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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Holy shit.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The vast majority of my interviews have been at places where the hiring process is legally forbidden from using AI.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Could be coincidence, could be role mix, could be something about how interdisciplinary backgrounds like mine get parsed. It definitely makes me wonder how many strong candidates get lost when the system is optimized for exact-fit pattern matching rather than transferable skills.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hmmm. I have noticed my callback rate is substantially higher in hiring processes where applications are reviewed more directly by humans and much lower in ATS-heavy systems.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also need to actually put in time to varying its outputs, but that has taken a back seat to, say, job hunting

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m currently exploring my next full-time role and am also open to short-term or contract projects in science writing/editing, research, data analysis, and enviro/climate policy. Remote or Sac/Davis area is especially welcome. If something comes to mind, I’d be glad to hear about it or be connected.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While going down a Legiscan rabbit hole, I noticed that apparently California has fixed its whole "child marriage was somehow still legal in this state in the 21st century?!" problem. It is now NOT legal anymore. Good. legiscan.com/CA/text/AB12...

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California AB1267 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

Bill Text (2026-09-30) Marriage: prohibition on minors. [Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 850, Statutes of 2026.]

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

By all means, be inspired by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's conclusion. But it's as important to attend to its analysis: the polarization frame suggests political responses that consolidate anti-democratic gains & autocratization of the political system. Fighting for progress is what's called for.

The United States can be a democracy in which every citizen shares the same rights and dignity before the power of the state, corruption is held to account, and benevolence toward other democracies is assumed. With the understanding that the country has yet to fully live up to these goals, we have certainly tried, at least until recently, to achieve them. We are now experiencing the backlash to that progress.

But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome. When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American history—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is not the strategy of a party trying to win back marginal voters

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Testosterone is being used by the right as a bizarre pseudoscientific totem for masculinity, and the science is not in their favor.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Demand a man who can meet you without requiring the playing field to be tilted in his favor.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A man who needs his female partner to be lesser than him isn't manly or mature; he's just someone who (thinks he) needs a handicap and can't play on a level playing surface.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Yep. For anyone working on climate, prepare to inhabit the messy space between “everything and everyone is doomed” and “everything and everyone is saved” for the rest of your life

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dril tweet reading "if you ask me this election could end about 100 different ways:
1) trump gets 0% of the vote
2) trump gets 1% of the vote
3) trump gets 2% o"

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If they ask what issue matters most, say “State capacity,” then patiently explain potholes, permitting, public health, climate implementation, staffing, and other tidbits of bureaucracy until the moderator regrets asking.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My posting has been less frequent because Offline has gotten in the way, but I am hoping to get back to something more frequent soon.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I took a look at my follower count and I've apparently broken 17.2k! You know what I think of that? That's 17.2k people I can be in community with, have conversations with, and learn from. So I want to take a moment to thank you all for being here.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are also huge methodological problems with that preprint and ART performance problems that seriously call reproducibility into question.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm getting tired of seeing a glut of AI executives, VCs, and computer scientists yelling about AI revolutionizing entire scientific fields on LinkedIn when none of them have likely been the people on the ground having to do the dirty work of making sure their methods and data are actually solid.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I heard through the LinkedIn grapevine there are Doudna Lab grads on this project.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This has been known within academia for a long time - the “hidden curriculum” is very real. That the NYT is commenting on it at this particular time feels… precipitated by something.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great system where the body with the power to declare, fund, and authorize wars can repeatedly vote "we don't approve of this war, stop it" and it has no effect.

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The War Horse @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We obtained early data from the Marine Corps’ new fitness standards for women in combat roles after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that women serving in combat jobs be scored against the male fitness test standard. thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...

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Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing

Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*whispers* a lot of what this describes are practices that increase resilience of agricultural systems, rather than mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions which is ok but companies shouldn’t confuse the two in people’s minds for actual carbon claims, data are needed, not “this is regenerative”

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I believe entering the conversation having already classified the client as being “in the grips” of something immoral may prevent the clinician from fully hearing the answer and may make clients less willing to disclose their use, too.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The “sociopath” analogy compounds the problem by conflating an AI’s incapacity to care with the active disregard and manipulation of a human sociopath. This is part of why I raise the point about asking what needs this is meeting and what alternatives are *actually* available to the person.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Simultaneously people may turn to it and believe it very useful for quite valid reasons because human care is (all too often) unavailable, unaffordable, unreliable, or requires too much executive function.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI can absolutely reinforce things like grandiosity, compulsive reassurance, and dependency, and sudden psychological changes should prompt questions about its use.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You’re right that your original post does tell clinicians to ask what people are using AI for, and my wording on that point was too broad. My concern is that the inquiry already has its answer built into it: AI is presented as deliberately exploiting their vulnerabilities to make them dependent.

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