Wayne Myrvold
@wmyrvold.bsky.social
He/him.
Philosopher of science, with emphasis on philosophy of physics. Mediocre guitarist. Occasional nature photos.
You might like my book, Beyond Chance and Credence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beyond-chance-and-credence-9780198865094
Philosopher of science, with emphasis on philosophy of physics. Mediocre guitarist. Occasional nature photos.
You might like my book, Beyond Chance and Credence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beyond-chance-and-credence-9780198865094
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Something I've really noticed among institutional "responses" to generative technologies is that "DO NOT USE THIS TOOL, IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE" is fudamentally erased from any possibility of ever being an option
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Something I've really noticed among institutional "responses" to generative technologies is that "DO NOT USE THIS TOOL, IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE" is fudamentally erased from any possibility of ever being an option
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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This picture is worth 1,000 words.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This picture is worth 1,000 words.
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The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...
Annual Conference | 2025
The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 15-17 July 2025 at the University of Glasgow
www.thebsps.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...
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They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
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It came as a huge surprise to me in 2004 when the Abbey National was taken over by Santander
I didn't expect the Spanish acquisition
I didn't expect the Spanish acquisition
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It came as a huge surprise to me in 2004 when the Abbey National was taken over by Santander
I didn't expect the Spanish acquisition
I didn't expect the Spanish acquisition
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Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
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If you are interested in a postdoc position on the Stanford campus on the climate effects of a slowdown/shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, please contact me.
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you are interested in a postdoc position on the Stanford campus on the climate effects of a slowdown/shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, please contact me.
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
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I just tried to use the new AI tool for generating expense reports at work. "Could be a cool time-saver!" I thought. An hour later, I have arrived at a new policy position: Everyone involved in this industry should be fed to an active volcano
the lies and disdain for labor are bad enough, but the way the culture treats these unremarkable men like they're sociologists is salt in the wound
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With
So that's where we're at.
www.yahoo.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I just tried to use the new AI tool for generating expense reports at work. "Could be a cool time-saver!" I thought. An hour later, I have arrived at a new policy position: Everyone involved in this industry should be fed to an active volcano
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The article takes a while to get to this observation: "Several audience members identified themselves as being part of the Dominion Society, a Canadian anti-immigration group that seeks to deport between four and eight million people living in Canada through what it calls 'remigration.'"
The Conservatives have launched their Charlie Kirk imitation tour.
In a fluff piece, CBC casually mentions that it it supported by youth from a group demanding the forcible deportation of millions from Canada.
CBC presents it as "counter culture."
No.
That's hate.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
In a fluff piece, CBC casually mentions that it it supported by youth from a group demanding the forcible deportation of millions from Canada.
CBC presents it as "counter culture."
No.
That's hate.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Inside one Conservative MP’s ‘Restore the North’ tour, a Canadian take on Charlie Kirk’s movement | CBC News
By asking how to 'restore the North,' Conservative MP Jamil Jivani hopes to expand Charlie Kirk's U.S. campus tour movement — and ignite a national conversation here in Canada.
www.cbc.ca
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The article takes a while to get to this observation: "Several audience members identified themselves as being part of the Dominion Society, a Canadian anti-immigration group that seeks to deport between four and eight million people living in Canada through what it calls 'remigration.'"
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I don't even trust Google Scholar to tell me what a paper is about.
But sure let's pretend we know what we've read so the next twenty years of citations will be a bin fire
But sure let's pretend we know what we've read so the next twenty years of citations will be a bin fire
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
www.anthropic.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't even trust Google Scholar to tell me what a paper is about.
But sure let's pretend we know what we've read so the next twenty years of citations will be a bin fire
But sure let's pretend we know what we've read so the next twenty years of citations will be a bin fire
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Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
www.anthropic.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
October 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
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lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
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October 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
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The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.
But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.
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But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.
But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.
🧵
But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.
🧵
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When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
www.eenews.net
October 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
I myself am deeply concerned that making people pay for cars would kill the auto theft industry.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I myself am deeply concerned that making people pay for cars would kill the auto theft industry.
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"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass
October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass
Just checking... we're still counting "based off of," when they mean "based on," as incorrect, yes?
October 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just checking... we're still counting "based off of," when they mean "based on," as incorrect, yes?
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop