Elizabeth Sudduth

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems It's such a complex diagram of pipes. Clearly it's sentient! Also, I just spent half an hour getting therapy from this new Agent, ELIZA, and she was so insightful.

@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @futurebird@sauropods.win He was lying by omission anyway. Thomas was a highly ranked swimmer before she started transitioning. The 250 rank came after beginning hormones but before she was allowed to compete as a woman. "During her freshman year, Thomas recorded a time of eight minutes and 57.55 seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle that ranked as the sixth-fastest national men's time..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_Thomas

@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @futurebird@sauropods.win That's what social media and generative AI have done to people. Nobody bothers to actually research anything for themselves. They report as truth what somebody said on Facebook or what ChatGPT told them. It takes two minutes to read Lia Thomas's Wikipedia article, a few more minutes if you want to click through to the sources and learn even more. It's not hard to be well informed. But it's so damn easy to just repeat easy lies that support your bigotry.

@idzie@kolektiva.social I live in a verdant, fecund place with rolling red clay hills covered in white oaks, tulip poplars, and pignut hickories (and century-old human planted pecans). The understory is filled with mountain laurel, buckeye, azaleas, and dogwoods. Among them hop the brown thrashers and Eastern towhees, and ruby throated hummingbirds visit the flowers. We are in the shadow of a monzonite dome monadnock covered with loblolly pines struggling to hang on. Diamorpha blooms red in shallow depressions.

@vlrny@disabled.social Yes, if I lived in a culture that accepted disability, it would be less miserable to be disabled.

@djfiander @invadersil Yes, but people aren't using those other things to write important documents or perform important calculations.

@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @futurebird@sauropods.win A grown adult who doesn't want to post lies? I don't know how to answer your question. I try to never post anything without fact checking it.

@secretsloth@mastodon.art @futurebird@sauropods.win I have a friend whose daughter is over 6 feet (as are both her parents) who got it constantly. The school actually tried to make her use a different restroom to stop the complaints. It was awful.

@ml@ecoevo.social Continued work on removing PFAS and microplastics during the water and wastewater treatment processes.

@ajayiyer@mastodon.social Marine or freshwater? Limnology and Oceanography (journal of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography) does both. https://www.aslo.org/limnology-and-oceanography/ Freshwater Science (journal of Society for Freshwater Science) if just freshwater. https://www.freshwater-science.org/Journal/about-fws/

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @femme_mal@mstdn.social @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Okay, so let's not treat college as simply a place that people learn job skills

@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social @mecfs@fedigroups.social I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis (an inflammatory arthritis) in 2008. The symptoms are not exactly the same as Long COVID or ME/CFS, although I too have a limited energy budget I have to constantly watch, but the feelings about it are really similar. And no, the grief does not go away.

@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au Can't believe I didn't say crocodiles for Darwin (having started the second season of Deadloch). I totally should have said crocodiles.

@danmccullough@ecoevo.social @idzie@kolektiva.social I'm so sorry. I was hoping maybe adelgids didn't like cold weather. It's really hard watching our forests change from introduced species and climate change.

@danmccullough@ecoevo.social @idzie@kolektiva.social How are your hemlock doing? Do you have the woolly adelgid up there? In the Southern Appalachians, hemlocks replaced chestnuts as our biggest trees, and now we're watching the forests completely transform again.

@idzie@kolektiva.social Also, can I just say that this thread is amazing! I love reading people's descriptions of where they live!

@criticalangle @AlSweigart chatbots don't know what "facts" are

@JizzelEtBass@kolektiva.social @Anneheathen@glammr.us Styrofoam is George's favorite! We learned to hide all of that from him years ago. We keep it in the hall closet until it goes to the recycling center. Getting into the hall closet to chew on the styrofoam is one of his Life Goals.

@dianea@lgbtqia.space This is my fear every time I roll out pizza dough

@nanook @joeblowenarbol@kolektiva.social @gimulnautti@mastodon.green @ErikUden@mastodon.de @hweimer@fediscience.org You are devaluing the training and work of educators by calling them babysitters. But, given the current conditions of our society, what's wrong with free education or "free babysitting"?

@hweimer@fediscience.org @gimulnautti@mastodon.green @joeblowenarbol@kolektiva.social @ErikUden@mastodon.de Democrats have repeatedly introduced bills into Congress to have universal pre-K. If that is a "tangible benefit" that you think these people value, why are they instead insisting universal pre-K is communism and supporting the people who want little children put in concentration camps?

@Anneheathen@glammr.us My little black cat loves eating plastic so much! He will not be persuaded that it is not good for him even as he's puking up little bits of plastic he secretly ate. The analogy is perfect, as is the drawing!

@ax11 @joshmillard Chemistry is a scam to distract from the truth that lies within the physics that is behind all that chemical mumbo-jumbo

@t_var_s@phpc.social @urlyman@mastodon.social @KimSJ@mastodon.social Most of the people going viral on BlueSky already have a day job. BlueSky isn't really a place that influencers make a living just influencing.

@urlyman@mastodon.social I am a woman scientist. Reply guys are everywhere. At least on Mastodon, it's easy to add a personal note on their profile the first time they're obnoxious, and then block them the second time. And if they really cross the line, report them to their server and they actually face consequences.

@JL_Lycette@mindly.social That is in fact a perfect loaf! 14/10!

@ahimsa_pdx I don't have Long COVID or ME/CFS, but I have another chronic illness (ankylosing spondylitis) and am completely terrified of what Long COVID could do to me. Definitely one of the topics I come to Mastodon to learn more about, especially scientific updates that are hard to find elsewhere.

@ahimsa_pdx I just saw your link in the chat. It was such a great event, and I'm glad to find you here to follow!

@ahimsa_pdx Yeah, the chat was flying, but I was just skimming along and saw Mastodon, the best word. I wasn't feeling up to much today, so it was just really nice to spend time in a virtual space that centered disability, instead of shoving us to the back of the room and insisting we're included

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to Many of these are still readable in Reader mode in the browser. The New York Times and Washington Post are two of the only sites that have actually successfully blocked Reader mode. Most of the rest of the internet is still blissfully readable as text like it's 1999.

@junesim63 The article is open access and awesome! https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03283-8

@farah I love it! I've been working on Monet's White Water Lilies for the past couple years, but having to take a break right now due to a hand injury.

@cmccullough Thanks for this. I updated last night and hadn't checked. My settings had indeed been changed to re-enable all the AI crap. Luckily, switching the kill switch off again did work. But it is frustrating that it changed when they said it wouldn't (and when other people below said it didn't change for them)

@davidzipper There was an accident just up the road from my house yesterday where an SUV had failed to yield on a turn and literally drove up on to the hood of a normal sized sedan. I've never seen anything like it.

@chris@social.uggs.io @CatDragon@mastodon.world @amiserabilist@beige.party Planning to sneak into your house tonight and remove one of your kidneys so it can be donated since you're so pro-life. I don't need your permission, right? Consider the rights of the person who needs your kidney. Why should your right to keep it and not have it removed without your permission in the middle of the night trump their right to your kidney?

@chris@social.uggs.io @CatDragon@mastodon.world @amiserabilist@beige.party There is no child. There is a fucking embryo that was implanted in a person against her will and can be easily removed.

@vartak@mastodon.online @QasimRashid@mastodon.social In the US, crossing the border without documentation is a criminal offense (a misdemeanor, which is a minor offense), but most undocumented immigrants in the US arrived legally and then overstayed a visa, which is a civil offense, not criminal.

@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Reading over your updated page, it seems like we just have different interests. For looking things up, all modern biology textbooks are basically interchangeable, and I know because I've been on textbook selection committees many times and looked at so many of them. They're written by committees, each with their own biases, and they all read that way. I wouldn't bother putting any of them on a "best of" list. I mostly use OpenStax in my classes so my students don't have to pay.

@TheBreadmonkey This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life

@adam_harvey 25,000 geoscientists just wrapped up their meeting in DC this week. There are lots of cool workshops and conferences in our field. They just don't have a mass-marketing hype machine behind them. https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting

@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org No, when it was published, it wasn't read much at all. But in the year 1900, DeVries, Correns and Tschermak all rediscovered his work while working on similar questions, and they all credited him in their foundational works. I read it in college, and it's beautiful and elegant in a way that few modern books are. Sorry, I just hate to see modern textbooks or (sigh) Richard Dawkins getting attention over the actual founders of our science. https://www.genome.gov/25520238/online-education-kit-1900-rediscovery-of-mendels-work

@vartak@mastodon.online @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Well I personally don't care. But I guess if you do care, it's a problem.

@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org To me as a biologist, our answer is Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Gregor Mendel's Experiments in Plant Hybridization. Everything else flows from those two.