Claire Weekley
@claireweekley.bsky.social
Scientist, social media lurker, Merri Creek lover. Hopeful cynic.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
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Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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This kicker: “The money spent on launching the missile into space has no other possible use because the issues women face on Earth are an afterthought.”
In Space, No One Can Hear You Girlboss
Strapped in next to Gayle King and an all-women crew aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket, the pop star set a record for the most feminist publicity stunt in history as she smashed through the glass ceiling of E...
pitchfork.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This kicker: “The money spent on launching the missile into space has no other possible use because the issues women face on Earth are an afterthought.”
"The toolbox of machine learning makes it easier to build models, but it doesn’t necessarily make it easier to extract knowledge about the world, and might well make it harder. As a result, we run the risk of producing more but understanding less."
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.
www.nature.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"The toolbox of machine learning makes it easier to build models, but it doesn’t necessarily make it easier to extract knowledge about the world, and might well make it harder. As a result, we run the risk of producing more but understanding less."
Were these pedestrian safety ads written by a car? @thewaroncars.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Were these pedestrian safety ads written by a car? @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn
Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
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Something positive:
Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years - by @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years - by @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI
Critically endangered bird detected after analysis of tens of thousands of hours of song meter recordings
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Something positive:
Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years - by @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years - by @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five years on from February 2020, when the worst of the Black Summer fires were extinguished, Guardian Australia is looking back – we spoke to individuals affected by lost lives, houses, wilderness and sacred sites, and about the ongoing health impacts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Charlotte O’Dwyer became the face of black summer’s terrible toll. Five years after the fires her family looks back
On this day in 2020 the worst of the massive bushfires finally went out – but Australia had little time to grieve as the Covid pandemic took hold. Five years on, we examine the wounds of that summer
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Five years on from February 2020, when the worst of the Black Summer fires were extinguished, Guardian Australia is looking back – we spoke to individuals affected by lost lives, houses, wilderness and sacred sites, and about the ongoing health impacts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
A local team tackling neglected diseases with repurposed drugs.
A small team of Australian scientists won a rare drug approval – and upended the pharma system
Hundreds of thousands of doses of moxidectin – which treats a disease caused by a parasitic worm – are being given to patients, the result of an audacious strategy offering a new way to develop medici...
www.theage.com.au
February 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A local team tackling neglected diseases with repurposed drugs.
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update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)
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There’s no sports writing like cricket writing, and few writers who hit notes like @geofflemon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...
Pat Cummins conjures special delivery as Australia heap pressure on India
India suffer damaging run-out and Scott Boland takes two late wickets to leave tourists on 164 for five at end of day two of the fourth Test
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:10 AM
There’s no sports writing like cricket writing, and few writers who hit notes like @geofflemon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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The beautiful thing about science is the changes persistent study and experimenting can reveal.
Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!
Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!
October 18, 2024 at 3:03 PM
The beautiful thing about science is the changes persistent study and experimenting can reveal.
Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!
Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!
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lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
September 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
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I have 14500 followers on twitter and I post lots of positive gentle stuff there I would dearly like to have that many here on Bsky but it might take years. As an artist who sells my work directly via the web I keep using twitter rather than starving but my goodness I wish I didn’t need to
August 7, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I have 14500 followers on twitter and I post lots of positive gentle stuff there I would dearly like to have that many here on Bsky but it might take years. As an artist who sells my work directly via the web I keep using twitter rather than starving but my goodness I wish I didn’t need to
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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
May 31, 2024 at 10:27 PM
computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
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A 15-minute city, but that's how long it takes for Godzilla to destroy the entire downtown.
for Godzilla, every city is walkable
April 4, 2024 at 9:30 PM
A 15-minute city, but that's how long it takes for Godzilla to destroy the entire downtown.
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if this report is even *halfway* accurate, it explains an awful lot about why the IDF’s approach in gaza has seemed so horribly disorganized and destructive, and also explains why a hell of a lot of high ranking IDF officials should end up in the hague.
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
www.972mag.com
April 3, 2024 at 6:10 PM
if this report is even *halfway* accurate, it explains an awful lot about why the IDF’s approach in gaza has seemed so horribly disorganized and destructive, and also explains why a hell of a lot of high ranking IDF officials should end up in the hague.