Hadas Kotek 🦄
@hadaskotek.bsky.social
Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
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Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.
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Myth busted: Vocal fry isn't just a 'girl thing'
Myth busted: Vocal fry isn't just a 'girl thing'
Macquarie University researchers have found social perceptions, not speech patterns, may explain why vocal fry is more often noticed—and criticized—in women.
phys.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Myth busted: Vocal fry isn't just a 'girl thing'
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PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect
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🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. lnkd.in/ewajedAe
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. lnkd.in/ewajedAe
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October 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. lnkd.in/ewajedAe
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. lnkd.in/ewajedAe
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I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
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We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.
www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.
Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find
When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...
www.psypost.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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From Feb 4th 1939
September 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
From Feb 4th 1939
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can i say something without everyone getting mad
September 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
can i say something without everyone getting mad
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I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.
September 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.
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there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women
September 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women
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Are they not supposed to do that?
September 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Are they not supposed to do that?
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In response to @thelouvreof.bsky.social's request for bangers, I offer this, my most popular post by a long shot:
September 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In response to @thelouvreof.bsky.social's request for bangers, I offer this, my most popular post by a long shot:
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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
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Get your covid shot now. If I got one in *Florida* where it was declared "a bioweapon," you can probably get it easily! I know I'm annoying about it, but it likely gets *much harder* after the 18th/19th if you're in the US. I will virtually high five you after!
Got my COVID shot yesterday. Highly recommend you get yours ASAP.
If you haven't gotten your updated COVID vaccine by now, book an appointment fast before next week's ACIP meeting. After that, you might not be able to get one. I plan on getting mine this weekend if I possibly can. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
September 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Get your covid shot now. If I got one in *Florida* where it was declared "a bioweapon," you can probably get it easily! I know I'm annoying about it, but it likely gets *much harder* after the 18th/19th if you're in the US. I will virtually high five you after!
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More of this kind of reporting, please!
September 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
More of this kind of reporting, please!
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Linguists! After what I hope was a restful summer, we’re starting the LSA Write Time Fridays again! Write in a zoom room with other linguists. Now featuring some Pacific-Time Friendly scheduling! I’m hosting this Friday at 1-3 ET, 10-12 PT. Hope to see you there! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... 🐦🐦
Write Time Friday with Heidi Harley, LSA President
About Write Time Friday
This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Linguists! After what I hope was a restful summer, we’re starting the LSA Write Time Fridays again! Write in a zoom room with other linguists. Now featuring some Pacific-Time Friendly scheduling! I’m hosting this Friday at 1-3 ET, 10-12 PT. Hope to see you there! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... 🐦🐦
Crowdsourcing attempt: what’s the closest place to Boston/Cambridge to get a COVID shot? Best I can find is over 2 hours by train and I just don’t have that level of commitment in me
September 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Crowdsourcing attempt: what’s the closest place to Boston/Cambridge to get a COVID shot? Best I can find is over 2 hours by train and I just don’t have that level of commitment in me
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People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
September 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
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The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then.
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Germany: Jewish Population in 1933 | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Learn more about the Jewish population in Germany in 1933.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
August 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then.
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
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“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
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Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️
Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️
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My double decker weirdos 🦭🍞
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My double decker weirdos 🦭🍞
My double decker weirdos 🦭🍞
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My double decker weirdos 🦭🍞