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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 22d

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

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 25

Anecdotally I can confirm this is true!

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 17

Every grad student should explore using Overleaf with LaTeX for their thesis/dissertation. It was a lifesaver for me.

#AcademicSky

Papers App @papersapp.com · Sep 17

Tired of wrestling with formatting? Meet @overleaf.com - the collaborative, cloud-based LaTeX editor

Join Lee Spence from @digital-science.com to learn how to master the essential features for producing beautifully formatted documents!

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 17

Free webinar tomorrow for new researchers offering guidance on how to secure grant funding.

#AcademicSky

Papers App @papersapp.com · Sep 16

Securing funding isn’t just about writing a proposal, it’s about strategy, connection, and innovation.

Join us for this session w Julie Kellner to learn how to:
🔹 Identify the right opportunities 
🔹 Build relationships with funders 
🔹 Design projects that stand out 
🔹 Leverage your research network

Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 9

Come join me in this free webinar series designed to introduce new researchers to important concepts and resources!

#academicsky

Papers App @papersapp.com · Sep 8

Sharpen your research game this semester with Papers’ free #BacktoSchool Webinar Series!

Gather key knowledge, from building your academic profile to mastering Overleaf, all in one week.

Plus:
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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think you are right. We see it in even the short term where people in Florida stop preparing for hurricanes when too much time elapses since the last major hit. Memories are short and critical thinking absent.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jul 16

"We at Murder House were thrilled to welcome back hordes of previously banished ghouls and blacklisted incubi. Their perspectives added a refreshing edge to our community."

After Two Extraordinary Years, I’m Stepping Down as Chief Experience Officer of Murder House

“After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏.” — Linda Yaccarino, in a X post announcing her resignation from the social medi...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Jul 3

why did this make me laugh

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · Jul 2

Fellow academics, if your work is on academia dot edu, the website now automatically creates "AI podcasts" and "AI reviews" of your papers. This is OPT-OUT, not opt-in.

They don't ask you for permission, but YOU can turn off this feature through the settings!

SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yeah, I've gotten this, as have a couple friends of mine. If you don't want academia dot edu doing this nonsense, you can go to account settings, and then "AI settings" and turn off the AI-enhanced outputs.

A screenshot of the accounts setting page on academia dot edu. The left menu has "AI settings" highlighted, and the right menu has "AI-enhanced outputs" disabled.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jun 30

I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Jun 30

don’t get distracted! | patreon.com/lubchansky

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mattie running away from some tentacles
m: WELL, THIS ISN'T GOOD.

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the important pundit shows up
TIP: hey this is just a distraction! stay focused!

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mattie, getting eaten by something
m: a distraction from what?
tip: someone i’ve determined to be more important than you is having a problem, over there!

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mattie, wailing
m: oh no! i’m so sorry!

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · Jun 16

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Via Sam Stein on twitter

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Jun 4

As they should but it’s quite bad for UF. The next candidate will be worse than Sasse.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 22

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

www.nytimes.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · May 20

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.

@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

Image of a page from the May 18, 2025, edition of the print Chicago Sun-Times. It has "Summer reading list for 2025" as its headline. It is an AI-generated list of books–the authors are real but none of the book titles are. For example, "The Last Algorithm" by Andy Weir, "The Collector's Piece" by Taylor Jenkins Reid, etc. None of the descriptions of these books are real either.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 14

"Lis Rodriguez, who spent a solid thirty minutes on a PTA Zoom listening to a woman wearing a BUT FIRST COFFEE sweatshirt ask long-winded questions about school carnival volunteers that had already been answered multiple times by multiple people."

Unsung Heroes of Motherhood

Julie Owens, who bravely tugged on a tankini in mid-January in order to chaperone her twins to an indoor water park. After nearly swallowing a wet ...

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · May 14

“There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it. “

Alondra Nelson captures why I left UF 2 yrs ago.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · May 11

Sometimes I get super interested in an activity, read everything I can, purchase lots of supplies, and then move on to the next one. I hope you actually make something!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · May 2

The National Science Foundation has been ordered to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice”.

No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded.

If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson.

Link below.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Apr 19

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Apr 17

My child just accepted Harvard’s admission offer and I’m not feeling quite as reluctant to write that tuition check now! 💪

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Sara Gonzalez @srgonzalez.bsky.social · Apr 17

My Colombian aunt felt right at home in Boston and just blared the horn as she went through traffic lights.

I however was white knuckled just going a few blocks to the grocery store.

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