alissa valentine
alissavalentine.bsky.social
alissa valentine
@alissavalentine.bsky.social
✨computational neuroscientist✨views my own 🏳️‍🌈 #FreePalestine
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There's HEEEEEERE artologica.etsy.com

Original watercolors that reject AI. One of each, unique.
September 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
*new preprint alert* this is the last of my work at mount sinai... showing existing EHR data has some concerning patterns about diagnostic disparities in the psych ED. tried to make a proxy metric for 'clinician bias' but as you can predict, hard to do 😅
arxiv.org/abs/2509.02651
Quantifying Clinician Bias and its Effects on Schizophrenia Diagnosis in the Emergency Department of the Mount Sinai Health System
In the United States, schizophrenia (SCZ) carries a race and sex disparity that may be explained by clinician bias - a belief held by a clinician about a patient that prevents impartial clinical decis...
arxiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Remember. It’s. Your. Money. ✨
March 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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If you’re a federal worker looking for a good accomplishment to share with Elon, tell him you responded to texts from the mother of your children.
February 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Considering how many of these fascists could get swapped in for Drake where that “a minoooooor” line is concerned, maybe we should start blasting Not Like Us everywhere they show up.
"Kendrick gave us what we needed. He was defiant, proud, vindictive, playful & celebratory. He was pro-Black & subversive, trolling & joyful, and through all the expectations and fighting and nastiness, he was ultimately victorious" - @daviddennisjr.bsky.social on Kendrick's #SuperBowl performance
The subversive genius of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance
The Compton MC might have just given us the biggest rap performance ever
andscape.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
vibes as i see the light at the end of the phd hell hole
Researchers believe they've recorded potentially the first-ever sighting of an adult abyssal fish, Melanocetus johnsonii, in broad daylight.

Normally found at depths between 200 and 2,000 meters, this predator was spotted just 2km off the coast of Tenerife.

Full story: tinyurl.com/5j37dnmw
February 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.
1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉
February 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.

…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
January 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
www.motherjones.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out

Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...
December 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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There are so many bills to keep track of but I wanted to highlight this as it hits close to home. This bill would force Graduate Med Education (GME) offices to choose between resident funding and trans healthcare.

For many teaching hospitals, residents make up a large portion of the work force
🚨ALERT NEW BILL 🚨
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📜Bill: US HB3887
📑Title: Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2023
🏷️Bill Type: Gender Affirming Care Ban
🏛Status: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 629.
🔗Bill Text: https://legisca
n.com/US/bill/HB3887/2023
December 13, 2024 at 1:49 PM
when the day starts with getting film back you know it gonna be a good day
December 11, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Qualitative researchers, here's a fun & disruptive way to engage w/ research(er) bias and subjectivity! Check out my article, "Queer(ing) the Bias Monster and Subjectivities: Shifting from Confessions to Reflexivity." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #academia #highered
December 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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In a time when I am very much looking for reasons to keep going & things to look forward to, this is good to remember:
If we're following the model of the Roman Republic, we should be reaching the elites killing other elites stage of things soon.
December 8, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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🌈🌈We have an incredible day planned for you at our #QueerInAI workshop at #NeurIPS2024 in Vancouver on December 11! You can join us in person or virtually via live-stream! Find out more about our events and our lovely speakers at queerinai.com/neurips-2024!! ✨✨
December 3, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 8:35 PM
feeling really inspired after spending hours reviewing grad application materials of young queer scientists. THEY R THE FUTURE and held to insane standards and deserve to be happy and healthy 😭 I feel so torn encouraging them to apply to US programs
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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I love this.
November 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟯:𝟬𝟬 (𝗖𝗘𝗧), for an online panel discussion on the role of GenerativeAI-enabled #disinformation in shaping this year's #election landscape.

Registration: www.eventbrite.nl/e/unraveling...
Unraveling the Role of AI-Enabled Disinformation in an Election Year
Join us online on November 25th at 13:00 CET to dive into how AI fuels disinformation during elections.
www.eventbrite.nl
November 25, 2024 at 8:17 AM
starting to get excited for annual tofurkey dinner this week
November 24, 2024 at 7:29 PM