Adam Kumiszcza

Adam Kumiszcza

@skeptic.bsky.social

Wildlife and travel photographer, science geek, skeptic, atheist, humanist, rationalist etc. Younger version of the AI generated guy you see above.

4.1K followers293 following151 posts

Adam Kumiszcza
@skeptic.bsky.social

Rachel Carson’s *Silent Spring* spurred vital environmental reforms but also sparked chemophobia—fear of synthetic chemicals as inherently harmful. This myth endures, fueling misinformation, “natural” product hype, and mistrust of science. Remember: The dose makes the poison.

slate.comThis Book Helped Save the Planet—but Created a Very Harmful MythIt radically shifted the way the world looked at the environment, but created a wave of misinformation we’re still dealing with today.

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William J. Brady
@williambrady.bsky.social

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

Adam Kumiszcza
@skeptic.bsky.social

So nowadays even Springer translates mathematics textbooks by AI and admits it. "This book was first published in German. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content."

Adam Kumiszcza
@skeptic.bsky.social

Scientists discovered amber in Antarctica for the first time, dating to 83–92 million years ago. This reveals a mid-Cretaceous, conifer-dominated rainforest near the South Pole, showing Antarctica was once warm and wet and hosted resin-producing trees, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems.

sciencealert.comFirst-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South PoleImagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs.
Adam Kumiszcza
@skeptic.bsky.social

Physicists have measured the difference in the flow of time to the millimeter, between the top and bottom of a cloud of 100,000 strontium atoms. This allowed the researchers to discern a difference in time experienced by atoms at the top of the cloud and at the bottom due to the effect of gravity.

quantamagazine.orgAn Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How to Link the Quantum World With Gravity | Quanta MagazineTime was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of…
Adam Kumiszcza
@skeptic.bsky.social

I have several invite codes to give. I would like to give them to some scientists or science communicators. Or wildlife photographers. I'd like to see more of them on Bluesky :) If you know of somebody fitting this description and can pass my invitation to him/her, please let me know.

Adam Kumiszcza
@skeptic.bsky.social

I instructed, or actually asked ("I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Overlords") GPT-4 to do a summary of the long transcript of Sean Carroll's podcast. I first asked for a summary of fragments. At one point AI, instead of doing a summary, started playing with the continuation of the conversation.