equality win: cis people are afraid of airport security

Manually renumbering AMA refs at R1 because six months ago I had to start a holy war for my uni to fund a copy of _Microsoft Word_ and my Zotero-Docs sync broke sometime in the interim. Luv 2 work at the bleeding edge of knowledge and discovery.

I (trans) have been shouted down, invasively frisked, and “randomly selected” for enhanced screening so many times by TSA I used to get anxiety attacks on line, something they instantly latch onto to justify more harassment. My butch ethnically ambiguous wife gets it just as bad.

Rejected by Northwestern and Brown (where I am currently a postdoc), acceptance with ironclad no-strings funding from Tulane, the best possible outcome, in retrospect. This was the 2020-2021 application cycle, a bizarre shitshow. Still unsure if my GREs were a criterion or not.

I left all those blank pages at the end of my CV so you could, like, jot down your thoughts on my qualifications. It was like a courtesy, see?

I don’t intend this as edgy dooming (I lost a formerly PEPFAR-funded position last year). But the whole piece suffers from tonal whiplash and is riddled with typos: hallmarks of last-minute desperate editing, in my experience.

Best case scenario here is a tiresome April fools joke. I’ve been working on behalf of young people for a decade now and Rule #1 is to speak frankly and forthrightly as equals triangulating differing perspectives and experiences, never to patronize.

A “hopeful” dispatch that opens with a community health worker starving and working without pay, overindexes on a bizarre accidental data release, glosses over the fact that globally recognized “risk populations” like teens and MSM have been cut off, and ends with a 14-year-old girl dying.

“Doing science” is not synonymous with being a federally funded researcher with an academic appointment. I don’t want to detract from our terror or the urgency of this moment (I’m on a T32). But you can do great science in industry, government, and nonprofits, even if it lacks the cachet of an R01.

“Doing science” is not synonymous with being a federally funded researcher with an academic appointment. I don’t want to detract from our terror or the urgency of this moment (I’m on a T32). But you can do great science in industry, government, and nonprofits, even if it lacks the cachet of an R01.

You consider yourself a person of substance, of spiky erudition even, but then you get your hair done and your whole outlook on life just straight-up improves.

Shocking news: those RTs coming from "swarmchat.ai" might not be legit after all. (This is cool work though, seriously.)

Reminder that this fascist hired a man, and made him wealthy, solely on the basis that he strangled my neighbor to death for being Black. Andreessen will see justice for this someday, and I hope I’m there when he does.

“Texting a random stranger” is not the comparator used in this study. I could give a shit about some social psych study with an undergrad sample, but this headline simply misstates the methods.

“Texting a random stranger” is not the comparator used in this study. I could give a shit about some social psych study with an undergrad sample, but this headline simply misstates the methods.

Yesterday. Claude hallucinated the perfect scale for a proximal outcome in a trial I’m designing. But when I called it out, I got an apology and a _real_ perfect scale for this grant. Accountability in AI 🎉🎉

it's cool that in 2026 you can just shitpost coding project ideas at the computer and it'll just be like "ok here's a first draft"

Amanda Askell is highkey goals because all the most awful anti-intellectual misogynist chuds hate her and honestly that's a fucking endorsement if I've ever heard one.

New Ackerlady ridiculously good.

I'm not going to comment on the quality of this analysis, but if you are against the analysis of health data, idk what to tell you. They process text in clinical notes as the LLM part. They test a bunch of ML models to select the best one. Do you want prediction techniques in healthcare or not

One by one, hospitals are abandoning trans kids as they preemptively cave to HHS threats over Medicaid/Medicare funding. They ought to consider the terrible message walking away from some kids sends about their dedication to caring for all of them. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

I love EU grant calls. “Must have a neuro-genomics and connectomics component, contributions from humanists and philosophers, robust engagement with civil society and private enterprise, earn a E-uBRRAIN06 score (?), and leverage an existing clinical cohort.” Deadline: tomorrow. Payline: 0.05%.

I love EU grant calls. “Must have a neuro-genomics and connectomics component, contributions from humanists and philosophers, robust engagement with civil society and private enterprise, earn a E-uBRRAIN06 score (?), and leverage an existing clinical cohort.” Deadline: tomorrow. Payline: 0.05%.

I literally chose my new hair place in Providence because of the trans flag on the door.

I’m a postdoc on the market and half the job match alerts I see are for this, often with inflated titles like “Research Scientist” to (I assume) clog up our recommendations. I have actually led expert annotation cycles for ML; it can be done in an equitable way. But this is MTurk for PhDs.

With its snoot and boinky little wings, I can’t stop seeing this as a baby plane and it’s adorable.

Count me (postdoc, Brown, HIV prevention / digital mental health) among those who generally agrees with these points. The sophistication, nuance, and domain awareness one must bring to these tools’ capabilities will look different for each of us. But candor and collaboration are the way forward.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

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I went to an entrepreneurial startup contest thing and they literally told us to make plots like this. When I and the other scientists objected to essentially fabricating a data viz we were encouraged to think of it as a “conceptual chart.”

On my way to lecture in person at Brown tomorrow.

This is nicely put. I can only add that as an academic data scientist who codes in episodic bursts but can spend weeks and months on unrelated duties (e.g. grants), CC all but obliterates the tedious bogging down of reacclimatizing to a codebase and various libraries’ quirks after time away.

This is nicely put. I can only add that as an academic data scientist who codes in episodic bursts but can spend weeks and months on unrelated duties (e.g. grants), CC all but obliterates the tedious bogging down of reacclimatizing to a codebase and various libraries’ quirks after time away.

Pixel art depictions of Interstate 10 in NORCO.

please read this

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

any reporting on anti-trans policy that does not mention the consequences trans people will face under those policies is propaganda