Morgan Thompson
@morgankthomp.bsky.social
Philosopher of Science. Interested in measurement, technology, data ethics, and social change. Enjoys games, sci fi, cats. She/her
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
nytimes.com
Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
nytimes.com
For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
1/ The cyclosporiasis foodborne outbreak continues to grow, and there’s A LOT of conflicting information out there. So the YLE team compiled answers to some of the top questions we’re seeing to bring the nuance you may be looking for.
6/ The recall still stands. The false positive was on lettuce coming from Mexico that was NOT part of the recall. If that had been a true positive, then we would need a larger recall. Even with the reversal, the FDA still sayTaylor Farms is linked to the outbreak as all other evidence points to them
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
Looking forward to Uljana’s keynote and what looks to be a fantastic conference! Hard choices to be made regarding the parallel sessions.
Uljana Feest@ufeest.bsky.social · 3w agoHeading to Cambridge today: spspcambridge2026.com/program #spsp #philsci #hps
Great to see innovation among gynecological tools. Tenaculum placement is typically the second most painful part of intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, so this is great news!
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
Great to see innovation among gynecological tools. Tenaculum placement is typically the second most painful part of intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, so this is great news!
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?
A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take patients more seriously.
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as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?
Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
ALT: Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
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Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.
Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures
A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies
science.org
Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last mo.Signed as soon as I read it. True, some philosophers will cheerlead for free (due to their tech optimism or with the expectation of funding later) and such behaviour is not covered by the proposed policy. But it would still be useful to be able to detect some cheerleading worth discounting.
Enjoying my time in Wales this week! The juxtaposition of mountains and sea are more beautiful than photos can capture.
What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:
Enjoying revisiting our Scotland holiday from seven years ago when Michael and I were engaged. It’s now in celebration of 5 years married.
After 16 years with Fluffy, we had to say goodbye. She had a lovely morning and got to eat fish again this last week (as we were no longer worried about her kidneys). I will miss this sweet, goofy girl. Hug your furry friends tonight.
Can social scientists use genomic tools to make claims about complex phenomena like equality while also steering behavioural genomic research away from determinism? My new paper argues that sociogenomic research on gene-environment interaction (GxE) faces significant challenges on both fronts.
Credibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
This paper provides a philosophical examination of the integrative field of sociogenomics which seeks to incorporate genomic tools into social science research on individual outcomes. I characterise s...
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This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
If you work on values in science, and have noticed that the literature is a bit too focused on values in science in Anglophone democracies – and that it therefore stays silent on issues that we should be talking about – please consider submitting an abstract to our workshop! (24–25 August, Helsinki)
CFP – Pre-conference workshop: Values in science in the rest of the world
24–25 August 2026, Helsinki – just before ENPOSS 2026 Keynote speakers: David Ludwig (Wageningen University) Karoliina Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki) The idea that social, political and ethical ...
blogs.helsinki.fi
The tulip bulbs don’t know about Chicago’s Third Winter. :(
Excellent post on financial satisfaction and labor status for graduate students by Kino Zhao @kinozhao.bsky.social at APDA: apda.ghost.io/2025-survey-... Short write up here: dailynous.com/2026/03/10/u...
2025 Survey Results: financial satisfaction and labour status, comparison to 2023
In both the 2023 and 2025 surveys, we asked participants who list as current students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation on a 5-point scale (very unsatisfied, unsatisfied, neutr...
apda.ghost.io
Join us as we sit down with visiting fellow Chris ChoGlueck and learn more about his work here at the Center! #philsci Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8F89ElOJbv4
