This was avoidable.

We have paradise on Earth and we are losing it, sitting back watching it go, lying to ourselves that it’s someone else’s job to do something. This will not get many Rt’s because the truth is if we want to survive we have to get off the sofa and protest in our 100s of millions.…

Eclipse diagram from Asa Smith's Illustrated Astronomy, 1849.

One of several eclipse themed prints available to buy on our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/shop/search/?q… #eclipse #solareclipse

❤️ this cover by Maria Corte

How the eclipse will look from where you are

Looking over my homage to Infantino hands (in talking about language acquisition) - love the weirdness of how he used these with narrative captions and wish I saw more such playful things in comics…
#nostos #unflattening 2

The NYT reports that:

- OpenAI built a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to train its LLMs (likely infringing copyright)
- Greg Brockman personally helped scrape the videos
- OpenAI knew it was a legal gray area
- Google may have used YouTube videos the same way
- Meta avoided…

A coral reef scene and my first experiment with Gouache! It's been really exciting to try a new medium, though there's still lots to learn :) let me know what you think :)
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#sciart #scicomm #coralreef #marinebiology #fishytheme #diving #snorkelling

Losing your job, especially if its a vocation is devastating. Here's the first page of comics I ever drew, about exactly that experience. It took a long time to come back from. I was not promoted and later let go because 'you are a woman, we didn't know what to do with you'. 1/2

New #scilife - featuring what's probably one of my favorite panels!

Drawing Nedah Nemati and her important work in Society and Neuroscience was a real pleasure 🧠

And my podcast, The Science of Life with Dr. Raven Baxter, premieres on April 16th! Go here to subscribe so you don't miss out. If you enjoyed this thread, trust me, my science conversations are 100000x more entertaining. See you there! thesciencemaven.com/the-science-of…

If you're publicly speculating about how AI systems might one day exterminate all of us, maybe speak up against how AI systems are being used now to exterminate Palestinians.

'Lavender' - IDF AI to generate a kill list of individuals

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

Ha! Tom Gauld once again showing the strangeness of comics while also demonstrating how much stranger reality is than we can imagine… (I love it when my weekly New Scientist reading collides with my interest in comics formalism!)

Happy book birthday to Cara Bean! Here I Am, I Am Me launches today. Listen to me discuss the book with Cara on the Graphic Medicine podcast: graphicmedicine.org/here-i-am-i-am…

Beautiful alternative to the periodic table created in 1975 by James Franklin Hyde.

My favorite #AprilFoolsDay post so far 😂

In @sequencermag, I have some thoughts about the whole Andrew Huberman thing, and whether celebrity scientists are, on the whole, a good thing (no, but who am I to stop you).

sequencermag.com/andrew-huberma…

Applications are now open for 2024–2025 Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program! Deadline to apply is 5/1. Read more about eligibility and see if there is a lab near you: simonsfoundation.org/2024/03/26/app…