trumped evidence, with deadly consequences for millions.
Dissent is patriotic. We're fighting to #impeachrfk
Dissent is patriotic. We're fighting to #impeachrfk
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🫵 Lysenkoism!
Changing a few sentences won't change reality. Without robust vaccine and public health infrastructure, we're unequipped to handle the inevitable: more fatal, frequent, and far-ranging outbreaks of preventable disease that will go unaddressed by a HHS worshipping ideology > evidence.
Changing a few sentences won't change reality. Without robust vaccine and public health infrastructure, we're unequipped to handle the inevitable: more fatal, frequent, and far-ranging outbreaks of preventable disease that will go unaddressed by a HHS worshipping ideology > evidence.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🫵 Lysenkoism!
Changing a few sentences won't change reality. Without robust vaccine and public health infrastructure, we're unequipped to handle the inevitable: more fatal, frequent, and far-ranging outbreaks of preventable disease that will go unaddressed by a HHS worshipping ideology > evidence.
Changing a few sentences won't change reality. Without robust vaccine and public health infrastructure, we're unequipped to handle the inevitable: more fatal, frequent, and far-ranging outbreaks of preventable disease that will go unaddressed by a HHS worshipping ideology > evidence.
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It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how many veggies you eat when it comes to a pandemic.
These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.
These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.
RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how many veggies you eat when it comes to a pandemic.
These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.
These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.
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the most radical belief I have that I actually think should be normal is this:
The people whose job it is to figure out how to make a business make money should not be the ones in charge of a company. They should be, at best, a subservient department within a company, on par tech support or HR
The people whose job it is to figure out how to make a business make money should not be the ones in charge of a company. They should be, at best, a subservient department within a company, on par tech support or HR
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
the most radical belief I have that I actually think should be normal is this:
The people whose job it is to figure out how to make a business make money should not be the ones in charge of a company. They should be, at best, a subservient department within a company, on par tech support or HR
The people whose job it is to figure out how to make a business make money should not be the ones in charge of a company. They should be, at best, a subservient department within a company, on par tech support or HR
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Three #NASAWebb discoveries in ONE! Webb shows there are FOUR dust shells (only one was previously seen), allowing researchers to narrow the stars’ orbit of one another to a LONG 190 years. Plus, they confirmed a third star is part of the “party”: https://bit.ly/4n1tpas 🔭 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Three #NASAWebb discoveries in ONE! Webb shows there are FOUR dust shells (only one was previously seen), allowing researchers to narrow the stars’ orbit of one another to a LONG 190 years. Plus, they confirmed a third star is part of the “party”: https://bit.ly/4n1tpas 🔭 🧪
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Happy GIS Day to all who celebrate!
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy GIS Day to all who celebrate!
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈