Manuela Zucknick
@manuelazucknick.bsky.social
Professor, Statistical learning in molecular medicine. Director Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social, @uio.no & Oslo University Hospital. Posting in my own capacity. (Bio)statistics, climate breakdown, train journeys.
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Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
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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.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
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...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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++ Major News ++
AABI is now ProbML: the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning! Very excited about this!
ProbML will be co-located with ICML in Seoul!
Check out our new website: probml.cc!
AABI is now ProbML: the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning! Very excited about this!
ProbML will be co-located with ICML in Seoul!
Check out our new website: probml.cc!
ProbML 2026 (formerly AABI) invites submissions on probabilistic ML (both Bayesian and otherwise!), July 5 in Seoul (co-located with ICML). Website: probml.cc. Tracks: proceedings (PMLR), workshop, fast track. New focus includes applications in healthcare and climate!
Submit by: 20 March 2026.
Submit by: 20 March 2026.
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
++ Major News ++
AABI is now ProbML: the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning! Very excited about this!
ProbML will be co-located with ICML in Seoul!
Check out our new website: probml.cc!
AABI is now ProbML: the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning! Very excited about this!
ProbML will be co-located with ICML in Seoul!
Check out our new website: probml.cc!
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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WHO removing Us Flag
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
WHO removing Us Flag
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Tenk at UiO for bare et par år siden flyttet hele mail-infrastrukturen sin til Microsoft. *UiO.* Som introduserte Internett i Norge.
Vi kan ikke på den ene siden øve på å forsvare Grønland mot amerikanerne og på den annen side drive hele offentlig sektor på Microsoft. De to handlingene er _fundamentalt_ i konflikt med hverandre.
Vi har levd godt i mange år under en mer eller mindre god hegemon, i «Pax Americana», men nå haster det å dempe maktgrunnlaget til USA. Igjen, det er basert på en skyhøy BNP. Vi må strategisk stanse alle innkjøp av amerikansk teknologi i Europa, som Microsoft, Apple, Tesla og Amazon.
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Tenk at UiO for bare et par år siden flyttet hele mail-infrastrukturen sin til Microsoft. *UiO.* Som introduserte Internett i Norge.
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I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
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Posting for no reason: european-alternatives.eu
European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
January 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Posting for no reason: european-alternatives.eu
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One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
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Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.
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Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and others | TechCrunch
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.
techcrunch.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...
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Apply for the Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 Jun-3 Jul 2026 on Monte Verità, Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps.
ascona2026.sciencesconf.org
ascona2026.sciencesconf.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Apply for the Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 Jun-3 Jul 2026 on Monte Verità, Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps.
ascona2026.sciencesconf.org
ascona2026.sciencesconf.org
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Seems like a bunch of people are joining BlueSky recently after the whole X situation, so maybe it's worth highlighting this again. Also, if you feel like you should be on this list, send me a message!
I made a starter pack for Bayesian ML and stats (mostly to see how this starter pack business works).
Let me know whom I missed!
go.bsky.app/2Bqtn6T
Let me know whom I missed!
go.bsky.app/2Bqtn6T
January 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Seems like a bunch of people are joining BlueSky recently after the whole X situation, so maybe it's worth highlighting this again. Also, if you feel like you should be on this list, send me a message!
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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“I have treated patients who have harmed others. I have cared for people in police custody, people accused of violent crimes…. None of that alters my obligation.
When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social
When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social
I'm a surgeon – and I've been shot. ICE denying Renee Good aid is inhumane.
I do not know if Renee Nicole Good could have been saved; no one can say with certainty. But she should have been given every possible chance.
www.usatoday.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 AM
“I have treated patients who have harmed others. I have cared for people in police custody, people accused of violent crimes…. None of that alters my obligation.
When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social
When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social
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Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
January 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
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Lite understreker at klimakatastrofen ikke betyr noe som helst for norsk planlegging og tankegang, enn det at flytrafikk og det å reise med fly, ses på som en slags norsk naturtilstand.
Nå MÅ altså Tromsø flyplass bygges ut. Ikke et ord om klimamessige konsekvenser,
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Nå MÅ altså Tromsø flyplass bygges ut. Ikke et ord om klimamessige konsekvenser,
1/
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Lite understreker at klimakatastrofen ikke betyr noe som helst for norsk planlegging og tankegang, enn det at flytrafikk og det å reise med fly, ses på som en slags norsk naturtilstand.
Nå MÅ altså Tromsø flyplass bygges ut. Ikke et ord om klimamessige konsekvenser,
1/
Nå MÅ altså Tromsø flyplass bygges ut. Ikke et ord om klimamessige konsekvenser,
1/
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We can’t ignore the gendered dynamics of what we just saw katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...
Renee Good’s Murder was Misogyny
We cannot ignore the distinctively gendered dynamics of this—and much other—fascist violence
katemanne.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 AM
We can’t ignore the gendered dynamics of what we just saw katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.