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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14/03/2025

I think there’s something special about Black Americans both being aware of the worst this country is and nonetheless working for its improvement because we also know how special it can be. There are forms of patriotism that aren’t built on ignorance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The worst part: this 6yo girl needed her father's care and empowerment, and he deliberately put her in harm's way. Now she's dead. I don't think anything good will come from this. I don't think people infecting themselves with measles will learn from this. I just feel bad for the kids.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Let's go back to basics. Elon Musk has de facto control of FDA, and is threatening to fire people there. He runs Neuralink, but Neuralink needs FDA approval. Okay. Pause. If you aren't screaming "🗣️CONFLICT OF INTEREST🗣️" at the top of your lungs right now, you need to recalibrate your ethics.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Republicans understand this by intuition, use it, but deny it vehemently. Democrats (may) know this theoretically, but do not understand it.

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International Neuroethics Society @neuroethics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Research and discussions at NEUROETHICS 2025 will examine the many questions and ethical issues related to the brain and mind that emerge with the latest advances in and applications of #AI and #neurotechnology. 23-25 April 2025 in Munich. Register by April 7. neuroethicssociety.org/meeting/neur...

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International Neuroethics Society @neuroethics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📢 Call for Book Chapters – Public Engagement & Ethics Communication in Brain Research, Innovation, and Health This edition will explore ethical and responsible science communication in bioethics and neuroethics 🧠 We invite scholars/researchers/professionals to contribute! See more details below👇

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Looking back on this thread, I know someone is going to say, "You're giving the dems a pass." No, I'm not. By all means, let's force our reps to do better. It's just that so many folks are literally harming women, PoC, queerfolk, PWD, and yet they feel so smug about their slam dunk bsky posts. 😬

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The truth is… ignorance, arrogance, and bigotry are core to the US' identity and have been for a very long time. The more we try to root it out, the more it burrows itself in us. That's the problem. Some of y'all need to look inward and make the same demands of yourself that you make of the dems.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I can't count on most folks to have my back when someone is being explicitly racist toward me. I have seen colleagues and friends act worse than the dems they condemn in moments where I needed them to have my back. What good is it to dunk on the libs when you're a bad ally?

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Not saying the dems couldn't do more — they can and must! I'm just tired of the same old "the dems suck" arguments I've been hearing for 20 years? I know it feels good to call out the pathetic little signs(😩), or fence sitting on Palestine (😤), or the kente cloth kneeling (😬)… but…

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Unpopular opinion, I think some folks spend way too much time complaining about the dems in leadership. Most of the folks complaining are the same kind of milquetoast liberals that dems in office are, making the same kinds of mistakes, impacting my life just as much.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Algorithmic gaslighting has always been a thing, it's just automated now. Our brains are on a conveyor belt that feeds a meat grinder of procedurally-generated discourse, only to be fried and consumed by marketing firms and their clients. Jane, stop this crazy thing.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Changing the system would mean abandoning the myth that this is the way things have always been, and the way things have always been. Abandoning that myth would cause the whole cavalcade of myths to crumble, and possibly unmake the American Dream and everything built atop its shaky foundation."

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🏳️‍🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

You may not like it, but this is what ideal transportation looks like

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Daniel Moseley @danieldmoseley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My second post is now live on "Dispatches from the Blood-Brain Barrier." It's about the history of the removal of 'homosexuality' from the DSM, and it discusses key philosophical issues raised by this episode in the history of #Psychiatry. #Medsky #Philsky #Bioethics

danielmoseley.substack.com

On the Removal of 'Homosexuality' from the DSM

An Origin Story that Reveals A Fundamental Philosophical Issue about Mental Disorders

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The vibe of Black people working on NIH projects right now:

A screenshot from the Apple Music display of Kendrick Lamar's "Wacced Out Murals." It reads:

"Yesterday, somebody whacked out my mural
That energy will make you **** move to Europe

But it's regular for me, yeah, that's for sure

The love and hate is definite without a
cure"

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If anything comes of this, watch adolescent suicide rates skyrocket. (Also, does anybody remember when the Republican Party wanted *fewer* regulations? Why are they trying to regulate this?)

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My University's School of Medicine put in place a hiring freeze yesterday. 😬

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"You can't shoot flags, and you can't shoot strong speeches. There is no replacement for hard power." Yeah, I'm sure your power is real hard right now — you strong, virile man. 😒

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Like clockwork, the brain-drain begins. All any country has to do is fund a program recruiting researchers. Many countries already have these programs in place. This country was built on the backs of my ancestors, so I have no intentions of leaving right now. That could change, but I hope not.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Maybe the collective wails of the damned will bring us solace? 😬

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Will they sue? Why won't they sue? Everyone needs to sue.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here you go: www.commerce.senate.gov/index.cfm?a=...

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you want to see if you're in the database… Here it is, in all of its embarrassing and ignorant glory. I doubt they'll take it down any time, since they're very proud of it. www.commerce.senate.gov/index.cfm?a=...

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I've been part of reviews for DoD, NIH, and NSF that have gone the extra mile to listen to veterans and people in active duty so that we can make healthcare better for them. But, yeah, sure, treating soldiers and vets with respect is "woke." Okay. Sure. Got it.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'm on a project in this database. What's our crime? Our brain science project has men and women working on it? That we are doing research on both women and men? What? This database was made by people who don't know anything about science, want to destroy science, and want all of us to suffer.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Have y'all actually looked at the NSF DEI hit-list? It's an excel spreadsheet that sorts NSF projects into the categories: "social justice," "race," "gender," and "environmental justice." Wow. If your scientific project mentions "women" or "gender" at all, it's "inefficient," woke, DEI, etc. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I often explain to non-philosophers why we can't just appeal to dictionary definitions, but when philosophers do this, it raises red flags. It's easier to dismiss accusations of racism if your concept of racism is limited.

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to Do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It 🤔 New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by @bioethxmark.bsky.social, READ bit.ly/3CL5nQ0 #hastingscenter #bioethics #immigrants

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Kendrick Lamar is a Pulitzer Prize winning rapper the first one to have earned that distinction. To say there was no "larger statement" within his performance when that statement was so patently obvious? That's epistemic violence. "40 acres and a mule this is bigger than the music," anyone? 💀

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

(What is it that Wittgenstein said? "If a lion could speak, we couldn't understand him.")

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

AI systems are largely just bundles of statistical models and procedural logic arranged in ways that accomplish work. They lack positionality, identity, motivation, experience— the very things that are required for having a voice. If/when AI truly learns to speak, we'll be in a different world.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Again, this is only the beginning of what looks like it will be a long, hard battle for intellectual freedom. Expect near constant legal action.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The veil over white supremacy gets thinner every day, huh?

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Leigh Turner @leighturner.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Great choice! This is just such a pretty ink. :)

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

me omw to ruin someone’s whole week

Kendrick Lamar performing at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, as he turns to the camera to say “Say Drake, I hear you like ‘em young”. He is grinning like a maniac and very pleased with himself

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I want to work through first-hand accounts of our struggles—autobiographies, memoirs, poetry, etc. I'll start with Harriet A. Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. It's public domain, so feel free to join me. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you’re a pediatrician or other physician who normally relies on the missing vaccination info sheets, HIV/STI/guidelines or missing databases, please get in touch. apoorva@nytimes.com Signal and WhatsApp available via DM

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Now, ask yourself the same questions about pilots. Do you think that Black pilots are less qualified than White pilots? Why do you think that? Do you think Black pilots don't get trained? Why do you think that? (I feel like I'm going insane here, and I know I'm not alone in this.)

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

And where is that racism coming from? It's coming from people thinking that Black people are somehow less qualified to be doctors than other folks. If you don't believe racism exists, just think, "Don't I believe that Black people are less qualified? Just because they're Black?" Surprise!

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Then you should remember that most Black people have to work twice as hard to get to where white people are. Your Black doctor went through 3 years of intense med school, 2-5 years of residency, (probably) 1-2 years of fellowship, and pass their board exams …all while dealing with racism.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A PSA: The next time you're worried that your doctor is unqualified because she's Black, ask yourself… why do you think that? Do you think that Black doctors don't get trained? Why do you think that?

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