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real important point, and also as @dsquareddigest.bsky.social was saying, if that agentic idea actually works then the entire internet will be crawling with scam AIs trying to trick your agent

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Most viewed this week from JAMA Network Open: Living within close proximity to golf courses and in water service areas with golf courses was associated with a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease. https://ja.ma/44k5zQ2

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It is impossible for me to stress to you, as one of the authors of the widest-cited paper projecting Aedes aegypti-borne virus risk under climate change, the degree to which we do not need to be worrying about yellow fever epidemics in the United States right now compared to other real things

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The best way to tell that DOGE didn't know what it was doing is that, in the process of killing American science in pursuit of finding "Inefficiencies", we still somehow ended up with different Biosketch and Current/Pending/Other support forms.

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Vaccinating vampire bats against rabies, sure, but also: Vampire bats lick each other to get clean, like cats!

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

www.404media.co/ai-scraping-... They can't even be unobtrusive about their theft.

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Instead of LLMs to steal people's jobs, could we maybe work on developing software with sophisticated AI to tell it I probably don't want to expand a window to 35 inches across?

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Dating myself, but old enough to remember when the R naught for measles in the USA was less than 1

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I keep thinking about how Nature ran a story saying scientists don't have support to study viruses in wildlife trade about a newly funded $23m project, meanwhile the NSF program that funded basic disease ecology in the U.S. for 20+ years has been shut down and no one has even reported it

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"Good teaching requires some intellectual empathy. Considering who your audience is and what they require" - @epidbydesign.bsky.social #SER2025

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Just standing here, asking reviewers for fellowships to double check when an assistant professor started their lab and ask, 'well what might have happened early on in that process that could have slowed down publications?'

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Congratulations to the winners of the poster prize on the final day! #SER2025

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Wondering how to close out your #SER2025 experience? Why not come hear about augmenting your research with simulated and synthetic data methods?

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#EpiSky remember Shiny Epi People? Wasn’t it a fun way to learn about the interests and slightly uninhibited thoughts of the best in the field? Glad I could meet @lisabodnar.bsky.social at #SER2025 and tell her that 😹

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The #SER2025 “Assumption Dysfunction” symposium meme game is strong

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I love @epidbydesign.bsky.social 's peer review policy for questions @ this morning's #SER2025 session! 🤩 All conferences should do this! @societyforepi.bsky.social

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The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends. In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five. In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President. You're being manipulated. Please stop.

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

TIL that Diego Luna was a Zapatista??? BRO

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

10:15am symposia includes the Epi Eras Tour! Grand Ballroom, 2nd floor I have no involvement in this, just fangirling #SER2025

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Cathleen O'Grady coming in with an incendiary title. Featuring @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and myself among others. What we do next still matters even tho we cannot do anything to change the government's course or undo their actions. We can always course-correct ourselves.

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Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 110 days ago • 36 comments

I am (sadly) once again reminded that there are people in the administration, as well as congress, who treat "virology" and "gain of function studies" as synonyms.

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Have you wondered what an artificial neural network really does (and how it might just be regression all the way down)? Well I have a new AJE Classroom paper on the basics of how neural networks work academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

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Star Wars has always been obsessed with mentor-mentee relationships ("do or do not," "trust the force," etc). But Andor is specifically about different ways of running a lab, and how they all go wrong.

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Even ChatGPT o.3 hallucinates papers when asked to do this. Submitting a narrative CV that includes papers that you didn't write and don't exist strikes me as a serious, actionable instance of academic misconduct. TERRIBLE ADVICE from Andrew's office of research services.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

We are through the looking glass now. Do read this

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

submitted 26 days ago • 806 comments

Petition to stop calling them "hallucinations". An LLM is not on a spiritual journey to enlightenment. Your program is producing output that is wrong. We call those bugs. You're shipping buggy code.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

The whole idea that the Democrats can just spin up a "Liberal Joe Rogan" betrays that they fundamentally misunderstand what's going on. I'm a straight, white male who grew up on the Internet. The seeds of this have been being planted since I was a teenager, at minimum.

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Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button: www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

I struggle to understand the decision to look at your product, which is so dominant in the market that is has fully become the verb for participating in that market at all, and going "We should ruin this forever." But then, that's probably why I'm not the CEO of Google.

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So many enraging quotes in this piece that can be summed up with “duh no shit” brought to you by the same group of people who think reinventing things that already exist is genius. futurism.com/doge-operati...

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Saw this question from the other site earlier today and spluttered: No! No chatbot answer is ever 'authentic'! Chatbots are developed by corporations to advance those corporations' aims and the fact that we only occasionally notice they're doing that is The Problem! www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, an official journal of SHEA, is seeking a Pediatrics-focused Associate Editor. Send a brief statement of interest and a current CV to [email protected] by May 15, 2025. bit.ly/4mfztNB

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