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mihaelav.bsky.social

@mihaelav.bsky.social

Researcher, Responsible AI, human-AI interaction, Microsoft, cats, yoga, 🌈Bramily, 💜Brandi Carlile💜. Opinions are my own. she/her

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes. The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year. That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH. 1/

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.

The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

French researcher refused entry to the US because he expressed person opinions about research in the US that were critical of the current administration www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »

Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

lemonde.fr

Darin Self@darinself.com · last yr.

It clear that if you are a US based academic, but not a citizen, leaving for conferences is no longer an option. I also don't see it too much of a stretch for them to start harassing US citizens on re-entry.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last yr.

what's funny about this is chatbots just scour language-based interactions and respond with a version of what seems to be the typical reply, right? so what this tells us is not that a computer program has anxiety but that, in its dataset, the usual response to 'i'm freaking out' is 'girl, same!! 😬'

screenshot of article by Alexander Nazaryan, published on March 17, 2025, reading as follows Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAl's artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share “traumatic narratives” about crime, war or car accidents. And when chatbots get stressed out, they are less likely to be useful in therapeutic settings with people. The bot's anxiety levels can be brought down, however, with the same mindfulness exercises that have been shown to work on humans.
John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · last yr.

Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

10 of the leading AI chatbots regurgitate Russian propaganda www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

newsguardrealitycheck.com

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · last yr.

The pages featured short biographies about the people buried in the cemetery, including Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hector Santa Anna, a B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen wapo.st/4isEBv8

Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans

Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.

wapo.st

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · last yr.

ALERT: I've heard from a high up source that Slotkin is against the GOP funding bill, but Gary Peters may vote for it. If you're in Michigan, please call both. Tell Slotkin thank you, and urge Peters to vote against cloture (not just against the bill). Peters: 202-224-6221 Slotkin: 202-224-4822

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW from my team: a framework that walks AI product teams step-by-step through understanding and mitigating the risk of overreliance on AI. This happens when ppl accept incorrect AI outputs, b/c we … learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/pla...

Overreliance on AI: Risk Identification and Mitigation Framework

This article describes a framework that helps product teams identify, assess, and mitigate overreliance risk in AI products.

learn.microsoft.com

Adriana Guatame-García@guatamite.bsky.social · last yr.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card. BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers. This is fucking sickening. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

zeteo.com

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, but not at work: went to dentist because a crown he had put in last week is uncomfortable. He told me I have mental issues. I walked out as he kept yelling at me in front of his staff. Unhappy international woman's day!

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

Think we’re over misogyny in the workplace? Things that happened at work in the past couple of days, done by kind men who in theory are feminists: meeting, white man asks the one brown woman in the room to take notes.

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

Think we’re over misogyny in the workplace? Things that happened at work in the past couple of days, done by kind men who in theory are feminists: meeting, white man asks the one brown woman in the room to take notes.

mihaelav.bsky.social@mihaelav.bsky.social · last yr.

Very unhappy international women’s day. Remember that if you’re not actively feminist and anti-racist you are enforcing systems of oppression that in theory you might not even agree with. Educate yourself. I’m so fucking tired.