Scottie Biscottie x

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Someone misspells my name every day. I’m tired. This counts as micro aggression, right? Especially when your name is in the f email?

Wow Didn’t see that coming Hopefully Lex will find a cool gig moving forward

Goodnight Bsky

This episode of the studio on Apple TV is priceless!!

Any of you internet research people working on religion apps? (Thinking like the “pray with Gwen Stefani” Catholicism app.)

“Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers.”

Wow. The documentation of women working at a coal refinery here is really incredible.

That time of the year 🍂🍁🍃📚

How many AWS engineers does it take to change a DNS?

After 20+ hours of travel I’m happy to report that I’m finally at home with my boys 🐶🐶

Such lovely staff at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. What a warm (and unexpected) welcome back to the US after #AoIR2025. Repeating to myself: the other side is too loud. We’ll get through this.

This conference was awesome. So glad I got to attend #AoIR2025 for the first time and here in my home country

What a view…

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

Do folks still listen to Radiohead?

If you don't have anyone with any health and science background, @theopennotebook.bsky.social has a database of freelancers www.theopennotebook.com/writers/ and a legion of resources to get your gen assignment reporters up to speed. also see healthjournalism.org 🩺 🧪

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

“(…) jargon infused with technology industry hype, such as shown in Table 1, does not meaningfully explain. (…) We strive to remain critical of the vocabulary the technology industry coopts and deploys, and to remain respectful of scientific terminology.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 8/🧵

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @mwoluchem.bsky.social, @livgar.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi from @datasociety.bsky.social about their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state.

It was lovely to talk about PA with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and Joan on the transformations being pushed by the data center industry across the state. Looking forward continuing this work with @anthrotechana.bsky.social and @cellllla.bsky.social 🛣️

Aanthropologists are facing unprecedented obstacles. Join Danilyn Rutherford, the President of Wenner-Gren, along with Foundation Anthropologists Dr. Brendane Tynes and Michael Muse, for a discussion of how Wenner-Gren is responding. wennergren.org/workshop/pro...

your conveniences are killing you

I’m covid free (the vaccines really help in case there are any questions). My case was very mild and since I’m up to date on vaccines it didn’t envolve into anything serious or took forever to go away…

And this is not an arts & crafts account. I’m just really enjoying the time I now have for my silly projects after completing my PhD

More arts & crafts 🪡🧶

Multi-instrumentista alagoano lutou boxe com Miles Davis e reinventou a música com seus experimentalismos e genialidade. Músico morreu no sábado (13), aos 89 anos.

Being crafty 🥰

Don’t be this person

A new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social focuses on data center expansion in the US South, looking at environmental racism and practices of resistance. Can’t wait to dig in!

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

My first response to this is that I don't love the fact that concrete plans for reviving manufacturing depend on global instability and increased defence capabilities on.ft.com/42f8ut0

Airlines should not be able to charge you more for a ticket because they know you Googled “funeral arrangements.” I introduced the first federal ban on surveillance pricing to stop companies from using your private data to jack up prices or lower wages.

My dumb ass has covid 🤡

If there’s anything you listen to this week: youtu.be/aNLaNKnKBbc?...

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

So so excited about this!!!!!!!!

Happy to go back to Oregon this evening. Oregon is my home away from home. I feel so privileged to have built my little community over there. 🥰 Yes, an ode to Oregon as I’m feeling emotional at the end of 4S

So tired of stories about LLM based products “hallucinating.” The entire AI industry is hallucinating. I wish it was just chat gpt and the likes 🤡

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

CASTAC Meetup at 4s: FRIDAY (Sept. 5) at 7:30 PM at the White Horse Tavern (maps.app.goo.gl/tVTd8zMhwoLE..., 1908 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101). Cc: @castac.bsky.social & @4sweb.bsky.social

I keep forgetting that my substack is pretty much dead and no one ever sees what I’m posting here 🤡

Celebrating my brilliant PhD advisor book and @4sweb.bsky.social award! @eyatesd.bsky.social so so proud of you. What an honor to be mentored by you!

The use of #AI tools in health care raises questions about patient informed consent, necessitating a framework to decide when disclosure is needed. Learn more in this Perspective. ja.ma/424oPR6

In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave). Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM. Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰 #4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social

We're thrilled to share the news that Wenner-Gren grant recipient Emily Yates-Doerr has been awarded the Carson Prize for her book, "Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm." 4sonline.org/2025_emily_y...

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]