Cynthia Bailey

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

“"Eppur si muove.” — Galileo to the Church, and now US scientists to the federal government.

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It says everything about *our* cognition and nothing about the machine’s cognition.

YouTube video by cheedogg Ikea "Lamp" Commercial - Hi Res

My go-to in these discussions is always the classic aughts IKEA lamp commercial, and how a lamp is very obviously not sentient but all it takes is a little music and lighting and camera angles and we, with our human cognitive biases, read emotions into it. youtu.be/dBqhIVyfsRg?...

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This is not only cruel to the individuals involved, it will destroy America’s leadership in high tech.

Interview with Dr. Cynthia Bailey on Her Writing in the Major Course for Computer Science Ruth Starkman

Check out this interview with about her brilliant new course! @cynthiablee.bsky.social teachingwriting.stanford.edu/news/intervi...

Today my team won an award in accessibility and inclusive design leadership advocacy.

Years of hard work and so many efforts to build inclusively remind me that this work will not stop, no matter what.

Celebrate the win for me today, would you?

📢 Today we joined the March for Science. What happens when federal science programs are cut?

🚨 Tomorrow, we launch a project tracking the real-world impacts of these decisions for all Americans.

Stay tuned.

#MarchForScience #IMPACTSSurvey #ThisAffectsEveryone

“Vaxen” 😂

Aww. Cuckoo’s Egg had such a formative impact on my early teen interest in computer systems. ❤️

I’m so sorry. 😞

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Please wear a tightly-fitted N-95 or KN-95 anytime you go outside even if you think you don’t need it. If you have a stockpile left over from Covid, share them. The particulates can easily do permanent lung damage. I wish I’d known this during the San Diego fires and evacuations I lived through. 😞

I’m just trying to wrap my head around why you would park a $200k car in your basketball court, as if dents from stray balls increase its resale value.

It’s the $200k car parked next to the basketball court for me, because what your $200k car really needs is a bunch of dents from stray balls.

Our student-athletes are impressive af, if anyone can pull it off they can, but it’s asking a lot of them.

Yeah I really worry about how hard all that travel is on the athletes. It wipes out almost a week of productivity for me when I do a round trip to the other coast for work. Flight time, time zone change, inefficiency of being off routine and living out of a suitcase, all that. Idk how they do it.

We’re as confused as you are. 😅 Like the Pacific Ocean is so close to campus you could see it if it weren’t for the hills, and you’re telling me we’re in a conference named for a whole *different* ocean now? Make it make sense

I’m with whatshername—that is WILD. Generic sertraline is so cheap! It must be costing them more in paperwork to kick you off than a 6mo supply would cost.

Mini Cat Town is a 501c(3) nonprofit kitten rescue operating adoption cat cafes 5 different shopping centers across NorCal. The City of Palo Alto is evicting the new Stanford Shopping Center location due to a strained reading of “boarding” facility in zoning.

Sign the Petition Help Mini Cat Town Stay at Stanford Shopping Center!

As if there weren’t enough reasons Palo Alto zoning is villainous: city planners take bold anti-kitten stance. www.change.org/p/help-mini-...

My cat could win Oscars for her roles in “nobody has fed me breakfast yet today” and “you thought I escaped out the door but actually I’ve been in this weird new hiding place you wouldn’t think is physically possible for the past hour while you mourned my death”

For over a decade, CCRI leadership has been championing both state and federal legislation related to the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images. Here is a thread of gratitude to CCRI's early leaders and a throwback through the last decade. 1/x

I hope you are planning on using it to generate true random numbers

I wept. What a moment. Can’t find a tougher act to follow than Elizabeth Prelogar, but Chase Strangio absolutely met the moment and crushed it.

Love to see it

10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

Still true: “I can’t point to one instant of time where I overcame that societal programming and decided that I mattered as much as anyone else. It’s been a long process that continues right up to the present.”

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10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

“[Growing up,] I always thought of myself in a supporting or object role — it was my destiny to be somebody else’s mom, somebody else’s wife, an indispensable help to somebody else’s startup.”

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10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

“When I get to witness that moment when a a student’s passion for coding is first sparked, it feels almost holy, like being present for a birth.”

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10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

“It was [at NASA] that I first started working on UNIX, and I was mesmerized, completely hooked. There was something about the austere command prompt that inspired my imagination about what could be explored beyond.”
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