Riley Hannan
@rileyhannan.bsky.social
Kirschstein-NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UVA studying B1 cells in various diseases w focus on fibrosis. Likes making tools. Flow cytometry + microscopy + data wrangler.
Wannabe polymath.
Leftist/anti-authoritarian hot takes are my own.
Wannabe polymath.
Leftist/anti-authoritarian hot takes are my own.
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My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes" ... "Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone."
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes" ... "Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone."
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I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
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“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
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Uwu but hawwv you considered the epistemological standpoint of da vice president, including his twauma
September 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Uwu but hawwv you considered the epistemological standpoint of da vice president, including his twauma
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
Printing and hanging this on my door. Writing it in sharpie all over my body. Tattooing it to my forehead. Lasering it into the eyes of AI evangelists, leaving a permanent, perfect manifesto of hate onto their retinas. In a just world, no jury would convict me. In this one, I die a hater, head high.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Printing and hanging this on my door. Writing it in sharpie all over my body. Tattooing it to my forehead. Lasering it into the eyes of AI evangelists, leaving a permanent, perfect manifesto of hate onto their retinas. In a just world, no jury would convict me. In this one, I die a hater, head high.
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
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professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
August 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
Sandwich hucker 2028
August 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Sandwich hucker 2028
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When I see someone ask for an ID or care advice in a bug identification/exotic pets group and someone chimes in with “I asked ChatGPT-“
August 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When I see someone ask for an ID or care advice in a bug identification/exotic pets group and someone chimes in with “I asked ChatGPT-“
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Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.
What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.
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Words from German scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. They hit very close to home today.
Who amongst us will make the decision that Einstein did in 1931?
Please read: scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/fleeing-on...
From @vermontgmg.bsky.social. 🧪
Who amongst us will make the decision that Einstein did in 1931?
Please read: scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/fleeing-on...
From @vermontgmg.bsky.social. 🧪
July 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Words from German scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. They hit very close to home today.
Who amongst us will make the decision that Einstein did in 1931?
Please read: scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/fleeing-on...
From @vermontgmg.bsky.social. 🧪
Who amongst us will make the decision that Einstein did in 1931?
Please read: scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/fleeing-on...
From @vermontgmg.bsky.social. 🧪
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How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
www.stevevladeck.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
Last time I was embarrassed, I played videogames and avoided introspecting until my shame was less fresh. But going to war against Iran is also cool ig
June 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Last time I was embarrassed, I played videogames and avoided introspecting until my shame was less fresh. But going to war against Iran is also cool ig
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You have to attack the demagoguery directly, and create countervailing social pressures to oppose him. People aren't sitting in the middle trying to decide whether or not immigrants are invaders. They are trying to decide which team to join. Being meek and defensive makes a bad case for your team.
June 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You have to attack the demagoguery directly, and create countervailing social pressures to oppose him. People aren't sitting in the middle trying to decide whether or not immigrants are invaders. They are trying to decide which team to join. Being meek and defensive makes a bad case for your team.
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good morning friends 💚✨
June 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
good morning friends 💚✨