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Laurence @piewords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Along with the book, POST propaganda available at the table outside 😎😉 #monktoberfest

A photo of stickers on a table that show three little brains in beer glasses. White text reads monktoberfest '26

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A lot of the advice from @brookejamieson.bsky.social is echoed in the book by @grimalkina.bsky.social. There are a lot of ways workplaces can fall apart. The recipe for healthy environment is remarkably consistent. Help people learn, make room for people to grow... #Monktoberfest

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Back on Bsky basically to post #monktoberfest for @circlejtp.me specifically :)

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I'm obsessed with this distinction being made in this talk because it's a huge pet peeve of mine that we call loads of things "imposter syndrome" that aren't in tech! Drawing attention to external social pressures and getting sabotaged by pushback #monktoberfest

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@sogrady.org just mentioned the D&I sponsor and scholarship to #monktoberfest. Last time (reeling from a layoff in a terrible year) I came because of it. Now this year I could come on my own and brought a stack of books equivalent to my flight tix from last year to give away to the community 🥰🥰🥰

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Nobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time

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oddgoo @viriditax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI is massively helping us glue together the medical services for a complex elderly relative actually timed how much of the week it eats up manually: ~20hrs with AI gluing together appt transcripts, scheduling, test results: ~2hrs

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Badasses can do badass public speaking and still be very comfy masking on the floor just in case you didn't know or get nervous about it and needed to see it 🫶

A selfie of Cat on an escalator wearing a maroon blazer and a white n95 mask. Behind her is a massive banner that reads work like never before, talent connect summit

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tomorrow: sharing a brand-new talk on understanding the psychology that empowers people to invest in metacognitive strategies and the collective problem-solving we need right now. Our usage of technology *and* the way we built it is shaped by the beliefs we have about how our minds work!

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My dad called me to ask if I could help a couple at his church do some health research 😭

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I have to RT this just to save it to be able to look back and keep believing in persisting 🥰

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New use case: I have been using /informed-patient + our more advanced source-verifying harness (stay tuned!!) to research a complex treatment/risk/protocol question for yet another loved one navigating cancer care. Truly amazing how swiftly it was able to set me up with good directions

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Insane how fast "learning to program requires thinking" became "no one who didn't learn to program could have ever learned to think" for some of you

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In my quest to understand what the HELL is happening with Navitus approving and then yanking my medication, which is both enormously stressful and dangerous, I found @phylogenomics.bsky.social 's account from 2022. phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2022/03/full...

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The ongoing disaster of the new UC Health Insurance Pharmacy "benefits"

A blog about microbiology, genomics and metagenomics, sequencing, evolution, ecology, and open science.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tested being back here for a bit and it took no time at all for it to feel bad. Back to push only!

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Generally speaking collective problem solving is a defining activity of humanity, and while all things have their individual differences, it's pretty unlikely that this capacity is constrained to a miniscule fraction of the population.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Building frameworks with experts going through rounds of consensus (e.g., Delphi panels), is thought to be a good way to elicit rigorous consensus frameworks. However, I have participated in multiple Delphi panels, and I am not convinced they are. I think they can veer toward mediocre flattening

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GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions

I wanted to give /informed-patient some better guidance for handling medical classification frameworks and helping you reason about them. This is still in experimentation phase so I welcome hearing about whether it works or not see it at: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

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A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions - DrCatHicks/informed-patient

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"it's just probabilistic it's not decisions" DO SHADLEN AND NEWSOME MEAN NOTHING TO YOU

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GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions

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A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions - DrCatHicks/informed-patient

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hot take but nothing is more irritating to me when I'm working on actual work than thinking something is referencing actual empirical work on minds and then finding out it's philosophy and the basis is "some essay" jfc

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sorry folks @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social et al. just proved that neurons are canonically non-binary

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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What is "poking stuff with a stick" but very basic wet lab science?

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The whole world is already a wet lab if you think about it

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