Amazing volcanic rocks with an added bonus of some patchy grass and orange lichen.

#sea #ocean #seawednesday #meer #meerMittwoch #landscape #LandscapePhotography #nature #naturephotography #photo #photography #tasmania #sunset

I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

"It was a passion before it became a project."

Teenagers in Kenya are fighting air pollution with the HewaSafi exhaust filter. Made from farm waste like coconut shells and maize cobs, the award-winning device is now a finalist for the global Earth Prize.

Learn more!
https://mongabay.cc/vMed38

You'd think our leaders would be making a LOT more noise about this, what with the coming local government elections...

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-05-12-unemployment-rate-rises-13-percentage-points-to-327/

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... Et un autre #végétal aquatique, #dulçaquicole et #cosmopolite : l'azolle fausse #fougère (accompagnée d'une #algue bleue symbiotique).

NOËL Pierre, DUBUISSON Jean-Yves, MÜLLER Yves in : #DORIS, 29/04/2026 :
Azolla filiculoides Lamarck; 1783, https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/6123

#Tracheophyta #EauxDouces #biodiversite #symbiose #biodiversity #Polypodiopsida #Salviniaceae

For today's #TextureTuesday here are some textures. First one looks a bit like Jupiter and latte and a bit of a submarine. Second one is just a texture but I liked green on red! And the third one is bark looks a bit like fire.

#texture #art #nature #naturephotography #photo #photography #noai #foto #rocks

Parts of Cape Town are experiencing severe flooding, and this is hitting poorer areas especially hard. Now is a good time to donate some money, if you have some to spare. Decision paralysis? My suggestions:

Gift of the Givers -- they're my go-to organisation for disaster response donations. You can make a general donation or specify where and how you want the money to be used.
https://giftofthegivers.org/donate-online/

PEP Stores Lay By Buddy -- not disaster-specific, but a lot of people are going to have to replace a lot of clothes and other essentials.
https://www.pepstores.com/pages/lay-by-buddy

Cape of Good Hope SPCA -- they don't just deal with strays; they also provide emergency and veterinary assistance to people who can't afford to pay for it. They're currently also rescuing farm animals (whose loss would have not just a psychological but also a financial impact on their people).
https://capespca.co.za/flood-crisis-response-be-their-lifeline/

Welp!

#ChatGPT is now in school textbooks in India

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaTech/comments/1ta10xg/chatgpt_officially_made_it_into_school_textbooks/