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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Great news about research developments on pancreatic cancer-- the disease that took my mother from me when she was 58 years old.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Today I talked to a friend who is using genAI to summarize works of nonfiction so he can absorb info. more efficiently. Then read a recent post by @marcwatkins.bsky.social on reading in the age of genAI. For my 5 y.o., books are very much physical objects. She just drew this: me and her reading

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At what point in time the division between literary fiction and genre fiction reached a point of no return in contemporary literature? Now, anything that resembles plot must be rejected; slice of life is king. Things really went the opposite way Borges thought it would.

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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me in an unfamiliar grocery store

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hey i have a poem in the new issue of LETTERS that's about hope and belief and believe it or not, eggs, if you'd like to take a look. www.lettersjournal.com/i-tell-mysel...

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Tune in to Spotify/Apple next wk for the latest episode of AI podcast @cultureofmachines.bsky.social. In this episode, I chat with Dr. @victoriajane.bsky.social about the impact of generative #AI on #writing and writing education, and the reception of her 2024 article featured in TIME magazine.

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Can AI replace real writers? This is one of the Qs @alexde.bsky.social will explore with @victoriajane.bsky.social next week. Listen on 2/26 to hear about: ✍ Writing as a cognitive process 👩‍🏫 Teaching writing in the genAI era 🤖 How AI shapes language/behavior Spoiler alert: AI can't (for now)

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People don't realize how lazy GenAI use makes 99.9% of users. We've watched real-time as students (and professors) cheating with it has gotten lazier and lazier. Something like "checking the references" just isn't going to happen. We'll see things devolve rapidly unless there are consequences.

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Coming soon! My conversation on writing, teaching, and genAI with @alexde.bsky.social for @cultureofmachines.bsky.social

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Reading an article called "My Roommate Is Letting Chatgpt Write Her Book" and... yes this is what I was expecting.

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And while in a legal battle with OpenAI.. www.theverge.com/news/613989/...

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Got over the flu pretty recently.. and now I have Covid. Plus, last night's wild and freezing wind ripped a shutter right off my house. I heard it being torn off the nails overnight and it was nowhere to be found in the morning. This winter is never going to end.

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A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

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well it was nice being alive with all of you, we had some times didn’t we

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Did I just buy myself flowers for Valentine's Day? Absolutely. That- several "galentines" events with amazing women + a dinner date with my 5 y.o. daughter who has probably told me 50 times this week that she loves me. Doesn't get better than that.

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Send us your work! We are currently accepting submissions for our 2025 Comparative Literature issue @mlnjournal.bsky.social

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Today my daughter's school was closed because roads are icy. Last week closed (one day) for lunar new year. Before that we were out with flu. Next up President's Day and then school closes again for conferences. How does any working parent manage? (I am not managing)

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the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social continues to roll out posts about working with #Chinese language! Here a piece by Maciej Kurzynski (working at 嶺南大學) on #LLMs, #tokens, and their issues when working with Chinese language. digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/04/t...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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A friend once commented that the best day job for a writer is probably not professor (or, in my case, editor) but rather something physical (she suggested working on an oil rig would complement writing better). Thinking about that today as I alternate between editing... and more editing.

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About Place Journal is accepting subs for creative collaboration and ways of being in the world and with each other that challenge myths of exceptional individualism as constructed within colonial and capitalist contexts. Deadline March 1 aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

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Listening to a report on a possible new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (which I have-- and so far the meds I take have not worked) and thinking (angrily) about what the new admin is doing to research funding 😡 www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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monday morning work emailing like "Dear Colleague, I hope the coup finds you well. Please find attached the revised manuscript. Let me know if you have further edits. Until then I remain,"

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My 5 y.o. got her very own library card today- signed her name on the card and checked out books by herself (though she's been using the self-checkout with my card for years- this is different!) She was thrilled I still remember getting my 1st library card. #ProudMomMoment #SupportPublicLibraries

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lol Also me: let's get rid of that unnecessary section break MS Word: absolutely not

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Shout out to all the amazing divorced/separated women I know. I wish my mother had had this kind of community when my father left-- she had great friends, but few who were single. And the stigma around divorce was then so much greater. I am grateful for changing narratives..

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This explains why I feel like I was hit by a truck. Confirmed flu A-- me and my daughter (and her entire preschool class). We were both vaccinated (as were her classmates) and we've been sick for 5 days (and counting). 😭

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From Catherine Barnett's book, Human Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #catherinebarnett #authors #books

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Three+ deadlines converging at the end of this month and my child is home with the flu. Since I am a single parent, I currently have no help-- and a meeting in 5 minutes.

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I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by gallons of coffee

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ChatGPT is down. Quick, tell your students there’s a new paper due tomorrow.

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"Motherhood and writing are complementary, if competing, formal projects, the drip, drip, drip, of concentrated effort supplanted by flashes, or floods, or lactational let-downs, of prose and imagery." @sayanniething.bsky.social reviews Jenny Slate’s "Life Form." lareviewofbooks.org/article/that...

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