AKA NickleDave
@nicholdav.bsky.social
I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: https://www.vocalpy.org/
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
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Nobody asked but since we're talking about Mexican covers of English language pop hits,
I'll never forget when I still worked retail, going in super early, sitting in the parking lot in the dark & this came on AM radio: a kickass banda cover of Shania Twain's Still the One
youtu.be/AyT6XrBAXdI?...
I'll never forget when I still worked retail, going in super early, sitting in the parking lot in the dark & this came on AM radio: a kickass banda cover of Shania Twain's Still the One
youtu.be/AyT6XrBAXdI?...
Rogelio Martinez - Y Sigues Siendo Tu (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by SonicmaX
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Nobody asked but since we're talking about Mexican covers of English language pop hits,
I'll never forget when I still worked retail, going in super early, sitting in the parking lot in the dark & this came on AM radio: a kickass banda cover of Shania Twain's Still the One
youtu.be/AyT6XrBAXdI?...
I'll never forget when I still worked retail, going in super early, sitting in the parking lot in the dark & this came on AM radio: a kickass banda cover of Shania Twain's Still the One
youtu.be/AyT6XrBAXdI?...
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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100% this pizza is going to change my life. I can feel it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
100% this pizza is going to change my life. I can feel it.
They Might Be Giants - Indiana Wants Me
YouTube video by liam2015
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November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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getting the mic at a q&a, saying "this is more of a comment than a question" and then handing the mic back
May 14, 2024 at 3:30 AM
getting the mic at a q&a, saying "this is more of a comment than a question" and then handing the mic back
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"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social
We are former CDC officials. RFK Jr.'s change to vaccine guidance is propaganda.
Under Secretary Kennedy, CDC materials can no longer be assumed to reflect scientific authority.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social
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"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
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for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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bsky.app/profile/self...
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"twin studies produce a ~2x inflated estimate of narrow-sense heritability when compared to molecular estimates that are free of environmental confounding."
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"twin studies produce a ~2x inflated estimate of narrow-sense heritability when compared to molecular estimates that are free of environmental confounding."
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Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
Shawn McCreesh ’15 Shares His Journey to The New York Times
The St. John’s University Division of Mass Communication held a virtual panel featuring New York Times political feature writer and St. John’s alumnus, Shawn McCreesh, as part of the Journalist Series...
www.torchonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
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BTW if you are a conference organizer and want to see this kind of thing at your conference (and have funding to support the artists!!!) feel free to reach out to me.
Especially if your conference is in driving distance of Philadelphia, but even if it's not, I'm down to collaborate!
Especially if your conference is in driving distance of Philadelphia, but even if it's not, I'm down to collaborate!
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BTW if you are a conference organizer and want to see this kind of thing at your conference (and have funding to support the artists!!!) feel free to reach out to me.
Especially if your conference is in driving distance of Philadelphia, but even if it's not, I'm down to collaborate!
Especially if your conference is in driving distance of Philadelphia, but even if it's not, I'm down to collaborate!
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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Happy Birthday Wim Crouwel. The Dutch graphic & type designer & typographer, famous for his handsome Swiss style type-centered designs, was born today in 1928.
#SwissDesign #modernism #GraphicDesign
#SwissDesign #modernism #GraphicDesign
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Happy Birthday Wim Crouwel. The Dutch graphic & type designer & typographer, famous for his handsome Swiss style type-centered designs, was born today in 1928.
#SwissDesign #modernism #GraphicDesign
#SwissDesign #modernism #GraphicDesign
I'm getting so annoyed I might finally read this paper from @bayesianboy.bsky.social to find out what smart people have already thought about this
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'm getting so annoyed I might finally read this paper from @bayesianboy.bsky.social to find out what smart people have already thought about this
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
Srsly, as an academic: this field cites Schmidhuber & LeCun the way biologists cite Darwin. They think they're inventing intelligence from first principles. But their lingo is pidgin cog neuro, they can't define intelligence, & their "theories" are software engineering
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Srsly, as an academic: this field cites Schmidhuber & LeCun the way biologists cite Darwin. They think they're inventing intelligence from first principles. But their lingo is pidgin cog neuro, they can't define intelligence, & their "theories" are software engineering
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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In place of good UI / DSLs, we are forced to interact with "agents" 🙄. Bad idea: Nardi knew this in 93 👇
Yet programmers claim they have the God-like power to endow agents w/reason, as if Hinton, LeCun, et al. gave birth to cog sci. Epistemologically bankrupt-ass field.
bsky.app/profile/moh-...
2/2
Yet programmers claim they have the God-like power to endow agents w/reason, as if Hinton, LeCun, et al. gave birth to cog sci. Epistemologically bankrupt-ass field.
bsky.app/profile/moh-...
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I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*
("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In place of good UI / DSLs, we are forced to interact with "agents" 🙄. Bad idea: Nardi knew this in 93 👇
Yet programmers claim they have the God-like power to endow agents w/reason, as if Hinton, LeCun, et al. gave birth to cog sci. Epistemologically bankrupt-ass field.
bsky.app/profile/moh-...
2/2
Yet programmers claim they have the God-like power to endow agents w/reason, as if Hinton, LeCun, et al. gave birth to cog sci. Epistemologically bankrupt-ass field.
bsky.app/profile/moh-...
2/2
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everything is awful but I have one of the world’s greatest license plates ever made triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/04/e...
Exclusive: We interview the guy with the #1 Venus Flytrap License Plate - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
triangleblogblog.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
everything is awful but I have one of the world’s greatest license plates ever made triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/04/e...
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Reminder that I've got a tracker of Compact news & updates here. Let me know if I'm missing any university responses! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reminder that I've got a tracker of Compact news & updates here. Let me know if I'm missing any university responses! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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The letter writers are being convinced by LLMs that they have made monumental discoveries that they don't remotely begin to understand, not even to the point of being able to explain for themselves what they think they have found.
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The letter writers are being convinced by LLMs that they have made monumental discoveries that they don't remotely begin to understand, not even to the point of being able to explain for themselves what they think they have found.
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NeuroFly now has a website:
neurofly.org/home/
neurofly.org/home/
Home – Neurofly
neurofly.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
NeuroFly now has a website:
neurofly.org/home/
neurofly.org/home/