David Charboneau

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Aonishiki!!

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.

End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Tribalism only works when everyone is tribal. But one tribe cannot defeat a coalition of people who unite over transcendent principles rather than identity. It’s the Trumpists’ kryptonite. (And we can go back to arguing/debating with each other about things once we are through this)

My response to the Democratic response. This is not the time for normal politics.

I keep wishing there were bookmarks here, though I guess hearts end up being a kind of bookmark...

Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate…

I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c...

I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)

1/ Thx. I cannot speak to the ambiguity I see in your post, but here’s my perspective as a retired Sr Exec from a F50 global business.

At IBM we have always taken pride in the skills, values and capabilities of our people. Meritocracy is in our genes.

Meritocracy is impossible without DEI.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

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o3: The grand finale of AI in 2024 A step change as influential as the release of GPT-4. Reasoning language models are the current big thing.

Excellent post about the recent OpenAI o3 results on ARC (& other benchmarks). I don't know how @natolambert.bsky.social manages to write these so quickly! I highly recommend his newsletter.

www.interconnects.ai/p/openais-o3...

I am (more slowly) writing my own take on all this, coming soon.

There is no point in trolling if no one sees it.

User control over our feeds is great. Including the ability to fully hide from everyone, unwanted replies, and block those people.

If i hide a reply from a troll from everyone, no one sees it.

Moderation is great

Really helps engagement

Nope, its not there, sorry.

log-ox.github.io

Learning on Graphs Conference LoG is an annual research conference that covers areas broadly related to machine learning on graphs and geometry, with a special focus on review quality.

I found the conference YouTube channel, I’m hoping it has that talk

youtube.com/@learningong...

Remember new users are coming on daily, unsure of engagement. The more posts you like and reply to, the strong the platform becomes !

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other