Maud Powell

@DonaldClark @Steve_R_Price Have you ever met a student? This isn’t how they are using it.

Different. AI is used largely to support essay writing, get some research, write, refine, restructure, that's how good writing works. Sure some shortcircuit. Essay mills were one-shot purchases, largely known and tolerates by HE, as exposure would heve meant reputation damage on a massive scale.

Imagine back in the heyday of online essay mills, if the push had been to teach students to use essay mills ethically and to develop essay mill strategies. Or if we had accepted that essay mills were okay for grammar and organization but taught Ss to make the essays their own.

@DWesthawk He is beautiful.

I'm happy to see this old wolf back in the area again this spring. He appears to be around 10 years old. The typical lifespan of a grey wolf is 6-8 years.

Grey wolf

@alchemy_sc35895 @nxthompson But with AI, YOU are not arriving at the answer. You’re just writing it down (and frankly, you have no idea whether the answer is even valid).

@nxthompson Why not let people have access to the tools they are going to have in everyday life? If I'm able to arrive at the correct answer, the path I took to get to it is irrelevant.

Since 1893, Princeton professors have left the room when students take their final exams. The idea was that if you treat students honorably, they would behave honorably. In response to AI-fueled academic dishonesty, the university just ended that system. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

@JaniceEK22 @b_fink A depressingly large number don’t care about failing a quiz (I teach in a private international school). They’d rather fail than read.

@b_fink What happened to pop quizzes? I was a diligent student who did the assigned reading every night, but nothing struck the fear of God into me like my English teacher announcing a pop quiz!

Catch-22: Assign several novels to students per year. Students don't/won't read at home. Resort to reading novels in class. Can't get through the novels. What's the solution, people?

@dieworkwear I’ve always been intrigued by those “micro wasps” that you can order and put in your closet to eat moth eggs and larvae (?). Do they actually work? And do they work for carpet beetles?

you can protect your wardrobe from clothes moths by filling your closet with tiny spiders, who are the moth's natural predator. later, you can deal with the spiders by filling your wardrobe with scorpions.

@ae_stallings One would like to think so, but there seem to be a fair number who have drunk the kool-aid. It’s very disappointing.

(Shouldn't this be just about all of them?)

@dynamiteddan @PatternNavigatr @drantbradley Agree 100%, as is using it to “help you think” 🙄

@PatternNavigatr @drantbradley Using AI to structure your paper is cheating. Or at least it’s changing what students are expected to do. Structure is a huge part of a successful paper and if dummies are outsourcing that, they will appear more competent than they really are.

Employers should be worried about AI. The lengths that students go to in order to cheat on college assignments are paradigmatic of the ways these same students will cheat and lie when they work for you all. College professors are now professional cheating screeners.

@hausfath I was happy because where I live yesterday was the first day in ages that the daily high was 1C below the 1991-2025 average but today it’s back to +3. And of course they shifted the baseline by making 1991 the earliest year (about 3 years ago)

The next week is looking like it might be toasty for global temperatures in the latest model runs. If this holds it would put us well into record territory for this time of year: karstenhaustein.com/climate.php

@davidjmadden Absolutely.

Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.

@urbanfoxwatch Awwww. That’s so sad 😩

Haven't seen the cubs in a few days and my worst fears were confirmed. Two cubs dead on the tracks 😭 I know Hazel has moved the remaining cubs, and if she's taken them to where I think she has it's a spot where they can't get onto the tracks for now, so at least they are safe

@ElliottBlackwe3 So sorry to hear this. Take good care.

Sometimes the news we get at the hospital is not what we hoped to hear.

As usual at this time of year we have people on worried about having a bumblebee ‘hive’ in their garden. ‘Are they dangerous?’ ‘Should I have them removed?’ ‘Will they be there forever?’ Here’s a quick #bumblebee #lifecycle thread to explain. Please #retweet for the #bees. 1/14

@subfossilguy 🥺

Wildfire in Chamonix valley today! 🔥😱 In Les Houches (Montagne des Faux, 1300 m asl)

@DeepDivesUsa Funny, I'm Swiss and I just received my biannual invitation for a subsidized mammogram- but you must know something that we Swiss women haven’t been told 🙄

Switzerland Becomes the FIRST Country to BAN Mammography — A GLOBAL Medical Scandal Exposed! VIDEO 🚨 Breaking news: Switzerland becomes the first country to BAN #mammography, exposing the shocking truth behind the medical industry’s biggest scam. Discover how mammograms harm women, with up to 60% false positives, cancer risks, and a profit-driven system exploiting millions. It’s time for safer, non-invasive alternatives! 🚨 Mammography: A SYSTEMATIC ASSAULT ON WOMEN’S HEALTH FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

@subfossilguy We’re down in Geneva and praying for rain…it’s been crazy warm and dry 🥺

How dry are high elevations in the Alps? ❄️💧 Insanely dry... 🥵 See the Périades Glacier, between Mont Mallet (3,989 m) and Dent du Géant (4.013 m), with ice already visible everywhere in steep slopes above 3,500 m asl... 😱

@aliciaandrz No question!

when I was in undergrad I felt that professors who ran discussion-based classes were lazy. but now that I’m a professor I realize it’s much harder to facilitate a generative discussion than to lecture.

@urbanponds101 I am so so sorry to hear this.

I’ve spent most of the weekend sobbing. My Mum’s just been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. She’ll be 85 next month. I took this picture on the morning of her CT scan❤️❤️

@ae_stallings This is absolutely terrible. It just keeps getting worse.

Unprecedented levels of light pollution. Many trees, plants, and animals require a cycle of darkness to thrive (including ourselves).

@urbanponds101 Love them!!! Mozart had one as a pet!

Can you ID this bird? Filmed this morning finding its breakfast in my lawn. I've always been amazed by their plumage. Considered invasive in the States, in the UK breeding population has fallen by over 80% since the 1970s, causing them to be placed on the red list. Any fans out there?

@VoyaWolfProject Gorgeous!!!

Without a doubt, our best trail camera capture yet: the first documented observation of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota in modern history. Turn up the volume to hear all the vocalizations. The footage, which was captured on March 25, shows a cougar with 3 large kittens while they feed on a deer they killed just south of Voyageurs National Park. We captured this surreal footage because we started a study to understand the survival and mortality patterns of deer in our area this winter. As part of that work, we GPS-collared several deer in the area in January.  In late March, we received a mortality signal from a GPS-collared deer and found the carcass buried under a pile of leaves on a hillside—a tell tale sign of feline predation.  We suspected it was likely a bobcat but thought, just possibly, it could be a cougar. So we put up two trail cameras on the cached deer carcass and 4 hours later, two cougar kittens returned to the kill. The entire family showed up that evening and spent hours in front of our cameras. In total, we captured 7.3 hr (435 minutes) of video footage of these animals. We will share more footage soon! Huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage. And huge thanks to the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies. The cameras (and batteries, SD cards, mounts) we set at this kill were purchased with funds from donations.