Dr. Stephanie
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
I’m trying not to be one of those people who brings their own pillows when they travel, but there is *nothing* as satisfying as the first night back in one’s own bed after a trip.
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I’m trying not to be one of those people who brings their own pillows when they travel, but there is *nothing* as satisfying as the first night back in one’s own bed after a trip.
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Latest story/investigation: "Can you believe how insane RFK, Jr. is and how he is a charlatan, a narcissist, and an unfathomable danger to public health and medicine?!?!"
Me [not reading the story]: "Yup."
Me [not reading the story]: "Yup."
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Latest story/investigation: "Can you believe how insane RFK, Jr. is and how he is a charlatan, a narcissist, and an unfathomable danger to public health and medicine?!?!"
Me [not reading the story]: "Yup."
Me [not reading the story]: "Yup."
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Good ML code comes from people who fundamentally believe that ML is a trickster god and wants them to fail
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Good ML code comes from people who fundamentally believe that ML is a trickster god and wants them to fail
“Too many books”? Can’t be talking about me, then.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Too many books”? Can’t be talking about me, then.
Dog donut acquisition to dog donut consumption: ~7 seconds.
Some days I wonder why I buy her fancy treats - she can’t possibly taste them at that speed - and then I remember the wriggly joy with which she greets every new food and get her dog cookies or something.
Some days I wonder why I buy her fancy treats - she can’t possibly taste them at that speed - and then I remember the wriggly joy with which she greets every new food and get her dog cookies or something.
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Dog donut acquisition to dog donut consumption: ~7 seconds.
Some days I wonder why I buy her fancy treats - she can’t possibly taste them at that speed - and then I remember the wriggly joy with which she greets every new food and get her dog cookies or something.
Some days I wonder why I buy her fancy treats - she can’t possibly taste them at that speed - and then I remember the wriggly joy with which she greets every new food and get her dog cookies or something.
All these “hacks” for cooking turkey that are basically “put a pound of butter on your turkey”… why?
Why not just save the butter for the mashed potatoes, as is right and proper, and cook a main that doesn’t taste like cardboard unless it’s 50% butter by weight? Just roast a chicken, ffs.
Why not just save the butter for the mashed potatoes, as is right and proper, and cook a main that doesn’t taste like cardboard unless it’s 50% butter by weight? Just roast a chicken, ffs.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
All these “hacks” for cooking turkey that are basically “put a pound of butter on your turkey”… why?
Why not just save the butter for the mashed potatoes, as is right and proper, and cook a main that doesn’t taste like cardboard unless it’s 50% butter by weight? Just roast a chicken, ffs.
Why not just save the butter for the mashed potatoes, as is right and proper, and cook a main that doesn’t taste like cardboard unless it’s 50% butter by weight? Just roast a chicken, ffs.
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It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.
…aha, now I know what J is doing.
the correct way to use a grocery list is to write it, preferably in an app you can pull up on your phone so you don't even have to remember to take it with you, then do your grocery shopping, and once you're home and everything is put away you open the list and score how well you did
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
…aha, now I know what J is doing.
This isn’t good.
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This isn’t good.
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
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me and the gang working that bioinformagic
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
me and the gang working that bioinformagic
I wanted to be a marine biologist since I was five years old. I paid my way to getting a PhD in it (neuroscience of marine animals) by fixing computers.
It turns out when you’re a biologist who also understands computers, they call it bioinformatics. No boats, though, which is really a fucker.
It turns out when you’re a biologist who also understands computers, they call it bioinformatics. No boats, though, which is really a fucker.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I wanted to be a marine biologist since I was five years old. I paid my way to getting a PhD in it (neuroscience of marine animals) by fixing computers.
It turns out when you’re a biologist who also understands computers, they call it bioinformatics. No boats, though, which is really a fucker.
It turns out when you’re a biologist who also understands computers, they call it bioinformatics. No boats, though, which is really a fucker.
I’m watching other people post about watching the American Revolutionary War documentary, and whoooooo damn do I always forget how much more of this history I know just because I’m from Massachusetts. That’s not bragging - it’s not a big state, there’s just only so many places for field trips.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I’m watching other people post about watching the American Revolutionary War documentary, and whoooooo damn do I always forget how much more of this history I know just because I’m from Massachusetts. That’s not bragging - it’s not a big state, there’s just only so many places for field trips.
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“What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study… the paper was cited in congressional testimony. Weeks later, the science journal Nature highlighted it.”
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study… the paper was cited in congressional testimony. Weeks later, the science journal Nature highlighted it.”
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
I’m seeing a lot of people now saying “haha, I knew this story was bullshit”, to which I say:
1) if you did, why don’t you say so then?
and 2) it wouldn’t be the first time google had opted everyone in to new AI “features” with no warning, so how exactly did you know they hadn’t this time?
1) if you did, why don’t you say so then?
and 2) it wouldn’t be the first time google had opted everyone in to new AI “features” with no warning, so how exactly did you know they hadn’t this time?
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’m seeing a lot of people now saying “haha, I knew this story was bullshit”, to which I say:
1) if you did, why don’t you say so then?
and 2) it wouldn’t be the first time google had opted everyone in to new AI “features” with no warning, so how exactly did you know they hadn’t this time?
1) if you did, why don’t you say so then?
and 2) it wouldn’t be the first time google had opted everyone in to new AI “features” with no warning, so how exactly did you know they hadn’t this time?
I will always be impressed by the people who decide to wear platform boots to cons. *Confused*, but impressed.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I will always be impressed by the people who decide to wear platform boots to cons. *Confused*, but impressed.
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I think the worst general category of little thing to find on your floor is "little thing that looks like it's part of something"
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I think the worst general category of little thing to find on your floor is "little thing that looks like it's part of something"
Just… just do it. Seriously.
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Just… just do it. Seriously.
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
Every time we come for PAX, there’s a parade. The internet in fact insists there is no parade in Philly today, but the drums, the drums on the street….
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Every time we come for PAX, there’s a parade. The internet in fact insists there is no parade in Philly today, but the drums, the drums on the street….
You know, I won’t lie, for a bunch of people at a convention for a hobby about taking turns, there are a lot of people here who are astoundingly bad at queueing.
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You know, I won’t lie, for a bunch of people at a convention for a hobby about taking turns, there are a lot of people here who are astoundingly bad at queueing.