Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

The 5-year-old could pick any movie for movie night, so we’re re-watching the Lego Batman Movie and I am content with my parenting choices.

The old world is dying lol and the new world is struggling to be born smdh. Now is the time of monsters lmao

We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

Restaurateurs in Seattle threatened to shut down or never open new ones when a large minimum wage hike was mooted in Seattle. ALL OF THEM STAYED OR EXPANDED. More income meant more spending meant better restaurant bottom lines.

When educational institutions are promoting GenAI as innovation and imposing its use on students and faculty, they are by extension promoting all the heinous "creativity" that spawns from it as expressions of misogyny, racism, ableism, classicism...

Can't wait!! 😍

I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in

A social scientist studying AI instead of people is decidedly *not* a social scientist and should immediately cede their research position to someone who actually knows how to do the job.

An interesting study 🧵

Hmmm I wonder how those two other things have worked out 🤔🤔🤔

FINALLY a beauty contest that I can get behind

Our paper and research on a #taVNS #MRI setup has now been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @nbkroemer.bsky.social @glassybrain.bsky.social

phrenology schmenology

My favorite comment on the FT story

It’s that time of the year again! My family’s 11th annual re-watch of Big Hero 6 will commence in just a few minutes!

Listen, I'm usually a friend of decorum in politics. But there's a time, 'twixt fate and luck, when all men stop and utter 'fuck'

generative AI works by returning the statistically most probable reply to your query. in other words, it’s mediocre by definition.

This was years ago. I got into a small argument with a guy because he thought Moomins were annoying and claimed they were American. They're neither of those things, they're adorable and Finnish like me. It took WAY too long to realise he mistook Moomins for Mormons. Still makes me laugh.

Hello fellow #SciComm enthusiasts I signed up for a #ScienceSlam and have ten minutes to present my research and how I incorporate open science practices to the public - any tips and tricks for preparation?

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

I literally remember this as if it was yesterday. I lived in Massachusetts at the time, and opening day in my local theater was sold out (to everyone's surprise). I watched it the next night and it was an amazing movie (and still is)

Don’t listen to me or any other non-experts when it comes to AI. Follow these experts instead: @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @janelleshane.com @timnitgebru.bsky.social

EXCUSE ME BUT WILL SOME OF THAT CASH GO TOWARDS THE AUTHORS OF THE AFOREMENTIONED BOOKS PLEASE AND THANK YOU

Do you think AI sucks? Congrats, you are correct! Proclaim it loudly with analog watercolor art www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

Soon it will have been a year since the re-election. A friend of mine wasn't too concerned about a second Trump presidency, arguing that the US survived the first one as well. I countered that the country would be unrecognizable after half a year under Trump II. They didn't believe me.

How in the world can there be a button that says "ignore"

I usually don't quote-skeet smaller accounts than mine (so please don't pile on here), but I do need to point out the absolute perversity of an account that has "critical thinker" in its bio posting an AI-generated video as if it was fact. (check the top left for where the Sora logo used to be)

This will be someone's dream position. Maybe yours?

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Big personal news dropping tomorrow. Excite.

Is there a reason that we don’t just fire anyone who uses ChatGPT for work? If so, what is it?

We all have buttons that can be pushed, no matter how rational and discerning we believe ourselves to be Nothing good will come from getting worked up over videos of shit that didn't happen (even if "it feels like it could have happened") Your default response to video should be skepticism

Is it weird that I don’t care who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline? No matter your stance before, we all learned in 2022 at the latest that this pipeline was a bad idea because it ties Europe to Russia. We had to shut it down fast, which would have been complicated. This explosion un-complicated it.

“AI will be good for science” my ass

Intelligence is overrated. Artificial intelligence doubly so.

It's embarassing to see someone with a PhD and years if experience use AI to make a presentation on something they are an expert on, and then tell you to ignore some parts of diagrams because the AI made them up and those bits are wrong. That's embarrassing for us both.

Yes. Leave the bubble before it bursts in your face.

German-speaking folks: There’s a new op-ed by me out today, to accompany one of our recent TV episodes. As it turns out, self-guided, VR-based phobia treatments can me more effective than you’d think. Find out more here: www.zdfheute.de/wissen/digit...

We’ve never solved the frame problem, yet the AI industry believes (or wants us to believe) that they can make tractable context-sensitive “agents” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Can't wait to watch a horror movie on my favorite free streaming platform, the main page of Wikipedia!!! The full 94 minute original Nosferatu is on up right now. Last halloween it had Night of the Living Dead!

Let’s talk for a second about those articles saying that 50% of the internet is now AI generated (see an example below). Plenty to talk about here but 2 points are under-reported in my view: 1) Those numbers are necessarily quite uncertain, because… futurism.com/artificial-i...

In the 1600s, thousands of people were buried in crypts under a Milan hospital & preserved by unusual conditions. “What is striking is how much you can extrapolate from an ancient body,” says one researcher, “and how much you can understand from that about the period they lived in." @science.org

Happy Halloween!

This!!!! For the last while my husband and I have been muttering darkly about how AI =black tulips and a scary % of people have no idea why this comparison matters, goddammit...

No no no, don't you get it, this isn't just hype, this isn't just a bubble, it's a TULIP BULB REVOLUTION! Tulips will be EVERYWHERE and they will completely TRANSFORM OUR WAY OF LIFE

Happy Halloween my friends www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00...

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Bari Weiss makes a clean sweep, firing all women, Blacks and Hispanics in high-profile positions at CBS News. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...