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Prof Beth Plale

@bplale.bsky.social

Data engineer, scientist, #safeAI, #humanrights, #researchinfrastructure #firstgen

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NO KINGS Bloomington · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Bloomington” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

08.06.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

10.03.2025 15:14 — 👍 1962    🔁 511    💬 51    📌 36

Not to ignore the extraordinary cost to the economy of upheavals in the face of (response to) these actions.

11.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NIH OD office bomb on F&A rates is a huge failure of trust by the NIH OD office. It means, folks, that the integrity of science is on us, and we can't look to political appointees to federal funding agencies as role models. Sad.

10.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So many conflicting justifications given for NIH supplement guidance NOT-OD-25-068 reduction in F&A: Reduce federal budget. Recovery more funds for research. Stop university repurposing of F&A towards diversity programs. Release the required justification language!

10.02.2025 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

09.02.2025 17:38 — 👍 30202    🔁 7887    💬 517    📌 267

Using social choice for fine tuning a language model is a great idea. Can the diverse perspectives be represented in all cases of need?

25.11.2024 03:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hi. here now. partly as apolitical science communicator 🧪 partly as one who deeply appreciates the creativity humor I find here #science #safeAI #research #humanrights ⛷️ 🫶 🕊️

24.11.2024 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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