Evan Patterson
@epatters.bsky.social
Applied mathematician and technologist. Research scientist at @toposinstitute.bsky.social
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NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.
NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour. Some researchers publish a new paper every five d...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2023 at 9:40 PM
NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.
NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
Automerge (automerge.org) is great, and so is the Ink & Switch team!
July 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Automerge (automerge.org) is great, and so is the Ink & Switch team!
When DHS was created following 9/11, critics argued that because DHS had no clear purpose—we already had a DoD—it would just become a weapon against the enemies of the state. The criticism was correct then and it's correct now. Abolish DHS.
DHS insiders say Trump’s Homeland Security agenda is now a single issue.
“The vibe is: How to use DHS to go after migrants, immigrants. That is the vibe, that is the only vibe. ... It’s wild — it’s as if the rest of the department doesn’t exist.”
“The vibe is: How to use DHS to go after migrants, immigrants. That is the vibe, that is the only vibe. ... It’s wild — it’s as if the rest of the department doesn’t exist.”
Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump’s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention
Tens of millions of dollars slated for violence prevention have been cut or are frozen as DOGE steamrolls the national security sector. “This is the government getting out of the terrorism business,”…
propub.li
March 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When DHS was created following 9/11, critics argued that because DHS had no clear purpose—we already had a DoD—it would just become a weapon against the enemies of the state. The criticism was correct then and it's correct now. Abolish DHS.
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Delighted and proud to speak on Friday at the Berkeley #StandUpForScience march. 📢🔭🧑🔬🥼🔬🧪📡🛰️🌎
Science and education are under attack, but standing together we can resist ✊
Huge thanks to the organizing team for the opportunity to speak!
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
Science and education are under attack, but standing together we can resist ✊
Huge thanks to the organizing team for the opportunity to speak!
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Delighted and proud to speak on Friday at the Berkeley #StandUpForScience march. 📢🔭🧑🔬🥼🔬🧪📡🛰️🌎
Science and education are under attack, but standing together we can resist ✊
Huge thanks to the organizing team for the opportunity to speak!
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
Science and education are under attack, but standing together we can resist ✊
Huge thanks to the organizing team for the opportunity to speak!
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
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Thank you to Eric Gilliam for profiling Topos in FreakTakes! Brendan discusses our mission of collective modelling, highlights projects like CatColab and safeguarded AI research with ARIA, and announces an exciting operations role at our Oxford office.
February 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Thank you to Eric Gilliam for profiling Topos in FreakTakes! Brendan discusses our mission of collective modelling, highlights projects like CatColab and safeguarded AI research with ARIA, and announces an exciting operations role at our Oxford office.
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🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren!
CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.
Since October, we've implemented:
- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams)
- and more!
CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.
Since October, we've implemented:
- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams)
- and more!
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren!
CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.
Since October, we've implemented:
- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams)
- and more!
CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.
Since October, we've implemented:
- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams)
- and more!
Tech, oligopoly, and oligarchy: my thoughts on the state of the tech industry and its influence on society in the U.S.
www.epatters.org/post/tech-an...
Nothing original here, but I aim to be clear-eyed going into the new year.
www.epatters.org/post/tech-an...
Nothing original here, but I aim to be clear-eyed going into the new year.
Tech, oligopoly, and oligarchy – Evan’s Blog
www.epatters.org
January 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech, oligopoly, and oligarchy: my thoughts on the state of the tech industry and its influence on society in the U.S.
www.epatters.org/post/tech-an...
Nothing original here, but I aim to be clear-eyed going into the new year.
www.epatters.org/post/tech-an...
Nothing original here, but I aim to be clear-eyed going into the new year.
The whole thread is worth reading, but this figure caught my eye. The explosion of special issues in for-profit open access megajournals suggests a growing, or at least more overt, culture of favor trading in scientific publishing.
The extent of the success of the SI model has resulted in the very meaning of words changing.
Publishing in a "Special Issue" circa 2017 meant somethng; circa 2021 meant something else completely.
Some journals are now just collections of loose hundreds of "special" issues.
Publishing in a "Special Issue" circa 2017 meant somethng; circa 2021 meant something else completely.
Some journals are now just collections of loose hundreds of "special" issues.
December 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM
The whole thread is worth reading, but this figure caught my eye. The explosion of special issues in for-profit open access megajournals suggests a growing, or at least more overt, culture of favor trading in scientific publishing.
Lukewarm take: description lists are a fun and underappreciated HTML element, and they should have been included in the Markdown spec.
December 21, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Lukewarm take: description lists are a fun and underappreciated HTML element, and they should have been included in the Markdown spec.
Absolutely. The big tech firms love to create the impression of invincibility, but they're not. They long ago ceased to have any vision or mission and their products are visibly rotting. They can and should be taken on by small, motivated groups who share a purpose.
no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
Bluesky has 'em shook
November 22, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Absolutely. The big tech firms love to create the impression of invincibility, but they're not. They long ago ceased to have any vision or mission and their products are visibly rotting. They can and should be taken on by small, motivated groups who share a purpose.
I'm excited about a new tool we're building at Topos Institute.
CatColab is a collaborative environment for modeling in domain-specific categorical logics: https://catcolab.org/
Read more in our blog post here: https://topos.site/blog/2024-10-02-introducing-catcolab/
CatColab is a collaborative environment for modeling in domain-specific categorical logics: https://catcolab.org/
Read more in our blog post here: https://topos.site/blog/2024-10-02-introducing-catcolab/
CatColab
catcolab.org
October 4, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I'm excited about a new tool we're building at Topos Institute.
CatColab is a collaborative environment for modeling in domain-specific categorical logics: https://catcolab.org/
Read more in our blog post here: https://topos.site/blog/2024-10-02-introducing-catcolab/
CatColab is a collaborative environment for modeling in domain-specific categorical logics: https://catcolab.org/
Read more in our blog post here: https://topos.site/blog/2024-10-02-introducing-catcolab/