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Seb 🩸🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @namajague.bsky.social · 16h

I've told everyone I know about this tea, and now I'm telling you too. It's amazing. It's dessert in a cup, and in so MANY cups, because you can keep re-steeping it pretty much as often as you want. You want this tea, trust me. Earthy and sweet and just the best. I'm gonna go have some right now.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 15h

89% of SBE NSF grants were never awarded!! My field (Cognitive Neuroscience) is included in this gutting, as are so many others. Plenty of horror stories in the same space are also coming from NIH. It’s not just delaying research; it’s labs shutting down and a next gen that won’t be trained.

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 12h

....I'm sorry all I'm imagining now is the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar in a Fedora eating textbooks 🤧 "Rationalists" are not a serious people 🤧

The eleventh virtue is scholarship. Study many sciences and absorb their power as your own. Each field that you consume makes you larger. If you swallow enough sciences the gaps between them will diminish and your knowledge will become a unified whole. If you are gluttonous you will become vaster than mountains. It is especially important to eat math and science which impinge upon rationality: evolutionary psychology, heuristics and biases, social psychology, probability theory, decision theory. But these cannot be the only fields you study. The Art must have a purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion.

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you were looking for an artifact that encapsulates this moment in time you could do worse than an official federal document signed by our top oligarchs that both declares AI is a "super intelligence" and is slop that misspells the country's name as "the Unites States"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty words except....the purpose of the company is profit? And you are postulating some utopian future that we are Nowhere Near because lack of equality....

She envisioned a future world where A.I. models could help solve any problem humans had, and where the benefits from A.I. were distributed evenly, so that everyone’s needs were met. She wanted the models to be able to discern when to push back on humans and when to act in our best interest.

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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, [Amazon] told Bloomberg, “We haven’t thought about that.”" Hey @murray.senate.gov why should Amazon get to violate WA's 2-party consent recording laws and go all Peeping Tom to even record the inside of my house through my front window?

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Gnome @gnomedic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So gross. Please support actual artists.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

......if they couldn't even bother to write it themself why should I read it 😐

Disclosure: I ranted to Claude with a bunch of my grievances and ideas, and had it organize them into this blog post. Then I argued with it and revised the draft wherever I disagreed. Hopefully the ideas come through.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods (and mind you, John Georges is a first-generation Greek immigrant who still has a home in Mykonos) bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway, shameless plug! Standupforscience.net/donate

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Fuel the fight! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me, a real scientist in my code: "this is very hacky and I am sorry" #rstats #databs

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder how many "competitive but not discussed" applications belonged to ESIs..........

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@dsquintana.bsky.social also has a great and easy to use tutorial that uses quarto. Took me like 1hr(?) bsky.app/profile/dsqu...

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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As someone who stayed, it’s both. Liberal/left discourse hollowed out completely as people left, which gave the false impression of a cultural shift, and that drove some people to the right because they can’t distinguish between real life and Twitter.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very happy to announce that my article with Benton Wishart “Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era” has been published in the latest issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"The vote comes a week after UT-Austin announced it will consolidate [the following programs] into a new Social and Cultural Analysis department." - African and African Diaspora Studies - Mexican American and Latino Studies, - American Studies, and Women’s, - Gender and Sexuality Studies Wow.

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Goal for today is to get some blog post/recap of #positconf26 out Which means locking in writing....after I get these figures done

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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out!

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Emotional support crab (emoji) 🦀

A yellow round cartoon, with eyestalks and claws because it is a stylized crab. It is holding a pink heart and smiling

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CORNELL KEPT HER GODDAMN TUITION.

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Jesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 30/09/2026

I'm sure there are people who use AI well but it kind of feels like most people will contribute less to society the more they use it

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We had this conversation during Covid and folks didn’t really dig the whole “shared sacrifice” thing

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 28/09/2026

Yup, I have two kids. I cook on Sundays for the whole week. My younger one started preschool. I have to pack her lunches & snacks as well. It took me 6 weeks to figure out how much extra food I need to cook. They have also been getting sick. Then I have to switch to what their bellies can tolerate.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello we are trying to veganize this. Let's see how it goes 🙏🏿

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Please Do Not Feed The Succubus @notoriouslynay.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

He said this is one of the meals ive tried 🤣🤣🤣🤣 bitch i cannnnah

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026

This part, this part that has been the issue for so many minoritized folks for such a long fucking time is what just destroys me constantly: "I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends." We just want to do our goofy little stuff.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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