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Former professor turned data scientist Psych PhD studying comp sci He/They
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
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Periodic reminder that publishing papers is not the goal in and of itself. The paper is a mechanism for sharing what you have learned--sharing processes and outcomes that others should be aware of/should think about too. 1/3
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Taniel
2 days ago
4. The fourth & final opinion of the day is a major one. Justice Alito sides with Kristi Noem's decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian nationals. A 6-3 ruling (usual line-up) & a major blow to thousands.
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Quentin André
3 days ago
HBS' latest filing in the Gino lawsuit contains a few new details: 1. A committee of 26 professors, admins, and fellows reviewed the allegations, and *unanimously concluded* that there was *clear and convincing evidence* of research misconduct.
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Randall Munroe
4 days ago
Sports Commentary
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I am SO excited to read this. And the good news is that there's still time to pre-order it on
bookshop.org
and get free shipping for anti-Prime day!
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Kate Marvel
4 days ago
It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it
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Bookshop.org
4 days ago
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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David Ho
6 days ago
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.I27_.RXJpxEQcJXSI&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Tom Roberts
6 days ago
Every single word in this headline is a surprise
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On today's episode of "If the title of the article is a question, the answer is No."
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Hemry, Local Bartender
9 days ago
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
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L. Shrew
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Michael Okun
17 days ago
I’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. 👇
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WIRED
14 days ago
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
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A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/
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Sam Rose
4 months ago
What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
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Blue Heron Farm
17 days ago
I tried to just peruse, but it sucked me in and I read every word
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
22 days ago
Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
22 days ago
This is the editorial calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. A must read. đź§Ş
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle
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Carl T. Bergstrom
22 days ago
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/ada-conference-diabetes-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.JZbr.mwpLXkZmrmf9&smid=url-share
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St. Louis Public Radio
24 days ago
St. Louisans can expect plenty of activities this June for Pride Month. Here is a list of several Pride Month events to suit just about everyone.
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Looking for Pride events? Here are more than 20 across the St. Louis region
There’s not a shortage of Pride festivities this June in St. Louis. Here are a few events throughout the region.
https://www.stlpr.org/race-identity-and-faith/2026-06-03/here-are-more-than-20-pride-events-across-the-st-louis-region
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Stephanie Kollmann
27 days ago
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
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Damn, imagine telling on yourself like this...
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Jake Wright
29 days ago
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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maybe: annie rauwerda
30 days ago
"why use google?" webpage from 1999
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Evan George
about 1 month ago
NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.
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Alaina Wood
about 1 month ago
The newest fossil fuel disinformation talking point just dropped — the industry is trying to convince us that plug-in solar panels backfeed onto the grid during outages and will kill electricians. That’s unequivocally false! They’re specifically designed to prevent backfeeding onto the grid.
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Rachel Navarre
about 1 month ago
Here’s the article btw: Cheng, Myra, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, no. 6792 (2026): eaec8352.
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 month ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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lauren
about 1 month ago
i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers
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Paul Musgrave
about 1 month ago
Lots of terrible things happen in every war but I’m not going to soon forget the dozens of little girls killed in the opening salvoes of this war. The recourse to war—even “just” airstrikes—should be regretted by leaders and citizens because every war kills innocents.
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Ryan Estrada
about 1 month ago
Hey, if you're represented by Henry Cuellar (TX) Don Davis (NC) Cleo Fields (LA) Laura Gillen (NY) Vicente Gonzalez (TX) Marcy Kaptur (OH) Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Eugene Vindman (VA) Give 'em a jingle and ask why they're voting with Republicans to support HR 2616, the national book ban bill?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats
about 1 month ago
"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.
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Alex Hanna
about 1 month ago
THIS WEDNESDAY: join
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library.
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Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub
Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Kathleen Bachynski
about 1 month ago
“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”
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How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/well/federal-cuts-artificial-baby-heart-cornell.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 1 month ago
My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.
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Maine public universities nears $1.39M deal for systemwide AI tool
The two-year contract will cost about $1.39 million and serve an estimated 25,200 students and 5,600 employees, likely starting in July.
https://themainemonitor.org/umaine-closing-ai-tool/
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Dr. Holly Walters
about 1 month ago
I just can't get past "What do you mean I have to check AAALLLLLLLL my citations?" Like, dude, what? My PhD advisor would have hung me by my toenails on the quad if I didn't know what one of my citations was for.
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Walker Harris 🫜‬
about 1 month ago
Saw this and was curious enough to dig into it. As much as I think there’s some excellent points (I think philosophy is one of the most valuable minors or 2nd major), this is actually a perfect example of How to Mislead with Stats. Be extremely skeptical of any chart that only shows % change. 1/?
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Celeste Ng
about 1 month ago
Rude but fair (as I take some ibuprofen)
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Eric Ravenscraft
about 1 month ago
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Stephen Hopkins
about 1 month ago
Formal motion to rename the technology
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Just a Friend by Biz Markie
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Wera Hobhouse MP
about 2 months ago
Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.
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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
about 2 months ago
This chart is helpful is highlighting the universality of declines across states red and blue, union and nonunion, more urban and more rural, etc. The exceptions, important to look at for possible solutions, were starting from low points.
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Dael Norwood
about 2 months ago
It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang
www.instructure.com/incident_upd...
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Security Incident Update & FAQs
https://www.instructure.com/incident_update
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Hakeem Jefferson
about 2 months ago
FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
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Manisha Sinha
about 2 months ago
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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A.J. Bauer
about 2 months ago
In general we need to see more things as ends unto themselves and fewer things as mere means to ends.
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 2 months ago
Photo by
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for The Tennesseean
www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...
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