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F_vaggi on Twitter. Senior staff scientist at Google X, previously Amazon.
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The fallout from the 2022 Alzheimer’s fraud story is still landing:

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

Decouple your emissions from economic growth with this one simple trick

There is this weird (to me) push back against people doing important work like this, and one of the arguments repeatedly used is that so called "data slueths/police/thugs/stasi" etc have so much power. It's such a comically false premise. The power to be constantly ignored!?

My team at X is looking for a machine learning scientist! x.company/careers/7944... - experience applying ML to biology / scientific problems a strong plus. Happy to chat more if anyone is interested and wants to learn more. Warm referrals very welcome.

Remember when crypto was supposed to be a hedge against inflation?

I’ve put together a short list of opportunities for early career academics willing to come to Europe: www.cvernade.com/miscellaneou... This mostly covers France and Germany for now but I’m willing to extend it. I build on @ellis.eu resources and my own knowledge of these systems.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths of poverty stricken children and adults due to the closing of USAID. Every vote for Trump was a vote for this awful and murderous decision.

“For people like myself who have long taken pride in PEPFAR, it’s been painful and horrifying to watch this lifesaving work grind to a halt without a justification or even acknowledgment that it’s happening.”

In an effort to improve my own media diet - if someone has come across good articles on art/nature/history/science that are *not* about the current political moment/cultural criticism, please share!