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Danya Glabau

@allergyphd.bsky.social

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STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Feb 21

*taps the sign*

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Feb 21

No we are talking about deskilling and firing people, the AI industry default setting

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 5h

So many takes on this man and his various escapades that entirely miss the point of why it is all bad, it's exhausting!

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 5h

As a feminist STS anthropologist, I fully endorse this take

D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 5h

*sighs in philosopher of science*

Looking for confirmatory evidence is an entirely normal part of science. The primary problem here is the eugenics and the fascism, not the lies to children about "the scientific method."

One Bluesky account is quoting another. Inner post has a video of RFK Jr., some person I don't recognize (Tylenol and autism guy, maybe?), Marco Rubio (I think), and Trump. Post text: "RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: 'It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Outer post text: "We're doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)"

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 5h

"In Defense of Science Illiteracy" is a section header in this book, Bluesky would hate it SO much

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6h

I encountered this in one of my NYU newsletters; includes lots of zoom events!

NYU Detention and Deportation event series; use QR code to access full info

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 7h

Still haunted by this formulation

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

”Drawing on analyses of failure (Halberstam 2011) and willfulness (Ahmed 2014), I suggest a re-evaluation of “success” and “failure” in doing “real” science.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · Aug 27

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times."

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 9h

Tragedy and Decolonization: From Pessimism to Emancipation | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/uUlUR2K

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

The number of times I've heard that what education is has to change because AI! When people say this to me now, I just say, "no." Usually they stop talking for ten seconds because no one is ever telling them no, and that's the whole problem

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

If you're at NYU, join us next Thursday, it's via Zoom! And more along these lines in the works for next year, too

events.nyu.edu/event/367270...

Starting Conversations About Generative AI in the Classroom

In this TeachTalk, we share a process for starting conversations about generative AI in the classroom that programs, departments, and research team...

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

This is exactly what my talk on LLMs in the classroom next week is about.

In fact, the last line of my slides is, in bold: "At the end of the day, FACULTY control the curriculum."

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20h

It is hard not to connect these observable features of “academic” work on AI to the collapse of faculty governance in universities. Even academics in the midst of *doing* academic work *about* their academic work write as if they have no real choices about the material context in which it occurs.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

Teaching a PhD seminar to 1/3 social scientists and 2/3 computer/data scientists has really clarified for me what social theory is and what a social explanation does, how it makes an argument

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

Emphasis on the "now"

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 10h

Yes for sure, these studies triggered the concern. And a lot of folks have been pointing them out. But in terms of, why is it a political issue now, that's a different question that I (maybe unfairly?) read into your and other comments, and that's more what I was thinking about in my posts

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 13h

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 12h

I actually don't think there is a top-down conspiracy here, and nor do you need one when your entire medical system is based on refusing patients access to basic care and then treating them like garbage three months later when they finally book time with a provider

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 12h

So people have a hunch they need to be careful about their health as soon as they conceive, they go online, and they find the Tylenol causes autism content, and then they SIT WITH THAT INFO FOR TWO MORE MONTHS

Why are we surprised that people believe all of these lies

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 12h

In my professional opinion as a medical anthropologist, I think this is almost entirely the fault of how pregnancy care is managed in the US.

I was not ALLOWED to see an OB until I was 10 weeks pregnant. Do you know how many ways you can unknowingly harm an embryo by that stage of pregnancy?!

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 12h

I see people asking this a lot. It's online pregnancy and parenting forums. That's where this is coming from. It was just getting going in 2020/2021 when I was pregnant, but it's ubiquitous now

Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 13h

Aside: Did the CEO of Tylenol anger the administration? It's odd they're focusing on a specific brand, no? Not the active ingredient, acetaminophen (also called paracetamol)? Is buying Generic Acetaminophen fine, but not Tylenol? This seems to me like there's something else behind the scenes. /end

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 13h

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

Dystopian is the nicest word I can think of for that

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13h

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14h

If your invited keynote speaker works for a company started because OpenAI wasn't basing its work enough on science fiction and said speaker uncritically cites TESCREAList, fictional work masquerading as science, you might not have organized a serious academic gathering.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

Another request! Several people sent awesome art, which reminds me: What are some tech-critical t-shirts I should be wearing to let everyone know to not talk to me about AI in public?

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 15h

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 14h

That's right

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 14h

Ugh I did hear an interview with the CEO on NPR today, though. He's retconning the whole thing to say he intended for these to get defaced and that's his brilliant marketing strategy. Which just underscores to me that there is a strategy of just fully ignoring these folks that would work.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 15h

Wow yeah that answers the brief though I think it goes a little *too* hard for this project