Does anyone have data on what university students think about their future for jobs and AI?

Because my students don't always blindly agree with what we read. I wonder if they're using motivated reasoning, hoping that AI isn't going to take jobs from them?

I'd love to see data.

We read Descartes' interactive dualism in the class I teach. He argues (in 1600s) that no machine will ever have a mind because: 1. they can't use language, or 2. reason from knowledge.

The students had to write if they agreed and why, and almost all agreed! Even when pressed about advances in AI

This creek is usually around 20cm deep and is about 2km from the St Lawrence River. I imagine the water table is normally quite high this close to such an enormous river. Canada is in a severe drought.

Excited for my first philosophy meeting in Toronto, bringing ecologists, philosophers and molecular biologists together to try and understand more about transposable elements. I'm kind of wearing two hats here, and it's fun.

One of the last scientific papers I'll likely publish. This is a really exciting and important theoretical step forward in community ecology theory which I expect will be thoroughly ignored. #WhyIQuitScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am very excited to share that I am starting a PhD in the autumn at the University of Guelph in #philosophy. I will be studying the philosophy of #ecology and #evolution. For those of you who don’t know, I have not been at Purdue since last May, though I decided to quit science long before that 1/n

Imagine a world where leading biologists are interested enough, and have the time, to co-edit a philosophy book. #ShutUpAndCalculate

When science is beholden to the government and political parties for survival. This distorts the work that gets done. I'm struck by how other professionals, such as journalists, worry about such things for their profession, but most scientists don't seem to. #ShutUpAndCalculate

Celebration! Our GenEvo graduate school got renewed! Exciting interactions between molecular and evolutionary approaches ahead, without forgetting theoretical integration. Us being "56% international and 56% female" also feels like a healthy state to be in. There will be PhD positions offered!

Here is a nice leaf

My thread map of these Icelandic fjords is finally done!🤎 Next time I’ll try some machine-learning extrapolation.😅

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What's the latest on the prevalence of emerald ashborer resistance? I have a 70 year forest demographics dataset where it's clear the population crashed. Yet there's a handful of seemingly perfectly healthy trees scattered among the dead ones, like this one at a park where I go with my dog.

This might be the best conversation I've ever heard about art: www.npr.org/2023/09/27/1...

My first time discovering a paper via Bluesky that I'll be citing. We (@jjmlynarek.bsky.social and I) have similar data establishing effects of celebrity naming on media coverage (stay tuned). 🧪

Once upon a time I was @EcoEvoGames amongst the twittering sauropsids.
I was a biologist.
Here I am now, traveling from the Mastodon, the Threads that bind, and the Xauropsid?
Welcome.