Here’s a folder with the key assignments I use to get my students using Zotero. Along with this, they produce an annotated bibliography for a research prospectus and have to put all the annotations in Zotero. I introduce the platform in an in class workshop. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Likewise, I have been processing my own shock and disgust at finding this old argument rewarmed in an authoritative text put out by a major software publisher, with egregiously misleading citations to other people's work that when I read them, said the OPPOSITE of the piece bsky.app/profile/grim...

80% of you not engaging in good faith with the magic bean farmer dont you know he founded the Big Bean plantation and wears a fancy hat smh

Very niche ask: if anyone on #statsky has used {rpact} to design a trial using a conditional power approach, please can I ask you a question? It seems to be doing the opposite of what I'd expected it to do, but that might be because I don't understand it properly! kthxbye

Me: happily vibing for hours listening to Thai folk music and thinking about algebraic geometry The cdc: be careful vaccinating your children lest you end up with a child like this one here

"Bro, what are you in jail for?" "I squeaked a rubber duck at the police." ... Georgia, 2025 #GeorgiaProtests

Alphafold is a substitute for a theory in a way that we should pay attention to. It's a model that does what we'd want a theory to do reasonably well (predict protein structure from the amino acid sequence), which reduces the "marginal utility" that an actual scientific theory would have to capital

In the rigged 2024 Parliamentary elections, the Georgian Dream got staggering 13.49% of votes from abroad. No wonder they now banned voting from abroad. Statistics from @netgazeti.org (also no wonder they are cracking down on independent media).

cool pincer movement if you truly grasp: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out 🧵 1/n

For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...

"AI-generated images are a patch of damp on the wall: annoying, spreading, and causing structural damage to the infrastructures through which they move."

What an amazing shot. www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvye

It shows how vaccines that educate the immune system against one enemy may inadvertently help it fight others. For humanity, that implies that what is learned during a worldwide health crisis may go on to save lives in ways unforeseen.

regardless of their tumor type. If it holds up in clinical trials, this discovery could fundamentally change the way cancer is treated everywhere. By linking mRNA vaccines to existing immunotherapies, doctors might be able to strengthen their patients' immune defenses without having to use

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

while I am very skeptical of "AI"-hype and don't expect tech giants to have anyone's best interest in mind, I do think we did some things well in this project, so keep these three things in mind >

calling all #AI haters (complimentary): I participated in a project evaluating LLM-supported math tutoring and would love some criticism/references/whatever you've got that might influence follow-up projects. technical report here (abstract in picture): storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person Don't idolize bad people

Things that make generative AI dangerous: 1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work. 2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings. 1/

Will try to gather in this thread some steps I'm taking to put me in a better position to be an effective "AI" critic at my EdTech company. See quoted thread for a bit of context

Last night was the worst bombing I have experienced in Kyiv since the war began. 7 hours of non stop aerial attacks across the city.

calling all #AI haters (complimentary): I participated in a project evaluating LLM-supported math tutoring and would love some criticism/references/whatever you've got that might influence follow-up projects. technical report here (abstract in picture): storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

Knowledge of the training data has literally been used to understand the cause of errors in AI driven healthcare systems. For example the melanoma detection system that was found to be using the presence of rulers, stickers, and pen marks made by DRs to infer melanoma status, rather than mole itself

Who's up for a short thread demonstrating just how wrong this claim is by Mistral's CEO, using research by @rtommccoy.bsky.social (an co-authors) regarding crossword puzzles? Just me? Well whatever, let's dive into a mini-exploration of the Embers of Autoregression and why they singe...

therapist said my sadness is not pathological can i get a hell yeah

This NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction" This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

So last night ordinary good russians completely destroyed the generation of electricity of one of the electricity producing companies. Right before winter. Tell me more how much sanctions and consequences they got for years of terror and genocide. #UkrainianView

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

lol

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady argues that its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. buff.ly/odvgs4q

oh to be a salmon, lying in an fMRI, mentalizing...

In Ch 19 (nyu-cdsc.github.io/learningr/as...) of his 2nd edition, Kruschke used *residual* SD as a standardizer for group differences from a multilevel ANCOVA. Is there any precedent for using a *residual* SD as a standardizer for a standardized mean difference effect size? #RStats

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Finally! #AI #GenAI

Finally! #AI #GenAI

So interesting to see how people narrate about edtech on this platform. No longer my beat, but I worked on MOOCs as a postdoc and then on many learning platforms (e.g., research with Age of Learning, Khan Academy, Coursera, online courses w/Google), and was the VP of Research at...

To say people make a rational assessment of the threat environment around Covid… is just not true. Most people refuse to talk about or read anything about Covid. Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common childhood illness, and it’s rarely spoken of. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

UCLA’s Long Covid clinic director explains that Covid is not a lung issue but “vascular and neurologic infection.” A Duke cardiologist shares “we see people have symptoms from almost head to toe.” People don’t care, they don’t want to hear it. www.heart.org/en/news/2024...

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

breezy, speculative, counterfactual history, with minimal recourse to the work of historians, is the pumpkin spice of airport books

Roko's basilisk but it's just data centers. anyone not willing to give up their power and water to the data center gods will be punished. perhaps a catholic-esque confession system -- if you admit to anti-ai sins you can do penance by creating 100 sora2 videos. #AI

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

Roko's basilisk but it's just data centers. anyone not willing to give up their power and water to the data center gods will be punished. perhaps a catholic-esque confession system -- if you admit to anti-ai sins you can do penance by creating 100 sora2 videos. #AI