Dr. Tanya Samman

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.” www.wired.com/story/jack-d...

‘Having 36 dancers waiting for me fills me with dread’: choreographer Crystal Pite on her seminal productions The Canadian dance director has created a dazzling body of work that tackles human relationships and the big questions of our times. She talks through pivotal moments in her career

‘Having 36 dancers waiting for me fills me with dread’: choreographer Crystal Pite on her seminal productions

I know it is hard to believe, but people stuck in a conflict can be angry at the various sides at the same time and resist any alignment.

So you can be Lebanese, hate Hezbollah and have zero illusions about Israel.

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

Outrageous: A medical journal just issued corrections for 138 case reports published over 25 years.
The cases? Completely fictional. One described a rare pediatric condition, used as a teaching tool for decades, but the patient never existed.
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

🧪 #medsky #ciencia

Photo of the entrance to the Mining and Mineral Resources Building on the University of Kentucky campus, the home of the Kentucky Geological Survey.

Photos of the geologic map of the State of Kentucky. Text on the map reads: Celebrating Geologic Mapping in Kentucky, first in the United States: topographic maps (1:24000 scale), geologic maps (1:24000 scale), digital geology, web accessibility

Photo of a fossil casted tree stump and attached rooting structures. This Carboniferous-age tree was a club moss (lycopod), and the rooting structures are called Stigmaria.

Photo of a polished slab of colorful petrified wood. Tree rings are visible in the red, gray, and black mineralized wood.

I've started my new job as a geologist with the Kentucky Geological Survey. There are exhibits of two types of fossil trees in and around the KGS building: a cast of a Carboniferous lycopod (my MS thesis) and petrified wood from the Triassic Chinle Formation (my PhD). The universe is a closed loop.

Stark painting of a still life containing fossils and books, including Charles Lyell's Elements of Geology.

"Fossils (February)" by the English surrealist Tristram Hillier. This 1955 painting was commissioned by Shell for the Shell Book of Nature, Fossils, Insects and Reptiles. From Ark UK: Government Art Collection. You Can Be Sure Of Shell... #FossilFriday

OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance

Its principal investors include Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia and SoftBank.

Wannabe peace negotiator Jared Kushner is also involved, recently investing $1 billion through his equity firm Thrive Capital.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

Fewer Than 2% Of Older Pedestrians Can Cross The Street In Time The length of the green signal on pedestrian crossings assumes that people can walk at a speed of 1.2 m/s. Scientists find that very few older people can walk that fast.

My March story for @forbes.com has just gone live. It's all about pedestrian crossings and how the timings they're based on no longer match the demographics of our cities ⚛️🧪👩‍🔬
www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

Techno-belief is a millenial gamble on civilization. Our time will be remembered of many gruesome things, but messing up the climate is damning for our posterity.

Researchers found fossil evidence of a cloacal vent, the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay eggs, which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice. spklr.io/6047E8qwb

💯 This is THE diversity that drives the coveted 'innovation'.

really starting to seem like AI disruption in cogsci is mainly gonna make code, tools, and analyses moderately easier, while cementing the importance of good theory and informative data

we study minds—as ever, to advance cognitive science, you gotta design elegant experiments w/ people and animals

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

People Have the Right to Refuse AI Britt Paris is the author of Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, a new book published by the University of California Press.

"If AI is inevitable, why is it being shoved down our throats? What options do we have?" writes @hellobrittparis.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Refuse! Don't be a mark!

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

There’s so much I agree with in this piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social and I love this: The best thing a researcher can do right now is focus on “What questions do I actually want to answer?” Then do the work of ANSWERING IT.“ and, if AI is a better social scientist than you,
yikes 😬

He also seemed to forget that Mad Max Fury Road is about women trying to escape from toxic masculinity.

💯💪

AI is not inevitable. Nothing in human societies is inevitable because we design them. Healthcare can be free for the public. Books can be bought instead of bombs. Universities can be free for students, and they can even receive a stipend to live off. Don't let companies dictate the future.

I am 💯 for moving away from USA tech, but please don’t fool yourselves that tech built elsewhere will be ethical.
If you don’t believe me pls look at edtech globally. Schools are using software like Bromcom or Arbor or Bluesky ( not this one) that is built with just as little care or privacy.

2006: don’t be evil
2016: but really, what *is* evil?
2026: meet your new assistant Evi L® delivering +225% ROI on prison labor

If you truly believe we're in a parallel to the industrial revolution you aren't going to live to see its benefits without fighting.

You will be a victim of its horrors and, maybe, once people finally fight back, as happened last time, will people start to see their standards improve.

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is.

Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon.

We are absolutely NOT prepared.

#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

DinoCon

Behind the scenes... things are really coming along for #DinoConUK 2026, we have an incredible schedule and it's going to be something else in terms of events, vendors and more. Tickets are on sale now .... www.dinocon.co.uk ... do NOT delay. And be sure to follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social

Crucially, in our analysis, AI resignation is not only an empirical finding but also the effect of a strategy of power: by engaging in AI resignation, subjects unwittingly participate in the wieldings of the power apparatuses of digital capitalism, because these apparatuses tend to benefit from subjects' resignation. This form of power thus operates by hollowing out the very basis of resistance—self-efficacy—so that experiences of participation, creativity, or deviation appear increasingly empty or structurally impossible.

This is so good, I wanna hang it on my wall.

When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act This article develops the concept of ‘AI resignation’ to capture how young people encounter AI not only as a helpful or flawed tool, but as an overpowering and seemingly inevitable force that can for....

"The task of AI education, then, is not merely to teach technical competence, but to cultivate the political imagination and collective capacities necessary to contest and reshape technological power," write Jan‐Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, and Rainer Mühlhoff.

Yes we can no we didn’t Those who cannot learn from past failures are condemned to repeat them (apologies to Santayana)

I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change.

They failed.

Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11

www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

Going to need to do a little video addressing "it's ableist to be against generative AI" before I am driven insane

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries after Iranian drone strike

Qatar will not restart production until there is a complete cessation of hostilities: “the signal is when our military says there is a complete stop of hostilities and we are not being attacked anymore. We are not going to put our people in harm’s way.”

www.ft.com/content/be12...