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Emily Wissel, PhD

@ewiss.bsky.social
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bioinformatician || human microbiome, multi-omics, and clinical health research

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/04/2026
👀 "U.S. STRIKES KHARG ISLAND: Even before Trump’s deadline, an intense wave of strikes was reported on bridges across Iran and on Kharg Island, the country’s key oil export hub."
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Do you find it difficult to understand why LLMs — like ChatGPT and the like — are a form of ‘automated plagiarism’? Take 3 min and listen to this excellent explanation by @gwenvarley.bsky.social youtu.be/1ON-FJHq9aM?... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵
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Ethics of ChatGPT and AI
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wgabriel27.bsky.social @wgabriel27.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Excited to share our new Prosit-PTM paper is out! A deep learning model that predicts MS2 spectra and Retention time for modified peptides, using chemically informed encodings and data augmentation based on amino acid substitution to learn general rules for how PTMs affect spectra.
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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking for a tool to estimate abundances of aerobes versus anaerobes directly from metagenomes? Here you go: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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LABGeM @genolabgem.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📢 Job opening — Bioinformatics Engineer Join the MicroScope platform (LABGeM, CEA/Genoscope) to develop tools and pipelines for microbial genomics. 📍 Evry, France | ⏳ Fixed-term contract 🔗 bit.ly/3Z5WSXc @ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social
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Ingénieur en bioinformatique pour le développement de la plateforme MicroScope - LABGeM
Localisé au CEA/Genoscope, un centre de recherche scientifique dédié à la génomique environnementale, le Laboratoire d’Analyses Bioinformatiques pour la Génomique et le Métabolisme (LABGeM, UMR8030, l...
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats
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How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie
The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 23/12/2025
Thanks for writing and re-upping this. I think terminology is important, but I don't think regulating based on technical or statistical properties (e.g., "generative" or "transformer") is appropriate. I think the mode of interaction and epistemic function is more important for regulation.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 25/11/2025
NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1
World map showing students from 26 countries and in 9 languages.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Who says capitalism can't innovate when OpenAI is out here inventing consumer liability protection law from first principles
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OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT
The case is ongoing.
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Ginny Barbour @ginnybarbour.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au #vaccinationsaveslives
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2025 Cervical Cancer Elimination Progress Report | C4
Australia’s progress towards the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/11/2025
More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle. dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
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Ludwig Lautenbacher @llautenbacher.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Exited to share our latest work! Out now in @natcomms.nature.com Koina aims to transform how #proteomics uses machine learning. You no longer need to be a tech wizard to use ML and now can easily run #ML models. Integrated with FragPipe, Skyline and EncyclopeDIA! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Koina: Democratizing machine learning for proteomics research - Nature Communications
Koina is an open-source, online platform that simplifies access to machine learning models in proteomics, enabling easier integration into analysis tools and helping researchers adopt and reuse ML mod...
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Taylor priest @taylorpriest.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
GcMeta - a new global resource of metagenome-assembled genomes and their encoded functions with an easy to use, interactive and searchable website academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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gcMeta 2025: a global repository of metagenome-assembled genomes enabling cross-ecosystem microbial discovery and function research
Abstract. The rapid growth of metagenomic sequencing has generated an unprecedented wealth of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), transforming opportuniti
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A reminder.
Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.
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Kusterlab @kusterlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our new review paper about Pathway-Centric PTM Data Analysis is out this week in #Proteomics! We cover databases, enrichment tools, software for pathway reconstruction, and full-fledged platforms that help to interpret high-throughput PTM datasets. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/pmic...
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Computational Approaches for Pathway‐Centric Analysis of Protein Post‐Translational Modifications
Protein function is dynamically modulated by post-translational modifications (PTMs). Many different types of PTMs can nowadays be identified and quantified at a large scale using mass spectrometry. ...
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
One throughline in all these AI promises is eliminating subjectivity. We don’t have to trust people’s accounts of their own experiences, because we can trust a magic machine’s *estimates* of those experiences. let ChatGPT write your memoir, act as “synthetic” interview respondents, choose yr dates..
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code. Can we all stop pretending now?
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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Tue Sparholt Jørgensen @tuesparholt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse. Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI." (finally reading this)
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Jose Jimenez-Luna @jjimenezluna.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We have multiple senior scientist / engineer positions available across several geos in MSR AI for Science. Ping me or any of my colleagues if you have any questions! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Microsoft Research AI for Science - Microsoft Research
“Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural sciences. The consequences are potentially far-reaching and could dramatically improve our ability to ...
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...
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Friends model checking case study
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A couple recent smart observations I've read bolster this intuition. First is this piece by David Gerard from May asking where the AI contributions to pretty much any open code base are: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...
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If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
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Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Thanks @lukeplunkett.com for making me aware of this must-read piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission... Time to pick a lane. CC @11bitstudios.bsky.social
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A Systematic Benchmark of High-Accuracy PacBio Long-Read RNA Sequencing for Transcript-Level Quantification. #HiFi #LongReads #Sequencing #Transcriptomics @pacbio.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app · 20/06/2025
An excerpt from the article that reads:

A 2024 Danish study of 100,000 workers found “a staggering gender gap in the adoption of [OpenAI chatbot] ChatGPT: women are 20 percentage points less likely to use ChatGPT than men in the same occupation”.
The okay but that’s worse meme from the tv show, the good place, only now Chidi is saying, “Okay. But that’s good. You do get how that’s good, right?”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
- They were waiting for me when I got off the plane - They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me - I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication - Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir
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Lisa Sikkema @lisasikkema.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Analyzing your single-cell data by mapping to a reference atlas? Then how do you know the mapping actually worked, and you’re not analyzing mapping-induced artifacts? We developed mapQC, a mapping evaluation tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from the ‪@fabiantheis lab. Let’s dive in🧵
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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech? Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social We are looking for 3 Post Docs in Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Application deadline is June 15, 2025.
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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation
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Raes Lab @raeslab.org · 20/02/2025
We're hiring a postdoc!🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬Requirements: - PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field - Expertise in omics - Strong publication record Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics of the human gut microbiome - VIB
About the Lab Thelab of JeroenRaes(VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications
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Emily Wissel, PhD @ewiss.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Hi! are you still recruiting for this role? I see this was posted this past December but want to check since it is Feb now
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Antonio Martínez Ruiz @tonnomartinez.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We are hiring! In the #IISPrincesa in Madrid we are recruiting the PIs of the future in #HealthResearch 🧪🧬🔬🏥 We search candidates for the @SaludISCIII Miguel Servet programme that in our Institute leads to a permanent position👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 up to 31 January, + Info in www.iis-princesa.org/wp-content/u...
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Emily Wissel, PhD @ewiss.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I haven't seen this before, thank you so much for sending it forward!
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Emily Wissel, PhD @ewiss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My dream role would be an integration of my interdisciplinary interests: something at the intersection of data generation & social impacts but I find a wide variety of life science research very fulfilling as long as it is connected to human health in some way, and would be equally happy in this!
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Emily Wissel, PhD @ewiss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You can check out my CV here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... or my github here: github.com/ewissel?tab=...
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ewissel - Repositories
ewissel has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Emily Wissel, PhD @ewiss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Because I am a data person, it'd be best for my next role to already have data waiting to be analyzed (rather than designing an experiment from scratching and waiting a few months/years for data to come in). I have experience with metagenomics, metabolomics, and simulation studies.
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Emily Wissel, PhD @ewiss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hi everyone! I'm looking for next job ✨ I'm looking for a Data Scientist, Data Analyst, or Bioinformatics role. I'd like to dive deep into multi-omics integration in life science data & focus on using existing tools, rather than building new bioinf tools. More & my CV below!
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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Six years later and this, from the editorial board of Nature (the single highest citation-indexed science periodical in the world) is sadly once again highly relevant. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science
A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned.
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Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 14/01/2025
This is me and @mightycrobe.bsky.social - really phenomenal work by Guilherme Fahur Bottino (is he on 🦋??)
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Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri... It's not one to discuss scale but it's by far the text that's ignited most engagement on AI and environment among technical undergrads, that I've seen
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/01/2025
tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!
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