Andrew Kniss
I kill things for science (mostly plants). I study crops, weeds, and sometimes other things at a University in Wyoming (but this is a personal account). I like taking photos and writing #Rstats code, but not at the same time.
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- Reposted by Andrew KnissHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Reposted by Andrew KnissRFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates…
- To be clear, I was the one in tears.
- My kids tried Cherry Garcia for the first time the other night. One of them said it was 'mid'. So I told them about the Great Cherry Garcia Shortage of 2020, and asked if a 'mid' ice cream flavor would be sold out for a full year?? And then I sent them to bed in tears.
- Writing threads on this bluesky app is pretty easy. *READING* threads on this app is still remarkably painful.
- Wow. Some truly excellent ag scientists affected here, with the closure of several Agriculture and Agri-food Canada stations. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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- I have been contacting my GOP senators regularly. I'm beginning to think that they are proud to have ushered in this period of America. They don't seem bothered by any of it.
- This thread is absolutely wild bsky.app/profile/musi...
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- Reposted by Andrew KnissThis chart documents one of humanity’s greatest achievements, in my view. We just lived through the fastest population growth in human history. It would have been impressive if food supplies had merely kept pace — but on every continent, they grew even faster than the population.
- Reposted by Andrew KnissThe FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
- Reposted by Andrew KnissStatement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
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- Change a tense, ruin a song. Taint love.
- Reposted by Andrew KnissFriendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread] (Reposted from the other site)
- I just ate some apple pie. For breakfast. At 2:30pm.
- Workflow with AI: 1) create prompt 2) refine prompt 3) have AI do literature review & write text 4) check that all references exist and are not hallucinations 5) fact check all points in the generated text for accuacy and modify text accordingly 6) revise/edit final text
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- SIX FLAGS OVER JESUS omg I'm dead 😂🤣☠️
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- accidentally deleted 17 years of research data this morning luckily it was stored on a server with plenty of redundant backup, so we got last night's backup restored. But my anxiety level was a little elevated for a couple hours in between those two events...
- Reposted by Andrew KnissSam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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- University of Nebraska, as part of its budget cuts,eliminated the department of statistics, including "the BS in Statistics and Data Analytics, BS in Data Science offered through the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the MS in Statistics, and the PhD in Statistics."
- Reposted by Andrew KnissIt's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
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- @profanity.accountant well? How bad could it be?
- Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. The 5 stages of academic dishonesty.
- Big news for craps players. Copilot says the probability of rolling an 8 is the same as rolling a 7!
- Unless he's going to take a stand on reclining I have no interest
- Reposted by Andrew KnissI really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
- Being a teacher during this phase of AI/LLM development is absolutely fucking exhausting
- Has the new Lizza post dropped yet?? I'm not usually into such personal drama, but that part 1 was great content. 😂
- I'm beginning to think some of these guys that Trump pardoned aren't good people...
- Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
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- Reposted by Andrew KnissA List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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- "Heart disease as a hobby.“ Such a great description of baseball when at its best. defector.com/toronto-will...
