Heidi Tandy (is not sharing/posting legal advice) 💫
@heidi8.bsky.social
#fanlaw ✨FlaBar BoardCert IP lawyer✨ #fandomismyfandom✨ #FYeahCopyright®✨
I don't tweet/❤️legal advice✨Heidi8 or HeidiEight in most places since 1994 #lawsky
I don't tweet/❤️legal advice✨Heidi8 or HeidiEight in most places since 1994 #lawsky
Such great panels with @efforums.bsky.social at #dragoncon this year! One more today…..
“AI Chatbots and Privacy” panel
September 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Such great panels with @efforums.bsky.social at #dragoncon this year! One more today…..
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Oh. Maths.
Here’s a fun website that shows a variety of spurious correlations, and also generates fake papers that try to explain the relationship. Apparently, wind power in Uruguay predicts the number of breweries in the US!
www.tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
www.tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
April 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Oh. Maths.
Transformative Work of the Day
Dear Manager,
1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.
1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.
February 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Transformative Work of the Day
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"What is at stake is not conceptual or theoretical or ivory tower but instead intimate and personal. This is about the health of your grandmother and grandfather, your mother and father, your sister and brother, your children and grandchildren, and your spouse. This is realism, not alarmism."
Viewpoint: Recent disruptions and funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) undermine the infrastructure and stability of US scientific research, threatening the nation's global leadership and scientific productivity.
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#MedSky
ja.ma/41hBnoc
#MedSky
February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"What is at stake is not conceptual or theoretical or ivory tower but instead intimate and personal. This is about the health of your grandmother and grandfather, your mother and father, your sister and brother, your children and grandchildren, and your spouse. This is realism, not alarmism."
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Researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center & Fred Hutch Cancer Center have uncovered how genome-wide hypertranscription, a hallmark of many cancers, may drive tumor progression & predict poor prognosis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#CancerResearch #PrecisionOncology #Hypertranscription #Genomics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#CancerResearch #PrecisionOncology #Hypertranscription #Genomics
RNA polymerase II at histone genes predicts outcome in human cancer
Genome-wide hypertranscription is common in human cancer and predicts poor prognosis. To understand how hypertranscription might drive cancer, we applied our formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE)–cl...
www.science.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center & Fred Hutch Cancer Center have uncovered how genome-wide hypertranscription, a hallmark of many cancers, may drive tumor progression & predict poor prognosis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#CancerResearch #PrecisionOncology #Hypertranscription #Genomics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#CancerResearch #PrecisionOncology #Hypertranscription #Genomics
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Another good piece on the impacts of NIH cuts on research by @inquirer.com, featuring @noranewcombe.bsky.social and yours truly.
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
February 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Another good piece on the impacts of NIH cuts on research by @inquirer.com, featuring @noranewcombe.bsky.social and yours truly.
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
Instead of what they are — grand projects to save and improve lives. Including, fwiw, his.
“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s... ht @bananapantz.bsky.social
Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes
Here’s a story about being wrong. Not just regular wrong — we’re all wrong sometimes! — but spectacularly, publicly, “I’m going to double down again and again and again on t…
www.techdirt.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Instead of what they are — grand projects to save and improve lives. Including, fwiw, his.
Thank you, Moon, for being perfectly sized and located to have us eclipses of the sun!
the full moon is a perfect time to reflect on how great the moon is and all the things the moon has done for your life.
February 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thank you, Moon, for being perfectly sized and located to have us eclipses of the sun!
Transformative Work of the Omgwtfday
February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Transformative Work of the Omgwtfday
Current Playlist: a mashup of Legally Blonde & Bring It On
[courtoom]
Me: [chanting] law, law-
Other attorneys: law, LAW
Clerk: [pounding her clipboard] LAW, LAW, LAW!
Me: [chanting] law, law-
Other attorneys: law, LAW
Clerk: [pounding her clipboard] LAW, LAW, LAW!
February 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Current Playlist: a mashup of Legally Blonde & Bring It On
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And this is why we didn’t get that next season of Yellowstone
February 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
And this is why we didn’t get that next season of Yellowstone
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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Excellent by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy on the Trumpian war on science in the USA, and how it has killed, and will kill hundreds of thousands
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip
The war on science is turning deadly
open.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Excellent by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy on the Trumpian war on science in the USA, and how it has killed, and will kill hundreds of thousands
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
This is what happens when people think they’re techies or coders but don’t know BASIC or anything basic.
February 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is what happens when people think they’re techies or coders but don’t know BASIC or anything basic.
This is only the first three letters.
What is to stop this from happening to NIH & other federal grants?
AI is likely used to flag these phrases so your grants may be pulled out if you used words like “diversity” in the context of neuronal populations
And maybe you can petition and get the grant but oy, what a mess and waste of time
AI is likely used to flag these phrases so your grants may be pulled out if you used words like “diversity” in the context of neuronal populations
And maybe you can petition and get the grant but oy, what a mess and waste of time
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is only the first three letters.
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🍿🍎🍰 Delicious, Nutritious & Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture 🎥📚
📝 Special Issue: Popular Culture Review 📷
👩💻 Serve up your insights at this 🍴 Free Online Conference!
🍽️ Serve up your insights: tinyurl.com/mrxeys35
🔍 #FoodStudies #PopCulture #CallForPapers
📝 Special Issue: Popular Culture Review 📷
👩💻 Serve up your insights at this 🍴 Free Online Conference!
🍽️ Serve up your insights: tinyurl.com/mrxeys35
🔍 #FoodStudies #PopCulture #CallForPapers
a bag of nacho chips sits next to garfield 's bucket of popcorn
ALT: a bag of nacho chips sits next to garfield 's bucket of popcorn
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🍿🍎🍰 Delicious, Nutritious & Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture 🎥📚
📝 Special Issue: Popular Culture Review 📷
👩💻 Serve up your insights at this 🍴 Free Online Conference!
🍽️ Serve up your insights: tinyurl.com/mrxeys35
🔍 #FoodStudies #PopCulture #CallForPapers
📝 Special Issue: Popular Culture Review 📷
👩💻 Serve up your insights at this 🍴 Free Online Conference!
🍽️ Serve up your insights: tinyurl.com/mrxeys35
🔍 #FoodStudies #PopCulture #CallForPapers
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If you can't find an online history for an organization (or, if it's a coalition, it's component organizations), DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR INFO
my god PLEASE do not sign up online for an organized general strike via a slick looking website claiming hundreds of thousands have already registered.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
If you can't find an online history for an organization (or, if it's a coalition, it's component organizations), DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR INFO
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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The Public Domain Image Archive is a newly launched “curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”. Careful, you could lose some hours in here… [kottke.org]
The Public Domain Image Archive
The Public Domain Review (a true gem of the web) has launched The Public Domain Image Archive, “a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”.
While Th
kottke.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Public Domain Image Archive is a newly launched “curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”. Careful, you could lose some hours in here… [kottke.org]