Sara Rouhi
@rouhiroo.bsky.social
Director #openscience @AIPP; political theory PhD dropout; former @PLOS-er; co-author of DefendResearch.org 📜 against #censorship: defendresearch.org #PostsAreMyOwn
We can’t look for superstition in this. The devil is precise.
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We can’t look for superstition in this. The devil is precise.
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DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is running health and science focused phone banking to Get Out The Vote in TN-07!
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is running health and science focused phone banking to Get Out The Vote in TN-07!
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I got sucked into a convo with a guy who calls taxes "evil extortion," and I'm deeply regretting my choices as I sit here in a super safe neighborhood with great schools and great services... paid for by taxes. #TFP
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I got sucked into a convo with a guy who calls taxes "evil extortion," and I'm deeply regretting my choices as I sit here in a super safe neighborhood with great schools and great services... paid for by taxes. #TFP
I’m in the Starbucks like watching a non-boomer pay in cash. What is this rare animal??
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’m in the Starbucks like watching a non-boomer pay in cash. What is this rare animal??
Curtis Brand @umassamherst.bsky.social dean of libraries speaking to the impacts of #censorship #academicfreedom violations on campus -- 17% drop in International student enrollment, funding loss, self-censorship #CharlestonVirtualConf25
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Curtis Brand @umassamherst.bsky.social dean of libraries speaking to the impacts of #censorship #academicfreedom violations on campus -- 17% drop in International student enrollment, funding loss, self-censorship #CharlestonVirtualConf25
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... #LetsStopLionizingThesePowerfulMen
Larry Summers leaves OpenAI as Harvard opens inquiry into his Epstein ties
Documents released by Congress show the former Treasury secretary kept in contact with Epstein after he pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution in 2008.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... #LetsStopLionizingThesePowerfulMen
Incredibly proud and grateful for @everylibrary.bsky.social support of @defendresearch.bsky.social through it's public signing of the declaration at DefendResearch.org www.infodocket.com/2025/11/17/e...
#StandupForScience #DefendResearch #Resist #Censorship #AcademicFreedom
#StandupForScience #DefendResearch #Resist #Censorship #AcademicFreedom
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Sign the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. Join over 4500+ signatories and share with your networks....
DefendResearch.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Incredibly proud and grateful for @everylibrary.bsky.social support of @defendresearch.bsky.social through it's public signing of the declaration at DefendResearch.org www.infodocket.com/2025/11/17/e...
#StandupForScience #DefendResearch #Resist #Censorship #AcademicFreedom
#StandupForScience #DefendResearch #Resist #Censorship #AcademicFreedom
I’ve really had enough of these emotional snowflake bathrooms. #SensitivePlumbing
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’ve really had enough of these emotional snowflake bathrooms. #SensitivePlumbing
To the woman wearing soup dumpling socks on the dc metro, I salute you. 🫡
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
To the woman wearing soup dumpling socks on the dc metro, I salute you. 🫡
People laugh when you say a good hair stylist is a be all and end all but it’s true. I’ve been going to the same person for a decade and the results show. Her cuts grow out beautifully and she matches your hair to your YOU. Worth weight (and WAIT - 1 hr drive to see her) in gold. #KPopHair
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
People laugh when you say a good hair stylist is a be all and end all but it’s true. I’ve been going to the same person for a decade and the results show. Her cuts grow out beautifully and she matches your hair to your YOU. Worth weight (and WAIT - 1 hr drive to see her) in gold. #KPopHair
First Christmas tree sighting. It’s offish.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
First Christmas tree sighting. It’s offish.
Wait, so #LarrySummers just doesn't use any punctuation, capitalization? He EMAILS (not even texts!) like a 14 year old boy?
#FacePalm #WhyDoWeLionizeTheseMen
#FacePalm #WhyDoWeLionizeTheseMen
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wait, so #LarrySummers just doesn't use any punctuation, capitalization? He EMAILS (not even texts!) like a 14 year old boy?
#FacePalm #WhyDoWeLionizeTheseMen
#FacePalm #WhyDoWeLionizeTheseMen
Where do we draw the line re: #openscience and research being used in ways we don't want via LLMs or elsewhere (like corporate entities monetizing your findings)? #EricYttri takes a more "nihilist" OS is still better for science and if it gets "eaten" by bad actors, it is what it is. #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Where do we draw the line re: #openscience and research being used in ways we don't want via LLMs or elsewhere (like corporate entities monetizing your findings)? #EricYttri takes a more "nihilist" OS is still better for science and if it gets "eaten" by bad actors, it is what it is. #CMUOSS25
Appreciate #EricYttri guidance to IDENTIFY YOUR NEED/problem first bf developing new #AI tools. Seems obvious but often enthusiasm for the new tech puts cart/horse. #BlockChain anyone?
#CMUOSS25 #OpenScience
#CMUOSS25 #OpenScience
Eric Yttri - Biological Sciences - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Yttri
www.cmu.edu
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Appreciate #EricYttri guidance to IDENTIFY YOUR NEED/problem first bf developing new #AI tools. Seems obvious but often enthusiasm for the new tech puts cart/horse. #BlockChain anyone?
#CMUOSS25 #OpenScience
#CMUOSS25 #OpenScience
Next up #EricYttri long time #OpenScience advocate and CMU faculty - sharing #AI tool developer like his take on the I and R of FAIR principles: "I" can also be integrable and "R" can be "richly described" (strong documentation)
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Next up #EricYttri long time #OpenScience advocate and CMU faculty - sharing #AI tool developer like his take on the I and R of FAIR principles: "I" can also be integrable and "R" can be "richly described" (strong documentation)
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#WhiteHouseAIR&DStrategy - they did a public comment - #OSI partnered with Open Forum of AI which brings academics/researchers into the policy discussion -commented - recommended access to open datasets, development of OS AI - many of @mhmdhsini.bsky.social recs. #CMUOSS25 #OpenScience
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#WhiteHouseAIR&DStrategy - they did a public comment - #OSI partnered with Open Forum of AI which brings academics/researchers into the policy discussion -commented - recommended access to open datasets, development of OS AI - many of @mhmdhsini.bsky.social recs. #CMUOSS25 #OpenScience
#whiteHouseAIActionPlan as relates to #opensource - want full stack AI package run by Dept of Commerce to get ROW to adopt American AI export packages. Doesn't directly mention OS but #OSI will push OS as part of that export package.
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#whiteHouseAIActionPlan as relates to #opensource - want full stack AI package run by Dept of Commerce to get ROW to adopt American AI export packages. Doesn't directly mention OS but #OSI will push OS as part of that export package.
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
Data sharing piece was most controversial in #OSI process for defining #opensource aligning with four freedoms: use, share, modify, study. #OpenData policy of funders like NIH helps inform the approach to pushing for open data in #OpenSource definition for AI: #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Data sharing piece was most controversial in #OSI process for defining #opensource aligning with four freedoms: use, share, modify, study. #OpenData policy of funders like NIH helps inform the approach to pushing for open data in #OpenSource definition for AI: #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OSI wanted a def as a first step to certify if #GenAI is truly "open." V1.0 use, study, modify, share = share source code to train and create data set, complete list of data used, and actual dataset, model weights, and parameters.
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#OSI wanted a def as a first step to certify if #GenAI is truly "open." V1.0 use, study, modify, share = share source code to train and create data set, complete list of data used, and actual dataset, model weights, and parameters.
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
As #GenAI has exploded, #OSI has looked four freedoms application to AI. What does true OS AI look like: engaged in global co-design process across the globe to determine how to do this, Sloan funded; #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
As #GenAI has exploded, #OSI has looked four freedoms application to AI. What does true OS AI look like: engaged in global co-design process across the globe to determine how to do this, Sloan funded; #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
Up next #OpenSourceInitiative - in 90s focused on approving licenses that meet true OS definition. Use, study, modify, share = "certified open source" - now focus on education policy makers re: what OS is. #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Up next #OpenSourceInitiative - in 90s focused on approving licenses that meet true OS definition. Use, study, modify, share = "certified open source" - now focus on education policy makers re: what OS is. #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
Can #GenAI be a true friend? No says Mohammad Hosseini w/o certain conditions:
1. genuinely open models - weights, code, training data, licenses
2. more investment in AI literacy - not just using but how to critique, audit, evaluate
3. open training materials to spread literacy globally
1. genuinely open models - weights, code, training data, licenses
2. more investment in AI literacy - not just using but how to critique, audit, evaluate
3. open training materials to spread literacy globally
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can #GenAI be a true friend? No says Mohammad Hosseini w/o certain conditions:
1. genuinely open models - weights, code, training data, licenses
2. more investment in AI literacy - not just using but how to critique, audit, evaluate
3. open training materials to spread literacy globally
1. genuinely open models - weights, code, training data, licenses
2. more investment in AI literacy - not just using but how to critique, audit, evaluate
3. open training materials to spread literacy globally
Much of #GenAI knowledge comes from #OpenScience #CMUOSS25 behaviors - we share openly but corps benefits and don't share but profit. Common knowledge should be transparent and collectively owned. Weakens sense of human agency in knowledge creation process and accountability. #OpenScience
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Much of #GenAI knowledge comes from #OpenScience #CMUOSS25 behaviors - we share openly but corps benefits and don't share but profit. Common knowledge should be transparent and collectively owned. Weakens sense of human agency in knowledge creation process and accountability. #OpenScience
As #genAI footprint increases, independence does NOT come into the ecosystem with the need for specific infrastructure, expertise. As a researcher using truly open models you still rely on infrastructure controlled by a few companies. Corporate dependence undermines spirit of #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As #genAI footprint increases, independence does NOT come into the ecosystem with the need for specific infrastructure, expertise. As a researcher using truly open models you still rely on infrastructure controlled by a few companies. Corporate dependence undermines spirit of #OpenScience #CMUOSS25
What does #GenAI NOT do for #openscience? OPENNESS - most systems are not actually open -- only open weight but not full #opensource and training data, code, licensing but are closed. You cannot retrain or redistribute.
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What does #GenAI NOT do for #openscience? OPENNESS - most systems are not actually open -- only open weight but not full #opensource and training data, code, licensing but are closed. You cannot retrain or redistribute.
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25
#OpenScience #CMUOSS25