SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
- fave (/sarcasm) response so far: "you can't criticize AI data centers if you use internet data for other tasks" like "you can't criticize huge gas-wasting vehicles because you also use gas in a smaller more efficient car" or "you can't criticize wasting water, you also drink water"
- Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...
- Only recently started watching an ICE report map (rather than just happening upon posts) and, like, I knew it was bad but I didn't realize how bad. If you're in the US and don't think there are abductions happening near you, you're just not correct.
- Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...
- Has anyone compiled a good, well-cited one stop website with a detailed list of why genAI sucks? I would love something that I could share that simultaneously speaks to the points about stolen art/writing, habitat loss, resource waste, funding/economic issues, misinformation/propaganda, etc.
- to pettily link under people's FB posts of course
- As usual, I'm mentally running from the big scary things by focusing on getting extremely petty and angry about smaller things
- made this for the birding memes facebook group btw
- Don’t worry chat I got this I say as I got an hour less sleep last night than the night before. Which was an hour less than the previous night, itself an hour less than the night before. Rapidly running out of hours
- Why do I feel like shit all the time, all I do is: -read the news -get too stressed out to eat or sleep -try to force myself to do my job while constantly being paranoid
- people who are forced to vote for Democrats because there aren't better options want commonsense reform: abolishing and prosecuting ICE, salting the ground from which they crawled, and draining the treasury to pay reparations to victims
- I remember how stressed I was when I submitted my first paper revision (following peer review). It has gotten easier with repetition for sure. But also, I don't think I predicted that I'd one day be submitting revisions in-between checking the news for a state terror siege in my neighborhood.
- We got a slight reprieve with this recent court stay (yay!), hopefully it holds up under judicial review. bsky.app/profile/reps...
- I am upping my game as I draw my next graphical abstract, as you can see (still using the "freeform scribble" tool in PowerPoint with a mouse, of course)
