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I think we’re ready for a human-only social media platform. None of this “public forum” nonsense works when trolls and bots can dominate the attention economy.

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Everything is fine as long as you don’t look up.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Are we at the beginning of a book or the end?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

When did the CEOs of billion dollar companies become your idols?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Scientists, as well as bureaucrats. This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding. They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Ugh.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You know the thing where a Chinese company announced that they did AI better and Nvidia lost $600 billion in one day? Trump’s actions are going to do that to all US research and development sectors and China is going to rule the world. I can teach y’all Chinese.

submitted 27 days ago • 43 comments

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 31 days ago • 147 comments

“Until we acknowledge that publish or perish is the natural consequence of the rankings obsession, we’re not going to fix anything.” Our Ivan Oransky speaks with @nature.com.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

The posts we don’t make are likely our most impactful. I need a social media of anonymous unposted messages.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Nope. Absolutely not.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

#BookTok, while I've got you here: Could I get some escapist suggestions to read? I like science fiction, fantasy, and finished book series.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The last 3 months of social media news could have been titled: Disrupting Communities Anyone else have title ideas?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

submitted 36 days ago • 2673 comments

To everyone who had to scramble and download their TikTok data before the platform shutdown, now is a great time to come up with a data management plan. TikTok is not the first, nor the last.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

submitted 37 days ago • 778 comments

I fully understand not wanting to join Meta platforms after the TikTok ban. However, IMO, joining some other privately owned platform as a protest against Meta, X, and the government is avoiding the real question: Is the sale of your attention under your control?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

We thought unfettered access to information would free us. That was partly true, yet not true enough.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I sometimes wonder if we'd know if we were in the 𝘍𝘪𝘢𝘵 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘶𝘢 part of A Canticle for Leibowitz. #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasyfiction

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

furiously googles ASEAN

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Would you still use social media if you knew 10% of the people you were communicating with weren't human? How about 50%?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This is probably a good thing. Improving our shared infrastructure for AI will allow us to make the research happening at institutions more cost effective and more environmentally friendly. The real question is how well this resource will be communicated to, and then adopted by, research labs.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

We are teaching children that living with integrity is a fantastical notion best left behind in childhood.

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments

Radon xkcd.com/3037

submitted 41 days ago • 145 comments

Fellow Science People: Why are we still pretending that averaging ordinal categorical responses is a valid thing to do? Is there some positive utility that I'm missing that overrides how meaningless and potentially misleading they are? #statistics #science

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

@microsoft.com Can we talk about how defaulting people to non-local accounts on their Windows 11 installations and then adding their full name (spaces included) as part of the user path is breaking SO MUCH STUFF?! Asking for a friend.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Observation: The rare panic I feel when the car parked beside me starts to back out of their parking space.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, #scicomm folks: How do we make sure that doing public science communication doesn’t become another unpaid labor for academics? Am I already too late?

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Taking window shopping to the extreme! … I’m gonna go.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Did #Wicked really need to be in 4DX?! As if sitting in a salon chair for three hours, repeatedly being kicked in the back by a baby, while landing at Dulles Airport wasn’t enough, I was inconsistently sprinkled with water?! Good movie though.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Folks, I’m Trenton W. Ford, a Data Science Professor at William and Mary where I direct a research lab on Agentic AI, social media, and misinformation. I don’t know how the algorithm works on Bluesky, but I’d like my feed to be full of scientists, gamers, hikers, and stationary obsessed people!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I just want to feel whatever Outer Wilds made me feel again. I could use some game suggestions.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments