Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If every billionaire is a policy failure, a trillionaire is 1000 policy failures in a trenchcoat. 525860
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.open.substack.comRace on The Brain: why brain-size differences can’t explain the IQ gapTackling a popular hereditarian argument 721665
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDPessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 02/06/2026𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 + 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Brain dynamics must-reads by Deisseroth team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroskyence 0309
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDSaige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 30/05/2026@ohbmofficial.bsky.social how should we manage childcare at #OHBM2026? I am assuming it is possible for caregivers to bring young children into the venue without needing a registration? 475
Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 30/05/2026@ohbmofficial.bsky.social how should we manage childcare at #OHBM2026? I am assuming it is possible for caregivers to bring young children into the venue without needing a registration? 475
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2026TIL heat is really killing a lot of people in Europe. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-... 33868300
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026“Our most urgent challenges, whether the governance of artificial intelligence, the erosion of democratic norms, or the challenge of building shared meaning across fractured communities, are not engineering problems with determinable solutions.” 153
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDMitchell Volk @mvolk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com 8083773799
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 28/10/2025Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.socialarxiv.orgTen Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in ScienceWhile AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa... 07632
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDFerric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comCutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care CatastropheThis JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha... 2206153
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDRick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab: Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes. arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760 0125
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDHell-a Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 25/08/2025 252188591
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm... 431850907
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/07/2025Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n 11420122
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/07/2025A common gotcha is "but Olivia, proofs don't capture reality" which I find honestly so beautiful because that's THE point. A formal system, a proof, maths, code, 💯 CANNOT solve reality, the frame problem, human cognition — so their gut tells them exactly the answer. Lean into it! That's exactly it. 36211
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 14/07/2025After having such a great time at #CHI2025 and #FAccT2025, I wanted to share some of my favorite recent papers here! I'll aim to post new ones throughout the summer and will tag all the authors I can find on Bsky. Please feel welcome to chime in with thoughts / paper recs / etc.!! 🧵⬇️: 25510
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDKobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 🧵: 1010957
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDThomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 17/07/20251/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415... 317182
Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Excited to be at the Computational Psychiatry Conference #CPC2025 in Tübingen! I’ll be presenting a poster called Computational Psychiatry meets Algorithmic Fairness. You can read it (along with some of my other philosophical ideas) here: www.beingsaige.com/single-post/... 060
Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I defended my PhD! You can watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/OCfqTtPy1KM?... 1111
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If you want to make America healthy again, start with Universal health & UBI Masks in healthcare Clean air & water Affordable housing & food Guaranteed education Paid time off Affordable child care When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit 25755215
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025There may be even more stupid use cases for #genAI, but this one is definitely a top contender 3389
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDThomas Wolfers @thomaswolfers.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Congratulations @Saige to a wonderful PhD Defense! 0111
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDcogscikid.bsky.social @cogscikid.bsky.social · 17/06/2025To help computational cognitive scientist engage with more naturalistic experiments, I've made NiceWebRL. NiceWebRL is a Python library for designing human subject experiments that leverage machine reinforcement learning environments. github.com/KempnerInsti...github.comGitHub - KempnerInstitute/nicewebrl: NiceWebRL is a Python library for quickly making human subject experiments that leverage machine reinforcement learning environments.NiceWebRL is a Python library for quickly making human subject experiments that leverage machine reinforcement learning environments. - KempnerInstitute/nicewebrl 1333
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/06/2025What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrumpactionnetwork.orgADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH StaffJoin the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now. 6871299
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDArghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 06/06/2025Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅 472012454
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 04/06/2025Science builds our future. In Europe it has the freedom and support it needs. To find the next cure and develop the next ground-breaking technology. Our mission is clear: We want the brightest minds and boldest innovators to "Choose Europe!" ↓ europa.eu/!fyy9RX 1837868
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDPaul Masset @paulmasset.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMulti-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain - NatureIndividual dopaminergic neurons encode future rewards over distinct temporal horizons. 811245
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDDr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Curious about the MAHA Report on children’s health but don’t have the time or energy or inclination to read all 75 pages? You’re in luck! I’m reading it for you. Link in replies. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...open.substack.comThe MAHA Report: I Read it so You Don't Have to.Part I: In the Beginning 46923
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDEuropean Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 02/06/2025Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvveuropa.euChanges to the 2026 and 2027 Work ProgrammesWith the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai... 3146102
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDAditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 21955392938
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDBostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count. Many thanks to my BU colleague @brookeenichols.bsky.social for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science. 103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/dayimpactcounter.comImpact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact CounterVisualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations. 15125
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDLucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - NatureThis Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f... 117177
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 19/05/2025We’re among 100+ organizations calling on House leaders to reject a proposal that would stop states from regulating AI. This still-in-development technology should not be allowed to make unfettered life-or-death decisions about our lives, safety, and freedoms. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/t...edition.cnn.comHouse Republicans want to stop states from regulating AI. More than 100 organizations are pushing back | CNN BusinessMore than 100 organizations are raising alarms about a provision in the House’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package that would hamstring the regulation of artificial intelligence systems. 24023
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/05/2025I've felt for a while that a mainstream method, reverse engineering, in cognitive science & AI is incompatible w computationalism‼️ So I wrote "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering" w the wonderful Natalia S. & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social to elaborate: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/ 1/n 1615749
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025Our “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri... Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social 15710147
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDBrittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 27/04/2025⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealthmasslive.comHarvard Medical researcher sues NIH for cutting grant to study LGBTQ mental health"This is not just an attack on the LGBTQ community — it is a blow to the integrity of science and the health of every American," a Harvard Medical School associate professor studying the mental… 281206334
Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 25/04/2025My Ph.D. thesis is now online (www.publicatie-online.nl/files/9017/4...), the books are printed, and my defense is scheduled for June 17th. What a surreal feeling! #PhDone 2432
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDTRIPOD Statement @tripodstatement.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Complete and transparent reporting aids critical and assessing risk of bias in #predictiveAI. TRIPOD+AI and PROBAST+AI are key tools to improve #AI research in healthcare TRIPOD+AI -> tinyurl.com/39pz3rfd PROBAST+AI -> tinyurl.com/yt8vrvrf #Digitalhealth #healthcareAI #machinelearning 032
Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Charlie-Mop is ready for the long weekend. 🐣🐇🐑 030
Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We are going to Bodensee this weekend to see the tulips!!!🌷 🇩🇪 000
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 03/04/2025Do you train students--including scientists and engineers--how to think about the ethical, social, political, and policy dimensions of their work? Check out @stpp-um.bsky.social's new report, which includes recommendations on how these programs can be cultivated. And come to our webinar on April 10!myumi.chBroadening Horizons: How STEM-in-Society Programs Train Socially Responsible Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Leaders 21817
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDData Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social · 31/03/2025This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help! 341050633
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/03/2025Y'all see why I can't stand these horrific men going off about the so-called "existential risks of AI" while simultaneously telling us everyone should be replaced by "AI"? One of the best grifts of the 21st century. www.wsj.com/video/elon-m...wsj.comElon Musk Pushes to Regulate AI's 'Existential Threat'Elon Musk warned a gathering of U.S. governors about several worst-case scenarios for AI, saying that the technology "is the biggest risk that we face as a civilization." The Wall Street Journal'... 315238
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDESMRMB @esmrmb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025📣 New abstract concepts for #ESMRMB2025! 📣 Two new abstract concepts will be accepted in a later deadline in August for #ESMRMB2025: 👉 Registered reports 👉 Project abstracts These are new formats that encourage transparency, rigor, and collaboration. Stay tuned for more information! 053
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDDr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies 53773422
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDDr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Yesterday I wrote about how Trump's "flagged" word list might block all of epidemiology, and some people complained discussing this was a distraction from bigger issues. But I think they're wrong. I think inclusiveness is fundamental to epidemiology, and without it we are dramatically limited. 214233
Reposted by Saige Rutherford, PhDEuropean Commission @ec.europa.eu · 21/03/2025There is no space for racism in the EU. No one should be denied a job, home, or opportunity because of their race or ethnic background. On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and every day, the EU stands united against racism, for a #UnionOfEquality. 20483119