Tootfinder

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Domani:
🎵 I want It
#Domani
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wWNt1xpvLsCxqQ3GhAb24
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

The first step on the road to #TNC26 starts today… with the opening of the Call for Proposals!
Next year, our community will gather in Helsinki 🇫🇮 under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish word “sisu,” which embodies inner strength, tenacity, and determination in the face of adversity.
💡 If you have a story to share, or a vision that can shape the conversation—we want to hear f…

💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
If you want to know more, read the thread below:
https://bsky.app/profile/marmole6.bsky.social/post/3m5m2u5u7gk2m

Emilio Mármol Sánchez (@marmole6.bsky.social)
During past years, research focused on ancient #DNA has gained a lot of interest, with dozens of papers being routinely published each year📃 But what about ancient #RNA? The common preconception is that these molecules, as opposed to DNA, do not last long after cell death. https://media.tenor.com/gMBUgkYXPxIAAAAC/ponke-ponkesol.gif?hh=498&ww=498

And more to read in your freetime, if you are interested in AI, from Bluesky, Phillip Isola.
"Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.
Today I want to share two new works on this topic:"
Eliciting higher alignment:
https://arxiv.org/…

Words That Make Language Models Perceive
Large language models (LLMs) trained purely on text ostensibly lack any direct perceptual experience, yet their internal representations are implicitly shaped by multimodal regularities encoded in language. We test the hypothesis that explicit sensory prompting can surface this latent structure, bringing a text-only LLM into closer representational alignment with specialist vision and audio encoders. When a sensory prompt tells the model to 'see' or 'hear', it cues the model to resolve its next…

If you're thinking of applying and want to visit the Quad, or if you're an alum and you have not been back for a while, we think you'll enjoy our new virtual tour! https://tour.concept3d.com/share/SIWhkklH_Y/stop/1

If you're advertising (academic) jobs via email/Slack/Zulip/etc and want broad circulation it's really helpful to also have a link to an associated web page to make it easier for folks to share these positions on socials, in other Slacks/Zulips, etc. It doesn't need to be an official job ad, just a page on your website/blog that includes the same information.

The Mafia Presidency -- Trump is saying, essentially, If you don't want to get hurt, you'll do what I say. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/mafia-style-american-politics/684863/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NIarPvCeUj25UaIYduNEMw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p6#a251108p6

As I head out the door to attend my local Remembrance Day ceremony, here is a story from the CBC about the USA and Canada in WWII.
““We each share a border. If something happened to Canada tomorrow, wouldn't I want the United States to defend them? If something happened to us, wouldn't we want Canada to help defend us? So I'm telling you, we need as countries to resolve these issues that we are having right now, today.””
#canada #usa #wwii #veteransday #remembranceDay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-wwii-victoria-cross-9.6971182

Urban planners and other transit oriented folks: SMART is hiring for a Manager of Planning. Previous manager was promoted.
If you want to join the really cool team that keeps Metro Detroit moving every day (👋), apply here. Please share!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Beastie Boys:
🎵 So What'cha Want
#BeastieBoys
https://bassgroovehq.bandcamp.com/track/beastie-boys-so-whatcha-want-extended-bootleg-125
https://open.spotify.com/track/25pl7kV4OxafIc9wPAggYf
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post