kakape.bsky.social
science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
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Key finding: The 17 now-fired members of ACIP have on average published 49 papers on vaccines or vaccination.
The 8 members who succeed them averaged only 11 papers. Four of them have never published about the topic at all.
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Vielen Dank unter anderem an @reniefr.bsky.social und @hh-tomte.bsky.social für ihre Fragen.
Und natürlich an @sebastianoehm.bsky.social, @jeannecrassousiscr.bsky.social und Gerd Folkers, die für die Folge mit uns gesprochen haben.
Wer uns unterstützen mag:
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Yes. I’m being a bit flippant and shouldn’t be. I might have spent too much time listening to people who seem to autocomplete sentences without much thinking…😅
I do think in distinguishing our mind from LLMs/AI some people tend to mythologize our brain’s ability a bit …
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Ha! That’s my stock answer when people say: Oh you’re overestimating what LLMs actually do. “Yes maybe I am and maybe you are overestimating what our brain actually does”
Though when I’m totally honest I’m not sure I believe this myself. We will probably find out though…
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“Even basic commands like “cover me” were misunderstood — interpreted by troops as calls for gunfire rather than tactical positioning. Whereas police officers are taught to use time, distance and de-escalation, soldiers are trained to apply overwhelming force.”
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But:"jargon in more incomplete explanations is a double-edged sword. It can boost explanatory satisfaction and deference to experts, but can also decrease comprehensibility and calibration. Accordingly, the inclusion of jargon in scientific explanations should ultimately depend on context and goals"
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"While we focus on jargon, other cues (such as inscrutable graphics or formulas) could play similar roles. We expect such cues to be superfluous and even harmful when interactions allow experts to convey complete explanations, since they decrease comprehensibility without promoting satisfaction."
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God no. But it’s an investigating a paradox I have wondered about.
One of the authors, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, actually has a thread here:
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One of the authors, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, actually has a thread here:
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And as with the pandemic it’s hard to know where to put that feeling.
Why do people have to witness the devastation before they can accept it? Why are decades of accumulated knowledge of
our species not enough?
Inspite of everything I have learnt about trust etc that still does my head in..
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when you're right, you're right.
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Ignoring mpox and its spread in African countries puts the whole world at risk. We have a vaccine that can effectively stop the outbreak but access in the parts of the world that need it most remains a challenge. We have to keep speaking about this. Thanks @kakape.bsky.social
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Wer nachlesen möchte:
Den Artikel von @honigsbaum.bsky.social findet ihr hier
markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/the-next-p...
Und einen Artikel zu der Beobachtung im Budongo-Wald hier
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And always follow the money...
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Here’s what we can expect: Musk painting an image of focusing on his companies 24/7 and myth building around sleeping in factories and tolerating pain. He loves telling a good story.
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“This is a difficult moment for our profession, for our nation, for our world. But remember, while none of us gets to choose the times into which we are born, we do get to choose how we meet that moment with reticence or resilience, with complacency or courage, with fear or with faith.”