Nina Patterson
@ninapats.bsky.social
Geophysicist in data science. Dachshund mum.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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I'll say this as many times as it needs to be said.
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
April 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'll say this as many times as it needs to be said.
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
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🌟OPEN ACCESS: MYANMAR PAPERS🌟As a service to researchers working on the 2025 M7.7 Myanmar earthquake, we have curated a list of papers related to the region and its faults, free until until April 16. ⚒️
#BSSA: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/pages/a...
#SRL: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/srl/pages/ap...
#BSSA: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/pages/a...
#SRL: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/srl/pages/ap...
April 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🌟OPEN ACCESS: MYANMAR PAPERS🌟As a service to researchers working on the 2025 M7.7 Myanmar earthquake, we have curated a list of papers related to the region and its faults, free until until April 16. ⚒️
#BSSA: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/pages/a...
#SRL: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/srl/pages/ap...
#BSSA: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/pages/a...
#SRL: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/srl/pages/ap...
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Two days after the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, what have we learned?
Rapid seismological analyses shared by scientists suggest that the rupture was both longer and faster than expected - two factors that could have increased damage.
Read more: earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/updates-on...
Two days after the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, what have we learned?
Rapid seismological analyses shared by scientists suggest that the rupture was both longer and faster than expected - two factors that could have increased damage.
Read more: earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/updates-on...
Updates on the M7.7 Myanmar earthquake
An unusually long, possibly supershear rupture
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Two days after the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, what have we learned?
Rapid seismological analyses shared by scientists suggest that the rupture was both longer and faster than expected - two factors that could have increased damage.
Read more: earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/updates-on...
Two days after the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, what have we learned?
Rapid seismological analyses shared by scientists suggest that the rupture was both longer and faster than expected - two factors that could have increased damage.
Read more: earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/updates-on...
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I'm happy to have grown up with values of solidarity, sustainability and environmental conscience. But every once in a while I do ask myself why I feel guilty about my footprint in the world when we now build entire power plants to summarize emails and generate emails from summaries.
March 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I'm happy to have grown up with values of solidarity, sustainability and environmental conscience. But every once in a while I do ask myself why I feel guilty about my footprint in the world when we now build entire power plants to summarize emails and generate emails from summaries.
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The secret history of Australian women in the Space Age
A Bluesky version of my International Women's Day talk for the Shire of Berrigan, NSW. (Many thanks to them for the invitation and support). 🧪#WomenInSTEM #IWD25
A Bluesky version of my International Women's Day talk for the Shire of Berrigan, NSW. (Many thanks to them for the invitation and support). 🧪#WomenInSTEM #IWD25
International Women's Day Luncheon
Celebrate International Women's Day 2025 with Us! Join us for an inspiring luncheon to honor this special day. Alice Gorman - Author: Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future
www.berriganshire.nsw.gov.au
March 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The secret history of Australian women in the Space Age
A Bluesky version of my International Women's Day talk for the Shire of Berrigan, NSW. (Many thanks to them for the invitation and support). 🧪#WomenInSTEM #IWD25
A Bluesky version of my International Women's Day talk for the Shire of Berrigan, NSW. (Many thanks to them for the invitation and support). 🧪#WomenInSTEM #IWD25
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.
March 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.
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Really quite an incredible @lisalsong.bsky.social @propublica.org article about "advanced recycling". False promise and predatory ambition have been at work for decades and they'll continue to cause trouble for many more
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...
www.propublica.org
February 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Really quite an incredible @lisalsong.bsky.social @propublica.org article about "advanced recycling". False promise and predatory ambition have been at work for decades and they'll continue to cause trouble for many more
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM)
For my poor parents seeing doctors stumped and having no access to advocacy groups and information in the early 90ies was terrifying.
We've come a long way with research and advocacy on rare diseases, but there is so much more to be done.
For my poor parents seeing doctors stumped and having no access to advocacy groups and information in the early 90ies was terrifying.
We've come a long way with research and advocacy on rare diseases, but there is so much more to be done.
Today is rare disease day.
I suffer from two of them: Gastroparesis and CIDP.
Sometimes it makes my work extremely difficult, as if the nature of the work itself isn’t difficult enough already.
300m people in the world live with rare diseases, and they aren’t always visible.
But we exist.
I suffer from two of them: Gastroparesis and CIDP.
Sometimes it makes my work extremely difficult, as if the nature of the work itself isn’t difficult enough already.
300m people in the world live with rare diseases, and they aren’t always visible.
But we exist.
March 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM)
For my poor parents seeing doctors stumped and having no access to advocacy groups and information in the early 90ies was terrifying.
We've come a long way with research and advocacy on rare diseases, but there is so much more to be done.
For my poor parents seeing doctors stumped and having no access to advocacy groups and information in the early 90ies was terrifying.
We've come a long way with research and advocacy on rare diseases, but there is so much more to be done.
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Peter Dutton will abandon action on climate change.
He will give a green light to big polluters.
He will take a sledgehammer to Australia’s climate progress.
He will give a green light to big polluters.
He will take a sledgehammer to Australia’s climate progress.
February 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Peter Dutton will abandon action on climate change.
He will give a green light to big polluters.
He will take a sledgehammer to Australia’s climate progress.
He will give a green light to big polluters.
He will take a sledgehammer to Australia’s climate progress.
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1. Data provides *raw material*
2. That raw material is *processed* by technology
3. The outcome of that processing is wholly dependent on what people think and what they're ignorant about when creating the technology that does the processing.
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2. That raw material is *processed* by technology
3. The outcome of that processing is wholly dependent on what people think and what they're ignorant about when creating the technology that does the processing.
5/
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
1. Data provides *raw material*
2. That raw material is *processed* by technology
3. The outcome of that processing is wholly dependent on what people think and what they're ignorant about when creating the technology that does the processing.
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2. That raw material is *processed* by technology
3. The outcome of that processing is wholly dependent on what people think and what they're ignorant about when creating the technology that does the processing.
5/
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Data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom
Of course the concept is overly simplified (in fact that creates room for great discussions). I am however surprised it doesn't come up more often in the current AI discourse.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_py...
Of course the concept is overly simplified (in fact that creates room for great discussions). I am however surprised it doesn't come up more often in the current AI discourse.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_py...
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom
Of course the concept is overly simplified (in fact that creates room for great discussions). I am however surprised it doesn't come up more often in the current AI discourse.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_py...
Of course the concept is overly simplified (in fact that creates room for great discussions). I am however surprised it doesn't come up more often in the current AI discourse.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_py...
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It's my birthday \(' . ')/
May I ask for a few RPs?
May I ask for a few RPs?
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It's my birthday \(' . ')/
May I ask for a few RPs?
May I ask for a few RPs?
I worked as a data science lead in internal audit for a global company. Can confirm. 🙄
A very real thing that can definitely be done at a glance by skimming a spreadsheet in a computer system you're unfamiliar with
February 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I worked as a data science lead in internal audit for a global company. Can confirm. 🙄
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I know I'm a broken record about LLMs but it really does bum me out that a long process of anti-intellectualism and just no widespread understanding of materialism has led us to a point where computers, as far as a lot of people are concerned, are essentially magic.
January 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I know I'm a broken record about LLMs but it really does bum me out that a long process of anti-intellectualism and just no widespread understanding of materialism has led us to a point where computers, as far as a lot of people are concerned, are essentially magic.
So many people right now frantically preparing hours of content on how this affects the Leafs.
As part of the Mikko Rantanen trade, Martin Nečas, Jack Drury and two picks will be sent to the Avalanche.
The Blackhawks will receive their own 3rd rounder and retain 50% of Rantanen's salary.
More:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
The Blackhawks will receive their own 3rd rounder and retain 50% of Rantanen's salary.
More:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
January 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So many people right now frantically preparing hours of content on how this affects the Leafs.
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The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
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"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril"
www.ft.com/content/63c3...
www.ft.com/content/63c3...
January 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril"
www.ft.com/content/63c3...
www.ft.com/content/63c3...