I would totally link my BlueSky account to my LinkedIn account to see who’s on both. Need more of my professional network on here.

Their CEO was hallucinating

I just got my invitation from the BlueSky beta queue I got in six months ago. Wondering how has this place changed in the meantime.

On my way to Cambridge University for a PhD defense I’m in the committee of. Going by Eurostar. Ironic how getting by train to brexit-UK is easier than going through very-central-to-EU Germany.

Enraged that Apple's latest macOS has 20+ landscape wallpapers of US mountains and 0 of the Alps. Currently moving back to Windows after 15+ years.

What are some feed few know about but you think are great?

Imagine X as a “project” goes bust. Even then platform won’t disappear, most likely change hands. What will happen across communities? Excitement for the new X, bring Twitter back. Hardly “double down on BS/Mastodon/other”. So under which scenario may these ever have a shot at actually replacing X?

Later this month my student Cici Ling will present our work on studying image-based COVID misinformation on Twitter at CSCW 2023. She will be on the faculty job market this year, make sure to talk to her if you are hiring! You can read our paper here: seclab.bu.edu/people/gianl...

@thestudyofwar.bsky.social had just joined bluesky as well….how nice is that

Katalin Karikó won a Nobel for COVID mRNA vaccines. Yet just 10 yrs earlier, Penn kicked her out of academia. "They told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality. When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website."

How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher

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