Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍
@simoneskeen.xyz
Tracing the collisions of systems and psyches | biopsychosociotechnical sciences, HIV, digital, global mental health | 💉transsexual 🔪 | postdoc | personal account - opinions my own | simoneskeen.xyz
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· Nov 12
Using Geographic Momentary Assessment to Explore Spatial Environment Influences on Wellbeing in People With HIV - AIDS and Behavior
Place-based socio-economic and racial inequities contribute to health disparities among people with HIV (PWH). We used geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) methodologies to explore the in...
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New open access science❕❕
People living with HIV in New Orleans (N = 69) contributed 14-day micro-longitudinal data.
Space, place, and their intra-psychic interplay may drive depressive Sx and suppress essential social supports.
Results and implications 🧵1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
People living with HIV in New Orleans (N = 69) contributed 14-day micro-longitudinal data.
Space, place, and their intra-psychic interplay may drive depressive Sx and suppress essential social supports.
Results and implications 🧵1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I expressed skepticism of the AltCDC and AltNIH accounts, whereupon “AltFDA,” who I didn’t know existed, roared into my mentions steaming mad to accuse me, in ~30 replies, of being a collaborator (I’m a trans HIV researcher) and start a weeklong fight that broke containment like a football brawl.
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I expressed skepticism of the AltCDC and AltNIH accounts, whereupon “AltFDA,” who I didn’t know existed, roared into my mentions steaming mad to accuse me, in ~30 replies, of being a collaborator (I’m a trans HIV researcher) and start a weeklong fight that broke containment like a football brawl.
I saw a high-reach public health account that I used to consider annoying but innocuous using causal language around LLMs and suicide today, and lost any respect for their capacity for valid inference.
I don't want to fight, so just take this as a personal psych report: it depresses me, and reduces my faith in education, when I see well-respected people with PhDs adduce the heavy-metal-music-suicide hearings as an inspiring precedent for regulation of matrix multiplication.
December 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I saw a high-reach public health account that I used to consider annoying but innocuous using causal language around LLMs and suicide today, and lost any respect for their capacity for valid inference.
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atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
My PhD program, atypically, emphasized sound inference at individual, group, and population levels (and, relatedly, at staggered degrees of abstraction). This shitshow of a thread demonstrates why we need a lot more of that.
Homelessness increased primarily because of immigration (lots of people came to the US without setting up housing).
December 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My PhD program, atypically, emphasized sound inference at individual, group, and population levels (and, relatedly, at staggered degrees of abstraction). This shitshow of a thread demonstrates why we need a lot more of that.
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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the transformer model is not going to spontaneously uninvent itself. much consternation from this fact
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
the transformer model is not going to spontaneously uninvent itself. much consternation from this fact
Lol.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD United States #Epijobs
apps.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/index.c...
Bethesda, MD United States #Epijobs
apps.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/index.c...
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Lol.
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Rurality is a devastating geosocial determinant of health that rarely breaks the mainstream conciousness. Firearm access, yes, but exacerbated by social isolation, community atomization, chronic unemployment, alcohol culture. and a near-total lack of mental health professionals.
Association of Youth Suicides and County-Level Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas in the US
This study assesses the association between youth suicide rates and mental health professional workforce shortages at the county level.
jamanetwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Rurality is a devastating geosocial determinant of health that rarely breaks the mainstream conciousness. Firearm access, yes, but exacerbated by social isolation, community atomization, chronic unemployment, alcohol culture. and a near-total lack of mental health professionals.
Ooh, this looks _very_ useful.
Do you use LLMs to generate regular expressions? We do, too! Do you *review* your regexes? Is that frustrating? How can we put humans in the loop better, doing relatively few, meaningful tasks? Please try out our new tool PICK:regex, available for VSCode!
blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p...
blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p...
LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!
blog.brownplt.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ooh, this looks _very_ useful.
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there are certainly things I don't like about AI/LLMs but a tremendous amount of 'criticism' is just dumb clickbait slop
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
there are certainly things I don't like about AI/LLMs but a tremendous amount of 'criticism' is just dumb clickbait slop
…who cares? The only reason you’re seeing “investigative reporting” on _Discord drama_ is that the AI angle will reliably rile up a critical mass of Blueskyers. Please.
A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord.
When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
…who cares? The only reason you’re seeing “investigative reporting” on _Discord drama_ is that the AI angle will reliably rile up a critical mass of Blueskyers. Please.
These data look interesting (I bookmarked the report myself), but this is an incentivized self-selected non-probability sample, so functionally no more generalizable than a big qual study.
NEW: A report found that a significant number of kids and teens are using AI companions.
More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
These data look interesting (I bookmarked the report myself), but this is an incentivized self-selected non-probability sample, so functionally no more generalizable than a big qual study.
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I started my year with the Bourbon Street massacre as a Tulane PhD candidate (literally, I woke to the “mass casualty event” text). I’m presently huddled in a Providence bar as a Brown postdoc. None of this feels particularly abnormal to me. And that in itself is abysmally abnormal.
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I started my year with the Bourbon Street massacre as a Tulane PhD candidate (literally, I woke to the “mass casualty event” text). I’m presently huddled in a Providence bar as a Brown postdoc. None of this feels particularly abnormal to me. And that in itself is abysmally abnormal.
My version of this is telling my corporate friends how academic salaries work.
getting to tell a young single person about the cost of daycare is the closest thing adults do to telling ghost stories around a campfire
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My version of this is telling my corporate friends how academic salaries work.
This <entity> gets it. Brief🧵👇🏻
Analysis: The intersection of transgender identity and technology reveals a duality. While mainstream AI and digital platforms can perpetuate societal biases, trans communities are actively creating their own technologies for support, identity exploration, and resistance.
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This <entity> gets it. Brief🧵👇🏻
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NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
CERTRON dropping a legendarily soul-shaking electro-industrial EP and then vanishing from the scene circa 1991.
Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers
December 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
CERTRON dropping a legendarily soul-shaking electro-industrial EP and then vanishing from the scene circa 1991.
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this is still true.
Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
this is still true.
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I see reactions calling this “petty and cruel.” Cruel it is. But this is just one facet of the ongoing administrative eradication of trans people being perpetrated by this federal government, alongside NIH censorship, the vandalism of public datasets, State invalidating our passports, and so on.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I see reactions calling this “petty and cruel.” Cruel it is. But this is just one facet of the ongoing administrative eradication of trans people being perpetrated by this federal government, alongside NIH censorship, the vandalism of public datasets, State invalidating our passports, and so on.
I see reactions calling this “petty and cruel.” Cruel it is. But this is just one facet of the ongoing administrative eradication of trans people being perpetrated by this federal government, alongside NIH censorship, the vandalism of public datasets, State invalidating our passports, and so on.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I see reactions calling this “petty and cruel.” Cruel it is. But this is just one facet of the ongoing administrative eradication of trans people being perpetrated by this federal government, alongside NIH censorship, the vandalism of public datasets, State invalidating our passports, and so on.
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If you mentor ECRs/trainees, I encourage candor re the dismantling of our scientific infrastructure by bigots and quacks. Even if we’re all still stuck writing grants. Amidst the constant sucking existential dread, hearing euphemisms like “kooky funding environment” feels tantamount to gaslighting.
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you mentor ECRs/trainees, I encourage candor re the dismantling of our scientific infrastructure by bigots and quacks. Even if we’re all still stuck writing grants. Amidst the constant sucking existential dread, hearing euphemisms like “kooky funding environment” feels tantamount to gaslighting.
If you mentor ECRs/trainees, I encourage candor re the dismantling of our scientific infrastructure by bigots and quacks. Even if we’re all still stuck writing grants. Amidst the constant sucking existential dread, hearing euphemisms like “kooky funding environment” feels tantamount to gaslighting.
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you mentor ECRs/trainees, I encourage candor re the dismantling of our scientific infrastructure by bigots and quacks. Even if we’re all still stuck writing grants. Amidst the constant sucking existential dread, hearing euphemisms like “kooky funding environment” feels tantamount to gaslighting.
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God yes. Also, this is not an either/or proposition. I had world-class quant training and _of course_ we talked about Biometrika, “regression to mediocrity” etc., but at no point was tossing frequentist statistical inference into the dustbin of history presented as the appropriate way forward.
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
God yes. Also, this is not an either/or proposition. I had world-class quant training and _of course_ we talked about Biometrika, “regression to mediocrity” etc., but at no point was tossing frequentist statistical inference into the dustbin of history presented as the appropriate way forward.
…*gritting my teeth so hard my skull squeaks* Hooray for our atomized private for-profit American healthcare “system,” where at least some meddlesome twit can’t go rooting around our EHR data because he got blackpilled on X or whatever.
I’d prefer it if he conducted an investigation into why it takes so long for ADHD people to be diagnosed and put onto a treatment plan by the NHS, personally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses
The health secretary says the aim is to tackle a rising demand for services and pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
…*gritting my teeth so hard my skull squeaks* Hooray for our atomized private for-profit American healthcare “system,” where at least some meddlesome twit can’t go rooting around our EHR data because he got blackpilled on X or whatever.