@chithraadams.bsky.social
The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
31.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 118 🔁 107 💬 1 📌 2
A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536)
Only 50% of findings replicated
Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
okay, now this is most definitely good news!
23.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0"The analysis found 45% of all AI answers to questions about news and current affairs had at least one significant issue; 31% had missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions, and 20% contained major accuracy issues."
www.ebu.ch/Report/MIS-B...
I actually laughed at that line.
19.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 165 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 0With your help, I've already been able to expand this resource significantly in under a day. Please keep sharing sites you love to read, places you can publish your expertise, and podcasts open to pitches so we can help our colleagues get their work out to the public!
15.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3
One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington's – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#science #huntingtonsdisease
This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
24.09.2025 11:51 — 👍 4160 🔁 1304 💬 4 📌 152
Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble
www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...
In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm
www.science.org/content/blog...
Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Wellcome Leap commit $100M to accelerate women’s health research and close long-overlooked gaps worldwide.
10.09.2025 14:05 — 👍 8222 🔁 1900 💬 146 📌 130
Thrilled to be welcoming @smashfizzle.bsky.social to Free Press Indiana!
localnewsforindiana.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Our new research finds that people are willing to cheat if it benefits their group — even when they gain nothing themselves.
"the risk of dishonesty in organizations is not limited to selfish acts...employees might bend rules to benefit their team or in-group members."
www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
ridicule as praxis circled in book
Academic books are notorious for boring endings, but @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social hit it out of the park! The last chapter of #TheAICon is full of actionable (pro-labor!) steps for standing up to Big Tech's hype.
Fight silliness with silliness!
On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
21.08.2025 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it has been very disappointing to me how many academics (who should know better) are falling for the nonsense. i created this resource to respond to admins at my institution calling me "emotional" for being skeptical of llms: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
19.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 278 🔁 75 💬 20 📌 11This whole series of articles helped me think through how to talk to my students about why I ask them not to use AI in my class, and why I also promise not to use it.
13.08.2025 13:51 — 👍 61 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
OpenAI claims to be pursuing a "moonshot" in education. Today I provide a short annotated guide to what that "moonshot" entails, with nods to @mikecaulfield.bsky.social @simonwillison.net @audreywatters.bsky.social @leonfurze.com @janerosenzweig.bsky.social and especially @heymrsbond.com
07.08.2025 12:07 — 👍 51 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 13
Victoria Sgarro and Madhav Tipu Ramachandran argue that the current state of digital platforms is not only a consequence of market forces or technological limitations, but also of the philosophical assumptions that guide the design of these platforms.
05.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3"Counter arguments wrapped in kindness."
Working thru book How Minds Change. Every single example here of how to change people's minds is exactly the opposite of how the algorithms rewarded us for using the Internet.
I don't know that I'm surprised. I'm just upset at how fully we all fell for it.
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
26.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 5531 🔁 1401 💬 127 📌 164
Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."
A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
PBS streaming service!
did not know this was a thing!
can send our canceled paramount+ dollars this way for a double win (and it’s cheaper)
I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
17.07.2025 20:37 — 👍 993 🔁 276 💬 80 📌 93I'm not sure there's anyone out there who deserves recognition and commendation more than Alice Wong. Her work is incredible and she has already changed the world
16.07.2025 05:09 — 👍 842 🔁 184 💬 5 📌 2
& here are a pair if discussions with Dr. Deserie Charles about how to face down and tease apart the ick, inhibitions and bad experiences that have allowed “community” to become an icky word
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/discussion-c...
