…To be fair, R and every other language has its day and we move on to the next, but I think we can agree that moving from one LLM black box to another is a different proposition, even if we and our students learn the principles well

Notable that no one in this thread is talking about the energy consumption or economic bubble that comes with LLM use. For one, as an ethical reason not to use it even if it works well; also, I don’t think we can depend on these companies and tools continuing to work the same way for very long …

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

This plate of crinoids is from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. has tremendous density and diversity. There are over 85 crinoid species found here, often tangled together.

#FossilFriday

Check out this flume! what a beautiful flume

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest was where I had one of my first field trips as an undergrad at Portland State! One of my classmates found chantrelles and we ate them! Here's a 35mm pic of a stream there taken on my Olympus XA

A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era.

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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

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No. It is always ethically indefensible to use this stuff in any way. It lines the pockets of billionaires, steals from other artists, ravages the environment, guts creative fields, and stunts your own development.

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Important: Today is the day to vote for 128 GRAZER, an icon, a queen 🐻👑
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GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Has anyone written an R package or script with plottable data for all the Milankovitch curves? Wouldn't that be so convenient ⚒️🧪

Thank you! I was hoping that was the case

Additionally, I think a lot of us who weren't given much of a choice other than going to college right out of high school have spent the past couple decades seeing that our peers who either didn't finish or didn't start are doing just fine, contrary to what we were told would happen to them

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.

For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!

Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...

Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

A #ThinSectionThursday redux for #TeamCalcite ⚒️ CaCO3, among other carbonates, is both timelord *and* a thermometer, it records climate, and it sequesters CO2. Can you imagine a world without calcite? I'd prefer not to!

This is why you should never leave bits of the mantle laying around.

Talking Heads first identified submarine hydrogeology as a research area back in 1981. Get David Byrne as a co-PI on your next grant.

YES keep the form alive!! here's my contribution, a zine edition of my dissertation that was so much fun to make and give away

first year postdocs who haven’t been paid in three months can have little a back to school shopping, as a treat

Happy Friday to the Maryland State flag

Guys, come watch bears eating salmon

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