“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

theguardian.com

‘Join a union’ isn’t very useful. ‘Here’s how to build a union’ is where it’s at.

I used to collect stamps. Then Dad brought me a whole kilo of them. I don’t collect stamps anymore. - Siv Widerberg, Stamp, from "Contemporary Swedish Children’s Poems" This post is about #openai

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

Please consider signing (and sharing) this petition to save the life of Christa Pike, whom Tennessee is scheduled to execute today. The Sixth Circuit has just issued a stay and it's possible that the Governor can be swayed to grant clemency. actionnetwork.org/petitions/me...

Mercy for Christa: Stop the Execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee

Please sign the petition below asking Governor Bill Lee to do everything within his power to stop Christa's execution.  After adding your name, please ask 5 friends to do the same and share widely on ...

actionnetwork.org

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge. Judge says members of Drug User Liberation Front 'selflessly' put their lives on hold during public health emergency, by @lauvande.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

cbc.ca

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

This story is a great example of when @prisonculture.bsky.social speaks on picking something to focus on, organize around it, and keep at it! You don’t have to do it all, but what you do, could make all the difference.

TW@twesq.bsky.social · 3w ago

this is fantastic and I learned something new

this portrayal, for understandable reasons, softpedals the point. but as far as I can tell, nothing about the rationale in this paragraph depends more than superficially on nationality as a point of comparison - you could make the same argument for preferring saving a life in a richer neighborhood

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3w ago

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

"[T]he current relationship between math and AI companies is both harmful and short-sighted” says Naomi Sweeting, [an MIT prof] and one of the first listed members of the AHM. “We’re trying to build a future that’s good for humans and good for mathematics.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/25-w...

25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline

A new declaration from winners of the Fields Medal reflects many mathematicians’ growing alarm over a “severe misalignment” between the tech industry and their field a week after AI toppled one of mat...

scientificamerican.com

haven't listened yet but it's on the list for this week.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4w ago

I urge everyone to listen to the episode with @margaret.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social for an overview of how the Trumpist attack on autistici/inventati is destroying one of the few remnants of the free internet pca.st/episode/e482...

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

seconding all these messages about union organizing!

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Union organizing has been loads of fun this year, and I want to share a few quick stories from office and lab visits to show that 1) it's not that hard to talk to colleagues, 2) interesting things happen, and 3) you build solidarity in the meantime.

Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them” - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam to Paul Atreides

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

The Association for Human Mathematics has just posted a short announcement of our birth on the Proofs and Prompts website. We need to work together to decide the role we wish for AI to have in mathematics; not let corporations dictate it for us. proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/12/t...

The Association for Human Mathematics

AHM communications group This is a short announcement about the birth of the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM), an organization run collectively by mathematicians at all career stages. Its ma…

proofsandprompts.com

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

nbcnews.com

AI alignment.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

After listening to Max Weinreich’s talk (paper here doi.org/10.48550/arX...), as expected I too am joining the Association for Human Mathematics at ahmath.org. “We stand by our colleagues who choose not to use AI tools […]. In doing so, we affirm the inherent value of human mathematics.”

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

Hear, hear. There is still much to be said for the very human aspects of striving for, finding, and understanding truth.

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

innumeracy is my least favorite flavor of anti-intellectualism and I am very cranky about the false choice we're presented. Do you want to learn math or read books? I'm sorry but you're going to have to do both

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

i'm gonna say one more thing about this. one other aspect of this particular knot of anti-intellectualism is innumeracy. if I told you flooding was a problem in some neighborhood and we needed to figure out how to redistribute water, you probably wouldn't say "oh you mean like a cup?!"

Instinct tells me this will be the first of many.

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

This is a really welcome response to what’s happening with AI and mathematics. Math knowledge shouldn’t become raw material for commercial AI companies to build on, test against and profit from. We should all be supporting the Association for Human Mathematics.

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

#MathSky

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

I am proud to announce that I have joined the Association for Human Mathematics.

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org