I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
The ERC budget for 2026 is 2.7 billion euros 🧪
Would not normally direct anyone to LinkedIn, but read the comments under the Grammarly CEO’s announcement about them pulling the “Expert Review” feature. They are quite illuminating.
It may not be about trying to block career advance for Black scientists without coming right out and saying it, but if it *were* about that, there would be an outcome just like this one.
i only know of "me, you, and julio down by the schoolyard" because of "the royal tenenbaums," but it's been in rotation since that film came out in 2001. youtu.be/JVdlpZ4M-Hw?...
Comrade Public Library 🫡
part of being an '80s kid is understanding that paul simon had some real solo bops that we don't talk about enough. exhibit a will always be "call me al." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-g...
ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
This is the evil we can never forget. They want to eradicate the perspectives of anyone marginalized. That's what grant terminations were based on. Anyone who was saying "let's not talk about DEI to try to save the rest of academia" is dead to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_N...
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I am REALLY excited to share this manuscript from my group now on bioarxiv. Here we used the OAA lectin scaffold to ask can lectins be evolved to have specific interactions for defined glycan structures . www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Big news🥂I'll start my research group at NIMSB!🔥🎉Hard to describe how
HAPPY+EXCITED I am about bringing new #AI #imagedriven biomedical research + growing together🌱I'm grateful to my supervisors,colleagues,collabs+mentors who inspired+encouraged me throughout 🤍
One last practice before my Ted Talk tomorrow morning!
Mentorship Matters: Harnessing Authentic Connection to Cultivate Tomorrow’s Leaders in Genomic Medicine
Hope to see many familiar and new faces there at 9 am in Hall AB. #ACMGMtg26
Therapist: if you can, close your eyes and think of a happy place where nothing bad can touch you
Me:
Mamdani is considering ending free street parking in NYC. This would be another huge boost to NYC residents' quality of life, reducing traffic in ways that would be comparable to congestion pricing. And it would be another step in ending suburban free-riding on NYC.
When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.
But there's also the question about who exactly is pushed into what corner by calling things by their true names. And who's drawn forth by the demonstration of boldness and solidarity. Victims of racism are not the ones who shut down when racism is identified, etc.
Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here.
Life Hack:
I was on the phone w/ an AI customer service agent that was insisting: (a) it couldn't fix the error the company had made, and (b) no live person could speak w/ me.
I then said I'd file a complaint w/ my state's consumer protection office, and I was connected to a human in <1 minute.
Donald Trump owes Illinoisans $8,679,261,600.
That’s $1,700 owed to every household.
I’m demanding Congress end his illegal tariffs, rein in this lawless President, and deliver for working families.
This is neat! (Probably horrible & destructive in some unknown way tho?)
What's My JND? 0.0098
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Just say no to reviewing if you're going to do this. WTF.
Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???
This recently happened to us, with similar tells… infuriating.. you can see how it unfolded in the public peer review file: static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...
<sigh>
One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript.
How do we know?
Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth.
Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.
I would like to congratulate Grammarly’s lawyers for belatedly realizing their shitty AI product was gonna get them class-action yeeted into the sun.
I would also like to encourage Grammerly to eat shit forever and ever amen.
Spring! ☀️
