Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦
@michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Biologist, McGill University
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this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
For the moment, there is no alternative.
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
economist.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
I am seriously considering setting aside a large percentage of lab class time for report writing, because the choices are making data analysis and writing an in-class activity or just cutting them because they're meaningless assignments.
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
For the moment, there is no alternative.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I am seriously considering setting aside a large percentage of lab class time for report writing, because the choices are making data analysis and writing an in-class activity or just cutting them because they're meaningless assignments.
We're like 3 months away from a CDC announcement that covid infection saves lives.
Translation from Swedish to English
Director Bhattacharya: As a scientist, when you see negative excess deaths starting during a serious disease outbreak, does that cause you to question the assumptions of your model?
Director Bhattacharya: As a scientist, when you see negative excess deaths starting during a serious disease outbreak, does that cause you to question the assumptions of your model?
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
We're like 3 months away from a CDC announcement that covid infection saves lives.
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RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...
youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...
Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...
youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...
C'mon, BSDNeuro is doing 6-8 years in minimum security upstate, don't kick him while he's down.
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
C'mon, BSDNeuro is doing 6-8 years in minimum security upstate, don't kick him while he's down.
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*the highest anyone's ever been*
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
*the highest anyone's ever been*
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
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Anyone who has been involved in elder care will relate to this book... the drawer of just lids, duplicates of expired stuff, hoards of receipts... Chast humanizes her parents in their later years but keeps her sense of humour about the challenges of dealing with less 'with it' versions of them
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Anyone who has been involved in elder care will relate to this book... the drawer of just lids, duplicates of expired stuff, hoards of receipts... Chast humanizes her parents in their later years but keeps her sense of humour about the challenges of dealing with less 'with it' versions of them
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*Graphic novel of the week! 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?', by Roz Chast, long-time staff cartoonist at The New Yorker, covers new ground for graphic novels: her parents' decline and final years. It's pure Roz Chast: touching, hilarious, and relatable. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
*Graphic novel of the week! 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?', by Roz Chast, long-time staff cartoonist at The New Yorker, covers new ground for graphic novels: her parents' decline and final years. It's pure Roz Chast: touching, hilarious, and relatable. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
"Hmm it wasn't Efficient after all" is the dumbest take in the world and also the extent of every major newspaper's analysis.
All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Hmm it wasn't Efficient after all" is the dumbest take in the world and also the extent of every major newspaper's analysis.
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All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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'i hate socialism and that's why i refuse to socialize'
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
'i hate socialism and that's why i refuse to socialize'
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Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
www.anthropic.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
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Really interesting breakdown on how evangelicals transformed American Christianity into an ethos of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Really interesting breakdown on how evangelicals transformed American Christianity into an ethos of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
Your weekly political data roundup for November 13, 2025
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
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“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplification
Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity spaces. A common approach is to extract dimensions that capture task-related variability, such as those separating stimuli or choice...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
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Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
There is nothing wrong with trusting students. "Trust" doesn't mean you never even look at their data or bother to understand what they did enough to detect fairly obvious problems.
His “illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity &rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed. He focused on AI, a field whre peer-reviewed research is still in its infancy &the hunger for data is insatiable”🧪
Quietly terrifying. www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There is nothing wrong with trusting students. "Trust" doesn't mean you never even look at their data or bother to understand what they did enough to detect fairly obvious problems.
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Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.
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13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
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I’ve heard this widely living in DC:
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
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That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
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Easily the stupidest person at my law school was given a professorship solely on the basis of his being pathologically into Ayn Rand.
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve heard this widely living in DC:
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
1/
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
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Easily the stupidest person at my law school was given a professorship solely on the basis of his being pathologically into Ayn Rand.
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Easily the stupidest person at my law school was given a professorship solely on the basis of his being pathologically into Ayn Rand.