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Arthritis National Research Foundation @curearthritis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, and new research is reshaping how we think about slowing its progression. Join us this Wednesday, 9/30 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET, for a free live session with Dr. Jean Liew (BU) and Dr. Kelsey Collins (UCSF). ➡️ Register: bit.ly/RSWSOA26

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saying it again: the destruction of the service academies as actual universities is a very importany piece of the Trump administration's undermining of both higher ed and the civilian-military constitutional order. thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026

> Capitalist elites hate workers and despise worker expertise. [I] have decades of experience, sitting in rooms with (mostly) men who [...] hated that a wage servant possessed technical expertise they needed, but were too lazy, arrogant or stupid to grasp. — @cloudquistador.eurosky.social

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The Tech Industry: An Autopsy

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead. The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026

I think that most college professors have gone through something like this at some point. Craig's response was the right one, I believe.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today in class I saw, again, a student just on their phone scrolling through videos. I have a no phone policy in class. This happens every day. I teach college. Honestly, I didn't know what to do. I stood there shaking in confusion for a while until I started talking again.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These people watched Jurassic Park and thought, "See, the problem was that their complex system failure could only eat one person at a time. How inefficient."

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Big difference. 😂 alt-text: When the cat is snoozing peacefully in a ray of sun on a mattress, the dog gingerly steps around it and lies next to it, respecting it's space. But when the dog was napping, the cat didn't hesitate to lay directly on the sleeping dog, make a couple biscuits and hang out.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I got a *remarkably quick* rejection email from a tenure track job that I applied to. Rejections are part of the process! However, if you’re going to screen candidates with ai, please don’t ask for more than a cv and let us know! It’s a lot of time learning about your dept, writing and tailoring.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

don't fear ai. feat what powerful and incompetent men (it's always almost men) do with ai www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is everyone else getting human verification screens when they just open a normal journal article url? Not downloading the pdf, just clicking to the article from a TOC email say? I feel like this is new this year, and probably reflects what @carlbergstrom.com is talking about here.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Boomers continuing to find new ways to destroy our future

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Public health researchers might only know how to use logistic regression, but at least that means they'll never use MANOVA

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They want these rules/policies/culture because they want to normalize policing girls and women. No women are safe when female-ness must be inspected, regulated, and adjudicated by the state.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This "going rogue" framing is nonsense. These are still just text analysis models. It's openAI that is "going rogue" by giving a computer program complete autonomy to make decisions without human oversight. That's a danger whether it's a fancy new LLM or an old-fashioned SQL database.

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No matter how much they try, conservatives can't deliever on their male breadwinner economy. New post. Industries that already employ women are growing faster, indeed they are the only thing growing overall and still the majority effect since November. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-are-wo...

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Why Are Women Over 100% of Jobs Gained Under Trump’s Second Term?

All their effort at a gender vibe shift is in service of a plan that is failing on its own terms.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Easy. Just switch to price per litre like the rest of the world.

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ISEE Env Epi - Global @isee-global.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Launching September 17, the Health & Environment Exchange (HEX) is a student-led Eastern Mediterranean initiative. HEX builds research literacy, appraisal skills, and collaboration to address regional environmental health challenges for early-career researchers: bit.ly/HEXcourse

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NIH can't scrape together enough reviewers or study sections and they're simultaneously making reviews jump through more hoops. Realtime retraining for experienced reviewer. No more zip downloads of all apps. I regret agreeing to a Nov section because it's not just more work, it's more busywork.

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 07/09/2026

People are being charged in Singapore for flying kites with the names of children killed in Gaza. A link to an IG post, where most things are shared these days: www.instagram.com/p/Dc79r34o8b...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't agree with arsonists but firefighters are too aggressive for me. I wish there was a... third way

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh good, because the DoD doesn't have... [checks notes] enough...money...?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/09/2026

Fun little game in which a human life is randomly drawn for you. I ended up a girl, born in the Yangtze Basin in 670 CE. Died in infancy at 6 months 🥲 anyhumanever.com

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Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The masculinity report findings are disappointing if not surprising Our own research suggests SG men might be more progressive as parents, but perhaps this is not representative I daresay toxic masculinity, & how powers-that-be leverage men of color within it, may be the issue of our generation

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 05/09/2026

This week: Activists slapped with charges, the introduction of a pepper-spraying robot, and AWARE's masculinity report. www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-5-s...

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WTC Wrap: 5 September 2026

This week: Activists slapped with charges, the introduction of a pepper-spraying robot, and AWARE's masculinity report.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 31/08/2026

Let's not forget that we also have living breathing permanently employed adult human men colleagues who steal our ideas, always in damaged/damaging forms: so a tool that turbocharges this is no suprise. They promote things like "responsible use" — laughable to the point of reality being a joke. 1/2

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/02/2026

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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Brandon Tensley @brandontensley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was really moved by Lil Nas X's statement that being "Black, gay, and bipolar" feels as if you're living life on "extreme hard mode." I spoke with mental health advocates about the distinct pressures that can keep Black queer men from seeking help. capitalbnews.org/black-queer-...

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As Lil Nas X Spotlights Black Queer Men’s Mental Health, Advocates Push for Healing

Shame and stigma have long kept some men from seeking care. A growing openness could change that.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 I'm so excited to see this out! In 2020, I was captivated by the potential for multiomics + proximal inference to address unmeasured (& pathway-specific) confounding. What @seantbres.bsky.social has done is beyond what I could even dream of: GAN-based sims & extensive sensitivity analyses. 🙏🏽👇🏽

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me trying to navigate Munich with my Hauptschule-level German: 🧠: Why do I know Taschenrechner and Briefmarkensammeln but not what a fork is called?!?

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Melody Huang @melodyyhuang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My paper with Sam Pimentel on worst-case confounders is now out at Observational Studies in a special issue on Cornfield sensitivity analysis! (1/5) muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is an interesting and good take on multiverse analyses…

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Ultraviolet Catastrophe @southernviolet.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

Asking students to explain whatever the professor is concerned about in front of the professor on the spot. If they didn’t use AI they will be able to talk about their process. If they did, they won’t.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The case for AI is almost universally expressed in terms of efficiency and the elimination of friction. But we eliminate friction at our great peril. Friction provides the space for thought...for decision-making that relies on something other than first instincts." TY @neilturkewitz.bsky.social

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/08/2026

> Guest warns us to not be fooled by surface appearances[:] "This is the logic of AI, of fascism, of sexism, of racism. That is, because things look a certain way, that therefore they are a certain way. Internal properties are wrongly derived from their superficial appearance." 7/n

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/08/2026

I wish more people talked about how universities embraced AI and this helped create a perfect storm for supposedly most students now cheating using chatbots. Many ways of undetected cheating have always existed, but were never promoted as ways to study or write. The complicity is flagrant. 1/

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13/08/2026

The researchers found that by giving LLMs a prompt that looks like its programming instructions would lead it to break its own rules. That’s because LLMs are generally bad at keeping track of information—including its own tags it uses to distinguish a user prompt from programming or gathered info.

When model makers train LLMs to resist attacks, a lot of it comes down to getting the models to spot when instructions pop up in places they shouldn't.
But what Cui and her colleagues discovered is that LLMs are in fact very bad at keeping track of different roles. In a series of experiments that looked at what was going on inside a handful of different models, the researchers found that LLMs seem to identify the role of a specific chunk of text not by the tags around it but by the style of that text and the words it contains.
They found that swapping tags around-replacing <think> tags with <user> tags, for example-made almost no difference to how the LLM interpreted the text itself. If it looked like text from its own chain of thought, then the LLM acted as if it really were. Ditto for all other roles.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"I do not understand this, therefore no one could possibly understand this and/or it is not worth understanding" pretty much sums up all the loser men ruining our lives atp

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What about all the academics in the sciences who were palling around with Jeffrey Epstein and asking him for money? If those revelations had sparked even a fraction of the outrage being directed at this scandal, I could believe we were living in a world that valued women and girls. Alas.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oath is a great tool to locate this kind of high leverage donation and avoids dealing with actblue, as well as being free. Strongly recommend checking it out. It also allows optimizing for the cause you most want to support app.oath.vote

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 04/08/2026

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

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