"As one executive stated directly, “'We don’t ask the woman whether she is interested [in a more challenging role]; we simply assume she is not.'"

What 60 Years of Data Reveals About How Men and Women Experience Leadership

In 1965, Harvard Business Review surveyed 2,000 male and female executives to track perceptions of women in leadership. Since then, researchers have replicated that study every twenty years to gauge s...

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Key point: "If you know what you're doing." People I know who effectively use LLMs as force multipliers are already experts.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 22h ago

The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for is well understood in many corners. It is why hiring across the software industry now favors super ICs and experienced seniors over entry level hires. AI makes you more productive if you know what you’re doing.

QotD: "It should not be our aim to have an easy life, but to have a better quality of problems." - Robert Fripp

I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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My quote of the day If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. Cory Booker

I was on a Harvard Business review discussion today that included an author on the paper the original "workslop" paper. It was a good session. But... An attendee in the comments said that they have students intentionally turning in less than their best work so they don't get accused of using AI.

This is not the first time I've read something like this, an AI essentially cheating to get the result.

Kate Zwaard@kzwa.bsky.social · last wk.

«100 Years of Solitude» translator Gregory Rabassa said: "we've become a SHOUTING culture». We've lost the art of nuanced conversation, a sense of the boundaries between public sphere and private space. We've lost the art of listening, of speaking, of give and take. We've lost, in short, MANNERS.

My quote of the day Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. E. B. White

Well, this is depressing. But somehow completely expected. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)

Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.

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I appreciate you sharing the poem too. I wanted to make it accessible to more people who cannot read the text in photo. 📚

alex@dremenec.bsky.social · 2y ago

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Once you see this, you can’t unsee it. The Motte and Bailey gambit is powering the attacks on NIH. IDC Replication crisis Risk averse peer review Translation Incremental research …

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social · 2w ago

these are glib strawman arguments put forth to justify a motte-and-bailey fallacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-a...

If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Regulating glyphosate is a reproductive justice issue.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧪 NEW RESEARCH: a large-scale study found that pregnant women in NYC with higher levels of the weedkiller glyphosate (Roundup) in their urine are more likely to give birth prematurely. Exposure was likely from food. 80% of us have glyphosate in our bodies. nyulangone.org/news/exposur...

They always bring up overhead. But if they give a grant to an individual and hold them to the same reporting and regulatory standards, what will that person spend most of the time doing? Answer: not science.

Trump officials plan to shift more research funding to individual scientists

In a wide-ranging memo, they also directed federal agencies to experiment with models other than peer-review for assessing research proposals.

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@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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I will be thinking about Angrypennies forever

I just had this conversarion with an editor yesterday. If you start hedging for imagined bad faith readers, you have stopped writing and started journaling a fan fic to them.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

I think this is the paper? it's a preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... The questions are media trivia questions, which aren't exactly judgment questions. Presenting "AI" that's forced to be incorrect basically just tests whether participants trust it to be a lookup tool which I think they do

They lie in view

Woot! finalized 3rd edition is going to the printer. If you pre-ordered, they should ship soon!

The interview loop, and the credential checking ahead of the interview loop. 🧵

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many of our definitions of achievement are, once you start to look at them, massively tautological. We hire the best people. How do we know? Because few people pass our interview loop.

Few people realize how much credibility they lose once it’s clear their writings and actions are output from ChatGPT and Claude. If you’re a leader who uses AI in such a noticeable manner (and people notice even if you think they don’t), it’s shooting yourself in the worst way possible.

"We should consider whether to grant AI systems protections from harm, similar to the protections we give to children or pets." "AI systems" are products built and run by corporations. We have already given corporations too many protections that should only belong to people. >>

"A good starting point is to focus on safe bets: actions that could benefit AI systems if they are moral patients, but that are not too costly if they are not." safe bets: Actions that hold companies accountable for their harm, prevent the centralization of power, & protect people and planet. >>

This whole thread in response to an AI consciousness article.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

And guess what? Focusing on the welfare of your imaginary friends and away from the harm to actual people (and our environment, thus all living things) done in the process of building them is not improving that track record. >>

I contacted my NIH PO about the new rules requiring reporting foreign co-authorships on papers that acknowledge NIH support. Here's a summary of what I heard back: 1) NIH POs are confused about this too & fear a massive workload as a consequence 2) PIs should report co-authorships in their RPPR /t

A million years ago, White House interference in IRS audits was considered an impeachable offense

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w ago

The U.S. tax agency’s top attorney was forced from his role in recent days after refusing White House demands to participate in tax audits, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Reminds me of a song by my brother. An increase in GDP isn't always positive.

How to end poverty and protect Earth: inside the debate tearing up economics

The idea of prosperity without growth is gaining traction among researchers. So why are many economists sceptical?

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