Cladocera @daphsci@qoto.org

I asked ChatGPT to describe a linocut it would make based on Edgar Allen Poe and then how would it ask an AI to make an image of it.

ChatGPT calculated this: '"The Raven": "A large raven perched on a branch, with a skull and a quill pen nearby, a faint image of a man in the background, a book in the front corner and a moon in the background"'

Then I fed that to Stable Diffusion 2.1 and got this output.

Maybe I should carve and print this? Would it be art?

#AI

Co-founder Rob Morris tweeted a description of the trial in this thread, in which he explicitly describes the activity as an experiment.

https://twitter.com/RobertRMorris/status/1611450197707464706?s=20&t=ndcUoODJItgoTH8mlf8a9Q

I don't even know where to start with this one. Apparently the mental health service kokocares.org ran a multi-day trial where their "peer supporters" used ChatGPT to craft their responses to the people they were providing with mental health support.

https://www.businessinsider.com/company-using-chatgpt-mental-health-support-ethical-issues-2023-1

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz

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Warts on the feet

BREAKING: Dr. Dre drops legal bomb on Marjorie Taylor Greene with a blistering cease-and-desist letter to stop using his music or face copyright infringement suit.

"We're writing because we think an actual lawmaker should be making laws not breaking laws..."

Mic, dropped.

Elevator door in Foshay Tower, Minneapolis.

#Photography #MyPhoto #Foshay

After DECADES of hard work, the #GraduateStudentWorkers at Yale just won their union election with 91% of votes!

Not only is this awesome for them, but unionized #labor at #Yale just added more than 3,000 workers to our ranks! I’m so happy and excited!

Welcome into the fold, #Local33!

#SolidarityForever #UniteHere #UniteHereLocal33 #UniteHereLocal34 #Academia #AcademicLabor

In November, I'm teaching a North House Folk School class on hand drawn map making and needed to scan example maps for the course description and catalog. Here's a page from one of my travel journal with a map on it. I really like this one.

#Cartography #MastoArt #Art #Watercolor #Minnesota

Watch this 1981 video from the BBC. I guarantee you weren't expecting that.

Frosty birch

We had a great day of fog the other day. It coated everything in rime ice.

Cook County, Minnesota, USA

#photography #LandscapePhotography #FotoMontag #Minnesota #Nature #NaturePhotography

@stefanbaeurle Stunning!

I want to add more intentional note-taking to my undergrad gen ed this fall and am trying to decide between doing the occasional "share and compare" exercise, vs create a collaborative google talk for folks to be tasked to contributing to on different days. Does anyone have experience with these methods and/or preferences of one over the other?

@rob_nguyen Ah, this is super helpful, thanks! I can't decide if my learning objective is "help the students develop complete notes and work together" or "learn to take quality individual notes" which I think is making it hard for me to decide.

@KateClancy I've done something like the latter on a shared Word doc for a gen ed lit course. Each week a different student summarized our meetings and posed a question we'd discuss early the following week. I didn't have a sense of whether it helped students take more intentional notes (unless they were the ones covering that week), but I believe the sort of baton passing it structures helped us identify the discussion threads that were important to us over the course of the semester.

@wrigleyfield Yeah, that article was... something.

*whispers* Pay attention to the #denominator...

"‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

If you want to view all photos and art in their native format, you need to turn off a default setting in Mastodon's Appearance settings.

Make sure that you uncheck the box next to "Crop images in non-expanded posts to 16x9."

That way you'll be able to enjoy the photos and art on Mastodon without having to click on the image.

#photography

My lab is looking for a postdoc to work on NGLY1 deficiency. In particular, we are looking to test a bunch of candidate therapeutics in preclinical models. Fully funded, though all our postdoc have received independent funding. DM or email me! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5586048de4b00e437dfae87d/t/63a0953f5d8db34ca5ee0f9b/1671468351274/Postdoc_ad_2022.pdf

OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘