Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 2hMine as well. I also read academic articles because it is part of my job, simple as. 010
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 2hI was involved in NYC city government in the BdB era and on a local level (a decade ago, admittedly) Torres was known for walking the walk 030
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 02/10/2026Increasingly ready to argue for the “18 bickering coauthors” biomed model as a meaningful check on bad-faith firehose productivity. I can’t imagine getting a one-shot preprint past a full R01 crew. 010
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 30/09/2026It helps when you know people who did do x by x age and are trapped and miserable and feel like their lives are foreclosed by 35. Couldn’t be me 031
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 30/09/2026Music is also communication, often across nations, cultures, generations. To listen to Shostakovich’s string quartet No. 15 is to be blown back but oddly solaced by the magnitude of sadness we can all feel. The most inane dubstep still amounts to “dude check _this_ out.” Imagine sacrificing that. 020
Reposted by Someone’s Skin 💥🤍Justino J Flores @justinojflores.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Have experience with PrEP, PEP, or U=U? Your story could help others learn about HIV prevention and treatment. 🎥 Learn more about our study: Sharing Personal Experiences as Knowledge (SPEAK) & submit a video testimonial < 90 seconds. columbiangwu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...columbiangwu.co1.qualtrics.comSPEAK Screener, Informed Consent, & Video UploadQualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today. 114
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 28/09/2026Cognitive interviewing on an item like that would be a _mess_. 120
Reposted by Someone’s Skin 💥🤍Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026If someone contends they've never heard Ponyboy by SOPHIE, it may say more about the listener than the song. 0133
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 26/09/2026I got approached by a server at a bbq joint asking if I was “Zelda” from the “crazy house party” in Bristol (a ski resort town, apparently). I am not, but glad I still got the aura, I suppose 050
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 24/09/2026Discouraging anthropomorphizing _from_ an LLM is emerging as a benchmark for safeguarding in mental health applications. It icks some users out, fosters dependence in others, and can cross both ethical and (patchily) regulatory lines. But I acknowledge that’s not where this discourse began. 140
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 24/09/2026My heartrate is literally up just seeing that thumbnail 110
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 23/09/2026Relatedly, I always admire Four Tet’s insistence on dressing like a physics professor even as he draws six figure crowds 110
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 22/09/2026I read the Globe and I was waiting for this mess to hit the TL today. There’s a far more interesting potential story about the mis/use of social justice and cultural trauma concepts to harass and manipulate but unfortunately I do think the author was going for “look at these crazy queers” 841810
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 22/09/2026…yeah. I avoid this kind of scene but had a friend desperate for housing in Portland who kept having to like, write essays about praxis just to apply 51941
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 21/09/2026I have also somehow found myself in the “realname account linked to real website but still coy about what I do” niche. fwiw 2260
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 20/09/2026Dropped my glasses in the midst of a packed and dancing festival crowd last night and somehow managed to reach down into the dark at the exact spot they’d fallen and recover them, unscathed. Burned off half a lifetime’s luck with that one 190
Reposted by Someone’s Skin 💥🤍Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is how zombie statistics are born. It's tempting to speculate but best not to. Even research that tries to come up with estimates is often pretty bad because it's very difficult to accurately measure these things, let alone vibe about them. 4435
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 16/09/2026HIV and public health was reliably a weird gnarled little satellite where you were expected to have actual principles and act on them, but that era may have passed 020
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 16/09/2026Last year maybe? Some newly tenured prof triumphantly told all us rabble that the secret was to “be a fluffy bunny nobody wants to kick” i.e. be perpetually chipper and obsequious and avoid any whiff of controversy at all costs. Basically your point re self-selection but, like, celebratory 150
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 15/09/2026Hello fellow Allens Avenue cyclist. Stay frosty out there 130
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 15/09/2026“One thudding descriptive stat, one compelling pull quote” was the rule I was taught for what a policymaker _might_ retain of any actual empirics. A barchart if you’re feeling lucky. Any other messaging: “two crisp bullet points” 140
Reposted by Someone’s Skin 💥🤍Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Want to join an NLP reading group with me? 📚 I'm starting a virtual section of a reading group that I ran in Copenhagen. We'll spend 30 min reading quietly (your choice of readings) + 30 min sharing with each other. You get to read and learn a surprising amount! 🌐 Zoom 🗓️ Mondays @ 12PM ETdocs.google.comNLP Reading GroupWe will meet virtually on Zoom every Monday at 10 AM MT / 12PM ET / 9AM PT. Structure: 📚 30 minutes quiet co-reading time (you choose what to read!) 💬 30 minutes sharing summaries + thoughts You get... 4265
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 14/09/2026✋Proposal to replace ad hoc reviewer with “random-ass” reviewer on our CVs 110
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 13/09/2026I saw a guy seated ahead of me at a conference once open a new powerpoint, splat out some stuff in calibri, graphs etc, close with a 30-dpi piece of tacky clip art, and then promptly take the stage to deliver it. I was in awe. I still am. His power 110
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 13/09/2026I desperately need to get less OCD* about my lecture slides. I really do envy the “this looks like butt, who cares” cohort *I have OCD, don’t @ me 120
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 11/09/2026Yeah, I don’t love where this is going, frankly. And I say that as a staunch “100% human scholarly writing” person 130
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 11/09/2026I dissolved into dust and ashes when I heard my first “I wasn’t born yet actually” 120
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 11/09/2026Also, the Anthrax envelopes blended into the whole “world unhinged” feeling. I still recall a few “unexplained white powder” evacuations working in Manhattan in 2007-08. 120
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 11/09/2026The CREW EXPENDABLE moment is still chilling. Arguably even more so given the no-nonsense CLI 040
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026I’m in nowhere near your situation (as I understand it) but I banged out a bunch of applications before my break and it feels good as hell just to flex a bit again when your own institution treats you like a dog tied up in the backyard 120
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026That fact that this is visibly DC really twists the knife 1130
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026Low light, tiny menu text, an assumption I wasn’t actually in ~that~ kind of place 010
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026The granularity at which it is appropriate to generate code, and related human-verification standards. I (mostly) go cell-by-cell in a notebook with Claude Code CLI but I see issues where others one-shot a whole analytic pipeline and I don’t have a ton of confidence they understand it clean through 010
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026I accidentally ordered a >$100 cocktail once and, same deal, it was actually worldbreakingly good 120
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026Every morning, I organize my thoughts like this. At least one coworker has asked if I’m just like rage-scribbling on a giant pad 110
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 10/09/2026Usually after a rough flight ime, regardless of destination 1540
Someone’s Skin 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 09/09/2026Plastikman / Hawtin is my go-to for “absolutely positively got to lock tf in” technical tasks. I probably owe him an acknowledgment line for my first few econometrics replication assignments 110
Reposted by Someone’s Skin 💥🤍Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 09/09/2026Do any folks have feedback/tips for complying with NIH open access requirements when publishing in an extremely niche area (hypothetically, maybe something like gambling) with few journals that officially support the zero month embargo?  354
