Bob Patalano
@robertpatalano.bsky.social
PhD in Archaeology. Biomarkers & early human paleoecology. Husband. Father x2. Lecturer, coordinator for environmental science & sustainability and climate action programs and sustainability liaison at Bryant University.
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As if I needed another reason to not like Fallon after Fever Pitch
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As if I needed another reason to not like Fallon after Fever Pitch
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The United States "is losing its long-held lead as a research powerhouse and collaborator in world science." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
China’s scientific clout is growing as US influence wanes: the data show how
An analysis of international research collaborations reveals the growing dominance of Chinese science.
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The United States "is losing its long-held lead as a research powerhouse and collaborator in world science." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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(1/2) Just out, our new paper 'Assessing the intensity of Late Quaternary humid phases in the Nefud Desert, northern Arabia'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
(1/2) Just out, our new paper 'Assessing the intensity of Late Quaternary humid phases in the Nefud Desert, northern Arabia'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I know the article is more focused on Chinese goods being sold abroad, but come onnnnnn
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I know the article is more focused on Chinese goods being sold abroad, but come onnnnnn
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Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”?
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain in New Security Policy
An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.
www.wsj.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”?
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Ulrike Franke: “The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a speech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.”
2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America
2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ulrike Franke: “The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a speech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.”
2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America
2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
It feels like it's every day now that an article like this is published. I try and share them with my students but often wonder if they ever second guess using GenAI.
AI Will Only Intensify Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care.
The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost.
www.thenation.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It feels like it's every day now that an article like this is published. I try and share them with my students but often wonder if they ever second guess using GenAI.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Did they all just ignore the videos coming out of Gaza?
FOX: “Congressman Jim Himes (D) said they were shown the unedited video of that second strike — he says, 'What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I've ever seen in my time in public service.’”
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Did they all just ignore the videos coming out of Gaza?
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Several @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social colleagues, including @guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, have another new plant-wax #alkanes paper, which is led by the @univ-amu.fr PhD student Mélanie Guardiola:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ 👩🔬
With implications for #PaleoSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ 👩🔬
With implications for #PaleoSky
Plant-wax n-alkanes from the central Congo Basin as palaeo-environmental and -climatic proxies
The central Congo Basin is home to the world’s largest tropical peatland complex and is covered with swamp forest. In the face of climate change and f…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Several @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social colleagues, including @guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, have another new plant-wax #alkanes paper, which is led by the @univ-amu.fr PhD student Mélanie Guardiola:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ 👩🔬
With implications for #PaleoSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ 👩🔬
With implications for #PaleoSky
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One of the best news of the year. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/44-biso...
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
44 bison released into Coahuila reserve as part of 25-year grasslands conservation initiative
Absent from the central Coahuila desert for 160 years, the American bison has returned to the region as part of a 25-year biodiversity conservation effort in northern Mexico.
mexiconewsdaily.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One of the best news of the year. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/44-biso...
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
Seeing this happen in real-time is just 🫤
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Seeing this happen in real-time is just 🫤
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Fossil fuels are more expensive and far less efficient than renewable sources of energy and doubling down on them raises prices.
Trump’s efforts to revitalize the coal industry is saddling consumers with the costs of swaddling an expensive and dying industry.
Trump’s efforts to revitalize the coal industry is saddling consumers with the costs of swaddling an expensive and dying industry.
Trump's Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Fossil fuels are more expensive and far less efficient than renewable sources of energy and doubling down on them raises prices.
Trump’s efforts to revitalize the coal industry is saddling consumers with the costs of swaddling an expensive and dying industry.
Trump’s efforts to revitalize the coal industry is saddling consumers with the costs of swaddling an expensive and dying industry.
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During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
“Artificial intelligence is among the factors driving the uptick in holiday spending, with traffic from AI sources to retail sites expected to rise 515% to 520% this year from 2024, according to Adobe.”
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
Black Friday Online Sales Up Nearly 10% From Last Year, Study Shows
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
www.forbes.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Artificial intelligence is among the factors driving the uptick in holiday spending, with traffic from AI sources to retail sites expected to rise 515% to 520% this year from 2024, according to Adobe.”
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Happy American Thanksgiving to all those that celebrate 🦖🦃
November 28, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Happy American Thanksgiving to all those that celebrate 🦖🦃
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.