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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Over the past 18 mos, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group formed last year to monitor changes to government data.

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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My team at HelioCampus is hiring! If you have experience working with student-level data at a higher ed institution or ed tech co, as well as python, SQL, and BI experience, check out our open role: heliocampus.teamtailor.com/jobs/8088470... (To answer a FAQ: We're not currently sponsoring visas)

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Data Scientist I - HelioCampus

Who We Are: HelioCampus was founded with the purpose of helping college & university leaders navigate today’s growing pressures. As one of EdTech’s most steadily growing companies, our root...

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Whether you're a Prime Day shopper, or prefer not to shop at Amazon, there are deals on my book SQL for Data Scientists today! Amazon Prime Day amzn.to/4xOjn32 Free Shipping at Bookshop bookshop.org/a/55056/9781...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The podcast about the (public) papers for a faculty board meeting at the Humanities faculty at my university is a great example of the US-centrism of LLMs. Here’s the start, where it assumes that such docs must be some kind of leaked info - the true crime genre is heavy here, the hosts love mystery.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Never thought I'd be linking to Vatican News on this account, but the Pope has written an encyclical on AI. Some excerpts in the thread below. Here's the summary, which links to the full doc: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Watching @vickiboykis.com's keynote at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville!

Vicki Boykis giving a talk in front of a title slide on a movie screen that says "Build Yourself Flowers"

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

At the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville!

A movie theater full of people watching a speaker (David Luebke from NVIDIA Research) in the front. The slide showing on the screen says

"LESSONS: CARRYING OUT RESEARCH

I can support this kind of thing about once per year. Is this the time?

Protect your time. Decline meetings. Decline obligations.

Your manager's job is to help."

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Tomorrow and Saturday! There are limited tickets remaining! There's also a networking event on Friday after the "talks day" that you can attend if you have tickets for either day.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We have just posted 10 lightning talks to the Applied Machine Learning conference schedule, to occur during the breaks between tutorials on Saturday 4/18: appliedml.us/2026/schedule/

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Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

And YES tickets are still available for both Friday (talks) and Saturday (tutorials), though we expect to sell out this week, so get yours now! appliedml.us/2026/register/

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Conference Registration | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We have just posted 10 lightning talks to the Applied Machine Learning conference schedule, to occur during the breaks between tutorials on Saturday 4/18: appliedml.us/2026/schedule/

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Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What are you doing next Friday and/or Sat? Want to see what data scientists are doing with AI/ML these days? There are still tickets available for our conference in Charlottesville! And we have some awesome keynote speakers: David Luebke (NVIDIA) & @vickiboykis.com! appliedml.us/2026/schedule/

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Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today is the last day to submit an AMLC lightning talk proposal!

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The deadline to submit a lighting talk for the AMLC is tomorrow night!

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Lightning talk submissions due by Monday!

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Did you know you can take Amtrak to our Applied ML Conference in Charlottesville, VA? If you're on the East Coast, like DC, NYC, etc, you can take a train! Maybe even bring your family or a friend and make a long weekend of it! appliedml.us/2026/venue/

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Location | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Lightning talk submissions due by Monday!

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Location | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Do you wish you had submitted a talk to the Applied Machine Learning Conference (April 17-18 Charlottesville, VA)? Want to present an AI/ML conference talk, but don't have 30 mins of content prepared? Submit an 8-minute lightning talk proposal! forms.gle/XQjui9ncZ2Hf...

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2026 AMLC Lightning Talk Proposal

We have allocated time for up to 12 lightning talks on Saturday 4/18 (Tutorials Day) of the Applied Machine Learning Conference at the UVA School of Data Science in Charlottesville, VA. https://appli...

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Join me at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA, April 17-18! We have great keynote speakers: @vickiboykis.com and David Luebke from NVIDIA, and the rest of the lineup will be announced, soon! Scroll down on the reg. page for various ticket options appliedml.us/2026/

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Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Today is the last day for early bird ticket pricing! And the schedule has been published. Check it out: appliedml.us/2026/schedule/ Two days of AI/ML talks and tutorials in Charlottesville in April. Join us!

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Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The schedule for our conference (talks and tutorials) has been posted, and early bird pricing ends Friday! Check it out!

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Some AI competitors are coming together to oppose Trump's strong-arm tactics against Anthropic. This is a very important development and critical to how a pro-democracy coalition defeats authoritarian threats. Gift link wapo.st/4dhLr74

The case has also rippled through the industry in other ways. On Monday, more than three dozen engineers, scientists and researchers working at rival AI companies Google and OpenAI issued a legal briefing in support of Anthropic.

The employees, who are building Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT software and who signed the briefing in their personal capacities, argued that the Pentagon’s decision created unpredictability across the industry, undermined American competitiveness and stifled legitimate and important debates about AI’s deployment. The signatories included Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a longtime leader of the company’s work on AI. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)

“By silencing one lab, the government reduces the industry’s potential to innovate solutions,” the briefing said.

The employees noted that they represent the spectrum of political viewpoints but that they were united in the belief that there must be guardrails around the use of AI to create autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

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Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Tickets are now on sale for this conference! appliedml.us/2026/register/

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Tickets are now on sale for this conference! appliedml.us/2026/register/

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It's the last weekend to submit a talk to this Applied Machine Leaning Conference I'm helping organize in Charlottesville in April!

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

If you want to give a talk or tutorial at this conference, proposals are due soon, on Feb 22. I would love to see you there! Selected speakers get free tickets to the whole conference. appliedml.us/2026/

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Excited to announce that the Applied ML Conference that I've been involved with in Charlottesville, VA is back again this year, April 17-18! And we have exciting news that @vickiboykis.com will be our keynote speaker! Learn more and submit a proposal to join her: appliedml.us/2026/

Applied Machine Learning Conference

Keynote Speaker:

Vicki Boykis

Founding ML Engineer, Malachyte

Previously at Mozilla.ai / Duo / Automattic

April 17-18, 2026 Charlottesville, VA https://appliedml.us

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"Governments have a responsibility to regulate the use of AI in schools, making sure that the technology being used protects students' cognitive and emotional health, as well as their privacy." (more recommendations at the end of the article) www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Agreed. I left my Twitter account with 70k+ followers behind because of Musk, and every day, he shows why no one should be using X anymore. And if we had any appropriate AI regulation, or anyone with power who cared, Grok would've been taken offline immediately.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/01/2026

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizes

International Business Times: Grok Issues Apologies

The Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 26/12/2025

I went through it last year to learn SQL!

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Steven L. Lancaster @stevenllancaster.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This book literally changed my life. Opened a new career field for me and got me started down a path that I truly love. Highly recommend!

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The previous post is a thread, by the way

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I think it's a bad thing to lump all types of machine learning under "AI".

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Gave a talk this morning about how AI FOMO isn't a strategy and several Qs afterwards were asking if may be FOMO *should* be the driving force. But if 89% of the public think proven safety should come first, then it feels like a good idea to respect that

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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 29/11/2025

I have this, it's a great book especially as a reference guide for non beginners!

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Small Business Saturday is a great time to shop at independent bookstores! You can buy my book through one of them via Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/sql-...

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SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis

A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis

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