Darren Dahly

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.

Wild. No, no, just dumb. Sorry.

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Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare Healthcare professionals must reject flawed racial generalisations, writes Jasmeen Kanwal Institutional racism in healthcare has received increased coverage in recent years, including in The BMJ ’s ...

Excellent piece about why race is not a biological category and how medical education needs to respond. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

No, f*ck that sh*t.

Too many meta-analyses have findings equivalent to: “If you average the cost of a loaf of bread, car insurance for a year and a movie ticket, you get $752.36”

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Republican Chris Madel drops out of MN Gov race, saying he can’t support “retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so”

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Schedule for the launch of the Irish Reproducibility Network, taking place on January 27th, 2026.

Nearly ready to go!

Communications From Elsewhere The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link. The Postmodernism Generator was writte…

This website was made 25-30 yrs ago. It generates a new philosophy paper each time you reload the page: www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

lol that's amazing

Im asking you, all of you, to please stop caring about what anonymous accounts on social media have to say about literally anything*. Its cooking your brains!

*Unless it's about how to fix your dishwasher or something. That shit's cool.

Weird experience, when you submit a letter to the editor because you detected severe problems with a recent publication in this journal, and then they reject the letter, saying that you should publish your piece elsewhere. I didn't experience this before. Did you? And how did you respond?
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I might need to talk to some people about what a realist evaluation actually entails.

The 3Rs Collaborative logo and an icon representing artificial intelligence 3Rs approaches. Text reads: AI survey.

Do you use artificial intelligence to improve toxicity prediction, support regulatory science or reduce the reliance on animal use in safety assessment?

Share your work and insights with the 3Rs Collaborative AI Initiative: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

⏰ Survey closes: 21 February.

I mean...

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The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement.

In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99.

At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

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BBQ is not right wing coded in any place where BBQ is actually any good.

A Primer on Large Language Models and Transformers. Part I: A High-Flying Bird's Eye-View Transformer-based LLMs are the most significant technology of the past decade. This is first in a series of posts exploring Transformers at various levels of abstraction, digging deeper with each post

Transformer-based LLMs are the most significant technology of the past decade. This is the first in a series of posts for the WHERE MACHINES THINK Substack, exploring Transformers/LLMs at various levels of abstraction, digging deeper with each post. wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/a-primer-o...

Muh bad

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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.

The Fight For Slow And Boring Research—Asterisk As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out?

Provocative! Not all scientists will want to hear this. I agree with many points. In parallel to emphasis on better communication, I hope we’ll begin conversations about maintaining integrity.
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A to-do list for Government: what one thing could it accomplish in 2026? Voices from across Irish life choose a single thing the Government should – and could – try to accomplish in its second year in office

A to-do list for the Government from the Irish Times and friends…

Zero mention of climate change, emissions, biodiversity or nature.

The planet is on fire, but apparently that didn’t make the cut.

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author

First-time posters need to be endorsed by an established arXiv author in their own field.

The new rule is mostly to try and discourage people from trying to get something started by sending some rubbish to arXiv.

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Show your papers.

Kavanaugh stops.

Your gender? We decide.

ICE doesn't need a warrant.

Abortion is our choice not yours.

Immigrants don't deserve due process.

State universities can't teach Plato.

Civil rights protections are racist.

But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.

*chuckle*