Jack Stack
@jackstack.bsky.social
Trophy husband, PhD vertebrate paleontologist. 0 time rank 1 wow PVP player. I also write about the history of fishes: https://fishhistory.substack.com/. He/him
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Couldn’t agree more with the idea that we MUST center students in education. Everything we do should be for the students and their learning, not profit for tech companies testing garbage machines.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Couldn’t agree more with the idea that we MUST center students in education. Everything we do should be for the students and their learning, not profit for tech companies testing garbage machines.
Seems to be a Silurian coral! Probably the oldest fossil I’ve found on my parents property. Thank you for the information from several people.
Invertebrate paleo people: can anyone ID this? Found in glacial till in Michigan and I am not sure what this is.
December 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seems to be a Silurian coral! Probably the oldest fossil I’ve found on my parents property. Thank you for the information from several people.
Invertebrate paleo people: can anyone ID this? Found in glacial till in Michigan and I am not sure what this is.
December 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Invertebrate paleo people: can anyone ID this? Found in glacial till in Michigan and I am not sure what this is.
Bring back giant predator salamander things with flat heads!
Frankly the world should look more like Douglas Henderson’s Triassic scenes
December 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Bring back giant predator salamander things with flat heads!
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Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!
March 30, 2024 at 5:52 AM
Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!
Seeing some people mocking these concerns but we should listen to student concerns. I needed a wrist brace for a month after final exam season my sophomore year of college from writing notes. Would prefer not to do that to my students.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Seeing some people mocking these concerns but we should listen to student concerns. I needed a wrist brace for a month after final exam season my sophomore year of college from writing notes. Would prefer not to do that to my students.
Time to learn about teleosts!
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Time to learn about teleosts!
My great grandfather’s scythe, very cool artifact at the family farm.
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My great grandfather’s scythe, very cool artifact at the family farm.
Found in my fossil collection. Bit of a challenge but anyone want to guess what this is?
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Found in my fossil collection. Bit of a challenge but anyone want to guess what this is?
Go (red)birds
Yes. He has seen Brock Spack’s mustache.
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Go (red)birds
Thinking about brachiopods
December 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thinking about brachiopods
Whoa very cool. Can’t wait to read!
Out now: latest addition to the Grande volume! Guang-Hui Xu reevaluates Guizhoubrachysomus from the Middle Triassic of southern China. Interpreted as a "luganoiid" in the past, this work argues Guizhoubrachysomus is instead an early dapediid, a group most famous from Jurassic deposits of Europe.
December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Whoa very cool. Can’t wait to read!
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I have so much empathy and solidarity for those struggling with the painful and structurally unjust academic labor market, but this racial grievance shit is simply not the way.
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I have so much empathy and solidarity for those struggling with the painful and structurally unjust academic labor market, but this racial grievance shit is simply not the way.
Apparently no departments of pseudobiology were hiring!
Another incredible case of white racial grievance about the academic job market.
He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!
He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!
December 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Apparently no departments of pseudobiology were hiring!
I am using my elongate snout to search for prey in the mud.
December 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I am using my elongate snout to search for prey in the mud.
Despite the difficulties of this year, can't say enough how grateful I have been for my students at VT and now Bowie State this year. Worked with a lot of brilliant, hard working people who make teaching a joy.
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Despite the difficulties of this year, can't say enough how grateful I have been for my students at VT and now Bowie State this year. Worked with a lot of brilliant, hard working people who make teaching a joy.
To summarize my recent paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
To summarize my recent paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Citing myself to a reviewer
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Citing myself to a reviewer
Draft from a paper I’m working on… the triangle at least a hundred species in it btw :)
December 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Draft from a paper I’m working on… the triangle at least a hundred species in it btw :)
How it feels to cite yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
How it feels to cite yourself.
Cannot agree more with this. Overall, I have had a fantastic experience with collections/collaborations. There are a few unnamed places that actively hold the science back and need to change how they do things.
I hate navigating the world of palaeontology. "If you author with this researcher, you'll be barred from working with that other research team" or "if you access this collection you can't access that collection". Petty cliques getting in the way of accessing public resources and good science.
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Cannot agree more with this. Overall, I have had a fantastic experience with collections/collaborations. There are a few unnamed places that actively hold the science back and need to change how they do things.
Electric eels: imposters!
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Electric eels: imposters!