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Heather, Ph.D

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Holy shit. The government is conceding it willl pay some amount of fees to the Broadview Six. They are DESPERATE to stop further inquiry into the case. Never heard of such a thing.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is really important. The US government wants to end independent scientific and medical research. Please comment and push back on the sweeping proposal that would give the White House veto and clawback power over Federal R&D funding. Here's guidance
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Gilles Louppe @glouppe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Accept (spotlight)" at ICML'26 😎 Our paper brings particle filters back to life: autoregressive diffusion models + posterior sampling yield optimal proposals for Bayesian filtering, scaling up to GenCast-sized systems. arxiv.org/abs/2605.20028 w/ Thomas Savary and @francois-rozet.bsky.social
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Training-Free Bayesian Filtering with Generative Emulators
Bayesian filtering is a well-known problem that aims to estimate plausible states of a dynamical system from observations. Among existing approaches to solve this problem, particle filters are theoret...
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Tom MacWright @tmcw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
a long time ago i followed @sgillies blog and the moment he announced he had left a job we hired him to work at mapbox, a major coup. now is the time for you to do the same thing for your company, i guarantee you will not regret it: sgillies.net/2026/04/24/laid-off.ht…
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Laid off
Welp, I'm joining the ranks of the unemployed tech workers again. As before, I'm in a good situation. I don't depend on my former employer for health insurance. I've got some severance and savings, my family is in good health, we have a roof over our heads, and I have good connections. I don't feel afraid. But maybe I should? The job market is worse than last time this happened to me. I've seen experienced and talented people go for weeks and months without offers, and read some harrowing stories about what under-employment looks like for older tech workers these days. After a little detour into the biomedical field, I'm looking to get back into helping to solve important geospatial problems. If you've got them, please let me know.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
For those of you who love space exploration: we have robots exploring all across the solar system, and they can’t make anybody any money, they just discover cool stuff, so billionaires aren’t interested. Rovers and orbiters at Mars, orbiter at Jupiter, missions on the way to distant asteroids…
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 27/03/2026
The long lines at airports now falls squarely on Speaker Johnson's shoulders. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. But Speaker Johnson is refusing to let the House vote on it. If you miss your flight, remember, this shutdown is on him.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/
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CRC 1502 DETECT @crc1502-detect.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🌍What would my home region look like in a different climate? ClimSat is a diffusion autoencoder for climate-conditional satellite image generation by a #CRC1502 member. It can simulate how landscapes might appear under different climatic conditions. 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... 🎥 youtu.be/YAPaGKBGJ3g
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ClimSat - Climate-conditional Satellite Image Editing with Diffusion Autoencoders
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
JFC I've heard that Fetterman is considering supporting the SAVE act. It's a disaster of a bill that would create sweeping disenfranchisement. Whoever your senators are, I don't care, call them. I don't wanna hear if you think they definitely will or won't support this, take 3 minutes & call.
a crab holds up a cigarette and yells "Call your senators"
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12/02/2026
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
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Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026
Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November." It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
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OxfordSmithSchool @smithschool.ox.ac.uk · 27/01/2026
Net zero sustainable development remains the only established path to reversing this trend for ever hotter days. It is imperative politicians regain the initiative towards it. @nature.com  @ox.ac.uk @oxmartinschool.bsky.social 
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Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios - Nature Sustainability
Accurate projections of heating and cooling needs are vital for planning energy use and achieving the sustainable development goals. A global dataset now maps global heating and cooling degree days, finding future hotspots, rising cooling demand and early shifts in energy needs with major global impacts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Masked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens. Call it what it is — fascism. History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.
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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it Pressure your senators
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026
Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
NEW: On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback. The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback
The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026
You know what we used to call "purity tests" before the internet and wreckers fucked everything up? Standards. As Winifred said down thread: if your only standard for a representative is a letter before their name, you will continue to get played.
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Translation: don't annoy my donors. Until Democratic leadership visibly sticks to its values & demonstrates integrity, they will continue to languish in low approval and weakness. As others in this thread say, the idea of rich flight has been shown a myth elsewhere eg MA
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research. You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.
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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Atwood on the nail #ReneeGood laughed (gently) at Jonathan Ross So he killed her, making sure with 3 shots Then called her a “fucking bitch” as her car veered out of control & crashed A hate crime US #misogyny is as grim as that of the #Taliban Just manifested differently Women die from both
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What I call climate 'appeasement' - the idea that climate breakdown isn't actually going to be that bad - is growing fast, and presents as great a threat as climate denial Climate appeasers denigrate reality as alarmism, so fostering inertia and inaction We are in deep, deep, sh*t - fact
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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Well put.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Trump is gonna run into the same problem Putin did. He'll get emboldened wrecking a bunch of weaker countries, and then he'll move on to one he shouldn't have fucked with.
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Chelle 🔵 @chelle78.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So this piece of crap squatting in the White House has decided to engage us in war to gain oil. This is not about drugs. This is about control. This is about him not being held accountable for his crimes. How much does it take until we act against him?
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The "Lost Science" series from the NYT is an infuriating and heartbreaking must-read. What a security disaster -- more Americans are in harms way because of the loss of programs like this one:
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He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms
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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
THE MARKETS HAVE "CHOSEN" CLEAN TECHNOLOGY. IT IS ONLY GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE PROPPING UP DIRTY ENERGY. STOP VOTING FOR THEM. #GreenParty #BCGreens
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/12/2025
Turns out people still actually link climate change to stuff happening in their actual lives and care about action being taken on it, despite the now widespread idea that we need to stop mentioning it to be successful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
data from america on support for clean energy 2.1 About half of registered voters think global warming should be a “high” or “very high” priority
for the president and Congress.
About half of registered voters (49%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority for
the president and Congress. This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (86%) and
moderate/conservative Democrats (74%). One in four liberal/moderate Republicans (25%) think global
warming should be a high or very hi
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/12/2025
We are allowed to say this out loud now: the people who are pushing for a centrist weakening of climate ambition are serving the fossil fuel industry. Doesn't matter whether they know it or not - what matters is the impact they have. And their impact is a red carpet for coal, oil and gas
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/12/2025
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Another brief clip from yesterday's rapid response livestream regarding what's at stake with the potential loss of NCAR, and what we can do about it: "What would we lose if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled? Quite a lot."
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What would we lose if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled? Quite a lot.
In this short excerpt from a longer livestream, Daniel Swain reflects on what would be lost if the National Center for Atmospheric Research were to be dismantled, as has been proposed, and why the present moment is such an important one when voicing support for this irreplaceable weather, climate, w
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 10/12/2025
Even if you've never been on a boat, and never plan on being on a boat.... This still needs to worry you! 80% of the world's goods are transported by boat at some point in the supply chain. Cargo ships would be impacted by this, and it will then impact our supply of essential goods.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/12/2025
DOJ data shows 97% of people ICE detains in Chicago for deportation have NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Trump vowed to target “violent criminals.” He lied. The past month: 8 immi judges fired, “remigration now” Nazi policy & deportations against court orders. #SEIUPartner #DeICETheseFlights @seiu.org
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Maybe we will actually get tired of winning
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