Isolde
@isolde789.bsky.social
Librarian, believer in science & democracy
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This is who you're arguing with online...statistically
May 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is who you're arguing with online...statistically
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Studies terminated at NIH:
-On reducing asthma from mold
-On prenatal risks & screening
-On statins influence on dementia
-On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care
-On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities
-On improving HIV care
-Training programs for the next generation of scientists
-On reducing asthma from mold
-On prenatal risks & screening
-On statins influence on dementia
-On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care
-On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities
-On improving HIV care
-Training programs for the next generation of scientists
taggs.hhs.gov
March 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Studies terminated at NIH:
-On reducing asthma from mold
-On prenatal risks & screening
-On statins influence on dementia
-On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care
-On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities
-On improving HIV care
-Training programs for the next generation of scientists
-On reducing asthma from mold
-On prenatal risks & screening
-On statins influence on dementia
-On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care
-On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities
-On improving HIV care
-Training programs for the next generation of scientists
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This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I've been calling my R representative and Senators Dave McCormick and John Fetterman. Does anyone think it has any impact at all?
February 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've been calling my R representative and Senators Dave McCormick and John Fetterman. Does anyone think it has any impact at all?
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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
docs.google.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
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your identity in a capitalist society
July 23, 2024 at 12:54 AM
your identity in a capitalist society
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Or any of his other promises
January 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Or any of his other promises
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I would phrase this a little differently, and limit my criticism more to generative chatbots, but writing is a neurological process that’s crucial to thinking critically. It forces you to reflect on what you know & rid yourself of preconceived notions prior to communication. Don’t dumb yourself.
AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
Today I opened up Word and now on every freaking line there is an icon for Microsoft's Copilot AI tool, always asking me to use it to write. WTF. After googling, it appears IMPOSSIBLE to remove. I cannot use Word with an AI tool. I'm a professional fucking writer. I don't want it inserting shit.
January 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I would phrase this a little differently, and limit my criticism more to generative chatbots, but writing is a neurological process that’s crucial to thinking critically. It forces you to reflect on what you know & rid yourself of preconceived notions prior to communication. Don’t dumb yourself.
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If you think you wrote something with AI — no you didn’t.
Other people wrote it, and you just used a plagiarism machine to keep yourself from knowing their names.
Other people wrote it, and you just used a plagiarism machine to keep yourself from knowing their names.
Seeing a minor spike in very obviously "AI" generated submissions so far this year. One didn't even hide and tried to claim in a cover letter that it was "there right" to do so. When certain (like this one), bans were issued.
January 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you think you wrote something with AI — no you didn’t.
Other people wrote it, and you just used a plagiarism machine to keep yourself from knowing their names.
Other people wrote it, and you just used a plagiarism machine to keep yourself from knowing their names.
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
I have ptsd when I hear Steve Kornacki’s voice
December 9, 2024 at 12:49 AM
I have ptsd when I hear Steve Kornacki’s voice
Joining Bluesky feels like finally listening to Synchronicity after watching the cool kids carrying around the cassette for months
November 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Joining Bluesky feels like finally listening to Synchronicity after watching the cool kids carrying around the cassette for months