Erin Kenzie

Yep, 2002ish

Looking forward to this session next week!

I had an out of body experience at a study abroad psychology course in the NL when the topic was why Turkish immigrants were biologically predisposed to violence.

I was getting my hair cut and my stylist was like wow look at this. We both went to the window to gawk.

Fellow professor here, gently pushing back against this. I believe instructors have an obligation to make accessibility the default as much as possible, and to be proactive about individual accommodations. The administrative processes are there to enforce a minimum standard of accessibility.

Grew up eating Buddy's, now live in Portland. I can smell that video 🤤

This is also a casual-loop diagram without valences.

That's a casual-loop diagram without valences, not a DAG.

But how many people *really* would prefer autonomous vehicles to driving themselves? I can't help but think it's a really small number.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Reporting from war-torn Portland. Dropped my daughter off for theater class and now drinking a vegan sipping chocolate & reading a book while watching people exit the symphony. A guy in a care bear onesie just scootered past. It's rough out here.

We are alive at time of massive self-organization of systems. If you look you'll see the responses everywhere, where the pieces of projects for the common good are caught and lifted back up before they fall fully to pieces. I'm excited to watch this one develop and maybe help it along.

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Heard some out in Tigard too.

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention folks with chronic disease. I have POTS and my doc-recommended electrolyte supplements have been a game changer for me. I'm talking high-quality stuff, not neon sports drinks though.

I great what you're saying and the system is definitely underfunded and broken, BUT community care can be a lifeline for folks in rural communities or who need care not offered by the VA. Reauthorization is confusing and having to do it every 6 months was a barrier to care.

A doctor places a bandaid on the arm of a child.

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Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

This is bonkers. And a very bad sign for science.

We simply cannot afford a doom loop for TriMet. Reduction in service will lead to a reduction in ridership, leading to declining fares, more cuts, 🔁 The cost will be increased congestion, further deterioration in PBOT assets and of course emissions. We can’t afford that. Call your state reps.

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I'm getting them practically every day now.

LLMs as mansplainers. That tracks. Helpful thread about limits of LLM historical knowledge:

Sounds great

Yes, and I'm a systems person who has been noodling with the same idea. Would love to hear your thoughts.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

You use federal science every day—whether you know it or not.

Weather forecasts, food safety alerts, job reports—these are powered by federal data.

NPR just did a great piece on how deeply this science shapes our daily lives.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

What are the consequences of not spending down those funds?

I'm concerned that this manufactured urgency will result in lowered standards for grantees, creating space for hack anti-science orgs. This will be exacerbated by fewer reputable investigators applying.