An approachable interview published today www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264393/... about this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080

I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics. Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent. This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.

Gaza's humanitarian crisis is escalating, with no aid truck allowed into the enclave for an entire month, warns Humanitarian group Mercy Corps, adding that 85% of the Strip’s Palestinians no longer has access to basic food items. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2bw1vf

@syssig.bsky.social exciting cutting edge work on rare somatic mutations! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing Jasmine Isa Qureshi, who will be speaking on “Queering Ecology: Reimagining our Relationship with Ecology”. Looking forward to their interdisciplinary talk! #ostem #lgbtqhistorymonth #lgbtqstem

With the conference on Friday, our last few speaker announcements are incoming! Thrilled to share that Katherine Holmes will be speaking on “All About the A’s: Asexual, Aromantic, and Agender Experiences in STEM!” #ostem #lgbtqiastem #lgbtqhistorymonth

📣 New CFP! On May 8 and 9, we’re hosting an online workshop on the intersection of generative AI technologies and work. Learn more about what we’re looking for and apply by February 7. datasociety.net/announcement...

This is the last week to apply! bsky.app/profile/data...

1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉

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Right bluesky. You ready for a long thread? I saw someone justifying queerness as a "natural" thing because we see it in other organisms. I often challenge the rhetoric of there being "queer", "trans", or "gay" animals. But that's because "queerness" needs challenging.

Hello all, I didn't expect to be writing this, but I'm glad that I've convinced myself, bc I couldn't have got anywhere without community, its the reason I'm still here, the reason I keep going, and I'd love for you to share and donate as much as is within your capacity rn 🙏🏽🤎🦋 gofund.me/6ae2e902

Link to just the #zines that allow free ereading or printing, from others' culture/tech/justice-y zines I've cataloged (including DH, GLAM, activism): airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz... Included are all the zines I make, which are free+encourage linking/printing/sharing: zinebakery.com/homemade-zines

The latest issue of Web Witch Weekly is here! So, you want to push a web platform feature, the developer desire to override basic computing controls, a website that's been gaslighting you, giant spires that once dominated earth's landscape, and more! webwitchweekly.beehiiv.com/p/web-witch-...

(The "generative art" zines I've catalogued & link to are cool small weird (& often everyone-can-learn-to-code-too explainer-accompanied) art like @galaxykate.bsky.social @tinysubversions.bsky.social Allison Parrish etc do, not "use this Microsoft AI tool")

🧵 links to just #zines I've catalogued w/specific topics: "better together" (community building, collective structures, solidarity airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...); trans+feminist tech (incl tech tutorials airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...); make/craft/generative art/data art airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...) +

hi, i'm hetvi or vi in the suspension of time between xmas and new year, like many of us, i think about calendars a lot i also love working with code in general as an artistic medium (shoutout p5js!) in the past few years, i've made up a ritual of coding up a 'generative' calendar every year

Merry Cristae! Thanks to Hetvi for the art: @vuisnotabot.bsky.social

Israeli forces severely beat an elderly Palestinian man on his land in Aqraba, occupied West Bank, according to Mayor Salah Jaber. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/01rafa

The Weekly Creative Code Challenge #WCCChallenge is a beginner friendly jam for art and code lovers I review your submissions every Sunday on twitch.tv/sableraph 🎙️😃

RTs much appreciated... would love to reach both AMR and biomath folks! "Evolutionary accumulation modelling in AMR: machine learning to infer and predict evolutionary dynamics of multi-drug resistance" arxiv.org/abs/2411.00219 We think EvAM methods have some potential in AMR. 🧵

i love my friends so much. good night

It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions! Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa... Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...

www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/ - listening to this as i make my silly little bar charts, histograms and clustering plots today

Systems and signals group in Imperial maths led by Nick Jones. Stay tuned for our latest research on #mitochondria #aging #genetics #biomathematics #physicalbiology #networks and #ML. We blog at systems-signals.blogspot.com and there's more about us here profiles.imperial.ac.uk/nick.jones/a...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu6-... @alexander-avila.bsky.social reflecting on this over lunch, such a good explanation of fascism

Israel has unleashed a series of air attacks on the Gaza Strip that killed nearly 90 people, including many children in their sleep.

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO PROVIDING USEFUL ALT ON BLUESKY 1/ ALT's sole function on Bluesky is to provide an autonomous & as fully equivalent an experience of an image as possible for the blind/VI & neurodivergent If you can see it & read it, I should be able to feel or hear it without leaving Bluesky

🚨 Massive Victory! 🚨 CCI has imposed a historic penalty of ₹213.14 cr (approx. $25.25 M) on Meta for abusing its dominant position via WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy. IFF submitted expert information as an informant. Let’s break it down 🧵👇1/10 […]

hello london based folk, join ur local renters unions!! linktr.ee/londonrenter...

Today is #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance. This year, we remember 350 trans people who were murdered. In the past 15 years, more than 5000 murders are documented, most of them trans women of colour in the Global South. We mourn the dead. We fight like hell for the living.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin