Nana Porter-Honicky
@narmph.info
PhD Candidate • Neurobionics Lab • University of Michigan • Lover of science fiction, film, and good noodles
Just attended a talk by the author of this book @tomwilliams.phd. Really great break down of how white supremacy misogyny and robotics intersect. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255402...
Degrees of Freedom
In Degrees of Freedom, Tom Williams explores critical questions at the intersection of robotics and social justice. He considers the ways in which roboticist...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just attended a talk by the author of this book @tomwilliams.phd. Really great break down of how white supremacy misogyny and robotics intersect. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255402...
Just had a very Legally Blonde moment at the nail salon when the dean of engineering walked in, recognized me, and complemented my nail color.
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just had a very Legally Blonde moment at the nail salon when the dean of engineering walked in, recognized me, and complemented my nail color.
Populist billionaire is an oxymoron.
Andrej Babiš’s victory deprives Ukraine of a staunch supporter and steers Czechia toward the pro-Russian path taken by Hungary and Slovakia.
https://to.pbs.org/4mQ0ENZ
https://to.pbs.org/4mQ0ENZ
Populist party of billionaire Andrej Babiš wins big in Czech parliamentary election
Babiš's victory deprives Ukraine of a staunch supporter and steers Czechia toward the pro-Russian path taken by Hungary and Slovakia.
www.pbs.org
October 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Populist billionaire is an oxymoron.
my boyfriend makes me tea every morning and leaves me these cute little notes. i love him so much!
September 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
my boyfriend makes me tea every morning and leaves me these cute little notes. i love him so much!
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Hey friends, Defend Public Health has a new campaign if you’d like to join in. Write your elected reps about ensuring that COVID19 vaccines are available this Fall!
Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?
It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...
actionnetwork.org
August 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hey friends, Defend Public Health has a new campaign if you’d like to join in. Write your elected reps about ensuring that COVID19 vaccines are available this Fall!
Showing my sister Ponyo for the first time. Shes never watched a movie before so we’ll see how this goes.
July 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Showing my sister Ponyo for the first time. Shes never watched a movie before so we’ll see how this goes.
but you dont understand, hes MUSLIM
This is what I still don't get about the establishment's Mamdani meltdown: Most of his policies aren't that radical.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
July 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
but you dont understand, hes MUSLIM
I actually know the woman who founded this nonprofit. Shes a very cool person.
Outdoor Afro tells me they received 300 applications overnight following this post! People are learning how to swim
June 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I actually know the woman who founded this nonprofit. Shes a very cool person.
The second invited talk is also about removing harmful behaviors from generative AI. There seems to be a generational gap in the understanding of this field where more junior researchers seem less concerned with real world impact and possible harm than senior researchers and faculty.
June 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The second invited talk is also about removing harmful behaviors from generative AI. There seems to be a generational gap in the understanding of this field where more junior researchers seem less concerned with real world impact and possible harm than senior researchers and faculty.
I'm at a regional ML conference and the first speaker's talk is about protecting people in creative industries from machine learning. Interested to see where this goes.
June 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm at a regional ML conference and the first speaker's talk is about protecting people in creative industries from machine learning. Interested to see where this goes.
It’s very strange to me that this article doesn’t seem to interrogate beyond a passing remark the obvious contradiction in “institutional neutrality” when the state is instituting draconian measures against progressive speech and belief.
June 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It’s very strange to me that this article doesn’t seem to interrogate beyond a passing remark the obvious contradiction in “institutional neutrality” when the state is instituting draconian measures against progressive speech and belief.
I think the end of this paragraph is more telling. The sun will become a red giant in six billion years. That is not exactly a pressing issue. I cannot fathom how someone could pull a quote so asinine and defend their intelligence in the same breath.
It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.'
June 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think the end of this paragraph is more telling. The sun will become a red giant in six billion years. That is not exactly a pressing issue. I cannot fathom how someone could pull a quote so asinine and defend their intelligence in the same breath.
I’ve decided I want to write more and one of the ways I’ve been doing that is writing about the books I read and movies/shows I watch. I’ll host my reviews on my website and post about them here from now on. Here are my two most recent reviews:
May 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’ve decided I want to write more and one of the ways I’ve been doing that is writing about the books I read and movies/shows I watch. I’ll host my reviews on my website and post about them here from now on. Here are my two most recent reviews:
respectfully, derek jeter is an *interesting* choice for a commencement speaker.
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
respectfully, derek jeter is an *interesting* choice for a commencement speaker.
This will be disastrous for the global scientific community even if it’s reversed. It’s hard to find words to describe how devastating this is.
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This will be disastrous for the global scientific community even if it’s reversed. It’s hard to find words to describe how devastating this is.
This a great piece with a very clear outline and defense of the YIMBY position.
my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This a great piece with a very clear outline and defense of the YIMBY position.
Great video that offers a compelling explanation of why Democrats have failed to meet the current political moment. youtu.be/B_q1RemGq3E?...
Who Killed Postmodernism?
YouTube video by Tom Nicholas
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Great video that offers a compelling explanation of why Democrats have failed to meet the current political moment. youtu.be/B_q1RemGq3E?...
So some good news, the stop work order on this grant was lifted. Curiously, it was the only grant affected at Northwestern to be reinstated.
Included in this funding cut is a stop work order for a project going on in my lab to develop better prosthetic devices for veterans. Make no mistake, this is not unfortunate collateral damage, this a clear communication of the values of the current administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say (Gift Article)
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So some good news, the stop work order on this grant was lifted. Curiously, it was the only grant affected at Northwestern to be reinstated.
A film that takes place where you’re from
April 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A film that takes place where you’re from
Included in this funding cut is a stop work order for a project going on in my lab to develop better prosthetic devices for veterans. Make no mistake, this is not unfortunate collateral damage, this a clear communication of the values of the current administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say (Gift Article)
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Included in this funding cut is a stop work order for a project going on in my lab to develop better prosthetic devices for veterans. Make no mistake, this is not unfortunate collateral damage, this a clear communication of the values of the current administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
fantastic piece
Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
fantastic piece
Maybe this is a preference thing but I cannot read posts with a ton of hashtags and @‘s in them. I can only do one maybe two in a single post before I stroke out and have to move on.
February 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Maybe this is a preference thing but I cannot read posts with a ton of hashtags and @‘s in them. I can only do one maybe two in a single post before I stroke out and have to move on.
I wasn’t aware of this model of peer review and it seems to have a lot of pros although I’m unclear on how it would prevent more bunk science from being published. elifesciences.org/about/peer-r...
February 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I wasn’t aware of this model of peer review and it seems to have a lot of pros although I’m unclear on how it would prevent more bunk science from being published. elifesciences.org/about/peer-r...
@scalzi.com I just wanted you to know that my father and I love science fiction and have bonded over audiobooks since I was child. We would stand in the kitchen together, make dinner, and listen to books about space men. Our favorite by a mile was Redshirts.
January 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
@scalzi.com I just wanted you to know that my father and I love science fiction and have bonded over audiobooks since I was child. We would stand in the kitchen together, make dinner, and listen to books about space men. Our favorite by a mile was Redshirts.