Michelle F. Bieger, PhD
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Michelle F. Bieger, PhD
@mfbieger.bsky.social
Writer. Data scientist/soft eng. Researcher of planetary atmospherics, AI ethics. Generally found thinking about the climate/ancient Greeks/policy/culture. 🇩🇪, live(d): 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇬🇧

michellebieger.github.io
Thank *you*; I really love your work and have learned so much from you about what it means to write stellar journalism.
December 4, 2024 at 7:33 AM
(I need to keep cataloguing all that I read more. I was able to do this thread because I started, a few months back, recording what I read in Zenodo. But there's oodles more I've forgotten to the sands of time...)
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
To me--I can see the links behind all my interests so easily. Connecting all the stories in this thread is to me, seamless (harder to write out in a 300 character not-tweet/tweet though). Anyway--please click, please read, please support journalism and the institutions that provide journalism.
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Another multi-media format: @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 's video on migration in Thailand due to climate change was incredible to watch and really married science and story in a deeply moving way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2N...
Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand
YouTube video by Ayesha Tandon
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Something for the podcast listeners-- @karenhao.bsky.social has been reporting on the egregious ethics abuses behind ChatGPT and I've been keenly following her reporting on all things tech ever since. www.wsj.com/podcasts/the... This is an incredibly moving and tricky piece.
The Hidden Workforce That Helped Filter Violence and Abuse Out of ChatGPT - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
ChatGPT is one of the most successful tech products ever launched. And crucial to that success is a group of largely unknown data workers in Kenya. By reviewing disturbing, grotesque content, often fo...
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Continuing on in the tech theme, @bentarnoff.com 's profile on Weizenbaum was incredible and led me to reading more about the start of "AI." I loved reading every minute of this www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
@kashhill.bsky.social 's reporting I fell even more in love with after reading her book, Your Face Belongs to Us. There are, imo, 2 reasons why journalism is more important than ever: climate & tech. Hill consistently covers the Big Reasons to be tech cautious www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/t...
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
I had no idea until I was putting together this post that Alex Tizon had passed. I loved the way his piece grappled with morality and I'm really looking forward to reading his memoir. Again, I nearly did a PhD on battling human trafficking with ML techniques. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
www.theatlantic.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
@raffiwriter.bsky.social on ITER absolutely hooked me when I was studying physics, and put further fuel on the fire for my desire to pursue theoretical physics. (I did not end up doing my PhD in theoretical physics.) My go-to "this is how good scicomm can be" www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
A Star in a Bottle
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
This incredible essay by @rsbenedict.bsky.social @bloodknife.bsky.social on how "everyone is beautiful, but no one is horny." I reference it a LOT when talking about cinema or literature these days, as desire is one of my favourite themes to explore in film/fiction bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
bloodknife.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
The pieces I've chosen are those that I've loved based on: journalistic integrity, because the interviewing was top notch, or simply because the topic was near & dear to me. I've read publishers are seeing >> traffic from bsky and these pieces deserve it
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM