Lucille V. Dentice
@sapphic-science.bsky.social
PhD at Illinois | Materials in Extreme Environments + Nuclear Policy
AuDHD | The Witch of November
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Opinions are my own.
AuDHD | The Witch of November
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Opinions are my own.
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From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Sitting in a class full of nuclear engineering undergrads, and most of them said that their primary motivation for joining the department was that nuclear is "cool". I wonder how many people never considered nuclear because they never had that "woah this is cool as hell" moment from an (1/2)
August 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sitting in a class full of nuclear engineering undergrads, and most of them said that their primary motivation for joining the department was that nuclear is "cool". I wonder how many people never considered nuclear because they never had that "woah this is cool as hell" moment from an (1/2)
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Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points.
“Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.
“Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.
Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points
Scientists are racing to work out just how close they might be
www.economist.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points.
“Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.
“Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
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The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.
June 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.
A great 30-minute read on the importance of resisting narratives about AI’s “inevitability” and “falling behind” if you refuse to adopt them in your work.
AI is only inevitable if you allow it to be. Ask more questions. Demand more answers. Don’t take magical LLM job replacement stats for granted.
AI is only inevitable if you allow it to be. Ask more questions. Demand more answers. Don’t take magical LLM job replacement stats for granted.
Newsletter: There is nothing inevitable about artificial intelligence, outside of the media's continued deference to the power. For a better tech industry - and a better world - the media must become more accountable, more sincere, and fight for the truth for the public.
www.wheresyoured.at/sic/
www.wheresyoured.at/sic/
Sincerity Wins The War
Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what yo...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A great 30-minute read on the importance of resisting narratives about AI’s “inevitability” and “falling behind” if you refuse to adopt them in your work.
AI is only inevitable if you allow it to be. Ask more questions. Demand more answers. Don’t take magical LLM job replacement stats for granted.
AI is only inevitable if you allow it to be. Ask more questions. Demand more answers. Don’t take magical LLM job replacement stats for granted.
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Just putting this out there for all the people who think we're going too fast on decarbonisation
Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just putting this out there for all the people who think we're going too fast on decarbonisation
Gen AI is actively causing the dismantling of important patterns and behaviors of collaborative and community learning in colleges because it’s easier to ask a chatbot than a classmate for help. Meanwhile, the developers of this technology: “It’s going to start the space age actually.”
"If that all happens, then it should be an era of maximum human flourishing, where we travel to the stars and colonize the galaxy. I think that will begin to happen in 2030." www.wired.com/story/google...
Or not.
Or not.
Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and behave.
www.wired.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Gen AI is actively causing the dismantling of important patterns and behaviors of collaborative and community learning in colleges because it’s easier to ask a chatbot than a classmate for help. Meanwhile, the developers of this technology: “It’s going to start the space age actually.”
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If you’re worried about the impact of individual eating habits, just wait until you hear about the ecological impact of militaries
insideclimatenews.org/news/1801202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1801202...
The U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal - Inside Climate News
This story originally appeared on the War Horse. In the fall of 2018, Neta C. Crawford, a political science professor at Boston University, prepared to teach a class on climate change designed to hel...
insideclimatenews.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If you’re worried about the impact of individual eating habits, just wait until you hear about the ecological impact of militaries
insideclimatenews.org/news/1801202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1801202...
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Our earth is withering and dying before us. So the US busies itself with encroaching on wildlife habitats for oil, clearcutting old growth forests to build cop cities, dragging its feet on clean energy, tightening the noose on queer people, astroturfing bribes from foreign regimes…
Our earth is withering and dying before us. So the US busies itself with encroaching on wildlife habitats for oil, clearcutting old growth forests to build cop cities, dragging its feet on clean energy, tightening the noose on queer people, astroturfing bribes from foreign regimes…
You can’t say we were not warned.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Our earth is withering and dying before us. So the US busies itself with encroaching on wildlife habitats for oil, clearcutting old growth forests to build cop cities, dragging its feet on clean energy, tightening the noose on queer people, astroturfing bribes from foreign regimes…
Our earth is withering and dying before us. So the US busies itself with encroaching on wildlife habitats for oil, clearcutting old growth forests to build cop cities, dragging its feet on clean energy, tightening the noose on queer people, astroturfing bribes from foreign regimes…
I love being able to:
1. Totally brick Arch Linux,
2. Reinstall root from an installation image,
3. Keep chugging after just reinstalling a couple packages.
I’ll actually get the hang of it one day, but until then unlimited free retries 🎉
1. Totally brick Arch Linux,
2. Reinstall root from an installation image,
3. Keep chugging after just reinstalling a couple packages.
I’ll actually get the hang of it one day, but until then unlimited free retries 🎉
May 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I love being able to:
1. Totally brick Arch Linux,
2. Reinstall root from an installation image,
3. Keep chugging after just reinstalling a couple packages.
I’ll actually get the hang of it one day, but until then unlimited free retries 🎉
1. Totally brick Arch Linux,
2. Reinstall root from an installation image,
3. Keep chugging after just reinstalling a couple packages.
I’ll actually get the hang of it one day, but until then unlimited free retries 🎉
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GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
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"Bloodbath" is a reasonable characterization re: latest IRA proposal, via @daveriester.bsky.social 🔌💡
May 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Bloodbath" is a reasonable characterization re: latest IRA proposal, via @daveriester.bsky.social 🔌💡
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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The current legislature wants Death for all transgender people. They are so afraid of us that they cannot stand to coexist with us. To them, silencing us is the only option.
Stand with your trans colleagues, peers, and friends and call your goddamn representatives. We must be our own lobbyists.
Stand with your trans colleagues, peers, and friends and call your goddamn representatives. We must be our own lobbyists.
New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s ‘One, big, beautiful bill’ would transgender care on Medicaid and Obamacare
‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The current legislature wants Death for all transgender people. They are so afraid of us that they cannot stand to coexist with us. To them, silencing us is the only option.
Stand with your trans colleagues, peers, and friends and call your goddamn representatives. We must be our own lobbyists.
Stand with your trans colleagues, peers, and friends and call your goddamn representatives. We must be our own lobbyists.
Not even nuclear is safe from drill baby drill.
Advanced nuclear can commence construction before the end of 2028 to qualify. Good luck banking a nascent nuclear renaissance on that. Few if any projects can make that timeline, and at best, first of a kind reactors only. This will kill the US nuclear sector, such that it is. Nothing for geothermal
May 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Not even nuclear is safe from drill baby drill.
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And somehow, the House GOP Budget bill got EVEN WORSE for clean electricity tax credits. Now requires commence construction 60 days after passage of law AND placed in service by end of 2028. Hard sunset, no phase-down. amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R... 🔌💡
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
And somehow, the House GOP Budget bill got EVEN WORSE for clean electricity tax credits. Now requires commence construction 60 days after passage of law AND placed in service by end of 2028. Hard sunset, no phase-down. amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R... 🔌💡
Absolutely inhumane and unlawful behavior. The party of "respect the troops" clearly only cares about service members when it is convenient for them.
It's not enough to destroy the lives of trans military members, this government must out them and humiliate them at every point.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US Army to change transgender soldiers' records to birth sex
The U.S. Army will alter the records of transgender soldiers to show only their sex at birth, according to internal guidance seen by Reuters that details a series of steps it will take as it pushes them out of the service.
www.reuters.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely inhumane and unlawful behavior. The party of "respect the troops" clearly only cares about service members when it is convenient for them.
Great article on the symbiosis between improved care investment / infrastructure & economic health. Makes it feel all the more insane that Manchin and R's shut BBB down over procedural nitpicks.
Talk of worlds not seen. Thrilled to have co-authored this paper with @lenorepalladino.bsky.social on the economic impacts of the proposed BBB investments in childcare, home care, and paid leave. We first started this project in 2021!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Potential Macroeconomic Effects of the Build Back Better Care Investments
There is an urgent need for public investment in care around the globe. This article investigates the potential macroeconomic impacts of investments in home healthcare, childcare, and universal pai...
www.tandfonline.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Great article on the symbiosis between improved care investment / infrastructure & economic health. Makes it feel all the more insane that Manchin and R's shut BBB down over procedural nitpicks.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Had a very fast blood donation today and wondered if there was literature connecting cardiovascular health to donation draw time. I couldn't find any, but I found an article linking faster draw times and "nonfearfulness" to reduced risk for fainting during a donation! Wanted to share, link below ⬇️
May 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Had a very fast blood donation today and wondered if there was literature connecting cardiovascular health to donation draw time. I couldn't find any, but I found an article linking faster draw times and "nonfearfulness" to reduced risk for fainting during a donation! Wanted to share, link below ⬇️