People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
Julia Montgomery 🪷
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computational protein engineering scientist 🧪 membrane protein enthusist, tamer of enzymes. cookin' up cool science and even better recipes. (she/her)
“This is what Nolan draws a parallel with today. Our civilization has failed and lost its values, above all the ability to preserve justice and mercy, and it is perhaps too late to change course.” angelusnews.com/arts-culture...
As a Classics professor, I expected ‘The Odyssey’ to fail. I was wrong.
Even when Christopher Nolan departs from Homer, his "Odyssey" remains faithful to the deeper logic of the epic poem.
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Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment
Ryan Grim wants Dr. Fauci prosecuted because we didn't know everything about COVID-19 a month after it was discovered.
The fact that the Democratic leadership has mobilized against the faction of their party ^that's actually winning elections hand over fist* over the white nationalist fascists who actually threaten our democracy is a gigantic tell. The Democratic leadership are just cooked Inverted Totalitarianists.
@inprep.bsky.social - a non stop torrent of satire #Chemsky
In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · last mo.
Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...
Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of De novo Protein Design
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design at the University of Copenhagen seeks to appoint two new group leaders in de novo protein design from 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. These positions will be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level and associated with the Department of Biology (Faculty of Science) or the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology (Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences).
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The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.
It would be hard to find a better metaphor than the ongoing tragi-comedy of the algal bioreactor project (previously the reflecting pools) in Washington DC, emblematic of knee-jerk big decisions made about the US scientific enterprise without any thought to long term (even short-term) consequences.
My Mayor Muslim My bagel Jewish A Illegal War? We Lost in Month 4.
One of the Great Blue Heron nests has four nestlings. These are very busy Great Blue Heron parents to be raising so many young ones, most nests have two or three.
They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
$900 million to pay companies to not do wind energy and $400 million for the ballroom, that’s $1.3 billion or ~1,300 3 to 4-year NSF awards.
One of the biggest contributors to scientific scepticism among laypeople, IME, is these idiotic nutritional epi studies that come out with conflicting results every year and are uncritically picked up by credulous journos looking for clickbait. Get in the 🗑️. #episky #statsky
Tamar Haspel@tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou know that coffee & dementia study that's going around? It's hogwash. For starters, it's not pre-registered (that I could find), which means it may have been the product of a fishing expedition looking for dementia associations. But even if it's not ... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Ok people!!! I believe we may be taking March 7th NATIONAL! This will require financial support. Last year, nationwide, the protests cost $75,000. We need all the help we can get! Help us fuel the fight here: www.standupforscience.net/donate @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience
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New preprint🚨 Imagine (re)designing a protein via inverse folding. AF2 predicts the designed sequence to a structure with pLDDT 94 & you get 1.8 Å RMSD to the input. Perfect design? What if I told u that the structure has 4 solvent-exposed Trp and 3 Pro where a Gly should be? Why to be wary🧵👇
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 8mo agoYesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
AI will absolutely not do this in the way he describes. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
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Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 9mo agolmao
If avoiding a painful and disfiguring rash - and potentially permanent nerve pain and nerve damage - isn’t enough for you, multiple studies have also shown that shingles vaccination can lower dementia risk, possibly up to 20%
J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · 9mo agoIn the US: If you're 50 or older (or 19/older & immunocompromised), please get vaxxed against shingles. It's no joke. "With more than a million infections a year, herpes zoster affects nearly 1 in 3 adults and is now recognized as a systemic inflammatory event... www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
Tapping the sign so hard my finger goes through it
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · last yr.Saying I'm sorry or I was wrong is harder for most people than saying I love you and it's a truly fucked up situation. It also explains 99.9% of social media. Discourse often happens because some dickhead just can't be wrong.
when you agree enthusiastically with the headline is exactly when you should be most careful to stop and read the article, or even several articles, with a critical eye. things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.
piranha cibernética espacial@thatcyberslut.bsky.social · 10mo agoi’m seeing a lot of reposts of the “AWS CEO said 75% of their code is now committed by AI” or something, and its source is Elon Musk mocking the AWS CEO with the very picture people are reposting like it’s a news article.