Prof. EAGZ

Graphic titled "Coffee Birds of North America", with seven birds and corresponding coffee colors going dark to light, right to left: Common Black Hawk (very dark brown), White-faced Ibis, Long-billed Thrasher, Marsh Wren, Cedar Waxwing, White-winged Dove, and Barn Owl. Sources for photos are below. The background is a lightly-textured pale aqua.

Finally, a simple way to describe how much milk you like in your coffee! Mine is a waxwing 🪶🐡

Photo sources below!

Is it by Sandra Boynton? That one's a big hit in our house

Lol that's also where my grandparents met, a few years earlier

“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

Like: men who I thought were very dedicated to science, investigation, journalism or any conceptually truth-seeking field, who dropped that pretence in milliseconds once someone gave them a software lying machine that mimics correctness and also gives them oozing compliments

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

Indonesian restaurant cat demanding I share my dinner

Cats ok?

I put a screenshot of this on my linguistics discord group and the consensus opinion is [chef's kiss reactji]

So uh hypothetically if someone in Philly were living next to an empty row house would it be ethical/legal to toss a few of these over the fence into the yard? And how might one hypothetically get their hands on a few?

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Omg that would be amazing

Lol I'm actually flying out there tomorrow. Will wave as I fly over you en route to Papua

Why you gotta attack me like this

I would pay for a bug tour of your backyard.

Market the no internet part as a chance to unplug and get in touch with your inner self and you can double the price

#linguistics

Begging my comrades in IL to stop this.

Realizing I should include the main things you should do to support native bees/other insects

1) Plant native plants
2) Don't use pesticides, and tell your friends and neighbors to stop using pesticides
3) Leave fallen leaves in the winter
4) Leave dead stems over winter for overwintering critters

3) Try not to fall behind (We assign weekly homework for a reason.) 4) Go to your instructor's office hours. We're there to help. (This should probably be higher in the list.) 5) It's very unlikely you'll be able to do extra credit work to make up for work you have missed or did poorly on.

“In 1 of the simulations, 8x out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appt she would not live to see… Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care.”

“40 million+ people reportedly ask ChatGPT for health-related advice every day”🧪

Apayauq | L.A. Times Short Docs YouTube video by Los Angeles Times

Then I remembered that Apayauq Reitan has a documentary about being trans and mushing and it's beautiful.

#UglyDogs #MusherSky

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I keep thinking about how so many global conflicts boil down to one thing:

White people don't know how leave people alone. That's it.

I can’t emphasise leading w/ empathy for civilians *everywhere* on a day like today enough.

The first casualty here in the UAE, where I live, is an Asian civilian at a residential building.

Many Ukrainians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese & other war-traumatised people live here.

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"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

#linguistics

An educational graphic with the title "Why learn about birds and dataviz in the age of AI?" overlaid on a stylized, radial blue background. Below the text, several species of birds are shown, including one with its tail feathers fanned out, with anatomical labels "Tail" and "Rump" pointing to its body parts.

A large, detailed bird in the foreground, labeled with anatomical terms like Crown, Eye, Bill, Wing, and Nape, is shown in profile. In the background, a smaller yellow and olive bird is also visible. Above them, the text reads: "Noticing is an essential skill. Researchers have shown that cultivating a birding practice strengthens memory and improves ability to notice detail.

Why learn about birds and data in the age of AI?

My Binoculars to Binomials course is all about noticing, observation and care.

Spring cohorts start in a month!

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Priorities.

"Yet Arawn is slain," Taran replied. "Evil is conquered and the blade's work done." "Evil conquered?" said Gwydion. "You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched."

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