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Larry Hunter
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Knowledge based biomedical data science, artificial intelligence for discovery in molecular biomedicine, computational bioethics, theory of mattering. University of Chicago / Big Island HI

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 7h
Mamdani is putting together a cabinet with national stature and demonstrated impact. ❤️ Alondra Nelson and Lina Khan
alondra.bsky.social Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 17h
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani​ announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 7h
Neoteny FTW!

Kids are the best.
iuliabadescu.bsky.social iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · Oct 21
Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵
My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 17h
TIL Thanksgiving with turkey and stuffing became a thing because of Sarah Hale, who was a revolutionary-war-era anti-slavery feminist who among her many accomplishments also wrote Mary had a Little Lamb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_J...
Sarah Josepha Hale - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 17h
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani​ announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 1d
"Hawaiians drink the most coffee in the US, with 2.7 cups per day & 57,159 cups in a lifetime." Lots more fun coffee data here... cafely.com/blogs/resear...
Coffee Consumption by Country 2025: Lifetime Data & Statistics
Ever wondered what you'll spend on coffee your whole life? We crunched the numbers globally, looking at life expectancy and coffee habits.
cafely.com

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Larry W. Hunter

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 1d
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."

Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.

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Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., Director of the Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (.gov) https://www.niaid.nih.gov › about › carl-w-dieffenbach-... Nov 15, 2018 — Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., serves as Director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS). Dr. Dieffenbach oversees a global HIV/AIDS research portfolio of more than $1 ...

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Larry W. Hunter

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 1d
It is unprecedented that 47 medical and public health organizations should come together to condemn the actions of the CDC.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...

1. American Academy of Pediatrics
2. Academic Pediatric Association
3. American Academy of Family Physicians ....
Statement on CDC autism website changes
Our organizations, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public health workers, are alarmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting the ...
www.apha.org

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 1d
For the most part, if my question is about a well-known fact, the LLM will give a useful answer. It is a popularity machine (and not a truth machine).

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 2d
Bad use of AI alert: There are now LLM products intended to "help" librarians enforce book bans and buy more right-wing books. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc... For example librarytechnology.org/pr/31869

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d
This is not my parents' timeline
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 5d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Larry W. Hunter

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 3d
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!

A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.

Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d
Advertising is the most likely endgame for monetizing llms. Artificial intimacy is the longshot.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d
Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Reposted by Larry W. Hunter, Greg Linden

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d
Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 4d
The arc of the moral universe does not bend.

The arc of the moral universe must be bent.

The arc of the moral universe is a constant pain in the ass.
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d
"The arc of the moral universe just walked into the kitchen but forgot what it was looking for. It mindlessly opens the refrigerator as if the answer might be sitting next to the milk. All the shelves are empty."
Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - - -The arc of the moral universe is feeling ...
buff.ly

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d
"The arc of the moral universe just walked into the kitchen but forgot what it was looking for. It mindlessly opens the refrigerator as if the answer might be sitting next to the milk. All the shelves are empty."
Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - - -The arc of the moral universe is feeling ...
buff.ly

Reposted by Larry W. Hunter

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Mary Wood @maryrosewood.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 Let’s be so effing for real right now. The Department of Education saying these jobs are no longer PROFESSIONAL is dumb as hell and insulting as fuck. It takes YEARS of post-graduate training, including passing certifying exams, to earn degrees in these fields. #fdt #momsky
Degrees no longer considered professional by the Department of Education, including teaching, nursing, social work, counseling, business, and engineering.

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 4d
The patent office is trying to make it harder for the public to challenge bad patents. Lots of patents, e.g., ignore prior art, and can now be challenged with a simple process, which PTO wants to end. Please take a moment to go on record about what a bad idea this is.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF sup...
www.eff.org

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 4d
In my 60+ years on this planet, I have been a harsh critic of the CIA and unabashed American patriotism. But ex-CIA Sen. Slotkin's video brought a tear to my eye and I deeply appreciate her bravery. We are on the same side.
abbij1961.bsky.social Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 4d
Despite being threatened by the President of the United States, these Senators and Representatives will not be deterred. They will not be silenced. They will not be intimidated. They love this country and believe we are better than what the politics represent!

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 4d
This is hilarious and wildly dangerous at the same time.

AI guardrails try to keep us safe and yet
Poetry beats all the bots on the net

arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Larry W. Hunter

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4d
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.

@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.

They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
DRAFT/PRE-DECISIONAL - FOR ICD INPUT, 08.15.25 Achieving NIH's Mission: Leveraging Funding Policies Vision: A consistent and unified NIH-wide approach for funding the most meritorious science, addressing health priorities, and supporting a robust biomedical workforce Purpose: This framework provides a rubric by which ICO funding strategies are to be developed, implemented, and evaluated to achieve NIH's goals. All ICDs, in collaboration with their ICO staff, should review this framework and if needed, adjust respective funding policies and pay plan development processes. Background: All ICOs have funding policies to support the mission of NIH to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. Appropriately, ICOs have their own respective, yet complementary, strategic plans to meet their individual ICO missions. It is crucial that there is coordination across ICO strategic plans and resulting funding policies to collectively leverage NIH's successes for the good of the American public. Core Tenets of ICO Funding Policies: Certain core tenets of funding policies should be consistent to ensure that the NIH mission and health priorities are being achieved. Moving forward, ICO funding policies should: • Align with NIH's and the ICO's stated mission and strategic priorities • Prioritize scientific merit, program relevance and program balance • Incorporate the breadth of the ICO's research portfolio and approaches • Consider investigator career stage and sustainability of the biomedical research workforce • Consider the total amount of NIH funding available to the investigator to promote distribution of funding • Align with the availability of funds from the ICO Note that while the score and critiques an application receives in peer review are important factors in determining the scientific merit of a proposal, ICOs may not rely on funding "…

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Larry W. Hunter

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 4d
Despite being threatened by the President of the United States, these Senators and Representatives will not be deterred. They will not be silenced. They will not be intimidated. They love this country and believe we are better than what the politics represent!

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jussi T. Eronen , and 10 more

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David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 5d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Reposted by Larry W. Hunter

Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 5d
I agree that emotional addiction to chatbots is the number one risk of AI today. Here is a gift link to an important OpEd in the NYTimes:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Sarah E. Gollust, Robert C. Richards , and 2 more

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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 5d
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 5d
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 5d
I hope nobody ever said that co-reference resolution was dead in NLP because of LLMs.

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 5d
Very much fits with Luke Kemp's "Goliath's curse" www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1le...

Reposted by Larry W. Hunter, Richard M. Carpiano

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5d
just outright disinformation — American Lysenkoism wreaking havoc and endangering our lives
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Lisa W. Fazio, Michael Barnett , and 25 more

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 5d
Growing AI intimacy is a profound threat to public mental health.

Ads for AI girlfriends: “AI girls never say no...” “What if she could be everything you imagined? Shape her style, her personality, and create the perfect connection just for you.” www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co