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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 4d

📝 So, the fellowship actually ended up removing the Diversity Fellowship as one of the formal requirements without notifying people! 🤔🧪

I still ended up submitting my statement by adding it to the end of my research proposal because it definitely influenced my scientific direction 🫣👩🏽‍💻

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 21d

I got a liver biopsy yesterday and, wow, I didn’t expect that to hurt as much as it did … Thank goodness I have sick days so I can rest! 🥲

They also weren’t able to give me as much sedative because my blood pressure runs pretty low to begin with so I felt everything 😭

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Sep 4

Pinning this for later! 📌 Thanks for all of the educational posts as always 🤩

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Sep 3

My parents keep pointing out parallels between what has /already happened/ in the Philippines and the resulting aftermath versus what's going on in the United States today 😬

... And comparing that to why they left in the first place during the Marcos' regime 🫠

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · Sep 3

Again, this is *verbatim* the exact messaging Rodrigo Duterte used in order to run his deadly drug war in the Philippines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Sep 3

Oh wow, this is super cool work! 🤩 I'm excited to look deeper into the paper 👀

Tagging with some emojis and whatnot so that it gets on the #SciSky 🧪 feed too! 🧬💻✨

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · Sep 3

Americans, I am once again begging you to consider that sometimes people aren't in America and may be discussing their own bad governments on the niche microblogging website. Please. I am begging.

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Sep 3

I attended a @anvilproject.org workshop 🧬 💻 🧪 yesterday and we were outrageously Zoom bombed 💣 💥 🫣

Luckily, the workshop runners handled things well, but … it goes to show that passwords in Zoom meetings are still important for webinars because we can’t trust people 🙃 🫠

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 3

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Sep 2

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

www.wsj.com

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Sep 1

Hmm, that’s a good point! I’ll ask the fellowship coordinators to try and learn more! 🤔

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Aug 29

Intentionally attacking civilians like aid and rescue workers, and journalists, is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist on murdered journalists and Trump's America

Intentionally attacking civilians like aid and rescue workers, and journalists, is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.

www.abc.net.au

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Aug 29

New study on #BlueSky for #SciComm.

“Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.”

🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

www.nature.com

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

For sure! I feel like with AI/LLM-generated content, there’s a lot of filler text and fluff that isn’t very useful 🥴

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

Sharing this here on my main feed as well 👀 ! 🧪💻👾

I replied to @carlbergstrom.com’s post about the #GoogleSearch AI Responses, but somebody wrote a cool thing to make them look like “fortunes” and it was featured on @gigazine.net 💪🏽✨

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

This article is in Japanese but @gigazine.net posted a nifty gadget somebody made to make AI suggestions look like some “fortune” instead 👀✨💻🌐🔮

👩🏽‍💻 GitHub Repo: github.com/mina37010/Fo...

Google検索の最上部に表示される「AIによる概要」を無害なおみくじに変えるChrome向け拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場、「でたらめ言われるくらいならおみくじの方がマシ」という要望に応えて

Google検索では、検索結果に「AIによる概要」が表示されます。このAIによる概要はしばしば訳の分からない回答を出力することがあるため、AIによるめちゃくちゃな概要を集めたXアカウントがあるほどです。そんなAIによる概要が不要という人に向け、AIによる概要を占いに変えるChrome拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場しました。

gigazine.net

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

The more I think about it, the more I believe that we’re in the New Gilded Age 💛🥲

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

This article is in Japanese but @gigazine.net posted a nifty gadget somebody made to make AI suggestions look like some “fortune” instead 👀✨💻🌐🔮

👩🏽‍💻 GitHub Repo: github.com/mina37010/Fo...

Google検索の最上部に表示される「AIによる概要」を無害なおみくじに変えるChrome向け拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場、「でたらめ言われるくらいならおみくじの方がマシ」という要望に応えて

Google検索では、検索結果に「AIによる概要」が表示されます。このAIによる概要はしばしば訳の分からない回答を出力することがあるため、AIによるめちゃくちゃな概要を集めたXアカウントがあるほどです。そんなAIによる概要が不要という人に向け、AIによる概要を占いに変えるChrome拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場しました。

gigazine.net

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

I also miss StumbleUpon and randomly finding delightful corners of the internet 🥲

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

I went to my community’s monthly 🏠 HOA Meeting 🌳📆 last evening, and the amount of yelling at board members (then gaslighting them by saying it was polite conversation and comments 🙃) was absolutely insane 🫣

Are other communities in #SanDiego also doing special assessments and balcony projects? 🥲

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

Is there a transcript or recording of these conversations somewhere? 🤩🧪

Would love to hear what was discussed, especially since I couldn’t make the @uaw4811.bsky.social event that recently happened! 💪🏽

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29

I was a little surprised that they were asking for one given ✨everything going on🤪🧪 but a good exercise nonetheless?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 28

My pet peeve is people who tell other people to quit their jobs while they would never quit theirs.

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 27

I just forwarded this paper to my lab's Slack! Super cool work! I'm excited to go more in the details in a possible journal club 👀🧪🧬💻

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 27

That's true! I've been looking there, and then what positions might be available at Community Colleges as well! 🏫

Dude ... you've honestly been such a HUGE inspiration to me since we were wee lil undergrads 🤣 Along with some of the other CSE and BISB faculty from @jacobsschool.bsky.social 🤩✨

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 27

I stepped away from it years ago at this point (around ~2021? 🤔) and it has been super beneficial to my mental health ✨ even though I wasn't necessarily engaging with people I didn't know?

Not seeing a lot of the anger and vitriol toward me or other friends has been wonderful 😌💖

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 27

This "Social Engineering" example is a little crazy -- I do wonder how this training can and should be updated to take the LLM tools into account 🤔 🫠

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 27

For the 🦅 MAKE ❤️ AMERICA 🤍 GREAT 💙AGAIN 🇺🇸 campaign, can we PLEASE bring back the trains and public transit modalities that people used to travel around the United States 🥲 (and then modernize them)

Claire (derogatory) @clarissakickass.bsky.social · Aug 27

I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 27

Also in working on this fellowship, I'm considering what it would be like if I were to stay in academia 🏫👩🏽‍💻 I love writing and mentoring trainees, but I'm not sure if I want to go the tenure track faculty route yet 😅🧪✨

So if anybody is looking for a Staff Scientist this time next year~ish 👀🤔

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