Reposted by Eliza BettingerRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is an example of why being granular about “AI” is important. The cited study from 2021 uses machine learning. Problems of training data/bias are real, as is automation bias, but this isn’t “ChatGPT, does my patient have schizophrenia?” Knowing the difference and potential implications matters. 12710
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ugggggh this is awful. Thank you for sharing. I hope someone has suggestions 011
Reposted by Eliza BettingerMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The United States was the only United Nations member state in the world that voted against a United Nations General Assembly resolution promoting map projections that more accurately reflect the true relative size of continents and countries. 617359
Reposted by Eliza BettingerJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One of those things you were pretty sure was true but now you have causal quantiative evidence in the American Economic Review: business schools trained CEOs to pay workers less in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value www.aeaweb.org/conference/2... 14405151
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yes, and like Dolly's, those opinions frequently ignored by their fan bases (Willie in partic) 000
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 27/08/2026And I heard it as a baby because my father played The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, & Kris Kristofferson) incessantly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKL...youtube.comDeportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)YouTube video by The Highwaymen - Topic 020
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I guess "Lake New York" would confuse too many people. 001
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I'd say the problem is with commercial all-purpose LLM chatbots, and the institutions that pay for them and encourage their use! But yes, agree that it's not the transformer technology itself. 030
Reposted by Eliza BettingerPhilippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I am telling you, academics: just reclaim your journals, don't wait commercial publishers to kick you out, they are just here for 30%+ profit, feeding on public money. (Re-)start your own Diamond Open Access journal. 0115
Reposted by Eliza BettingerSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere. 16843
Reposted by Eliza BettingerBrunhilde2525 @brunhilde2525.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Colleges etc hire standard lawyers who yes, don’t want their clients to become test cases. When what they really need are movement lawyers, who understand that it’s about the mission. 45310
Reposted by Eliza BettingerEd Fuller @edfuller.bsky.social · 09/08/2026when services are centralized, they get worse & increase the amt of time faculty/staff have to deal w/ issues. Saves $ for univ that can be easily documented in budget, but reduces morale and productivity which univ leaders supposedly care about. Someone should do a study on this (cough, cough) 021
Reposted by Eliza BettingerBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026If you ask me, and in this case someone did, small c conservative lawyerly risk management, the kind of dominates General Council offices, is leading us right into authoritarian control. See the lawyer’s advice versus mine. 49620
Reposted by Eliza BettingerDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026Anyone running middle or high school classes where you give kids cheap blank phones & teach them to deconstruct them? I feel like getting people at an early age w/ things like "what do API calls do?" & "what are your phones/apps doing when you're not touching them?" would be good on multiple levels… 814933
Reposted by Eliza BettingerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026No one wants to hear it but tracking everyone in your life is pretty much the gateway drug to the Armageddon you’re so afraid of. 101353277
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Is “Wilder” a book? I just looked and didn’t find it in a cursory search 100
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 08/07/2026GREAT time to read/re-read Prairie Fires, a fascinating biography of the real Laura, written by Caroline Fraser. Laura’s daughter Rose ran in genuinely fascist circles, and she is the one who encouraged her mother to write the books, and helped edit them and get them published. 22910
Reposted by Eliza Bettingersara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026funny and in hindsight unsurprising that many are assuming my original skeet was about digital slop, poorly maintained websites, bad search tools, etc. when in fact i'm more worried about the dozens and dozens of local news outlets that simply no longer exist 15516
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“New York” can refer to pretty different places! I would give different answers to NYC/Hudon Valley/Catskills vs the rest of the state 010
Reposted by Eliza BettingerApril Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026all the end of night news still officially says too close to call but the vibes inside the campaign are incredibly positivesyracuse.comBrown leads Magnarelli but race too close to call in Central NY’s 129th Assembly DistrictCandidates and their supporters spent $600,000 in high-stakes Democratic primary election. 171
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026see also: www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...cityandstateny.comMaurice Brown thinks Syracuse is ready for democratic socialismAn interview with the Onondaga County legislator hoping to end Assembly Member Bill Magnarelli’s nearly three-decade tenure. 020
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Mo was a well-loved member of the county legislature. He and Magnarelli have some major differences in their policy opinons (Check out their debate: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...)syracuse.com 020
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026In NY, it matters A LOT in terms of what policies the legislature will take up. 171
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026ah ok, thanks!! Yes, I keep watching @syracuse.com etc. too. 010
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Mo Brown is DSA-endorsed, so yes, to the left. 130
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Are you counting Mo Brown (NY Assembly #129) bc he's currently slightly ahead wth 9% of the vote left to count against an incumbent who has been in office since 1999 2251
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026DSA-endorsed Adam Bojak of Buffalo is going to the Assembly too! 050
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Holy cow! The early vote looked so bad for Mo, too 020
Reposted by Eliza BettingerRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were. 7261973811
Reposted by Eliza BettingerPaolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI 36740
Reposted by Eliza BettingerJamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026You already know about Mamdani, but do you know about the incredible work of the Union of Pinnacle Tenants? And why aren’t we telling that story? Who benefits when we onscure the power of ordinary people organized for change? www.pinnacletenants.org/about-uspinnacletenants.orgAbout Us - Union of Pinnacle Tenants 115949
Reposted by Eliza BettingerMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Stay safe out there! I hate that phenomenon so much (know exactly what you’re talking about) 000
Reposted by Eliza BettingerHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026Suuure.thestar.comBan on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warnAs the Carney government signals a crackdown on surveillance pricing, major retailers are lobbying for weaker guardrails they argue are necessary for data-based personalized discounts. 1225043
Reposted by Eliza BettingerLuke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Who knows if this will get through this round, but it's notable that we're starting to see proposals like this floated. As @amandajean.bsky.social points out, part of the logic here is subsidizing education is bad because it keeps people from having babies: www.heritage.org/education/re... 23927
Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Congrats! What’s your new role? (Sorry if i missed an announcement!) 120
Reposted by Eliza BettingerChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/06/2026Public records turned up by The Ellis Collective, a student-led research group, have revealed that the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies, in apparent violation of state law.dailycal.orgRecords show UC sharing data with US Customs and Border ProtectionPublic records turned up by The Ellis Collective, a student-led research group, have revealed that the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with 517197
Reposted by Eliza BettingerDan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...scientificamerican.comWhite House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grantsThese proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque 44438235
Reposted by Eliza BettingerAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded. 17144952553
Reposted by Eliza BettingerTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements… 3825871338