DGBassani
@dgbassani.bsky.social
Widower dad of 3. Problem-solver living an unsolvable problem. Fatuity loather. Epidemiologist learning about complexity and networks. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/bassani-diego-g/ and https://www.isi.it/people/diego-bassani/
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
my performative purity test score is 93. whats yours?
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
my performative purity test score is 93. whats yours?
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🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Better image with labels fir the colors:
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Better image with labels fir the colors:
While I add some edge correction and population weights to a conflict exposure analyses we’re preparing; I’ll run a poll.
Which color scheme works better to display conflict intensity (number of events and fatalities in a year)? Real data for Mali in 2023.
Vote by row and column.
Which color scheme works better to display conflict intensity (number of events and fatalities in a year)? Real data for Mali in 2023.
Vote by row and column.
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
While I add some edge correction and population weights to a conflict exposure analyses we’re preparing; I’ll run a poll.
Which color scheme works better to display conflict intensity (number of events and fatalities in a year)? Real data for Mali in 2023.
Vote by row and column.
Which color scheme works better to display conflict intensity (number of events and fatalities in a year)? Real data for Mali in 2023.
Vote by row and column.
Anyone who thinks data analysis is something you can safely delegate to someone who ‘knows Python/R/Stata/etc’ but does not know your study and data in-and-out should have their scientific credentials stripped. And their sanity checked.
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Anyone who thinks data analysis is something you can safely delegate to someone who ‘knows Python/R/Stata/etc’ but does not know your study and data in-and-out should have their scientific credentials stripped. And their sanity checked.
So no one else ‘googles’ anything anymore?
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
So no one else ‘googles’ anything anymore?
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Texto fundamental – do melhor professor que tive na faculdade de jornalismo, vale pontuar.
(pena que nem todos os colegas de profissão vão ler)
(pena que nem todos os colegas de profissão vão ler)
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Texto fundamental – do melhor professor que tive na faculdade de jornalismo, vale pontuar.
(pena que nem todos os colegas de profissão vão ler)
(pena que nem todos os colegas de profissão vão ler)
A timely thread… as I recover from this shocker. What level of insanity is this? This is the publication fee for one paper in a journal that publishes a few hundred papers each year. 10,400 USD, but *only* 8,360 USD after the discounts…
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A timely thread… as I recover from this shocker. What level of insanity is this? This is the publication fee for one paper in a journal that publishes a few hundred papers each year. 10,400 USD, but *only* 8,360 USD after the discounts…
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(🧵) This thread from a retired journalism professor who helped usher in the era of metajournalism in the 2010s—and has written a book on the relationship between Trump and Epstein as part of his NYT-bestselling Proof Series—explains how to report properly on the Trump-Epstein Scandal.
Here we go.
Here we go.
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
(🧵) This thread from a retired journalism professor who helped usher in the era of metajournalism in the 2010s—and has written a book on the relationship between Trump and Epstein as part of his NYT-bestselling Proof Series—explains how to report properly on the Trump-Epstein Scandal.
Here we go.
Here we go.
So this has been a thing for a while.
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
So this has been a thing for a while.
Stephanie Miller on Fox…
two men are laughing in a crowd and one of them is saying this was a great idea man .
ALT: two men are laughing in a crowd and one of them is saying this was a great idea man .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Stephanie Miller on Fox…
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Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-13T02:00:36Z
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 13 0150 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0000-0300 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong
Additional Details Here.
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 13 0150 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0000-0300 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong
Additional Details Here.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-13T02:00:36Z
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 13 0150 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0000-0300 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong
Additional Details Here.
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 13 0150 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0000-0300 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong
Additional Details Here.
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I'm excited to announce the establishment of the Western University Centre for Bioethics (@westernbioethics.bsky.social), a research centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences @westernu.ca. I'm honoured to serve as the Centre's inaugural Director. #bioethics
Join us for a launch event (cont 👇)
Join us for a launch event (cont 👇)
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm excited to announce the establishment of the Western University Centre for Bioethics (@westernbioethics.bsky.social), a research centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences @westernu.ca. I'm honoured to serve as the Centre's inaugural Director. #bioethics
Join us for a launch event (cont 👇)
Join us for a launch event (cont 👇)
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
Of course he says ‘nucular’
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Of course he says ‘nucular’
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"The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
In other words, embedding health supremacy, ableism, racism, eugenics.
In other words, embedding health supremacy, ableism, racism, eugenics.
A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
In other words, embedding health supremacy, ableism, racism, eugenics.
In other words, embedding health supremacy, ableism, racism, eugenics.
A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.
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A new @ca.theconversation.com article, co-authored by @juliamwright.bsky.social (FRSC), explores how updated CSA standards for respirator use can better protect health-care workers and patients — and why adopting evidence-based safety measures is vital for all Canadians. #RSCVoices
The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier
The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization — released for review a new draft standard on the “Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators” (CSA Z94.4:25) for workplaces, specifically includin...
rsc-src.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new @ca.theconversation.com article, co-authored by @juliamwright.bsky.social (FRSC), explores how updated CSA standards for respirator use can better protect health-care workers and patients — and why adopting evidence-based safety measures is vital for all Canadians. #RSCVoices
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YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
Yes. This…
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Yes. This…
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It's sad to see @scholars.org giving credibility to "In COVID's Wake" once again. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It's sad to see @scholars.org giving credibility to "In COVID's Wake" once again. 1/
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
When are psychiatric associations, suicide prevention organizations and mental health advocates coming out with a strong, clear and loud statement calling for the regulation of LLMs? A few hundred more suicides from now?
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
When are psychiatric associations, suicide prevention organizations and mental health advocates coming out with a strong, clear and loud statement calling for the regulation of LLMs? A few hundred more suicides from now?
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I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”