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Quincy K Brown
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CS+STEM+Tech policy expert
Obama WH alum,
WH National Space Council, OVP46+OSTP46 - Policy Director, CS Professor, Wife & Mother, AKA, HBCU -A&T
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lyndacarter.bsky.social
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Officially official
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans:

Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
How Big Tech uses NDAs to hide AI data center details from Americans
Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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blackinneuro.bsky.social
🎉 Heading to SfN? Come vibe with the BIN fam at our SfN Social on Nov 17! Good food, great people, and even better energy 🖤
🗓️ November 17
🕢 7:30–10:30PM
📍 San Diego |

Register today!
🔗 blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-6419762
Flyer with colorful abstract shapes and playful fonts invites all Black In Neuro members to the Black In Neuro SfN Social. The event will be held on November 17, 2025, from 7:30–10:30 PM. Location Sent upon registration. Text reads “with the BIN Family, food, and good vibes!” The Black In Neuro logo appears at the top.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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mintii.bsky.social
It should be a priority for llms and search engines to properly cite where their info comes from.

The business model of Wikipedia is being affected by a push of behavior change.

And I wonder how broadly will this shape how we interact with the internet?
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · Oct 17
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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blackinneuro.bsky.social
🎉 Get ready for Black In Neuro Chapters Week 2025!
🗓 Oct 27–31 — a week of connection, community & celebration 🖤

📣 Chapter Roll Call
🤝 Community Call
🍸 Manhattan Mixer
🧠 1st-ever Chapters SURP Symposium!

✨ Register: linktr.ee/BINchapters

#BlackInNeuro #BINTogether #ChaptersWeek2025
White and orange text on a deep red ombre background reads “Black In Neuro Presents Chapters Week October 2025.” Event schedule listed vertically for each day: “Mon 27 – Chapter Roll Call: Share with us on social media about your community and who you can call on using the hashtag #BINTogether. Tue 28 – Community Call: Hear from our Black In Neuro Chapters Committee about how to start or become a member of a BIN chapter. Wed 29 – Manhattan Mixer: Join BINManhattan for a night of networking and career connections designed to inspire, empower, and expand your professional horizons. Thu 30 – SURP Symposium: Support early-career researchers at the inaugural BIN SURP Symposium with professional development workshops, roundtable discussions, and more! Fri 31 – Leaders Retreat with asterisk that denotes retreat is exclusively for our chapter leaders, the Chapters Leaders Retreat is a time to connect, reflect, celebrate, and strategize.” White text at the bottom has registration link and states that any events with asterisk are closed to chapters members only. The Black In Neuro logo featuring a stylized profile illustration is in the top left corner, with soft waveform border accents in the top right and bottom left.
October 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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blackinneuro.bsky.social
We’re looking for neuro-inspired art for our 5th Annual Report! 🧠🎨

Submit your drawings, photos, microscopy, paintings & more by tomorrow, Sept. 30th!

🔗 forms.gle/mcW28wmzWF3jZy1c9

#5YearsOfBIN #Neuroskyence #BlackInSTEM #SciArt
Some proposed alt text: A black background with six Polaroid-style squares, three across, two down. The text on the bottom reads: Submit your neuro-related work for our 5th annual report! If you have a microscopy, photos, drawings, paintings, or other creative work you’d like to submit for consideration, please complete this form or scan the QR code above: https://forms.gle/mcW28wmzWF3jZy1c9 (requires Google sign in) Issues? Email us! BlackInNeuro@gmail.com (subject line Report Art). The content of the Polaroid-style squares are (top-left) a b&w profile photo of a Black woman facing the right against a microscopy background, (top-center) the Black In Neuro logo, (top-right) an illustration of a Black person facing the left from the 2021-2022 Black In Neuro annual report, with a brain design highlighted within the head, and several beautiful fabric patterns throughout the figure’s hair in an afro style, (bottom-right) an illustration of a Black woman facing the left, we rainy an orange tank top. A brain is shown where it would be within the skull. Her hair is in dreadlocks, with shells and bands throughout, and a half ponytail, (bottom-center) the text ‘Calling all artists!’ With a QR code beneath the text, and (bottom-left) a violet and orange/yellow illustration of neurons (violet) from the 2022-2023 Black In Neuro annual report, with projections reaching across toward other neurons.
September 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
"in the largest sample of medical advances for which we have good data...we found extensive connections between medical advances and research that was funded by grants that would have been cut if the NIH budget was sharply reduced."
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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blackinneuro.bsky.social
🎨 Ahead of our first in-person #BlackInNeuro Conference this week, we’re looking for neuro-inspired art for our 5th Annual Report! 🧠✨
Submit your drawings, photos, paintings & more by Sept. 30th!
🔗 forms.gle/mcW28wmzWF3j...

#5YearsOfBIN
September 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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blackinneuro.bsky.social
We are Kicking off #BINW25 with 🔥

Join #BINSeminarSeries: Beyond the Tower ft. Dr. Tabia Pope, Sports SLP, CEO & educator sharing her journey beyond the ivory tower 🧠🏈

🗓 Sept 10 | 🕘 9:30–10:45 AM ET
✨ Register now!
🔗 tinyurl.com/BINW25

#BlackInNeuro #5YearsOfBIN
Flyer for the Black In Neuro Conference session titled #BINSeminarSeries: Beyond The Tower on Wednesday, September 10, from 9:30–10:45 AM ET. Featured speaker is Dr. Tabia Pope, PhD, CCC-SLP — Certified Sports SLP, President and CEO of Head to Speech, Inc., and Clinical Instructor at UDC. She is pictured smiling in a red blazer while holding a football and sitting on soccer and basketballs. The flyer notes this is a hybrid event and encourages virtual registration. The Black In Neuro logo and #5YearsOfBIN appear at the bottom.
September 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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jwaisome.bsky.social
We just wrapped our 6th season of @modernfigures.bsky.social (I created the account but never post lol). Working on re-launching content on YouTube. Here’s the latest released on there with one of my favs, @quincykbrown.bsky.social! youtu.be/SKtLS3J21XI?...
How to Shape National Policy — From the Bronx to the White House | Modern Figures Podcast | Ep. 087
YouTube video by Modern Figures Podcast
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August 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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blackinx.bsky.social
#BlackInChemWeek #STEM #Chemistry #Science #BlackSky
August 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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alondra.bsky.social
Come for why AI "agents" are overhyped; stay for the bell hooks reference www.politico.com/newsletters/...
5 questions for Vilas Dhar
www.politico.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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alzassociation.bsky.social
Request for public comment 💬
We are seeking input from clinicians, researchers, advocates, policymakers & professionals on a new draft guideline on the use of cognitive assessments in adults 55+ in primary care settings.

Comment deadline: July 11, 5 p.m. CDT
➡️alz.org/guidelineinput
July 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
"Supercharging a research ecosystem that already struggles with accessibility and public trust risks more than it achieves."
alondra.bsky.social Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 27
The bipartisan American Science Acceleration Project sounds promising, but "move fast and break things" isn't a strategy for trustworthy research. I write in @science.org about why we need acceleration that opens doors to participation and accountability.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ten times faster is not 10 times better
As the Trump administration systematically defunds the American research ecosystem, while disingenuously promising a return to so-called “gold standard science,” hope can be drawn from the new biparti...
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Outdoor Afro is offering scholarships to cover the costs of anyone, at any age, interested in learning how to swim: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A photo of a little boy swimming
June 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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planetarysociety.bsky.social
Wondering how NASA science benefits your state? We’ve built an interactive dashboard where you can explore detailed economic impact reports for every U.S. state and the congressional districts they touch.
Explore the data here: dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science...
June 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
“A YOUNG MAN with no government experience who has yet to even complete his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency…at…HUD…has been tasked with using artificial intelligence to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations
A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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alzassociation.bsky.social
Read our full statement calling on Sec. Kennedy to stop spreading harmful Alzheimer’s myths: bit.ly/43dRIKw. 4/4
Contrary to Clear, Verifiable Facts, Secretary Kennedy Continues to Repeat Harmful Myths About Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research
The Alzheimer's Association calls on HHS Secretary Kennedy to stop dangerous fabrications about the state of Alzheimer’s and dementia research.
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May 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...
May 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified by the Trump administration that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle.

Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold. 📚
Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts
Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that serve as anchors in their most rural communities.
www.nbcnews.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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vivianschiller.bsky.social
Thank you for your leadership, @jpalfrey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’
Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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alzassociation.bsky.social
Introducing our new PSA, “Some Things Come with Age,” made in partnership with the Ad Council. Highlighting the differences between normal aging and early signs of Alzheimer’s, the campaign focuses on detection in Black Americans, who are 2X as likely to develop Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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alzassociation.bsky.social
Investing in Alzheimer’s and dementia research, gives scientists the tools they need to better understand how to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat dementia.

Ask Congress to increase research funding at the NIH by an additional $113.485 million: bit.ly/42ze7l0.
April 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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esa.int
🚀 In 20 days, our @esaearth.esa.int #Biomass satellite will be launched!

🌍 The mission's P-band synthetic aperture radar can penetrate through the forest canopy to measure trees‘ biomass (woody trunks/branches/stems), which is where trees store most of their carbon. 🌳
April 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM