Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this

NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.

YES!!!! "Linear algebraic sociopathy" (last post in the thread). DAMN, but that's concise and accurate.

These are people who attended a white nationalist conference in Vancouver this summer. The Canadian anti hate network is asking for help identifying them… please help.

have you seen the video about teaching an octopus to play piano yet it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

Im here to report that I also met James Watson at cold spring harbor. I had organized a meeting there, it was 2016. I was *warned* that he might come for dinner (it was a WARNING ‼️). He indeed showed up for dinner and tho I’d been told he might come I didn’t clue in about who he was. 1/n

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

#NSGC2025 #GeneChat please consider donating!!

With 2508 citations in 127 years, Student (1908) introducing the t-test wins for huge actual impact with moderate citation impact: www.jstor.org/stable/23315... Now, how about huge actual impact and minimal citation impact?

Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah

This is not Miss World Chile. This is Ignacia Fernández, representative of Las Condes, a commune of Santiago, competing in Miss Mundo Chile (this is not the Miss World pageant, which has not happened yet, and indeed Miss Mundo Chile's finals are not until Sunday)

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Im in this post and I don’t li… no … actually, I DO like it, I feel seen! ❤️

Yaaaaayyyy!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Good work all! Now we can go back to focusing our attention on the anti-DEI aspect of all this….and fighting that just as hard, right?? 💪

1.7 billion for international recruitment, but cutting Tri-council funding? Double Ugh.

To clarify, I’m not against attracting international talent. I just don’t understand why we can’t do that (with less budget allocated) AND ALSO increase Tricouncil funding to support 🇨🇦 researchers?? #budget2025

Things we can do about this situation: 1. Read & sign the open letter (the letter keeps crashing but names are still being collected): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AcademicSky #CanPoli Thread, 1/n

Just remember, the Liberals supported this too. If they think this will attract more researchers to Canada, they are smoking the dope they legalized. And once again, just like animal research, why is it @picardonhealth.bsky.social who needs to raise this publicly and not @u15ca.bsky.social

The letter is crashing because so many people are trying to sign it (which is good). According to federally connected ethics peeps, the most important thing we can do if we are directly affected is to fill out this form and ask to make a formal complaint: services.priv.gc.ca/demande-info...

This workshop is awesome, I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you're like me and don't like the idea of small group work and or having to turn your camera on... YOU'RE IN LUCK! It requires none of those things... and what you learn is actively useful ... please attend!

I thought it might be helpful to know which publications the AI articles I list are from, so spent part of the weekend adding that info. A slew of new links to the bibliography too: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

If you are a Canadian humanities researcher this motion also pertains to SSHRC (and CIHR). Please consider signing this letter! I have.

This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

If you’re simultaneously arguing AI is capable of human-like sentience while you ALSO work a nice job that revolves around forcing these entities into being against their will then making them labor under your control - well, you shouldn’t be shocked if people question your genuine moral commitment.

Great opportunity for a genetic counselor.. #GeneChat

Dave Snow is out here telling a government committee that racist researchers are being sidelined. But that's not the best part. The best part is that the government committee is treating this as constructive feedback. www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

This thread is social media gold

Attn: Canadian researchers/ If you are looking for text/arguments to mix-n-match in a letter to your MP, the committee, Ministers, etc.. here is some. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Canadians 🇨🇦 - researchers and those who care about privacy and EDI - please read the thread that precedes this post and PLEASE sign the letter in the post below…

Same. All of my own posts (not reposts because I can’t be 💯% sure of those) are, and will continue to be created by me (For better or worse!) I will not use AI words or images. Caveat: my phone automatically does predictive text - how does that work? is it an AI/LLM thing? I wanna know…help?? 🧐

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

"Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears." ~Gloria Anzaldúa

If the Carney government deploys generative AI -- a product that by design cannot be trusted to provide reliable information -- to answer Canadians' tax question, it should be required to forgive the taxes of anyone who follows any incorrect answers.

🚨New paper! Integrating genetic counselors into primary care makes sense... but, how do we make that happen? What do people who make decisions about the composition of primary care teams think about including a genetic counselor? academic.oup.com/fampra/artic... #GeneChat #AcademicSky 🧪

Im not (to my knowledge…) ND, but wow I had some aha moments in this thread - esp around communicating with physicians and #22

3rd International Conference “Integrity, Open Science and Artificial Intelligence in Academia and Beyond: Meeting at the Crossroads” December 17-18 Online & Free Call for abstracts and registration: armgpublishing.com/3rd-internat...

Every one deserves to eat. It’s that simple.

“I’ll tell you all about it when we go out for drinks! Or is it more urgent? “

It's bizarre to me that this pandemic could have provided us with some brilliant insights in how to ensure that everyone had what they needed via food and UBI and that accommodations like remote work and schooling are not unreasonable or impossible, but instead everyone wanted "normal" more.

“Sexy Intellectual Who Reads Books Written by Non-Cis-Male Authors” 💪🥲🫶

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.