Didem Stark (she/her)

World Wide Eavesdropping

Does it sell your secrets though?

Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.

#Iwantoneofthose

I'm guessing next incoming: agentic priest bots coming for 24/7 confessions, free in exchange of your deepest secrets

On top of everything she ever was and is, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the best romance writers I've ever read. Every time I am reading her books, I rediscover this feeling over and over again.

Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome - Nature A metagenomic survey of babies attending the first year of nursery detected extensive baby-to-baby microbial strain transmission, pointing to social interactions in infancy as crucial drivers of infan...

Another way of saying "we will all get so much stomach flu in the first year of daycare"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

3:30 am in the morning, kiddo wakes up saying
-The wall clock is about to stop. We need to find batteries, and change its batteries.
me: Go back to sleep, the clock is working
kiddo: repeats again
me; repeat again
goes on...
# existential philosophical dialogues in the middle of the night

-Anne, sin Apfelschorle
(kiddo, wanting apple juice but does not want bubbly water in it).
How is your multikulti family doing?
Also the 4th language is not involved in this sentence, yes, we do acknowledge it.

Yesterday, I was invited to give a talk at the @irtg2804.bsky.social (International Research Training Group 2804). It was a great experience. I talked about „Bias and Fairness in Clinical AI: Implications for Women’s Brain Health“, and we had a very engaging discussion at the end.

3 year old asking for that cheerful Balkan Song they like upon waking up, it is not even 7 am yet.
We get up and start dancing in the middle of the living room.
Kiddo: "Mama, I am happy"
Me too kiddo, me too. What a wonderful way to start our days.

Went back to Berlin after some time, a) Instantly feels like home, so made me smile b) relatedly, I swear small town vibes already rubbed off on me, I felt like the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, with that smile on my face and classical Berliner face of other Ringbahn passengers "WTF is wrong with her"

Kiddo: "Look at this, I am flying!"
sitting on my back when I am doing planks during yoga.

" I think our silence is an ethical failure that will be read by the next generation of scientists, and by the communities we ask to trust us."

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

I wanna see Spotify wrapped parents edition: Congratulations! You have listened 862.5 hours of rockaby baby, putting you in the top 5% of parents, followed by 527 hours of dandini dandini, and 972 hours of various flavors of ceviz adam. Longest loop was 82 times, level: admirable patience.

Nothing is more healing then the 3 year old asking if you too want to be caressed, then stroking your face before sleeping, and whispering they love you.🥹

Dear uni IT people, one does not roll out a new feature right before the holidays. In fact one goes for code freeze in the second half of December. Or whoever is designing your KPIs is completely clueless, if you 'had to do this before the end of the year'

@emp1.bsky.social 😊

I didn't even go as far to suggest Susan Calvin 😱

Contemporary Asimov: Dr Susan Calvin, but as a big time social media influencer

Okay time to add Asimov into any intro to AI curriculum maybe?

my brain is practising implosive screams into its own void.

Technological hell instead of singularity: somehow, your family misses to close your dead sister's Linkedin account, it is apparently her work anniversary in a job she couldn't have worked in the last 3.5 years, and some of her potentially random connections automatically post congrats under it.

As I read this, my brain immediately brings out the ballad of serenity in the background.

Somehow still an unpopular opinion: workplace socials SHOULD be during working hours, not after.

My kid: I am 3 years old!
Me: True! How old am I?
My kid: 101, mama. You are 101 years old.

Thank you for your brutal honesty, kiddo.

Wait until they also learn that in some cultures/languages, there are multiple words for auntie (depending on which side of the family they belong to), and the not-blood related aunties also follow this based on their proximity to mom or dad.
I didn't get the article until I saw this post btw :)

Have been thinking about making this for a while :)