Lisa Fazio

YouTube video by NPR Music Sarah McLachlan: Tiny Desk Concert

Sarah McLaughlan did tiny desk!!!

youtu.be/q-NDZ31pXmM?...

What is the point of being a leader if you don’t have a moral vision of the America to which you will ”lead” people? Obviously you need to tap into fundamental psychological needs and desires, and not tell people to go eff themselves and their concerns, but leaders lead. they present a moral vision

I love my community. People are seeing the reality of this reckless police force and they see what it is doing to communities, to children, and to our own sense of faith and trust in our institutions and it cannot continue.

For a panel this morning at the #aaasmtg, the other speakers and I will share ideas and examples for improving trust in science. Here are a few I'll mention if I get a chance (we have a LOT to talk about). I'd love to hear yours. (1/7)

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

gonna start using this video in auditory perception lectures, when we get to hierarchical perception of tones (DO in solfège is the tonal center)

Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.

AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.

But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.

Hey Harper’s Letter Signatories… any thoughts? or is this not as big of a threat to free speech as folks speaking up after #metoo and #BLM?
Call me radical, but I think the ongoing threats to free speech from the Fed Govt under this administration are maybe worthy of a new letter.

I’m pretty sure you all needed to see this video of a baby manatee with its mom.

OK, I am listening to The Daily on the files, which I knew would be a mistake. Barbaro just said one of the most astounding things has been the accountability that these men who are mentioned have faced — what fucking alternative universe is he living in? I want to go to there

Honored (and genuinely, wildly grateful and -- even more than I am grateful -- surprised) to share that our paper "Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI" received the @aaas.org Newcomb-Cleveland Prize (for the "most outstanding" paper in @science.org last year).

Ah, congrats!! Great to see you all together ❤️

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NSF Summary:

Slow progress in most Directorates with Social Behavioral and Social Sciences, STEM Education, and Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships continuing to lag behind...

11/11

Oops - turns out that AI-image generators have a hard time determining what part of the brain is the front...

we live in a country where the secretary of HHS declaring that he snorts cocaine off toilet seats isn't even a news item

Need a dose of hope? Try the SIGNS OF SPRING feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

This man has a decades-long record of lying for profit and personal gain. Any politician who said he'd keep his word was just doing the same thing themselves.

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...

The “Make Me Do It” Myth - Dissent Magazine Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.

Whether or not the story is apocryphal, I fear many of my colleagues who work in DC and are advocates for biomedical research and public health, do not get the nature of the "inside-outside" strategy. 1/ dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The same story. Over and over again.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

"Revokes scientific finding"

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

So, the message here is: Moms, if you want your kids to have a good life, you have to quit your job and become your kids' teacher full-time.

'expanding access to the Supreme Court--' in no way, shape, or form does using AI to make shit up constitute access! plus we could just put cameras in the courtroom and actually have video of the justices reading their decisions! aaahhh!

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.

PLEASE SHARE!!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

<all together now>

Unfortunately, me spending nearly 10 months reading watching, and listening to work on the Red Scares is really paying off