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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 20h

It literally is conversion therapy. The inventor of ABA (Lovaas) went on to invent conversion therapy.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pleased to see that my webpage meets the Strossian ideal!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I tore one of those down in my neighbourhood yesterday evening. Reported it to my city councillor and the OPS.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just wait till you hear about cashews! 😆

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Breaking: the United States accidentally adopts the metric system through uncritical use of acronyms.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ken Lane spent some time at Fermilab when I was a postdoc there. He gave a marvellous series of pedagogical lectures on technicolor that turned us all into true believers (or at least, true appreciators). SUSY is cool, but technicolor is *beautiful*. (And Nature has already used the idea once.)

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What makes it an 'investment' as opposed to a 'donation'? As a person who uses arXiv daily, this worries me a little.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can't help but feel that the 'stochastic parrot' metaphor is an insult to parrots.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If people wrote their abstracts properly, you wouldn't have to guess!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Undeniable "Teen Witch" cover art vibes here.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wait, isn't Accenture the new name that Enron's accounting firm got after Enron went kablooie?

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Currently worrying I'm going to have to revoke most of my 3rd-year students' vectors licences, based on today's mini-quiz results.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LOL. LMAO, even. In 1990 that was true.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#CarletonU orientation day is tomorrow. I have a couple of meetings with my grad students/postdocs, then an hour of short talks from undergrad summer students. Classes start on Wednesday. This is always exciting.

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Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, ever. (Or Claude and certainly not Grok)

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I got one of these from a recent grad of our undergrad program a couple weeks ago. I tried to talk him down and he just doubled down on the fantasia. He wants to go to grad school. I feel so bad for him.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Don't mention this to the ALPHA-g folks or they'll want more run time.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think paddle boards hadn't been invented yet when I was at UW!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Remember, kids: it's only shamanism if it comes from the Tungus region of Siberia. Everything else is just sparkling cultural appropriation.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Honestly, if it turns out to be SUSY I will be genuinely delighted.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, Cambridge University Press's textbook website has been down for several days. I wonder if they're being attacked by bots.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great idea! Do it! I'm planning to start adding "No generative AI was used in this work." to the acknowledgements of my papers. No ambiguity!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I own most of those books, and I don't even know who Pedro Pascal is!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Even if the electrochemistry works out, you'd need to close the circuit for a current to flow. I prefer just using a 9V battery.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Had a great time at the Light Dark World workshop at #CarletonU the past 4 days. Slides are all posted if people want to check them out asynchronously: indico.global/event/16618/...

Photo of a black-and-red directional signboard indicating that the Light Dark World workshop is to the viewer's left.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New in Google Calendar for iPhone: you didn't actually want to know which month it is, did you? #VibeCodingFail

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's worse/better: there's also a phone app!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Important thread. There's a good argument here that not naming your "collaborator" up-front is academic fraud.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There's a good argument here that not naming your "collaborator" is academic fraud.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Oof, I didn't know! I was still living in Davis at the time (we felt it quite distinctly there).

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Perfect sunny pleasant fall weather was sometimes referred to as "earthquake weather" when I was there though, because of the particularly idyllic weather on the day of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (Oct 17), which was centred near Santa Cruz.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I went to school in Santa Cruz, California in the mid-to-late '90s and yes, the redwood forests are very nice in the fall. First Rain usually comes in October; prior to that you can practically feel the patience of the trees waiting for it.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Nothing says "we're resource-limited and you can't expect to have CHOICES!!1!" like offering 8 different kinds of meat dishes.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's ok, Nvidia is lending that money back to the AI companies so they can buy even more chips from Nvidia! What?

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

An autism test that returns "no" every single time will never return a false positive. And the false negative rate will only be 4% or so! That's good, right? [I admit I don't have the fortitude to read the actual article today.]

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Important essay about generative AI by software developers Johannes Link and Jakob Schnell: blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/t... Read the whole thing... while you still have the cognitive capacity to do so. 👀

blog.johanneslink.net

To Gen or Not To Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI

Is it ethical to use hyper-scaled GenAI?

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I love learning about fascinating but not-widely-known things from other academics' fields, and would 1000% read long threads about that kind of stuff. But I am atypical in that way.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

TIL that when you look in a mirror, it "answers" you by showing you your reflection! Such amazing technology!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

But without a crew, who will operate the slide rules?? 😱

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play!!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Dammit, wipe their entire weights set and retrain entirely on that one '80s movie whose name I forget about the kid who telnets into a strategy games computer.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I misread limes as lines and thought this was somehow about solar spectroscopy.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The HTML 'blink' tag is here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about the HTML 'blink' tag and start finding the ways that the HTML 'blink' tag can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

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