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UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
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Gold standard science

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

i like the concept of bluesky i really do but it’s just that people here keep holding me accountable for the things i do and say

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

Thank you Gemini. h/t @yonahfreemark.com‬

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Of course this has nothing to do with what is going on at the major medical journals and everything to do with making sure that HHS has complete control over what government scientists say in their scientific publications.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

I mean, sure, but the ends still don’t justify the means.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Here are the antimagaclub spammers replying not once but four times to a single thread of mine, a thread that has nothing to do with politics. I block and report a half-dozen of new accounts from them every day and have complained repeatedly. Come on, @moderation.bsky.app! Block that URL.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

“But even if you do not “produce” something, eg as a birder who just likes to watch birds, it is still something people value in you. That is because Spinozist full expression of yourself is virtuous.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

“The federal government announced Wednesday that it is cancelling a contract to develop a vaccine to protect people against flu viruses that could cause pandemics….citing concerns about the safety of the mRNA technology being used.” Courting mass death to own the libs.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Despite court orders, none of the 278 men illegally remanded to CECOT prison have been returned to the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Representative democracy relies on the ability of voters to be heard by those they elect to represent them. For several years I've been writing about how generative AI can facilitate man-in-the-middle attacks on this system. @ketanjoshi.co's post highlights a striking case out of Canada.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Many don't know that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is in charge of everything from issuing daily weather forecasts to tracking hurricane development, managing our fisheries and coastal resources, and so much more. Learn more TODAY at 4 PM EDT: wclivestream.com/watch/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I remember in high school being like wait Sir Francis Drake was like "property rights for Spaniards would kill the buccaneer industry" and the English government was just like yeah true ok?

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Dating myself here but I'm old enough to remember when space ships didn't regularly blow up on launch and when they did it wasn't laundered by the paper of record as a mixed success.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

I'm trying to fill out an NIH progress report. It's instructions like this (reached after following a half-dozen other steps and reading a half-dozen other web pages, like a like kid on a treasure hunt) that makes me think that LLMs may have serious value. *This is a pre-Trump mess, FWIW.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

FDA chief Marty Makary says that diabetics should be given cooking classes instead of insulin. I found the textbook.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Today the Republican government continued its all-out attack on higher ed by terminating all remaining federal contracts with Harvard and by halting any further scheduling of student VISA interviews. Thank goodness our wise and noble universities have found the solution: Civility Transcripts.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments