AI systems perpetuate stereotypes, misogyny, racism...
AI systems perpetuate harms.
#AI #ML #LLM #AIharm #AImagic #HaloEffect #HumanInTheLoop #BeMoreCriticallyMinded
Flu has overtaken covid in emergency rooms during the past two winters
Hospital numbers don’t capture how most people actually experience these illnesses: minor inconveniences or nasty bugs that leave you feeling lousy and homebound. Wastewater tracking, which measures viral particles in sewers to track viral trends, also shows that flu has surged and covid has seen a small uptick, smaller than the summer wave.
We barely had a winter wave of COVID this year but the flu has been absolutely brutal
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
"Habsburg AI" is now a term. AI trained on recursively generated data for so long it leads to model collapse.
Being so famous for your dysfunctional choices that cultural evolutions a millenium ahead perfectly adapt your nomenclature.
#HabsburgAI #AIslop #FARvisions
Silly things I refuse to accept in movies:
❌Full sun in N.Europe at 7pm midwinter
❌Spring songbirds in December England
❌Jackets in summer Louisiana
❌Mosquito-free tropical beaches
An author who has #generativeAI write all the novels she sells to publishers, lies to publishers about AI use, but protects her own product because she fears missing out on grifter profits.
"lower your expectations" indeed
The logic of #economics
My networth is $25M, but that's mostly brand equity.
A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
You say that like the law matters anymore 🤷🏼♀️
We tend to think that it was capitalism that drove the dramatic spike in humanity’s progress in population and wealth. | https://bit.ly/4nNWsPO
But Samuel Miller McDonald argues this wasn’t true growth, but a system cloaking environmental destruction and corruption under the guise of progress.
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.
Nicholas Christakis @yale.edu
David Gelernter @yale.edu
Marvin Minsky @mit.edu
Lisa Randall @harvard.edu
Bernie Steinberg, Carl Sloane, Eric Sinoway #HarvardHillel
Dan Ariely @dukepress.bsky.social
Marc Rowan @upenn.edu
Robert Trivers @rutgersupress.bsky.social
... and more to come
What does a research fellow actually do #AtCERN? 🤔
Meet Mia, a research fellow in the Systems department, contributing to ISOLDE, where scientists study the properties of atomic nuclei, with further applications in fundamental studies, astrophysics, and material and life sciences.
#WomenInScience
Joan Wiffen, self-taught palaeontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand, was born #OTD, 1922. wp.me/p3ihHu-4YT #WomeninSTEM 🧪⚒️
We have very talented PhD students! PhD student Natalie Coy founded Seeds of the Sea, to record flowering of endangered #Posidonia australis #seagrass. Check out the video she made about it (and website) below.
vimeo.com/1136638387?f...
www.seedsofthesea.org #marineecology #oceanoptimism 🌊🌐🧪
A vibrant, composite portrait of the brilliant Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal. She is shown in a close-up head-and-shoulders view, facing the camera with a gentle, thoughtful expression—short brown hair, bright blue eyes, and a calm smile. She wears a navy blue fleece over a teal/green collared shirt. Overlaid transparently behind and around her is a dense blackboard filled with intricate handwritten mathematical equations in white chalk, featuring complex expressions involving binomial coefficients (e.g., n! / (k!(n-k)!)), factorials, summations, powers, and terms suggestive of hypergeometric series or combinatorial identities. The equations partially surround and frame her face, symbolizing her deep immersion in advanced mathematics, particularly in hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory, and dynamical systems, while evoking the creative, exploratory nature of her work as a Stanford professor and groundbreaking researcher.
Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay.
Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40.
stanford.io/2C0io2A #WomenInSTEM
This is quite a fun perspective. I've heard variations of this theory since birth, but I love the #fractal approach here.
Using fractal descriptors to reveal deep physical, metabolic, and developmental limitations in body size and lifestyle🧪
Open access www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Interesting study, thanks for sharing. It's a correlational study, so it's not possible to know direction of causality yet . But the authors offer some good follow-on study suggestions at the end.
I love how we keep trying to categorize nature and Nature laughs back.
✨Let's Be Clear
Every friendly name on the #EpsteinFiles knew their history and has been pretending it didn't exist until they had no choice.
Every 👏 Last 👏 One 👏 Of 👏 Them 👏
#ArrestMorePedos
I'll add to this list of #heros Dr Ronald E McNair. Astronaught, physicist, musician, moon lazer radical! His legacy brings #educational opportunities to literally millions of marginalized #students across the US. Myself included. Dr McNair remains a major force for #humanity
#BlackExcellence
Dock workers across more than 20 Mediterranean ports are set to strike due to their management’s and governments’ 'complicity' in the genocide in Gaza
They should deny them entirely. Anything less is capitulation to abuse.
White House officials being fucking stupid again
Algorithms be algorithming
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social @nws.noaa.gov
#NOAA #weather #WeatherPrediction #NPR #ClimateReality
.@ilhanmn.bsky.social didn't even hesitate. Link to the full Town Hall meeting. A lot of great moments happened, before AND after. They shouldn't be overshadowed by the sockpuppet.
www.youtube.com/live/k7wg8kM...
#WOCinPolitics #SomaliExcellence #PoliticalPower #BodyGuardsInDemand
"Moreover, secrecy sometimes hid the full impact of her work from her. 'We didn’t know exactly where it was going because we worked for the military where everything is secret,' West recalled."
A true pioneer of the 20th century 💙
#GladysMaeWest #GPS #BlackExcellence #WOCinSTEM
Sick leadership. This was filmed May 9, 2022. www.cbsnews.com/video/mark-e...
A student I never met and skipped every meeting so far, just sent an email that flags so hard as a #genAI response, the flags are sending off their own flares.
#PSA you have the skills to write your own emails. I promise you.
#AIslop #IncomprehensibleEmails #AcademicSky #students #AcademicChatter
Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.
The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research will no longer support studies that use human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions.
go.nature.com/49MXwOj
The US officially withdrew from the World Health Organization today. Per Trump we can work "one on one" with other countries
Has he heard of the concept of an international outbreak? I.E. PANDEMIC?
No WHO, no USAID, underfunded CDC global health center. We are less prepared than we have ever been.
