For fun, ask health and safety what the proper protocol is for a level 3 biohazard
Stephen Murphy (smurph)
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Professor at U Waterloo - Sch Environment, Resources & Sustainability. Ecologist, EIC Restoration Ecology, Botanist, Protected Areas. Grasslands. https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-resources-and-sustainability/blog/you-break-it-we-fix-it
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The pace and drivers of community change vary over space and time – findings from a national biomonitoring programme vist.ly/32xet #BetaDiversity #ClimateChange
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Unemployment is 6.1% for new CS grads and 7.5% for computer engineering, versus 3% for biology and art history grads.
“Learn to code” has turned into a nightmare, with punters on Twitter/X now praising humanities degrees.
Feels like our industry betrayed these kids, and there’s little one can do.
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Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.
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A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them - Sustainability Science
Meeting the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to “well below 2 °C” requires a radical acceleration of action, as the global economy is decarbonising at least five times too slowly. Tipping point...
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“…Canada 🇨🇦 continues to lag behind other countries in R&D spending; it spent 1.8% of GDP on research in 2024, placing it sixth in the G7 industrialized nations and well below the 2.7% average among the 38 nations that are members of the OECD.” 🧪
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Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed
Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear
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Hall's 1993 framework is also useful to contextualize the Carney government's approach historically.
"Real" third order change happened in Canada before - it is not an impossible, theoretical scenario.
One key condition for it to materialize: political leadership.
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Resilient Federalism and Transformative Policy Change: What are the Prospects for a New “National Policy” in Canada? - Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation
Governments are still preoccupied with short-term emergency responses to contain a highly contagious virus and mitigate its social and economic implications.
Said otherwise, Carney is attempting to respond to a fundamental change in the political-economic environment with “normal” policies inappropriate for our new situation. This disconnect between Carney’s rhetoric and actual policies is causing significant cognitive dissonance in public conversation.
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"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"
Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant"
Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.
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Already in Baltimore for #ESA2025! If you are interested in plant belowground organs come to our Symposium on Wednesday, August 13 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
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This. This whole thread from @shengokai.bsky.social
Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
