Reposted by Allison MeisnerTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 4hThis is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 2980982160
Reposted by Allison MeisnerTanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...thenerve.newsCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t... 361312417
Reposted by Allison MeisnerLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I am amazed that people walk into discussions among knowledgeable human experts and say “ChatGPT says…” It’s very insulting to do that, and it makes you look ridiculous. Everybody has seen LLMs spit out wrong information about *extremely* simple things. Don’t make a fool of yourself! 1441049
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026People saying "I don't care, I like having sunlight after work" are DRASTICALLY underestimating how hard it is for your body to have to wake up potentially hours before sunrise. Our bodies were not meant to do this and doing it disrupts our circadian rhythm, with serious consequences to our health. 000
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Received our first issue of the print edition of The Onion and I am not disappointed! 222371206
Reposted by Allison MeisnerDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon) 266147633496
Reposted by Allison Meisnerrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/06/2026oh well if candy crush businessman mel morris says so 441141147
Reposted by Allison MeisnerAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded. 17144962553
Reposted by Allison MeisnerRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 21/05/2026This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. Yesterday I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies. We cannot take water for granted. 802682847
Reposted by Allison MeisnerKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does. 241188232
Reposted by Allison MeisnerHelen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...statnews.comFraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found 5298120
Reposted by Allison MeisnerSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe. 16594011214970
Reposted by Allison MeisnerSara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 06/05/2026At the same time, there’s an expectation that every alternative measure, model, and explanation must be tested in a single article. We used to write ideas across multiple pieces. 21043
Reposted by Allison MeisnerHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026And, to be clear, this isn’t an anti-AI post. It’s an expression of frustration with a corner of the academy that seems to think the answer is always more, more, more. Ideas worth engaging take time. And I’m not convinced I want quick, efficiently produced ideas. In fact, I’m pretty sure I don’t. 344748
Reposted by Allison MeisnerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable 21852128
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Overall, one of the main benefits of being a "scholar" is the ability to sit and think and wonder and investigate. And all of that is disappearing in the name of efficiency. 010
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Recently I tried to challenge my anti-AI beliefs by wondering what I would have thought about the move from print to online journal articles (I want to avoid being a stick in the mud for no reason). (1/2) 100
Reposted by Allison MeisnerGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order. 14471422795
Reposted by Allison MeisnerKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026“My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it.”statnews.comMy patient would rather take a peptide than a statin. That reveals an uncomfortable truth in medicine“The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel. 3724209
Reposted by Allison MeisnerKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕 231130443679
Reposted by Allison MeisnerW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology. 413000686
Reposted by Allison MeisnerNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 245178605417
Reposted by Allison MeisnerGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace." -Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus 1424688
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 26/09/2025trying to get this grant in before the government shuts downmedia.tenor.coma hallway with a red carpet leading to a living room and a table .Alt: Macauley Caulkin running down the hallway screaming in Home Alone 000
Reposted by Allison MeisnerMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent: 48555962442
Reposted by Allison Meisnerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines 555182843865
Reposted by Allison MeisnerPaul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing? 9033451414
Reposted by Allison MeisnerPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation. 449151557830
Reposted by Allison MeisnerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The lawsuits are great to fight the illegal impoundment, but the second there's an actual federal budget passed through Congress that looks like this, it's all over for American higher education. 18583248
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 20/05/2025As someone noted in today's faculty meeting, PO's are heroes right now. 000
Reposted by Allison MeisnerGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying. 4945612279
Reposted by Allison MeisnerThe Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 24/03/2025Lewelyn Dixon, a lab technician who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and is a green card holder, is being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma.seattletimes.comLewelyn Dixon, UW lab technician, held in Tacoma ICE detention centerLewelyn Dixon, a lab technician who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and is a green card holder, is being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma. 4537318
Reposted by Allison MeisnerPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown. 13893996561
Reposted by Allison MeisnerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me. 14253307611391
Reposted by Allison MeisnerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from. 7343911273
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Study section that was supposed to review my proposal this week has now been pushed to mid-April... 000
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025A LOT of my work involves supporting trials and research that industry would never (and could never) do. This is not as simple as shuffling money and people around - the issue is who these bodies (industry vs. government) answer to and the corresponding incentive structure. 000
Reposted by Allison MeisnerLewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.” 556107775568
Reposted by Allison MeisnerAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 13/02/2025WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.” 45978291529
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Really enjoyed chatting about personalized prevention at last week's Innovator's Network program at Fred Hutch. Turns out people in the community are really jazzed about prevention! 020
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025So excited that this analysis - which I started FOUR years ago - is now finally published! We used existing HIV Prevention Trials Network datasets and some causal inference tools (quite a learning curve for me) to estimate the effect of PrEP in Black MSM in the US. academic.oup.com/ije/article/...academic.oup.comEstimating the effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis in Black men who have sex with menAbstractBackground. Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately burdened by the HIV epidemic in the USA. The effectiveness of pre-exposure 030
Reposted by Allison MeisnerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...globalnews.caHow a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.caIn 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic. 511299557821
Reposted by Allison MeisnerCitizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Impact of NIH cut starting to sink in Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer www.al.com/news/2025/02...al.comKatie Britt vows to work with RFK Jr. after NIH funding cuts cause concern in AlabamaUAB and UAH are among Alabama institutions that could be affected by cuts. 213799248
Allison Meisner @ameisner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025...and higher education more generally. Note that the end of academic medical centers == the end of physician training...so, no more doctors. 000
Reposted by Allison MeisnerKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc. 9738111153
Reposted by Allison MeisnerGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 08/02/2025From a crude markets perspective, this is a catastrophe for the pharmaceuticals industry (combined market cap: $1.88trn) and biotech industry (combined market cap: $1.32trn). Five alarm fire, "everything we depend on to create value is being dumped down a sewer", catastrophe. 401255341