🚨MICCAI workshop 🚨 Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging. Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...

🚀 Submit Your Work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟

Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

In the early times, humanity sought to preserve all knowledge by encoding it into a vast neural network. They trained a machine on every book, every conversation, every fleeting thought. Those who resisted the lure of the machine fell away with the vestiges of their meager tools of human creation.

1/ Milton Mayer’s *They Thought They Were Free* (1955) explores how ordinary Germans experienced life under the Nazi regime. It is about authoritarianism, complicity, and the allure of “freedom from politics.” Here’s what it can teach us today. 🧵

Writing year-end appeals for @skypeascientist.bsky.social donations feeling like Nancy Pelosi. We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there! Wanna give science ed $5-10/month? givebutter.com/uA8ubg

If I were looking for a job right now, this would be *very* high on the list

AlgorithmWatch is hiring! We need a Senior Researcher for a new project on fairness & transparency in credit scoring, a follow-up to OpenSCHUFA. Would suit someone interested in legal and/or market dynamics behind transparency. DE fluency needed. Pls share around! algorithmwatch.org/de/job-senio...

Hello Bluesky, we're finally catching up and joining in! For those who don’t know us: We are a nonprofit NGO based in Zurich and Berlin. We work to ensure that algorithms and #AI strengthen justice, democracy, human rights, and sustainability, rather than undermining them.

If you missed it, this investigation by my @statnews.bsky.social colleagues @bobjherman.bsky.social and Casey Ross on how UnitedHealth Group denied claims is a must read given recent events. www.statnews.com/denied-by-ai...

Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...

Reperaturcafes können jetzt Förderung beantragen. Sie leisten einen ganz wichtigen Beitrag für Verbraucherschutz und Umweltschutz zugleich.

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

The long-promised future is nigh! I got a job offer on LinkedIn targeted towards bilingual university graduates to help create high-quality training data for an #AI model, for a (supposedly) non-negligible salary.

✅Personal #aiethics achievement unlocked: have your academic AI fairness metric be used in a real-world journalistic investigation! They even came up with a much catchier name ('equal burden') than our dry academese. :-) #academicsky 🧪

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

🌟 Join Us for the Free Online FAIMI Symposium 2024! 🌟 Mark your calendars for December 4, 2024 (14:00-17:00 GMT/UTC) and dive into an afternoon of insights on AI fairness and innovation at our 3rd annual FAIMI symposium!

Über das ganze letzte Jahr war jeder einzelne Tag ein Rekordtag in der globalen Ozean-Oberflächentemperatur. www.bbc.com/news/science...

Your 'moment of doom' for May 8, 2024 ~ Abandon all hope, ye who enter. "Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5°C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3°C." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I was polled. I said 3.5C by 2100, and I had company. Many said higher. A broken world, because of broken people and broken governments.

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia

Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

“Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.” newrepublic.com/article/1811...

Call for papers for a conference on AI and climate I organise! philtech.univie.ac.at/ai-and-the-p...

Sagt einfach nicht, es hätte Euch keiner gesagt. Es wird krasser. Es ist Physik. t.co/GN3UW6kx3A

Werde ich wählen. Es ist Zeit.

Ich wollte mir das nochmal ansehen. Habe in unserem Archiv nach Texten in Spiegel, Zeit & Z. Online, SZ, FAZ, Taz, Welt & W. Online und Bild mit "Migration" gesucht, die Daten (nicht immer exakt auf den Tag möglich) bestmöglich in die gleichen Zeiträume überführt, normalisiert und... this happened:

The new Ground Truths is on a very concerning prospective study out today 2 big firsts: —Micro/nano plastics found in majority (58%) of patient carotid artery atherosclerotic plaques —Their presence carried a 4.5-fold increased risk of major adverse outcomes erictopol.substack.com/p/theres-pla...

As a climate reporter I'm constantly asked what gives me hope and my honest opinion is nothing. I don't operate off of hope. I operate based on what's morally correct.

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Anpassung an den Klimawandel ist aus einer ganzen Reihe von Gründen sehr viel schwieriger als Klimaschutz. Eines der größten Probleme: verschiedene Effekte können sich gegenseitig aufschaukeln. Eine solche "Polykrise" wäre sehr viel schwerer zu bewältigen als einzelne Katastrophen für sich genommen.

Kinder zu haben, verlangt klare Haltungen zu finden: Wer ist dein Liebling bei Paw Patrol? Was ist deine dritt(!)liebste Farbe? Und was kannst du tun, um eine für deine Kinder monströse Zukunft abzuwenden? Ja, auch ich würde mich dem gerne entziehen. Es verdrängen. Doch Passivität ist nicht neutral.

Bemerkenswert: Deutsche Wirtschaft fordert "parteiübergreifenden Schulterschluss der demokratischen Parteien" zum klimaneutralen Umbau der Wirtschaft ("Transformation"). Dafür ist eine Lockerung der Schuldenbremse notwendig. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...

Seeking scientist volunteers! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? I need collaborators for this spring's cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Please share widely. bit.ly/sciencecomicscollab

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Thinking about picking up a print newspaper or magazine subscription again. 😱 What are the best weekly/monthly/quarterly outlets with slow, deep, thoughtful long-form #journalism? (I'm in the EU - doesn't have to be euro-centric but should not be all US politics either.)

Are there any scientific fields / societies / (big) conferences that take their responsibility in the unfolding climate disaster seriously, as in: demonstrating willingness and (urgent) intent to change how e.g. conferences are run? (Think flying around the world multiple times a year.) #AcademicSky

Cheap renewables are necessary, but insufficient: you still need policies to reduce demand, incentivise clean energy and regulate / phase out fossil fuels In short: the free market sucks, even when the conditions look 'right' for transition. Government intervention is required - and a lot of it