been awhile since i updated my intro. howdy, I'm Teal (they/them)! MS in computer science student studying #LGBTQ health and digital health interventions for mental healthcare. former software engineer and researcher of software engineering #intro #introduction #nonbinary #trans #queer

Excited to share that my first study has been published! We found that open source repositories with clear testing expectations had more merged PRs that included test changes. A small documentation change may encourage better testing from contributors. Accepted to FSE: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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I wish we could just be honest about why we dislike LLMs. Just like the complaints of large amounts of water usage, even though the beef industry uses so much more. And, I'm aware this is controversial, but neither are necessities. It's ok to just say you dislike the hallucination machine

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4w ago

Yes, there are about 250 million cars and SUVs in the U.S. that nearly all run on gasoline and they make about 1,000 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year and they stay on the road for 12-20+ years.

the reproducibility crisis in research, frankly of most all fields, is not just an existential threat to the validity of the science itself but also a threat for any such paper to be translated into something used in the real world. it's a threat for our work to make a difference and needs addressed

Meta analyses but instead of using real data, we just use what the hallucination machine thought might be what someone could think

Sabrina Norwood@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

The justices have rejected a petition from Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the state a decade ago. https://bit.ly/3XpQfOA

Supreme Court declines to hear marriage equality case

For the second time, the Supreme Court rejected Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges.

19thnews.org

I would love to understand why people use AI for wikipedia. Like they want a page to exist but don't want the effort of doing it? I just cannot comprehend. If I want to create something, I do it. And if i don't, i take that to mean that i don't really want it which is ok.

Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer@radobrien.myatproto.social · 10mo ago

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

using a pomodoro timer, but taking a 8 hour nap between each work interval

I was asked to guest lecture for an undergrad software engineering class to teach about software testing. Which is an interesting challenge. How do I condense a decade of experience into just 2 weeks of lecture so as to impart onto all the young people how and why we should test #academicsky

one of my classmates used an LLM to come up with a shorter file name for a document #LLMOverreliance

Watching a student repeatedly probe chatgpt to write for him and then copy the text into an AI detector and seeing it all shows as AI. he's spent more time talking to chatgpt than it would take to just write it himself

You know back in my day, when people got an honorary doctorate, they were told about it. But apparently I just got one lol #AcademicSky

I'm begging CS students to stop treating every class project as an opportunity to build a startup. you can just make a project for class and that be it. no it doesn't need to be the next unicorn

I don't understand how you can fully endorse someone for president and not know the basics of their policies.

StrangeBrickDroog@strangebrickdroog.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We need to unify behind certain people. Just curious as to what your main issue is with Newsom?

you ever think about how much duplication of research or lost insights there are because English speakers only ever read research that's in English? #academicsky

X rights are human rights is such a useless slogan. people who support human rights already support X rights. and then people on the other side, they think that X are just trying to get more rights than them

i'm looking forward to this whole weekend being poor air quality alerts because some people can't not set off sparkly explosions all night long

this was posted in april and is still what the google AI says now. bruh

Nicholas Kole@nicholaskole.bsky.social · last yr.

I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-

this was honestly one of the hardest parts for me growing up. i assumed if we had proof of something, that people would obviously just implement that. but instead we have tons of evidence but peoples pride and ego are more important than facts

maybe this is just my observation bias, but i feel like most people accept the whole nazi bar analogy about twitter. but some reason they don't apply that logic anywhere else. i asked someone how they can play rust given how racist the community is and he just said he tunes it out. sir what?

forget having a baby to save a relationship — have you ever tried starting a charity to save your relationship? gotta say, i dont advise it

you know how well after getting out of school, you still have nightmares about like missing an exam or something. well i decided that instead of just letting that be a nightmare, i wanted that to possibly actually happen. so good news, i'm going back to college

i don't understand why cishet men so desperately want to be oppressed. i told a cishet dude that he was on a queer app (Lex) and he can use literally every other app on the planet. he told me i was persecuting and discriminating against him. cry me a river

I've always so curious about people who write LGBTQIA but in different orders or leaving letters out. like why are you writing LGBTQA or LGBTI? what's the reason? it always feels suspect to me #pridemonth

this is why we need to be hyper vigilant when we see posts that are trying to divide the left. who benefits from the left fighting itself instead of fighting fascism?

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember this next time a flood of “support” or “outrage” shows up in your feed. It may not even be real.

ok, but why does abercrombie's kid section have actually pride stuff while the adult's doesn't?

Lee Knox Ostertag@leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · last yr.

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

cw: gun violence and antisemitism i love how despite him saying he wanted the guns to "deliver God’s wrath" and "settle scores", the gun shop worker still proceeded with the sale. arabamericannews.com/2025/05/30/d...

Dearborn man pleads guilty in federal gun charge after threatening Jewish temple visitors in Detroit area

Dearborn man pled guilty to a federal gun charge that could carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years. He also threatened to kill visitors at Jewish temple.

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Due to all the claims that em dashes — these guys — are a sign that something is written with AI — I have now decided — whilst eating dinner — to use them excessively — and yes I will use them — incorrectly

when you see posts like this, you have to think, who benefits from this? a post trying to cause liberal and leftist fighting, who benefits from that?

Humble Novice@humblenovice.bsky.social · last yr.

Apparently, a growing number of radical leftists are returning to Twitter due to their distaste of Bluesky supposedly catering more to liberals than them. They're free to leave this platform if they wish.

people talk about male gaze this or female gaze that. but no one ever talks about intersex gaze. I just want to feel included in all the gazing