“Working For AI” contexts.org/blog/working...

I always feel my class based differences really strongly when something like this happens. I share zero of my professional colleagues’ impulses.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

Econ is coming out in droves to support Lisa, legitimate her bona fides, and warn that Trump taking over the Fed would be disastrous. Ask yourself if YOUR workplace or profession would defend a Black female colleague this vociferously. An old, conservative, combative profession at that.

"The poor say the rich have the cure The rich say the poor are the source... Some say the first case came from a maternity ward Some say a morgue, some say the skies, some say the floors Whores say the nuns, nuns say the whores And everybody is sure"

📄 “Safer than driving”: Risk communication about surgery with racially diverse families in pediatric urology visits, doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #EMCA

This year has been unbelievably weighty (much loss and grief). Rest assured, Doc.

More on advice. Ours is an advice culture, I get that. But I’m just not sure men in public get as many demands to tell people what to do as women get? Or, as a colleague once replied, maybe you don’t have to ask men for advice because they’re already always giving it! LOL But yeah its not my jam.

I just saw something that said the next big thing in education for the rich will be tech-free schools. This reminds me how all of those tech company owners are like "oh no my kids can't use our product." They're pushing A.I. on your kids but making sure their kids don't touch it.

It's not the generation. IT'S THE POLITICS.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

If you're an academic in the U.S., I highly recommend looking up "Lysenkoism"

5 yrs ago - 287k likes “I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

When you strip away humanity

This was prescient. "The narrative of financial necessity has become the perfect camouflage for an ideological purge."

This again.

Don’t let people talk to you any kind of way. Words are just the first step. Nip it in the bud. ProTip.

Visited Toronto for the New Developments in Ethnomethodology meeting (first time). While here: 1. Strangers initiated convos with me in French and Spanish (small talk, directions). 2. I spotted philosophy ads for events like the one below. 3. Went to a bar that used real candles(!). #EMCA

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Tomatoes coming soon.

Everyone received gender affirming care. EVERYONE. Hair cuts, Hair styling, Nails, Pedicures, Skin care, A Lil Bo for fill ins— You name it. Everyone receives it so acting as if it’s a shock for Trans people is loser behavior.

Sometimes the problem isn’t that you’re ‘unmotivated’ or ‘undisciplined.’ You’re just fried. Nervous system absolutely cooked. Brain melted. Running on fumes. And no, another morning routine, habit tracker, or biohacking podcast isn’t gonna fix it. You need actual rest. Connection. Safety. Time.

President wants to crush US, Congress has yielded its power, Supreme Court has neutered the courts, Corporate Media is collaborating, but there is one estate left that can save US: The People.

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

If you are a learning scientist who happened to miss the Closing Session of #isls25, you might want to know that the submission deadline for #isls26 is expected to be October 5–significantly earlier than in years past. 📢 pass it on!

Maps. You've got to know how to hold 'em, know how to fold 'em.

It’s that time of the year again. Last summer, I learned how to compost food waste. Now, back to growing a little food. Unrelated outside pic.

Tomorrow is June 1st. June!

We are looking for CLAN and ELAN users interested in converting 1 or 2 transcripts to the DOTE format. We have tested a Python script the last couple of days - and it would be interesting to try with some "real" data. Please get in touch. #DOTE #ELAN #CLAN #transcription #EMCA #VIDEO

Re: GenAI (thread🧵) As a current faculty member, it’s very disheartening but also unsurprising to see an article like that. I’ve seen it for myself. I’ve seen students turn in assignments with answers generated by AI and they don’t even know what they’re turning in to be graded. I’ve also been a

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

One thing that has become apparent is that the anger at science post-COVID is one of the things the Trump administration is willing to give sustained effort too. Is that characteristic of right populism globally? I can't tell how much this is idiosyncratic to the USA. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

American science's favorite myth, that it's apolitical, is actually CIA propaganda! There's a whole book about it, which I reviewed for @physicstoday.bsky.social back when they still did book reviews! 🧪 #BookSky pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... So anyway this prof is susceptible to propaganda lol

Rather, teaching that racism is bad is only "political" under a white supremacist system.

The "objective" stance on teaching about race is that racism is bad. Teaching this is not political, it is a simple fact.

I would never presume to lecture a computer scientist on how to teach their material, as I am unqualified. This computer scientist should not pontificate about teaching subjects where he is unqualified. Teaching about race is political. Full stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

5/6. We wondered whether adding the structural context might help, but we also didn’t want to just focus on white respondents—it seemed worthwhile to also study what the groups who were most disproportionately affected thought. First, we didn’t find backlash. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2/6. In a set of experiments just published in Social Science & Medicine, we found that Asian, Black, and Hispanic Americans were consistently more willing to engage in individual and collective efforts to address health disparities than their White counterparts. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

What do you believe "due process" is for? Due process helps allegations move to indictments

If people spent more time saying what they want to hear and less time trying to make me say what they want to hear, everybody probably would hear what it is they want to hear. And we could all be happy.

@robinjsmith.bsky.social ‘s brilliant addition to our Asymmetries in Action special issue is now available online. #EMCA @francescaorfw.bsky.social

Morale in academic research community right now is whatever is below rock bottom. The uncertainty and unpredictability are overwhelming. The mental and physical toll on U.S. based scientists is significant and will be long-lasting. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Perfectly said. Perfect.

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations | #ksed via Shauneen Miranda kansasreflector.com/2025/04/23/r...