Mark Herse

ecologist, this is a personal account

[Mark Herse @MarkHerse]

New 📄 @CriticAsianStds

Focusing on Thailand, we foreground risks and misconceptions of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 targets to formally protect 30% of Earth by 2030 and stimulate financialization of conservation.

https://t.co/QNZyJUCUeq

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

People are upset about the World Cup because instead of bringing the world together it’s another reminder of how unjust the world is.

It’s not a conspiracy. A Somali referee was denied entry to the U.S., that’s a fact. The U.S. tried to swap Iran for Italy, and then mistreated the team, that’s a fact. The U.S. president made a call to reverse a red card for an American player, that’s a fact…

From discrimination and over-priced tickets, to commercial breaks and VAR issues, many people who have watched and enjoyed the World Cup since childhood are more than disappointed. The whole tournament was tainted from the beginning, starting with a fake peace prize to gratify the host country.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It's a real Boomer move to build a McMansion & throw a fancy party for yourself all while kids starve & have no future because of the things you & your Boomer friends did and are now nostalgically celebrating at your party.

That's how I see this week's Obama shrine celebration.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Just a reminder that Palestinian men also deserve to live

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

Utter nonsense. AI strips all the intellectual stimulation and satisfaction out of learning, researching and writing. If someone thinks this is "suffering", maybe university isn't for them.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Editing your genAI paper is just not worth my time, labor, or expertise. I hope that scholars wholeheartedly agree to simply stop peer reviewing papers that use genAI, stop providing line edits, stop engaging with content edits. You could not pay me enough to edit a bot

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

unbelievably sick and shameless how openly Zionazis exclusively wish death and suffering on Palestinians, to the extent that they frame Palestinians merely being alive as "luxury." just shameless nazi propaganda

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

I finally lost it on the departmental AI survey.

[Bethlehem Tekola @Bethlehemtekola]

"Submission volume has risen 42% since the late 2022 release of ChatGPT, while writing quality has declined."

More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review | Organization Science https://t.co/p138B01Hlf

[Bethlehem Tekola @Bethlehemtekola]

Rejecting the use of GenAI for qualitative research on the grounds of ethical concerns/social and environmental justice (not just methodological concerns) is valid and important.

That is why I like this letter written by qualitative researchers from 32 countries:

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

you can't write off something as fundamental as material support for genocide as a marginal difference of opinion. it's irreconcilable for a candidate to not respect US/international law/human life. you can't bill yourself the "reasonable"/obvious choice if that's your position

[King Baeksu @KingBaeksu]

They were warned. The ship is owned by Kirit Shah, a Thai billionaire of Indian descent. The crew members should sue for reckless endangerment of their lives. Absolutely idiotic stunt by management.

[Depressed Oracle Red Bull F1 Fan Account @FlyoutChase]

its actually wild that you can kill close to 200 school girls and still host the World Cup

[Wunpini F. Mohammed, Ph.D @wunpini_fm]

Part of learning and growing as a scholar is actually reading and reviewing literature.

If you don't want to do that, then you have no business being anywhere near a classroom.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

All it took was a war for Hillary to fall in love with Trump

[الكسندرا ميراي @Lexi3Alexander]

This party needs to be dismantled. Not one single vote for warmongers

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Yesterday, for a few hours, I listened to three United States presidents who did not know Jesse Jackson."

— Jesse Jackson, Jr.
https://t.co/hUaOyNykYT

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

She would not break with Netanyahu and Israel and pledged to have the “most lethal” military in the world.

Trump’s foreign policy on this is the same as President Biden’s, which VP Harris committed to continue.

[Jason A. Christian @jasonachristian]

If witnessing two years of genocide in Gaza didn't compel people in the US to study imperialism and how it has shaped the Middle East, I'm not sure what would do so now. I just cannot fathom that level of indifference, incuriosity, and cultural arrogance. It's beyond hubris.

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

Bipartisan genocide in Gaza removed the moral floor in the US. Blue No Matter Who Liberals who cheered it on bc their favorite Dems supported it actually cemented the fascist future they were afraid of.