Becky Morris
@rlmorris.net
Former academic philosopher. Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon. Parent to 2 kiddos. ❤️ math, philosophy, fighting scams! Homepage: https://rebeccaleamorris.com
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Interesting that the "defences" of this from the AIshills are either "it can't take your stuff" (untrue) or "it can but if there's only one instance it's probably not enough to impact the output" (potentially untrue for very specialised queries).
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Interesting that the "defences" of this from the AIshills are either "it can't take your stuff" (untrue) or "it can but if there's only one instance it's probably not enough to impact the output" (potentially untrue for very specialised queries).
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Please support your local public libraries, free community libraries, give a book/take a book kiosks and independent and marginalized writers and creators.
Learn as much as you can from people who are different than you.
Knowledge is a powerful antidote to fascism.
Learn as much as you can from people who are different than you.
Knowledge is a powerful antidote to fascism.
March 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Please support your local public libraries, free community libraries, give a book/take a book kiosks and independent and marginalized writers and creators.
Learn as much as you can from people who are different than you.
Knowledge is a powerful antidote to fascism.
Learn as much as you can from people who are different than you.
Knowledge is a powerful antidote to fascism.
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Economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, soon to be NIH Director, has suggested that preventing Long COVID is worse than getting it. Around 100 million people disabled by COVID would beg to differ — myself included.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/13/s...
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/13/s...
Stanford must end its complicity in COVID harms
A Stanford conference of COVID contrarians and Long COVID skeptics featuring President Levin is reverberating all the way to the White House.
stanforddaily.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, soon to be NIH Director, has suggested that preventing Long COVID is worse than getting it. Around 100 million people disabled by COVID would beg to differ — myself included.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/13/s...
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/13/s...
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🚨 Musk’s U.S. DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
lhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
🚨 Musk’s U.S. DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
lhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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🚨 Musk’s U.S. DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
lhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
🚨 Musk’s U.S. DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
lhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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Screen-reader compatible list.
"Words flagged in search of current NSF Awards. May be incomplete. This is a cull from 1/10th of the awards flagged"
activism
activists
advocacy
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biases
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bipoc
black and latinx
community diversity
"Words flagged in search of current NSF Awards. May be incomplete. This is a cull from 1/10th of the awards flagged"
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
barrier
barriers
biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards
bipoc
black and latinx
community diversity
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Screen-reader compatible list.
"Words flagged in search of current NSF Awards. May be incomplete. This is a cull from 1/10th of the awards flagged"
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
barrier
barriers
biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards
bipoc
black and latinx
community diversity
"Words flagged in search of current NSF Awards. May be incomplete. This is a cull from 1/10th of the awards flagged"
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
barrier
barriers
biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards
bipoc
black and latinx
community diversity
Phil math peeps, Dirk Schlimm's cool book on mathematical notation is free to download until February 27th. Check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Mathematical Notations
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Mathematical Notations
www.cambridge.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Phil math peeps, Dirk Schlimm's cool book on mathematical notation is free to download until February 27th. Check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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“researchers suspect [the grant review freeze] may be related to President Trump's targeting of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts”
www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪
www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“researchers suspect [the grant review freeze] may be related to President Trump's targeting of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts”
www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪
www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪
I am never writing an academic paper in Word again. Lesson learned. LaTeX all the way!
January 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I am never writing an academic paper in Word again. Lesson learned. LaTeX all the way!
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Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask.
You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.
You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.
You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
January 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask.
You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.
You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.
You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
Saw this posted on Xitter and wanted to share it here: "Definitions and Mathematical Knowledge" by Andrea Sereni is available for free until January 3rd. It looks like an interesting read! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Definitions and Mathematical Knowledge
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Definitions and Mathematical Knowledge
www.cambridge.org
December 26, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Saw this posted on Xitter and wanted to share it here: "Definitions and Mathematical Knowledge" by Andrea Sereni is available for free until January 3rd. It looks like an interesting read! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
After 15 years in the US, I'm now a citizen! Had to queue outside in the snow for 30 minutes and my husband was sat near someone who was making stinky farts during the ceremony, but it was worth it!
December 22, 2024 at 3:11 AM
After 15 years in the US, I'm now a citizen! Had to queue outside in the snow for 30 minutes and my husband was sat near someone who was making stinky farts during the ceremony, but it was worth it!
I'll never get used to the fact that Minnesota has beautiful sunny days where the temperature is -22c or -7.6f. How can it be both so cold and so beautiful? ❄️🥶
December 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
I'll never get used to the fact that Minnesota has beautiful sunny days where the temperature is -22c or -7.6f. How can it be both so cold and so beautiful? ❄️🥶
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There. Is. NO. Ethical. Way. To. Be. A. Billionaire.
October 27, 2024 at 2:21 AM
There. Is. NO. Ethical. Way. To. Be. A. Billionaire.
Went to the Bell Museum today! Loved the planetarium! So much fun 🙂
December 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Went to the Bell Museum today! Loved the planetarium! So much fun 🙂
The Duolingo Russian questions are getting a bit dark ...
December 1, 2024 at 4:09 AM
The Duolingo Russian questions are getting a bit dark ...
I started working on a project a while back in Word and boy do I wish I had done it in LaTeX! Organizing and revising is just so much easier to deal with in LaTeX!
November 26, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I started working on a project a while back in Word and boy do I wish I had done it in LaTeX! Organizing and revising is just so much easier to deal with in LaTeX!
It was beautiful down by the lake today
November 25, 2024 at 10:09 PM
It was beautiful down by the lake today
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Made a starter pack, woefully incomplete, with academics who do a lot of public outreach. LMK if you warn to be added go.bsky.app/9oQCxQ9
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Made a starter pack, woefully incomplete, with academics who do a lot of public outreach. LMK if you warn to be added go.bsky.app/9oQCxQ9
Love it when you realize a concept from one domain can be helpful in a seemingly unrelated one!
November 25, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Love it when you realize a concept from one domain can be helpful in a seemingly unrelated one!
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I'll be running a 6-week course called New #Technology and Resonsibility at @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social next year.
Anyone can take the course. It might be of particular interest to anyone who works in #tech.
Please do spread the word: www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
#philsky #academicsky #dublin
Anyone can take the course. It might be of particular interest to anyone who works in #tech.
Please do spread the word: www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
#philsky #academicsky #dublin
New Technology and Responsible Innovation - UCD Micro-credentials
www.ucd.ie
November 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I'll be running a 6-week course called New #Technology and Resonsibility at @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social next year.
Anyone can take the course. It might be of particular interest to anyone who works in #tech.
Please do spread the word: www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
#philsky #academicsky #dublin
Anyone can take the course. It might be of particular interest to anyone who works in #tech.
Please do spread the word: www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
#philsky #academicsky #dublin
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Hello! I’m organising a conference on late modern philosophy (roughly Hegel to Stebbing) in Durham latemodernphilosophy.weebly.com CFP deadline Jan 15th
NSLMP
Keynote Speakers Emily Thomas (Durham) Trevor Pearce (UNC Charlotte)
latemodernphilosophy.weebly.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Hello! I’m organising a conference on late modern philosophy (roughly Hegel to Stebbing) in Durham latemodernphilosophy.weebly.com CFP deadline Jan 15th
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Different disciplines argument for P
Historians: here are a bunch of historical facts, some of which relate to P
Philosophers: here is a carefully crafted, deductively valid argument for P with only one wildly false premise
Historians: here are a bunch of historical facts, some of which relate to P
Philosophers: here is a carefully crafted, deductively valid argument for P with only one wildly false premise
November 18, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Different disciplines argument for P
Historians: here are a bunch of historical facts, some of which relate to P
Philosophers: here is a carefully crafted, deductively valid argument for P with only one wildly false premise
Historians: here are a bunch of historical facts, some of which relate to P
Philosophers: here is a carefully crafted, deductively valid argument for P with only one wildly false premise