

Jack Stack
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@JackStack9
PhD paleobiologist. Trophy husband. Fish historian and fossil enthusiast. He/him/his.




Nobody even knows UPenn is an Ivy League school. They think you go to Penn state. Lol


gardening is NOT relaxing bugs are eating all my shit I've never felt this violent in my life


Working on new polacanthid ankylosaur species from the lower Yellow Cat, basal Cretaceous, Berriasian. Got to playing around with my ilia overview fig. and it got out of control... So I guess, I got a bit more done on our ankylosaur character appendix as well for #FossilFriday.



This is why I’ve always insisted on inverting all my matrices by hand for every regression I run.

Faculty raging against AI: are you just openly abdicating your responsibility to prepare students for what's coming? AI is the future. Your anger doesn't change that. It just means your students learn it from someone else--or don't learn it at all. Enrollments will respond.



People don't like being forced into prisoner's dilemmas they didn't ask for and it is macro-level rational for them to feel resistance and indeed resentment toward that.




You’re looking at the biggest political issue of 2028. And the populists (derogatory) are winning. Ask your offline cousin what they think about data centers and you’ll find them regurgitating More Perfect Union anti-growth slop







There are PhDs being handed out each day to people living in the past: the students, their advisors, their universities. Dissertations that took 5 years of work, and which 4.6 Opus could re-produce then improve on in an afternoon.
