Nick Anderson, PhD, FAMIA
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Nick Anderson, PhD, FAMIA
@extrapolation.com
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, UC Davis.
Practicing positive pessimism, creative tech, data advocacy, data, data, data.
Constantly aware of the time
NIH to resume issuing grants - which will still include previously negotiated indirect rates. For now. popular.info/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by Nick Anderson, PhD, FAMIA
“Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads” - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales timsh.org/tracking-mys...
Everyone knows your location
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
timsh.org
February 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I had been wondering how or when the effects of the latest government would directly affect my academic and professional life- but I was surprised how the immediate consequences were to have many of my online meetings for the next two weeks be suddenly canceled. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
January 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Nick Anderson, PhD, FAMIA
“Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets … put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform.”
www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media
Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor
State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
www.semafor.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Trending in the Bay Area
December 5, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Nick Anderson, PhD, FAMIA
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Standing room only in the Epic and AI section - I remember when Epic didn’t attend AMIA. They must need us more now #AMIA2024
November 10, 2024 at 11:35 PM