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submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My speech for the Philly #StandUpForScience Protest. Everything I do is for my community 💜✨

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies. What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

submitted 31 days ago • 98 comments

The ongoing fascist attack on trans and queer people doesn’t look as blatant as the nazi sacking of the Institute for Sexual Research. It’s happening piece by piece through cowardice and compliance. It is just as terrible and devastating even without a book burning.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 46 days ago • 512 comments

fyi, for any cis folks w/ cash to burn who want to state their support for trans kids, teens, and adults in no uncertain terms, Transfigure Print Co. are good folks making really cool shit. transfigureprintco.com

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

This is really bleak, they're attacking all animal research with the ranking Democrat, Shantel Brown, agreeing with Nancy Mace. Brown goes on to state that AI and 3D printing give us "better and more accurate results" compared to actual biology.

submitted 53 days ago • 20 comments

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

submitted 66 days ago • 291 comments

HANG IN THERE BABY!! #art

submitted 68 days ago • 39 comments

Each and every one of us is a creature of possibility, whether we recognize it or not. One of my favorite pieces for atmos.

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

submitted 74 days ago • 34 comments

I think this is what a lot of non-creative people don't get about art. That it's not a process that can be optimised for maximum efficiency - the milling around and trying things and scrapping them and building on the core of a good idea those less good ideas had is the process.

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

I did this a while ago, and it is amazing and horrifying how it continues to be relevant every year since Climate change will come for us all in its own ways region by region, but you’re seeing it do so in live time right now in Southern California

submitted 82 days ago • 7 comments

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

submitted 85 days ago • 32 comments

I've downloaded & re-uploaded (in a trimmed fashion to fit in the 1 minute limit) the video from X to ensure that it will continue to be available (& ensure that people have an easier time experiencing how awful this truly is).

submitted 157 days ago • 30 comments

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

submitted 106 days ago • 1113 comments

I always like to remind , that the study of Alpha Males comes from captivity . Wolves in the wild just form useful caring clans www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...

submitted 117 days ago • 5 comments

Scientists who study sex variables ("differences")- now more than ever you need to be extremely specific and careful when you discuss sex in your work and with the public. Our language can be weaponized against sex and gender minorities, and justify policy trying to restrict them from public space.

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

submitted 130 days ago • 138 comments

This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.

submitted 193 days ago • 79 comments

Scientists: who are the people who you think have made the biggest impact in making STEM more inclusive? My (not exhaustive) list below.

submitted 202 days ago • 35 comments

It's Paralympics time (yay!) please I am begging you be cool and normal about this. Celebrate athletes for their skill, being at the top of their game, and dedicating years to their work, not for 'overcoming disability.'

submitted 216 days ago • 6 comments

STRONG ENDORSE. Do you need that NNA (nifty new acronym)? No, you do not. No, not even if - No, not even then. (I have sinned this way in my career. I regret nearly every one.)

submitted 229 days ago • 1 comment

Artists and creatives time and time over are talking about how what we do is both loved and looked down on. Our work is often desired deeply for so many things, our skills are often seen as very useful—but our same work is devalued to the point where tech is used to poorly replicate us

submitted 402 days ago • 4 comments

we are all calvin's dad

submitted 285 days ago • 38 comments

join me, please, in calling them what they are: predictive models ChatGPT is a predictive text model CoPilot is a predictive code model Stable Diffusion is a predictive image model they are not generative. they predict what something you described might be like. they do not make that thing

submitted 379 days ago • 24 comments

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question" They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like. Which is very, very, very different

submitted 379 days ago • 49 comments

Really solid response essay from Julia Doubleday in The Gauntlet. "Most of all, no one relishes watching their loved ones react with annoyance and anger rather than solidarity and empathy as they attempt to survive a new normal designed to infect them." www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-p...

submitted 385 days ago • 2 comments

No joke, in one of my academic sessions this year, I made the residents draw middle ear anatomy. Drawing is an incredibly useful education tool. #medsky 🩺

submitted 396 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve said this before: the point of reviewing and summarizing a body of knowledge isn’t to have the summary, it is to have done the work of summarizing so the knowledge is loaded into the brain of the researcher and influences their future thinking. Automating review skips over its intrinsic purpose

submitted 424 days ago • 11 comments

We cannot even begin to discuss introducing AI into the workforce until we get rid of the concept that one must work to earn a living, that one must work to justify living. Replacing workers doesn't get them more free time, it gives them poverty and death.

submitted 425 days ago • 16 comments

i am less convinced that AI is going to replace jobs than i am that companies are going to cut jobs on the premise of AI replacing them and then hire those people back as contractors for less money and fewer protections, because that’s what’s happened a lot in the last 20 years.

submitted 497 days ago • 26 comments

The sex binary is dead! Long live sex diversity & variability! Sex is one of the greatest sources of variation seen in life. How do we advance the scientific study of sex across the animal kingdom? Read our latest article in Hormones & Behavior to find out! 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence

submitted 500 days ago • 4 comments

I did the cover for the November issue of Scientific American! I also did the inside spread for the cover story, but I’ll post that another day. A huge thanks to longtime favorite art director Michael Mrak for bringing me into this project. A lot of love went into everything, and I hope that shows

submitted 516 days ago • 28 comments

Alan Bean fourth man to walk on the moon, bless him, spent his retirement taking up painting as a way to try to express how it felt. Some of these paintings have moon dust in them that he shook out of the mission patches or other souveniers they let him keep.

submitted 516 days ago • 20 comments