3:30 am in the morning, kiddo wakes up saying -The wall clock is about to stop. We need to find batteries, and change its batteries. me: Go back to sleep, the clock is working kiddo: repeats again me; repeat again goes on... # existential philosophical dialogues in the middle of the night

-Anne, sin Apfelschorle (kiddo, wanting apple juice but does not want bubbly water in it). How is your multikulti family doing? Also the 4th language is not involved in this sentence, yes, we do acknowledge it.

Yesterday, I was invited to give a talk at the @irtg2804.bsky.social (International Research Training Group 2804). It was a great experience. I talked about „Bias and Fairness in Clinical AI: Implications for Women’s Brain Health“, and we had a very engaging discussion at the end.

3 year old asking for that cheerful Balkan Song they like upon waking up, it is not even 7 am yet. We get up and start dancing in the middle of the living room. Kiddo: "Mama, I am happy" Me too kiddo, me too. What a wonderful way to start our days.

Went back to Berlin after some time, a) Instantly feels like home, so made me smile b) relatedly, I swear small town vibes already rubbed off on me, I felt like the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, with that smile on my face and classical Berliner face of other Ringbahn passengers "WTF is wrong with her"

Kiddo: "Look at this, I am flying!" sitting on my back when I am doing planks during yoga.

" I think our silence is an ethical failure that will be read by the next generation of scientists, and by the communities we ask to trust us."

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

I wanna see Spotify wrapped parents edition: Congratulations! You have listened 862.5 hours of rockaby baby, putting you in the top 5% of parents, followed by 527 hours of dandini dandini, and 972 hours of various flavors of ceviz adam. Longest loop was 82 times, level: admirable patience.

Nothing is more healing then the 3 year old asking if you too want to be caressed, then stroking your face before sleeping, and whispering they love you.🥹

Dear uni IT people, one does not roll out a new feature right before the holidays. In fact one goes for code freeze in the second half of December. Or whoever is designing your KPIs is completely clueless, if you 'had to do this before the end of the year'

Contemporary Asimov: Dr Susan Calvin, but as a big time social media influencer

Technological hell instead of singularity: somehow, your family misses to close your dead sister's Linkedin account, it is apparently her work anniversary in a job she couldn't have worked in the last 3.5 years, and some of her potentially random connections automatically post congrats under it.

Somehow still an unpopular opinion: workplace socials SHOULD be during working hours, not after.

My kid: I am 3 years old! Me: True! How old am I? My kid: 101, mama. You are 101 years old. Thank you for your brutal honesty, kiddo.

Have been thinking about making this for a while :)

If there were more primary caregivers doing AI research I think we would be seeing less bs about how a model imitates a child learning the world with just one experience but more algorithms named like "learning through the endless repetitive hours of pretend play, over and over and over"....

German politics again and again:

Karen Hao(@karenhao.bsky.social‬)'s Empire of AI is one of the best books I have read this year so far.