Ziad Achkar, Ph.D.

Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science.

Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting

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You could just pay 5 PhDs $4000 a month and you wouldn't even have to worry about them hallucinating (except on weekends)...
#NihilismAndTechnology

An absolutely horror thought mid-run… someone somewhere is probably pitching the idea of mediation practices between “AI” and humans in the workplace.

Overhearing two people talking about whether satellites are profitable & lucrative business and I’m trying my best not to interject into their conversation.

Our mobile surgical team working at Atbara Teaching Hospital has seen an influx of people with conflict-related injuries in recent weeks. Atbara is about 300 kilometers from Khartoum, but we see patients arriving from across Sudan—even from Darfur. This means people make a 10-day journey to reach the medical facility. We do not know how many are dying along the way. It is a stark reminder of how devastating the impact of the conflict has been on healthcare and how paramount it is that all parties respect their obligation under international humanitarian law and protect medical facilities.”

📍Sudan | Our mobile surgical team at the Atbara Teaching Hospital is seeing a surge in patients with conflict-related injuries—some traveling 10 days to reach care. We don’t know how many died along the way.

Medical facilities and access to healthcare must be protected 👇🏽

Lebanon scraps 'armed resistance' from ministerial statement for first time in two decades | The National Latest policy statement shows government is seeking exclusive authority in decisions of war and peace

Lebanon scraps 'armed resistance' from ministerial statement for first time in two decades www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Look when you start talking a Taif accord to dive power between western Mass, Boston and the Cape, I’ll start to get worried.

I feel a sense of unease… 😂

Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital

With everything happening, weird to feel hopeful. Reforms and trust building is the name of the game now.

For anyone who has followed Lebanese politics, We will hopefully look back at these past few days and President & PM selection as ushering a new era for Lebanon. Lots of challenges ahead for these two, but for once in a long time you have two very competent and thoughtful leaders at the realm.

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun elected as president, ending a 2-year vacancy, with 99 of the 128 MPs’ votes

Aoun pledged that weapons will solely be in the hands of the state, after presidents for years called for an ambiguous coexistence w/Hezbollah’s military apparatus

2 years and 2 month later - Lebanon finally elected a president. Good first speech, the challenge will be in implementation of the necessary governance, judicial, and economic reforms.

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

Really wish there was a bookmark function here - I often don’t have the time to read articles when I first come across them on the timeline and like to save things to back to read when have some time to read them.

Lebanese man Suheil al-Hamoui released from Assad’s prisons is welcomed home in Chekka after 33 years.

This means he was forcibly disappeared on the last year of the Lebanese civil war.

33 is how old I am.

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The number and speed of events over the past 3 months in the region is remarkable - the future is promising, let’s hope and work for a peaceful and more prosperous region.

Half my work would not exist if it wasn’t for exactly that.

Originally created this account a year ago - back on (though very lightly). Glad to see that @faineg.bsky.social essentially runs this platform based on my feed 😅

One of the skills you develop after reading thousands on thousands of diplomatic documents is realizing when someone is delicately conveying an intense dislike of someone. In this case I do not think you actually need that skill.

Hello world - looking forward to engage more on this platform. Any tips or recommendations?