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Researcher in machine learning and computer vision for science. Senior Group Leader at HHMI Janelia Research Campus. Supporter of DEIB in science and tech.
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me too!
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"CleanBib analyzes any reference list and quantifies the proportion of men and women authors, as well as the proportion of authors from other underrepresented groups, such as Black and Latino neuroscientists. "
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Note that you don't need to be a citizen to have a member of congress represent you, just a resident -- delegates represents everyone who lives in their district
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senator collins was not in the office this morning, but my mom left her this remarkable letter.
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What do you think about Python as a good, generic form for neurosymbolic AI instead of natural language, as it is human and machine-interpretable, but also exact? We have a UI where we specify the program's behavior in python, and your talk a few months ago got me thinking about this.
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I'm concerned about why they are doing this so secretively. They also removed HHMI employee demographics from the website, and the whole DEI landing page diversity.hhmi.org
webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20240724...
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Pre-inauguration, they said changes were spurred by the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling and concerns that HHMI programs may be deemed illegal by the current justice system. As a non-lawyer, I asked how bad it was to get sued vs preemptively killing programs, not a popular question.
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It is also disappointing how much I've needed the wayback machine this week as organizations silently change their websites to rewrite history.
web.archive.org/web/20210821...
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The Hannah Gray program had already undergone a major change. In 2022,
"The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to recruit and retain individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds'
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reiserlab.github.io/Modular-LED-...
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looks peaceful
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My group works on a range of topics spanning 3D vision, human-in-the-loop learning, and AI for conservation. More info here:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod/
I am particularly keen on supervising projects in the topic of AI conservation. Please reach out if interested.