Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁
@shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social
Professor | #Education & #Biomimetics | Addicted collaborator | Just-in-time thinker | settler | they/them | EN/FR/SP | Aggressively Helpful |
Thinking a lot about climate adaptation: ManufacturedEcosystems.com for more details about our NFRF
Thinking a lot about climate adaptation: ManufacturedEcosystems.com for more details about our NFRF
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Can Ecosystem Services be replaced by Technology, yet?
"Our conclusion is both cautionary and constructive: some can be mimicked; very few can be entirely replaced; none should be rendered optional"
The #ManufacturedEcosystems Team takes a transdisciplinary approach 🧪
doi.org/10.3390/biom...
"Our conclusion is both cautionary and constructive: some can be mimicked; very few can be entirely replaced; none should be rendered optional"
The #ManufacturedEcosystems Team takes a transdisciplinary approach 🧪
doi.org/10.3390/biom...
What's next? Forcing kids to ingest Dihydrogen Oxide?
Too much of that stuff and it'll kill ya!
Too much of that stuff and it'll kill ya!
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What's next? Forcing kids to ingest Dihydrogen Oxide?
Too much of that stuff and it'll kill ya!
Too much of that stuff and it'll kill ya!
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Today in marine invertebrates
Great video from @pbseons.bsky.social about Darwin and his work on barnacles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYu...
#histsci #HPS
#histsci #HPS
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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“Consider this your warning, your education, and your verbal karate chop to the soul:
Do not use my name to attack a woman who is braver than you.”
Do not use my name to attack a woman who is braver than you.”
This is why Kermit loves and fears her 👑
Dear Donald
From Miss Piggy
www.closertotheedge.net
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Consider this your warning, your education, and your verbal karate chop to the soul:
Do not use my name to attack a woman who is braver than you.”
Do not use my name to attack a woman who is braver than you.”
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These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
I'm so done with detailed rubrics. It's disingenuous to have students think that instructors will be able to anticipate all potential elements and variance of an assessment.
But then, students hold instructors to them as though they are contracts.
#HigherEd
From now on, here's what I'll be using:
But then, students hold instructors to them as though they are contracts.
#HigherEd
From now on, here's what I'll be using:
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm so done with detailed rubrics. It's disingenuous to have students think that instructors will be able to anticipate all potential elements and variance of an assessment.
But then, students hold instructors to them as though they are contracts.
#HigherEd
From now on, here's what I'll be using:
But then, students hold instructors to them as though they are contracts.
#HigherEd
From now on, here's what I'll be using:
The use of AI bots to screen for academic misconduct in the peer-review system is forcing my lab group to embargo all theses until after all chapters are published.
This is a grave disservice to us all.
#HigherEd 🧪
This is a grave disservice to us all.
#HigherEd 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The use of AI bots to screen for academic misconduct in the peer-review system is forcing my lab group to embargo all theses until after all chapters are published.
This is a grave disservice to us all.
#HigherEd 🧪
This is a grave disservice to us all.
#HigherEd 🧪
Can Ecosystem Services be replaced by Technology, yet?
"Our conclusion is both cautionary and constructive: some can be mimicked; very few can be entirely replaced; none should be rendered optional"
The #ManufacturedEcosystems Team takes a transdisciplinary approach 🧪
doi.org/10.3390/biom...
"Our conclusion is both cautionary and constructive: some can be mimicked; very few can be entirely replaced; none should be rendered optional"
The #ManufacturedEcosystems Team takes a transdisciplinary approach 🧪
doi.org/10.3390/biom...
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Can Ecosystem Services be replaced by Technology, yet?
"Our conclusion is both cautionary and constructive: some can be mimicked; very few can be entirely replaced; none should be rendered optional"
The #ManufacturedEcosystems Team takes a transdisciplinary approach 🧪
doi.org/10.3390/biom...
"Our conclusion is both cautionary and constructive: some can be mimicked; very few can be entirely replaced; none should be rendered optional"
The #ManufacturedEcosystems Team takes a transdisciplinary approach 🧪
doi.org/10.3390/biom...
Reposted by Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁
Ottawa tiptoes around the Notwithstanding Clause while Ford, Legault, and Smith swing it like a kitchen cleaver. A tool meant for rare storms now hacks through OUR rights and OUR freedoms on sunny days.
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Ottawa tiptoes around the Notwithstanding Clause while Ford, Legault, and Smith swing it like a kitchen cleaver. A tool meant for rare storms now hacks through OUR rights and OUR freedoms on sunny days.
Darn that evidence getting in the way
“evidence from around the world clearly shows that health outcomes and access to care worsen when a private system operates in parallel to a public one”
#ableg
apple.news/A3FcdZAkITye...
#ableg
apple.news/A3FcdZAkITye...
Alberta defends public-private health care model as experts say it could violate Canada Health Act — The Globe and Mail
Critics have raised concerns about the province’s plans to allow doctors to work in both systems simultaneously
apple.news
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Darn that evidence getting in the way
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
My favourite AI-resistant assignment in #HigherEd:
In my human biology course, students synthesize all content by redesigning the Pioneer Plaque to depict humanity for extraterrestrials 👽
ChatGPT’s version? Predictable👇
Its justification? “Full human diversity.”
Cue the collective womp womp
In my human biology course, students synthesize all content by redesigning the Pioneer Plaque to depict humanity for extraterrestrials 👽
ChatGPT’s version? Predictable👇
Its justification? “Full human diversity.”
Cue the collective womp womp
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My favourite AI-resistant assignment in #HigherEd:
In my human biology course, students synthesize all content by redesigning the Pioneer Plaque to depict humanity for extraterrestrials 👽
ChatGPT’s version? Predictable👇
Its justification? “Full human diversity.”
Cue the collective womp womp
In my human biology course, students synthesize all content by redesigning the Pioneer Plaque to depict humanity for extraterrestrials 👽
ChatGPT’s version? Predictable👇
Its justification? “Full human diversity.”
Cue the collective womp womp
OMG, #HigherEd colleagues! The journal of one of my most cited articles now offers the option to submit by email.
No portals, no AI-bots, no endless spam. 🧪
As someone who started out mailing manuscripts with actual stamps, this feels downright supportive.
#PhDLife #AcademicChatter
No portals, no AI-bots, no endless spam. 🧪
As someone who started out mailing manuscripts with actual stamps, this feels downright supportive.
#PhDLife #AcademicChatter
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
OMG, #HigherEd colleagues! The journal of one of my most cited articles now offers the option to submit by email.
No portals, no AI-bots, no endless spam. 🧪
As someone who started out mailing manuscripts with actual stamps, this feels downright supportive.
#PhDLife #AcademicChatter
No portals, no AI-bots, no endless spam. 🧪
As someone who started out mailing manuscripts with actual stamps, this feels downright supportive.
#PhDLife #AcademicChatter
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Our university has imposed a phone-only ID system. Makes me think that this simply encourages risk to them in interactions with the police.
Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
www.theverge.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our university has imposed a phone-only ID system. Makes me think that this simply encourages risk to them in interactions with the police.
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Day 2 of ICERI 2025. Currently waiting for the session on “Risks and Challenges of AI” to begin.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Day 2 of ICERI 2025. Currently waiting for the session on “Risks and Challenges of AI” to begin.
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Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada:
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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As I see more and more people being let go here at the university, and their work being shoved into other peoples' portfolios to shrivel up and waste away, I think I'd like us to consider maybe ditching software licences and subscriptions instead.
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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As I see more and more people being let go here at the university, and their work being shoved into other peoples' portfolios to shrivel up and waste away, I think I'd like us to consider maybe ditching software licences and subscriptions instead.
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As I see more and more people being let go here at the university, and their work being shoved into other peoples' portfolios to shrivel up and waste away, I think I'd like us to consider maybe ditching software licences and subscriptions instead.
The use of AI by journal editors has further frustrated the science-publishing 'industry' (and don't get us started on everything else that is wrong with it)
After this next year of submitting/publishing, I am committed to slowing down until it gets better
#HigherEd 🧪
After this next year of submitting/publishing, I am committed to slowing down until it gets better
#HigherEd 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The use of AI by journal editors has further frustrated the science-publishing 'industry' (and don't get us started on everything else that is wrong with it)
After this next year of submitting/publishing, I am committed to slowing down until it gets better
#HigherEd 🧪
After this next year of submitting/publishing, I am committed to slowing down until it gets better
#HigherEd 🧪
The #Guelph Film Festival starts Nov 7th!
Events are free to students under 30 years old 🧪
Please share!
www.showpass.com/o/guelph-fil...
Events are free to students under 30 years old 🧪
Please share!
www.showpass.com/o/guelph-fil...
Guelph Film Festival
The Guelph Film Festival is a documentary film festival dedicated to expanding the proliferation of voices and perspectives of all kinds through the presentation of stories that explore themes of soci...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The #Guelph Film Festival starts Nov 7th!
Events are free to students under 30 years old 🧪
Please share!
www.showpass.com/o/guelph-fil...
Events are free to students under 30 years old 🧪
Please share!
www.showpass.com/o/guelph-fil...