Members of the GenderSci Lab collectively wrote a letter to the subcommittee of the Journal of the American Medical Association tasked with creating guidelines for scientists related to reporting gender & sex genderscilab.org/blog/gsl-pen...
This September, members of the GenderSci Lab collectively drafted a letter to the subcommittee of the Journal of the American Medical Association tasked with developing and releasing guidelines for sc...
If zoning reform is pursued and adopted via a market-fundamentalist, deregulatory lens, this is the sort of result that is to be expected. Dangerous and unsustainable.
Two things: 1) A big reason I am not a YIMBY 2)These aren't 'natural' disasters- We socially produce risk
Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
The amount of work that goes into running fundraisers for things that should absolutely be covered by the government and the redistribution of wealth via taxes in a just society…it’s a lot. You need some clout, some charisma, some writing skill, and it doesn’t hurt to be conventionally attractive
Hey, I finished one project this year! ...from undergrad. ...but it's still DONE!
What if... just hear me out... I just start a bunch of NEW projects rather than finishing all these stale old projects?
“decisions made by state officials in the years leading up to Helene most likely made some of that damage worse, according to experts in building standards and disaster resilience.” www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/c...
Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
Love when the exact thing you know will happens because we have use case after use case of people doing the worst things with tech the second they get their hands on it, but it’s somehow, always a surprise to the people who make the things, who claim they never even considered it in the first place.
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
this is your yearly reminder that activated charcoal, probably the most popular thing to use to make food black, interferes with your absorption of medication, including birth control. Enjoy the season safely.
Academia is so weird. I have plenty of work to do and not enough time, but somehow the system is set up that I'm also trying to compete with other people to do MOAR WORK later. As if I don't have data, work, and ideas to fill that time.