Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear. 221809501
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a cat handbag I made, you can try it when you get to tapestry crochet (easier than it sounds)! 010
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This: “The environmental costs, labour exploitation, data extraction, concentration of power, and normalisation of surveillance underlying the technology make it difficult, if not impossible, to meaningfully operationalise and practice “ethical” and “responsible” use.” 0116
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-Beutelrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256181949
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelTravis @travtufts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Don’t listen to the mayor or the district downplay the reliance on AI in the classroom. Listen to the DONOR’s own priorities, which are driving the adoption of this policy. “We want to be deeply in the classes,” [Paul] English said, “and ultimately, we want every teacher to be using AI.”bostonglobe.comBoston is embracing AI in its public schools, unlike NYC and LA - The Boston GlobeThe fast-moving technology has some educators, parents, and students worried, even as others argue there’s room for experimentation. 46127
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP? 211136364
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On AI and automation, read Rua Williams: 0115
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...nytimes.comEvery Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves. 1143470
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Everyone in Boston looking out their window today 021
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7259802001
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelJack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials. These may be fraudulent, or subject to critical errors. INSPECT-SR is a tool to assess trustworthiness of RCTs - out today: www.bmj.com/content/394/...bmj.comINSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trialsThe integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials, where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings. Such concerns could b... 12515
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 7040101579
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Boston spends 6.4 times more on policing than on libraries That probably explains why BPL is facing a pretty big (under)staffing crisis and may have to close some branches Is this really what we want? 📚 --- Graphic via @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots 213072
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions! 421922775
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project? 15145861293
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions. 8271193
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comSpeak at Your Own RiskDonald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment 471716467
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...thenerve.newsFrom celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his wayThe pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern... 21708182
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401524708
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."bu.eduNew Learning Outcomes Announced | English 402367470
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sorry I don't think that the Democratic party is capable of leading us through the current AI bullshit. I think it should be clearly said so that community leaders emerge. 7631114
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything 1638341155
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 06/09/2026"When autistic people experience insufficient speech, we can say some things, & those things are true. They might even be related to what we want to say. But there are so many other things we can’t say." By @yesthattoo.bsky.social at @assistiveware.bsky.social: www.assistiveware.com/blog/intermi...assistiveware.comIntermittent, unreliable, insufficient, and expensive speech - AssistiveWareThis article explores some of the varied experiences autistic people can have navigating the space between nonspeaking and fully speaking. 15219
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelSarah C Vogel, PhD @sarahcvogel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The UMass Boston Department of Psychology is hiring an assistant professor in our clinical area, with a developmental focus and emphasis on Black children and families. Please spread the word! #psychjobs employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...employmentopportunities.umb.eduPage Up - UMass Boston 01212
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Somehow, it does not feel like a coincidence that a lot of the panic about the autism diagnosis being overly broad or too many people being diagnosed came just as more #ActuallyAutistic women received a diagnosis. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...yahoo.comAutism Diagnoses Are Rising In Women — But Not In Men, New Research FindsMore women are getting answers later in life, and researchers think there may be a reason why. 419647
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/20261. Students are being lied to about the harms of AI, and they ARE cheating, on scales never seen before and brushing past that is not going to hurt them and society is not great. 2. In some fields, banning AI is absolutely fine why are people outside of those fields insisting that we MUST use it? 514131
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...madison.comRecords: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal. 5284152
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.govMayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools 261168310
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 502488754
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Again. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 111452379
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 27/08/2026Very proud to share this new work led by the amazing Marlou Rasenberg (not on here), with Joel Fischer and me doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We use #EMCA methods to study empirically how LLM users shoulder the burden of solving sequential trouble and end up restructuring their own aims & activities 14817
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵olivia.scienceCryptogynyOn the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions. 3388167
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026[Exit Queen.] 2063893711005
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10 345119712989
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelKate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026re: Cofnas, it's particularly striking that someone who fired from one institution for nakedly racist public posts & later called out by experts in his field for work that does not meet academic standards is waving the flag of "academic freedom" to defend himself. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comMore than provocative, less than scientific: A commentary on the editorial decision to publish Cofnas (2020)Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 33, No. 7, 2020) 18925
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors. 312379565
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelRomy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...mpg.dePhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and InteroceptionPhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception 17064
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Ugh. Your daughter deserves better. 0170
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This gets at a motte-and-bailey aspect of some AI defenses. "AI can analyze massive datasets," "AI might cure cancer" — these have nothing to do with how average consumers are using it, and you don't need to reject all machine learning to say it's absurd for schoolteachers to make worksheets with AI 434358
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelSue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This survey on what it's like to hide parts of your identity is still open - particularly keen to hear from trans people who are not autistic please! But also open to: trans + autistic people cis + autistic people Link for full info and the survey itself is tinyurl.com/3jrfkate 11111
Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Ah yes, Steven Pinker, who once wrote "Together with robots and chimpanzees, people with autism remind us that cultural learning is possible only because neurologically normal people have innate equipment to accomplish it." 093
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763082015
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.” 51325410
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelSeptima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026This. And I'm already seeing people erase his disability in real time. This isn't only about his Blackness, the NYT made a huge deal of his disability and reading level. This is how racism & ableism work together, they intersect to harm all Black people and target Black disabled people for death. 428998
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455932065
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it 381705449
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelMichelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Despite meaningful advances in reproducibility of biological factors associated with autism, clinically actionable biomarkers remain elusive"--review, COIs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... note: "a biomarker is not a measure of how an individual feels, functions, or survives"sciencedirect.comRecent progress of large-scale biomarker consortia and paths forward in biomarker development for autismAutism presents significant challenges for clinical research and biomarker development due to behavioral heterogeneity and reliance on clinician- and … 052
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelJoshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters. 441923545
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-Beutelvictor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026people say you should ask "what are your questions" instead of "any questions" to presuppose it's normal to have questions. that's why during talks I always end with "what are your compliments?" 1154
Reposted by Kristen Bottema-BeutelKaren Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Cambridge prof committed plagiarism, accused of sexual assault, still on the job and the press has barely noticed. 29249