Katherine Dawes (KD-eval)
@kd-eval.bsky.social
Evaluator. Retired from USEPA
Adjunct Prof @ GWU Trachtenberg.
Fellow with the Data Foundation
Posts my own, not official GWU or Data Foundation.
Adjunct Prof @ GWU Trachtenberg.
Fellow with the Data Foundation
Posts my own, not official GWU or Data Foundation.
Pinned
The People's Data 100
Data Foundation The People's Data 100
datafoundation.org
Dear BlueSky scientists: Do you have a favorite US national data set that you think is invaluable? Submit a nomination to The People's Data 100. Let's celebrate the invisible data infrastructure that belongs to the American people and works for everyone.
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I read this morning that Penn Station serves more than 2x passengers per day as Atlanta Hartfield, the country’s busiest airport. So I had to map them at the same scale. 🤯
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I read this morning that Penn Station serves more than 2x passengers per day as Atlanta Hartfield, the country’s busiest airport. So I had to map them at the same scale. 🤯
Noting, gently, that since the EO is not a national law passed by Congress, the word "aims" in the sentence is fundamentally important to understanding the actual immediate effect this will have on States and the state of AI.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a "single national framework" for AI. https://cnn.it/49chVwf
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Noting, gently, that since the EO is not a national law passed by Congress, the word "aims" in the sentence is fundamentally important to understanding the actual immediate effect this will have on States and the state of AI.
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The Devils Hole pupfish has the smallest-known range of any vertebrate: one small but deep pool.
It’s part of Death Valley National Park. The pool is fenced to protect the fish from vandals & destructive idiots.
And yes, we observed Devils Hole pupfish using binoculars.
#25DaysofFishmas
It’s part of Death Valley National Park. The pool is fenced to protect the fish from vandals & destructive idiots.
And yes, we observed Devils Hole pupfish using binoculars.
#25DaysofFishmas
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Devils Hole pupfish has the smallest-known range of any vertebrate: one small but deep pool.
It’s part of Death Valley National Park. The pool is fenced to protect the fish from vandals & destructive idiots.
And yes, we observed Devils Hole pupfish using binoculars.
#25DaysofFishmas
It’s part of Death Valley National Park. The pool is fenced to protect the fish from vandals & destructive idiots.
And yes, we observed Devils Hole pupfish using binoculars.
#25DaysofFishmas
hmmmm 🤔
Trump to issue executive order for single federal rule on AI regulation on.ft.com/4a40pMz
Trump to issue executive order for single federal rule on AI regulation
Move would restrict individual states from regulating tech groups
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
hmmmm 🤔
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Shop now while you can still make good decisions!
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Shop now while you can still make good decisions!
TFW, you find the perfect coffee shop to sip and grade papers on a Sunday. #AdjunctSky
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
TFW, you find the perfect coffee shop to sip and grade papers on a Sunday. #AdjunctSky
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🆕 Alongside our new report on how GPs are using AI, @becksfisher.bsky.social writes in @gponline.bsky.social on how GPs are clear about what they want AI to help them with – which is to reliably handle routine time-consuming tasks, freeing them to focus on patients.
www.gponline.com/viewpoint-ge...
www.gponline.com/viewpoint-ge...
Viewpoint: How can general practice make best use of AI?
GPs are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support their work. Nuffield Trust director of research and policy Dr Becks Fisher writes for GPonline about what GPs are using it for and suppor...
www.gponline.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🆕 Alongside our new report on how GPs are using AI, @becksfisher.bsky.social writes in @gponline.bsky.social on how GPs are clear about what they want AI to help them with – which is to reliably handle routine time-consuming tasks, freeing them to focus on patients.
www.gponline.com/viewpoint-ge...
www.gponline.com/viewpoint-ge...
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📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
🍃 Climate Governance in Turbulent Times: Ambition, Implementation and Contestation
🪑 @laimaeicke.bsky.social & @tomasmaltby.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/fOU2fws
#Polisky #CallforPapers #ClimateChange #EuropeanUnion #EU
🍃 Climate Governance in Turbulent Times: Ambition, Implementation and Contestation
🪑 @laimaeicke.bsky.social & @tomasmaltby.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/fOU2fws
#Polisky #CallforPapers #ClimateChange #EuropeanUnion #EU
Climate Governance in Turbulent Times: Ambition, Implementation and Contestation
European Consortium for Political Research
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
🍃 Climate Governance in Turbulent Times: Ambition, Implementation and Contestation
🪑 @laimaeicke.bsky.social & @tomasmaltby.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/fOU2fws
#Polisky #CallforPapers #ClimateChange #EuropeanUnion #EU
🍃 Climate Governance in Turbulent Times: Ambition, Implementation and Contestation
🪑 @laimaeicke.bsky.social & @tomasmaltby.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/fOU2fws
#Polisky #CallforPapers #ClimateChange #EuropeanUnion #EU
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Intelligence artificielle : Meta signe un accord de partenariat avec plusieurs médias internationaux, dont « Le Monde »
Intelligence artificielle : Meta signe un accord de partenariat avec plusieurs médias internationaux, dont « Le Monde »
Le contrat encadre l’usage des contenus publiés par « Le Monde », « Télérama », le « Huffington Post » et « Le Nouvel Obs » dans les services d’IA développés par le groupe américain, propriétaire de Facebook, Instagram et WhatsApp.
www.lemonde.fr
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Intelligence artificielle : Meta signe un accord de partenariat avec plusieurs médias internationaux, dont « Le Monde »
Mulling 🤔
AI bubble to be short-lived, rebound stronger, NTT DATA chief says reut.rs/4oVb9AR
AI bubble to be short-lived, rebound stronger, NTT DATA chief says
A potential artificial intelligence bubble will deflate faster than past tech cycles but give way to an even stronger rebound as corporate adoption catches up with infrastructure spending, the head of Japanese IT company NTT DATA Inc. said.
reut.rs
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Mulling 🤔
Very interesting.
My students have been assessing the tools for our field, and the signs are that it is really good for coding qualitative data from an already vetted and contained data set. They pulled together really excellent evaluation plans including AI as an analysis tool.
My students have been assessing the tools for our field, and the signs are that it is really good for coding qualitative data from an already vetted and contained data set. They pulled together really excellent evaluation plans including AI as an analysis tool.
There are lots of things wrong with AI but it is great for coding. I had the best set of undergraduate projects for my Election Data Science class this semester. I encouraged students to use AI for coding. They spent less time struggling with programming and more time asking and answering questions
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Very interesting.
My students have been assessing the tools for our field, and the signs are that it is really good for coding qualitative data from an already vetted and contained data set. They pulled together really excellent evaluation plans including AI as an analysis tool.
My students have been assessing the tools for our field, and the signs are that it is really good for coding qualitative data from an already vetted and contained data set. They pulled together really excellent evaluation plans including AI as an analysis tool.
Dear BlueSky scientists: Do you have a favorite US national data set that you think is invaluable? Submit a nomination to The People's Data 100. Let's celebrate the invisible data infrastructure that belongs to the American people and works for everyone.
datafoundation.org/pages/the-pe...
datafoundation.org/pages/the-pe...
The People's Data 100
Data Foundation The People's Data 100
datafoundation.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Dear BlueSky scientists: Do you have a favorite US national data set that you think is invaluable? Submit a nomination to The People's Data 100. Let's celebrate the invisible data infrastructure that belongs to the American people and works for everyone.
datafoundation.org/pages/the-pe...
datafoundation.org/pages/the-pe...
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📚 Meet Ello! The digital reading app that helps kids fall in love with reading! Using speech recognition, Ello listens as kids read out loud, coaches them through mistakes, and cheers them on every step of the way.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4754JJo
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4754JJo
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📚 Meet Ello! The digital reading app that helps kids fall in love with reading! Using speech recognition, Ello listens as kids read out loud, coaches them through mistakes, and cheers them on every step of the way.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4754JJo
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4754JJo
I do try to remember to write out "artificial intelligence" when engaging with my students on AI, especially when talking about use in evaluation, data gathering, and analysis. I try to put an accent on 'artificial' when talking about it.
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I do try to remember to write out "artificial intelligence" when engaging with my students on AI, especially when talking about use in evaluation, data gathering, and analysis. I try to put an accent on 'artificial' when talking about it.
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The conspiracy theory that the government or HAARP caused Hurricane Melissa has resurfaced. In this article, I explain away such foolishness and provide 6 reasons some of your friends or family may cling to conspiracy theories. I hope you will read and share this one.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Hurricane Melissa Was Not Caused By HAARP Or Government Technology
A conspiracy theory linking Hurricane Melissa to HAARP has surfaced. Our expert, once again, dispels the false narrative of hurricane manipulation.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The conspiracy theory that the government or HAARP caused Hurricane Melissa has resurfaced. In this article, I explain away such foolishness and provide 6 reasons some of your friends or family may cling to conspiracy theories. I hope you will read and share this one.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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An MIT graduate student rocketed to fame with an intriguing paper on AI in the workplace. Soon his mentors were asking: Had he made it all up?
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
on.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
An MIT graduate student rocketed to fame with an intriguing paper on AI in the workplace. Soon his mentors were asking: Had he made it all up?
🤔
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🤔
My syllabus in
Iambic pentameter
update AI reads
Iambic pentameter
update AI reads
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My syllabus in
Iambic pentameter
update AI reads
Iambic pentameter
update AI reads
AI for Christmas toys going about as well as we'd expect when an industry that doesn't easily embrace ethical guardrails grows quickly.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 AM
AI for Christmas toys going about as well as we'd expect when an industry that doesn't easily embrace ethical guardrails grows quickly.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
Fascinating. Our energy future can be physically beautiful, America.
Korea is flexing here with this highly artistic floating solar farm, newly commissioned days ago.
47.2 MW of capacity located near the 50 MW Imha hydroelectric dam. The modules are arranged into the shape of Korea’s flag and the Mugunghwa, Korea’s national flower.
47.2 MW of capacity located near the 50 MW Imha hydroelectric dam. The modules are arranged into the shape of Korea’s flag and the Mugunghwa, Korea’s national flower.
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Fascinating. Our energy future can be physically beautiful, America.
I have no idea why I was surprised to hear that companies use AI tools to screen resumes.
Because of course they do.
Because of course they do.
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I have no idea why I was surprised to hear that companies use AI tools to screen resumes.
Because of course they do.
Because of course they do.
hmmmm
Opinion: Big tech's spending spree marks the end of an era. The best of them were magical creatures: a group of companies where investors didn't have to think about the balance sheets at all. That's over now, and in recent weeks, the stock markets have started to notice. on.ft.com/3WWmwwI
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
hmmmm
