Scott Barolo
@sbarolo.bsky.social
he • undistinguished professor of biology, PhD program director 🧪• not representing my employer • ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers • hearing impaired • romance & other 📚 • #9ReplyGuys • no terfs
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Scott Barolo
@sbarolo.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Uhh major institutions are starting to follow me, so let me say again:
This Account Is Almost Entirely Nonsense, Foolishness and Shenanigans
This Account Is Almost Entirely Nonsense, Foolishness and Shenanigans
current mental health status: PONY
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
current mental health status: PONY
I must be burned out or something. I thought I was fine today but then I tried thinking and it came back NOPE
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I must be burned out or something. I thought I was fine today but then I tried thinking and it came back NOPE
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Have you checked out the latest fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social yet? It's got my complete Harwood Spellbook omnibus as well as 9-11 other fantasy novels from great authors like Victoria Goddard, @jbensonink.bsky.social , @kristadb1.bsky.social & more: storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Have you checked out the latest fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social yet? It's got my complete Harwood Spellbook omnibus as well as 9-11 other fantasy novels from great authors like Victoria Goddard, @jbensonink.bsky.social , @kristadb1.bsky.social & more: storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
Tell your undergrads about this. It’s a fantastic short-course in Ann Arbor, all expenses covered. Do some experiments in developmental biology and learn about careers in research and life as a grad student 🧪
Applications are now open for the 2026 Developing Future Biologists Short Course at the University of Michigan!
Visit our website or email [email protected] to learn more and apply. #GoBlue
Visit our website or email [email protected] to learn more and apply. #GoBlue
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Tell your undergrads about this. It’s a fantastic short-course in Ann Arbor, all expenses covered. Do some experiments in developmental biology and learn about careers in research and life as a grad student 🧪
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November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
[whispers] nobody actually thinks trump changed his ideology or whatever. let the children boogie
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
[whispers] nobody actually thinks trump changed his ideology or whatever. let the children boogie
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra
Google has now admitted that they will tap into users' personal data within Gmail and Drive in order for their upcoming AI search to "be more helpful".
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra
Hypothesis-based research: not dead yet
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hypothesis-based research: not dead yet
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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genuinely can’t think of any other time i’ve seen him smiling with his eyes
wild shit
wild shit
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
genuinely can’t think of any other time i’ve seen him smiling with his eyes
wild shit
wild shit
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
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I feared this in 2016, but now it’s happened:
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
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 8:18 PM
I feared this in 2016, but now it’s happened:
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
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Instead of interacting with the lady who uses a photo of herself holding the skull of an ancestor (the same photo that got her banned from working with remains) for a book cover, watch these clever videos in honor of Native American Heritage Month! After you block Beth, of course.
gonenative.tv
gonenative.tv
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Instead of interacting with the lady who uses a photo of herself holding the skull of an ancestor (the same photo that got her banned from working with remains) for a book cover, watch these clever videos in honor of Native American Heritage Month! After you block Beth, of course.
gonenative.tv
gonenative.tv
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Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
Prisoners keep escaping because you put the bars too far apart? Problematic cage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
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Cool. When are you guys letting Link back in?
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Cool. When are you guys letting Link back in?
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency 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 6:04 PM
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
Boarding the plane from Detroit to San Antonio for #ABRCMS.
Find me and talk to me!
I’ll be the dashing gentleman hanging around the UMich PIBS booth, or prowling the poster aisles admiring the cool research 🧪
Find me and talk to me!
I’ll be the dashing gentleman hanging around the UMich PIBS booth, or prowling the poster aisles admiring the cool research 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Boarding the plane from Detroit to San Antonio for #ABRCMS.
Find me and talk to me!
I’ll be the dashing gentleman hanging around the UMich PIBS booth, or prowling the poster aisles admiring the cool research 🧪
Find me and talk to me!
I’ll be the dashing gentleman hanging around the UMich PIBS booth, or prowling the poster aisles admiring the cool research 🧪
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Pine marten
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Pine marten
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Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
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Sources expect ban within next six to 12 months
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IOC president wants to protect the female category
The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways