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Priyam Das

@priyamdas.bsky.social
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Pronounced pree-yum | she/her | Cognitive scientist and recovering academic | Passionate supporter of lifelong learning, women’s health, public transit, & public libraries. 📍San Francisco Peninsula

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My mother-in-law, who hadn't been on a bicycle since the 1980s, visited us last year and we biked to toddler swimming class together. She's now biking 40 minutes to work everyday in Montreal because she has a separated bike lane the whole way there.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ban the fucking frats and, if you care about self-protection in the way many of us do, please avoid them katemanne.substack.com/p/ban-the-fu...
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Ban the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid Them
My open letter to a seventeen-year-old female college applicant
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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026
Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...
The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026
RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory
MTurk is closing
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 30/09/2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a measure to ban anyone from marrying anyone under the age of 18, making California the 18th state to do so in a decade-long nationwide push to outlaw the practice. cal.news/4e77cGl 📸 Rahul Lal
A demonstrator participates in a “chain-in” protest during a news conference at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 22, 2023, urging lawmakers to ban child marriage in the state. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 25/09/2026
The billionaire tax could be defeated by two other tax measures. Here’s how Propositions 41 and 42 are counter measures that would kill Prop. 40 even if it passes. Polls show voters support all three.
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The billionaire tax could be defeated by two other tax measures. Here’s how
Propositions 41 and 42 are counter measures that would kill Prop. 40 even if it passes. Polls show voters support all three.
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Priyam Das @priyamdas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is awesome. Could not imagine any other UC Chancellor (or Regent!) on public transit
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Priyam Das @priyamdas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I understand that some folks have given up on BART entirely based on personal trauma and I respect that but I really wish they would stop discouraging others from riding it, especially when those negative experiences happened 10+ years ago. That was a different BART; things can and have improved.
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s extra absurd about this is that in my 12 years on the BART Board - heading a rail agency - no BART director ever attended an out of country rail conference. If AC Transit directors really want to attend rail conferences, there are plenty in the US.
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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 24/09/2026
holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)
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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sorry I am no longer an active user but just post this job alert: With Peter Dayan and Michiko Sakaki, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who could work on cognitive computational modeling wth digital education data. Come to Tübingen!!: uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Modeling of Digital Education Data
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 21/09/2026
Hello Bay Area! Come join me next Sunday, September 27 for the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour We’ll be sharing stories of immigrant freedom fighters, Desi feminists, and more—a totally different take on Bay Area history  Details and registration at www.berkeleysouthasian.org
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Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
Discover the secret histories of South Asian Americans in Berkeley and San Francisco, California. As seen in National Geographic and NPR.
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I recently had the privilege to give a talk at the National Academy of Sciences! This was a general audience talk and some folks were rather skeptical of climate change, but I think I was able to do a decent job speaking to them. Comments welcome! Talk link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VIX...
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AC Transit and Director Joel Young thought they could sweep his harassment under the rug by hiding it and then lying about it. No way were we going to let that happen. Young isn’t fit for office, and since his colleagues won’t hold him accountable, voters must. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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AC Transit director harassed female colleague, investigation finds
AC Transit Director Joel Young, a candidate in the November Ward 3 election, was investigated for a complaint of unwanted physical contact against a female director.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this
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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 09/09/2026
Doomers don’t want you to know that organizing for a better world can yield quick, tangible results 😳 See you this Sunday! bit.ly/transitaudit
Flyer for a Bay Area transit stop audit walk at fruitvale BART station on September 13th at 9 pm. Learn how to audit for bus stop for accessibility, cleanliness, and comfort
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I want a small phone with a headphone jack, please and thank you.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx
Map showing predicted heat index values over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 100F, and locally as high as 110F.Map showing predicted humidity (dew point temperatures) over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 70F, and locally as high as 80F.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/09/2026
More disruption on the Surfliner due to high surf. CalSTA is supposed to be working on a study to relocate the tracks away from rising seas, but when? The US' 2nd busiest rail corridor deserves more urgency around disruptions.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For those wondering, California's largest source of climate change causing emissions is cars. So in California if you want to fight climate change, it's pretty important to make it easier for more folks to get around easily and safely without a car ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventor...
A piece chart which shows California's emissions by sector and transportation being the largest sector by a significant amount over the next category
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 05/09/2026
Was thinking a bit and there's a remarkable number of fashion choices I make due to transit, walking, and biking being how I get around. First one is big hats! While impractical for driving, hats are useful for staying warm when it's cold, cool when it's sunny, and dry when it's raining. 1/
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 03/09/2026
76% more Californians feel comfortable driving on a road with a protected bike lane than with just a painted bike lane--protected bike lanes aren't just protecting bicyclists, they are protecting drivers:
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heads-up: Doris Tsao is hiring 15 scientists/engineers to work on the neuroscience of consciousness at her new venture (Astera). astera.org/careers/#box...
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Careers
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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is an excellent and thorough article, and still can’t capture all of the damage Newsom has done. One piece missing is under Newsom, California started a wildly popular e-bike rebate program, completely mismanaged it, and then instead of fixing it, scrapped it entirely.
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Streetsblog California @streetsblogca.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Gavin Newsom has a national reputation as a Climate Champion. But his record on funding alternatives to driving tells a different story, culminating in leaving major cuts on the table for his successor. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/08/31/s...
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Shocked by Newsom's Cuts to Transit? Don't Be. - Streetsblog California
When the going got tough, Newsom looked to cut transportation money that would have reduced car dependency for the last half-decade.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
we need to go back to earning hardcovers via paperback sales. Or just go back to paperbacks. Something's gotta give, this is untenable
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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is not LLMs performing poorly, it is them performing well in a high $$ area 🤦 For consumer researchers, this is your "qualitative at scale" AI interviewer and the "AI follow up probe" in your survey platform and the AI "assistant" doing your open end topic analysis and writing R code
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 25/08/2026
We’re reporting on what happens to drivers after they cause a serious car crash. Tell us your car crash story: cal.news/4wS7mYO
A black background with white text: Help CalMatters report on what happens to drivers after they cause a serious car crash If you have a story about someone being killed or badly hurt by a driver who wasn’t prosecuted, we want to hear from you
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
there are more than twice as many people who look like this in India than in Taiwan
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Priyam Das @priyamdas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In the past week I’ve had multiple instances of colleagues and clients showing appreciation for my work and I still find it jarring coming from academia, where no one would register it as worthy of mention. It’s jarring because I’m still conditioned to think of my work that way.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 27/08/2026
It's almost September, which means Transit Month is about to start in California! Lots of events coming up to learn about transit, organize to make it better, and have fun! www.ca.transitmonth.org/bay-area
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Bay Area — California Transit Month
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
X has forced Nitter, an important resource for platform auditors, to shut down Nitter worked by fetching public X posts & then stripping out the ads, tracking cookies, and JavaScript, giving people a clean, clutter-free way to read posts without an account or the app techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x...
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X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
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Xanatos1 @xanatos1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Monica Heilman 석지혜 @writingmonicker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Multiracial young adults’ experiences of Whiteness as a wage and tax" is now out! In it, I argue that multiracial individuals with White ancestry experience Whiteness in ways distinct from those who are monoracial White. In short, their "White wages" are taxed. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Validate User
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Holy shit we’re flying like a bat out of hell. #Acceler8
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Trump-endorsed IndyCar race on the DC streets into a great unintentional advertisement for the effectiveness of raised crosswalks as a traffic calming measure
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
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Klarman Fellowships
The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...
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Priyam Das @priyamdas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wanted to check out a local business but their social media page said they were closed for the summer till Aug 14. So I showed up on Saturday, Aug 22 and was met with a sign saying they’d reopen the following Monday. Mildly annoying, but okay, I’ll swing by after work then. Today comes around and
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Priyam Das @priyamdas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Watching Jdrama with Japanese subtitles is a new hack I’m using to trick myself into learning more kanji. Currently obsessed with season 2 of Vivant (season 1 is available on Netflix with English subtitles if international spy thrillers are your jam!)
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What this doesn’t say—but everybody in SF politics does—is Pelosi is suspected to be backing Chan largely out of pique that Weiner announced running to succeed her before Pelosi could essentially hand her seat to her daughter: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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‘Rooted in pettiness’: Democratic women push back against Pelosi, rally to Wiener’s defense
Several powerful female political leaders in San Francisco are pushing back against Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi for her letter ripping House candidate Scott Wiener.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/08/2026
Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the ex-Democratic congressman from California. n.pr/4wZsIDT
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Federal agents seize devices from ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell in sexual misconduct probe, AP source says
Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the ex-Democratic congressman from California.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now that's a fucking headline. www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconn...
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Mitch McConnell is getting more paid time off than women who give birth
Senator Mitch McConnell has continued to receive his full salary while being absent from the Senate for medical reasons.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It really is crazy that we need winq do-or-die election to keep Bay Area transit alive, all while the state's unelected DOT staffers pour billions into a sinking roadway.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 19/08/2026
KQED posted an instagram reel about how people in the east bay have better bus etiquette than san franciscans and i am emotionally invested in this becoming the new local beef
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A long-vacant lot turns into six homes in Sacramento. (2020➡️2025)
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This change means Emeryville will have 15 mph speed limits on its entire bike boulevard network. Here’s more info on how they accomplished this, and how this same opportunity can be used in any jurisdiction throughout California: bikeeastbay.org/emeryville-s...
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Emeryville Sets Citywide 15 MPH Speeds for Bike Boulevards - Bike East Bay
Learn how Emeryville was able to reduce speed limits and how you can bring this to your city.
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