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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD

@mfbieger.bsky.social
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Writer. Data scientist/soft eng. Researcher of planetary atmospherics, AI ethics. Generally found thinking about the climate/ancient Greeks/policy/culture. 🇩🇪, live(d): 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇬🇧 michellebieger.github.io

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Climate Action Tracker: The climate is warming and sea levels rising way faster than governments are acting
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RELEASE: The climate is warming and sea levels rising way faster than governments are acting
Only six of the countries the Climate Action Tracker analyses (1) have submitted their new 2035 climate targets in time for the Paris Agreement's 10 February 2025 deadline, and only one — the UK — is proposing actions at home that are 1.5°C-aligned.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/01/2025
Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A quote from the paper stating that their results extend my advice about the importance of talking about climate change
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/12/2024
As someone who coruns an independent media organization with a paywall…I regret to inform you that they do work and if you want independent journalism to exist you are going to have to subscribe to some publications. Doesn’t have to be all of them! You can rotate, which I do!
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
we are not paying enough attention to commercially available phone-cracking and spyware being sold to any government who will buy it
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Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
More than 60 countries held elections this year. Many researchers and journalists claimed AI misinformation would destabilize democracies. What impact did AI really have? We analyzed every instance of political AI use this year collected by WIRED. New essay w/@random_walker: 🧵
List of news headlines about AI misinformation
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Josh Lothringer @jlothringer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I made a new gif for a new site tracking JWST observations of exoplanets (still a work in progress): jlothringer.github.io/Dashboard.html What an exciting ~3 years it has been! ✨🔭✨
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 16/12/2024
Going through my father's old papers and scanning them in. Here's a PDF draft of a plasma physics textbook that he wrote in the early 1960s, but for some reason never published. I would be happy if someone got some benefit from it. drive.google.com/file/d/1V2F4...
table of contents of draft textbook

SO!4R AND GEOMAGNETICFIELDS IN SPACE

2. TERitE.STRIALAND INTERPLANETARYMAGNETISM

3. MAGNETICFIELDS IN SPACE

4. MAGNETICFIELDS OF EARTHAND SUN IN SPACE

A. J.

Dessler

I. Necessary Principles of Hydromagnetism

1. Introduction

2. Conductivity and current in a plasma

3. Frozen in fields

4. Plasma Pressure against a magnetic field

5. Diffusion


6. Hydromagnetic wave propag?tion

7. Hydromagnetic wave attenuation

II. Description of Unperturbed Geomagnetic Field

1. Introduction

2. Main geomagnetic field

3. Magnetic coordinate systems

4. Spherical harmonic analysis
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Jared Rennie @jjrennie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Here's my slides from my #AGU24 talk earlier today. Lots of folks in the session already took care of the meteorological and climatological side of #Helene, so I spent a good time talking about the emotional side. Buckle in folks, here comes a thread. drive.google.com/file/d/1nhzL...
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a cartoon of perry the platypus wearing a hat and belt
ALT: a cartoon of perry the platypus wearing a hat and belt
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Dominik Presl @dompresl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One thing that lacks attention: all of this is only possible because Romanian president declassified findings of their intelligence agencies and did so at an unprecedented scope and pace. Declassification and transparency seem like one of the most effective ways of fighting a foreign influence.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thank *you*; I really love your work and have learned so much from you about what it means to write stellar journalism.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Black Friday Deal Alert! Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!
A graph depicting the global monthly mean carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from 1980 to 2024, showing a steady increase in CO2 mole fraction measured in parts per million (ppm), with data points represented by red dots and a trend line.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 29/11/2024
This is gaining momentum - publishers are now starting to see more web traffic come from BlueSky than other platforms (and not that horrid shit place). Keep sharing your news source URLs here, both traditional and independent media. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/bl...
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Bluesky already delivering more referral traffic than X for some publishers
A Guardian audience editor says Bluesky sent more referral traffic to the news outlet in its first week there than X has any week in 2024.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
(I need to keep cataloguing all that I read more. I was able to do this thread because I started, a few months back, recording what I read in Zenodo. But there's oodles more I've forgotten to the sands of time...)
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
To me--I can see the links behind all my interests so easily. Connecting all the stories in this thread is to me, seamless (harder to write out in a 300 character not-tweet/tweet though). Anyway--please click, please read, please support journalism and the institutions that provide journalism.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Another multi-media format: @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 's video on migration in Thailand due to climate change was incredible to watch and really married science and story in a deeply moving way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2N...
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Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand
YouTube video by Ayesha Tandon
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Something for the podcast listeners-- @karenhao.bsky.social has been reporting on the egregious ethics abuses behind ChatGPT and I've been keenly following her reporting on all things tech ever since. www.wsj.com/podcasts/the... This is an incredibly moving and tricky piece.
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The Hidden Workforce That Helped Filter Violence and Abuse Out of ChatGPT - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
ChatGPT is one of the most successful tech products ever launched. And crucial to that success is a group of largely unknown data workers in Kenya. By reviewing disturbing, grotesque content, often fo...
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Continuing on in the tech theme, @bentarnoff.com 's profile on Weizenbaum was incredible and led me to reading more about the start of "AI." I loved reading every minute of this www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@kashhill.bsky.social 's reporting I fell even more in love with after reading her book, Your Face Belongs to Us. There are, imo, 2 reasons why journalism is more important than ever: climate & tech. Hill consistently covers the Big Reasons to be tech cautious www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/t...
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I had no idea until I was putting together this post that Alex Tizon had passed. I loved the way his piece grappled with morality and I'm really looking forward to reading his memoir. Again, I nearly did a PhD on battling human trafficking with ML techniques. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@raffiwriter.bsky.social on ITER absolutely hooked me when I was studying physics, and put further fuel on the fire for my desire to pursue theoretical physics. (I did not end up doing my PhD in theoretical physics.) My go-to "this is how good scicomm can be" www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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A Star in a Bottle
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This incredible essay by @rsbenedict.bsky.social @bloodknife.bsky.social on how "everyone is beautiful, but no one is horny." I reference it a LOT when talking about cinema or literature these days, as desire is one of my favourite themes to explore in film/fiction bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...
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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The pieces I've chosen are those that I've loved based on: journalistic integrity, because the interviewing was top notch, or simply because the topic was near & dear to me. I've read publishers are seeing >> traffic from bsky and these pieces deserve it
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
(I considered doing 1 like = 1 more piece but my god. Social media is daunting enough. Feel free to steal this idea though if you fancy.)
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
After a week of ~illness 🤒🤧 I've done a LOT of scrolling. To reinvigorate my brains and introduce myself to this app, I'm going to post 7 pieces of both past & recent (mostly journalistic) writing that I've loved
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/11/2024
Looks like the people who use @hf.co haven't reacted well to the original backlash - there are now six new large datasets of Bluesky posts uploaded onto the site, including one with 20x the amount of data as the original dataset that caused the issue huggingface.co/datasets?sor...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The least surprising headline tonight. - Facebook just lost dismissal motion of FTC lawsuit to break it up - FTC also has show cause to ban Meta from collecting minors’ data - Zuckerberg is personally named in massive Delaware suit - last week SCOTUS rejected Meta’s appeal for Cambridge cover-up
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Tristan Henderson @tnhh.org · 28/11/2024
Some interest in social media research ethics this week. A while back, we looked at over 500 social media research papers so that you don't have to. Only 28 papers mentioned consent, so don't be surprised that researchers aren't seeking permission to use your Bluesky data. tnhh.org/research/pub...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In report led by @waqasejaz.bsky.social we document "platform ambivalence"–people rely on platforms for info, while also remaining sceptical, many concerns are widespread, even as people also appreciate a range of personal and societal benefits reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-peop... 1/5
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...
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For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
By hiding the true costs of AI (data, energy, human labor), it's really easy to make AI seem magic. Can you imagine if Open AI had to disclose exactly how many millions of hours of human feedback they gathered? ChatGPT would seem a lot less *magical* then 🦄
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Yeesh, this is awful to see--is there any way to opt out whatsoever??
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 26/11/2024
Mars not having a QBO makes it an interesting lab for examining comparisons of other oscillations on Mars and Earth, like the Semi-annual oscillation or annular modes. As I always say, studying one #climate helps us understand all climates. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k9kj4L-Ym...
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Or, he could read the tons of research on this by scholars, media, etc. That says, I’m going to need academics to do a better job communicating with the public. Some do. Many don’t. Folks can’t remain in the ivory tower speaking only to each other. Public facing work is vital, esp now.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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Reto Knutti @retoknutti.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)
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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Updated periodic table with origin of elements in the Solar System (for boron and lithium at least)
periodic table of the elements color-coded by origin in the solar system. Learning more at this conference about how much of orange should be turned green
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Shane Elipot @selipot.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
In the end, the Gulf Stream is *not* slowing down and the #AMOC ... just marginally. That's fascinating and relevant for climate modeling and the current and future needs for ocean observing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Florida Current transport observations reveal four decades of steady state - Nature Communications
The study shows that the Florida Current, an important contributor to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has not declined as previously suggested, but remained steady over the past 40-ye...
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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
As @kencaldeira.bsky.social estimates: "each kg of CO₂ ultimately melts about 650 kg of glacial ice." Also a physical reality (with some uncertainty) that adds spice to what Ketan says. kencaldeira.com/2018/03/how-...
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How much ice is melted by each carbon dioxide emission? | @KenCaldeira
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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 13/11/2024
Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 11/11/2024
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD @mfbieger.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
Spending the day calling around to try and find any previous colleagues and coworkers of Bonnie McBride, for a writing project I'm currently working on. If you knew her or know someone who might have, would much appreciate a DM 🙏 #exoplanets #astronomy #womeninSTEM
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