Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍
@simoneskeen.xyz
Tracing the collisions of systems and psyches | biopsychosociotechnical sciences, HIV, digital, global mental health | 💉transsexual 🔪 | Postdoc @ <redacted> | Opinions my own | simoneskeen.xyz
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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍
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· Nov 12
Using Geographic Momentary Assessment to Explore Spatial Environment Influences on Wellbeing in People With HIV - AIDS and Behavior
Place-based socio-economic and racial inequities contribute to health disparities among people with HIV (PWH). We used geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) methodologies to explore the in...
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New open access science❕❕
People living with HIV in New Orleans (N = 69) contributed 14-day micro-longitudinal data.
Space, place, and their intra-psychic interplay may drive depressive Sx and suppress essential social supports.
Results and implications 🧵1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
People living with HIV in New Orleans (N = 69) contributed 14-day micro-longitudinal data.
Space, place, and their intra-psychic interplay may drive depressive Sx and suppress essential social supports.
Results and implications 🧵1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
Underrated reason to hate Moynihan Station is the Disneyfied nostalgia for the old Penn that perfuses the place. Impossible not to read as “We will never build something that wonderful again.”
this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
It’s really incredible how we decided that cities should no longer be physically shaped by the industries that carry them. I wrote this about the tech industry’s lack of a built legacy in Manhattan over a decade ago, but it could be written 10x over in the Bay Area newyorkyimby.com/2014/12/how-...
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Underrated reason to hate Moynihan Station is the Disneyfied nostalgia for the old Penn that perfuses the place. Impossible not to read as “We will never build something that wonderful again.”
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I work with students and young researchers, who are more focused, brilliant, and resourceful than I was at their ages, and extraordinarily savvy re critical media consumption and AI. This is deeply cynical viralbait doom-mongering, an attempt to whip up aging Millennials re Kids These Days.
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I work with students and young researchers, who are more focused, brilliant, and resourceful than I was at their ages, and extraordinarily savvy re critical media consumption and AI. This is deeply cynical viralbait doom-mongering, an attempt to whip up aging Millennials re Kids These Days.
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No they do not! And on that note, I'm doing a bike ride through Philadelphia on 5/9/2026 to support the Eagles Autism Foundation.
If you have a dollar or two, please consider donating to help undo the harm RFK Jr. and his feckless goons are doing!
fundraisers.eaglesautismfoundation.org/jdlovejoy
If you have a dollar or two, please consider donating to help undo the harm RFK Jr. and his feckless goons are doing!
fundraisers.eaglesautismfoundation.org/jdlovejoy
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
No they do not! And on that note, I'm doing a bike ride through Philadelphia on 5/9/2026 to support the Eagles Autism Foundation.
If you have a dollar or two, please consider donating to help undo the harm RFK Jr. and his feckless goons are doing!
fundraisers.eaglesautismfoundation.org/jdlovejoy
If you have a dollar or two, please consider donating to help undo the harm RFK Jr. and his feckless goons are doing!
fundraisers.eaglesautismfoundation.org/jdlovejoy
I work with students and young researchers, who are more focused, brilliant, and resourceful than I was at their ages, and extraordinarily savvy re critical media consumption and AI. This is deeply cynical viralbait doom-mongering, an attempt to whip up aging Millennials re Kids These Days.
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I work with students and young researchers, who are more focused, brilliant, and resourceful than I was at their ages, and extraordinarily savvy re critical media consumption and AI. This is deeply cynical viralbait doom-mongering, an attempt to whip up aging Millennials re Kids These Days.
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Hey y'all, we started a tip line to get information about Border Patrol as they prepare to descend on the greater New Orleans area. Please let folx know!
ALERT: @veritenews.org has started a tip line for people to report ICE/CBP sightings in the greater New Orleans area ahead of the upcoming deployment of Border Patrol agents to the region. If you see an enforcement action, raid, illegal detainment, etc., please let us know!
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hey y'all, we started a tip line to get information about Border Patrol as they prepare to descend on the greater New Orleans area. Please let folx know!
Approaching a state of zero patience for the conflation of precision technical terminology for complex systems modeling with “jargon” among academics trained in 1997.
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Approaching a state of zero patience for the conflation of precision technical terminology for complex systems modeling with “jargon” among academics trained in 1997.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
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I think ultimately it’s the total, almost proud, apathy toward broken systems that will push me out of academia.
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I think ultimately it’s the total, almost proud, apathy toward broken systems that will push me out of academia.
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I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
I think ultimately it’s the total, almost proud, apathy toward broken systems that will push me out of academia.
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I think ultimately it’s the total, almost proud, apathy toward broken systems that will push me out of academia.
I refuse to be gaslit by New Englanders into agreeing that 31 degrees but sunny is “nice” outside.
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I refuse to be gaslit by New Englanders into agreeing that 31 degrees but sunny is “nice” outside.
Towers of Hanoi with 20 disks. This is real cool.
"Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors", from the inimitable Elliot Meyerson (et al.)
Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations...
arxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Towers of Hanoi with 20 disks. This is real cool.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Tediously humiliating to be a trans HIV researcher who has to look at this shit constantly (interspersed with broken links) while I’m just trying to do my job.
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tediously humiliating to be a trans HIV researcher who has to look at this shit constantly (interspersed with broken links) while I’m just trying to do my job.
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Exhausted after a show in Queens last night so we’re respecting The Classics on this Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Exhausted after a show in Queens last night so we’re respecting The Classics on this Halloween.
Exhausted after a show in Queens last night so we’re respecting The Classics on this Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Exhausted after a show in Queens last night so we’re respecting The Classics on this Halloween.
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i will be hearing cope about how deepseek is not as impressive as deepseek is for the rest of my life at this rate
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
i will be hearing cope about how deepseek is not as impressive as deepseek is for the rest of my life at this rate
I first awkwardly brought up what I now know was dysphoria at 17. Hooked up with guys in high school but never id’ed as bi back then. Came out as “MTF” (lol) to a few friends at 27, ran away from it, came out to my parents during a breakdown at 29, HRT at 30, I’m 43 now. Not all lines are linear.
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
I first came out as trans at 22, then detransitioned within a year. I came out to a few people as nonbinary at 26 as kind of a compromise with myself; I finally came out as a trans woman a second time at 34.
I'm 38 now.
I first came out as trans at 22, then detransitioned within a year. I came out to a few people as nonbinary at 26 as kind of a compromise with myself; I finally came out as a trans woman a second time at 34.
I'm 38 now.
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
Not sure the exact age, but early 20s for sure. And 44
Not sure the exact age, but early 20s for sure. And 44
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I first awkwardly brought up what I now know was dysphoria at 17. Hooked up with guys in high school but never id’ed as bi back then. Came out as “MTF” (lol) to a few friends at 27, ran away from it, came out to my parents during a breakdown at 29, HRT at 30, I’m 43 now. Not all lines are linear.
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“An Oct. 20 email sent by a [CVS Caremark] chief medical officer to PrEP4All was explicit in stating that the company believes Yeztugo is overpriced and this is a hurdle to coverage.”
Sure, we need implementation science, but, just as much, we need a commercial determinants lens on PrEP uptake.
Sure, we need implementation science, but, just as much, we need a commercial determinants lens on PrEP uptake.
CVS Caremark tells AIDS activists Gilead needs to lower the price of its new HIV drug to get on formularies
CVS Caremark, the largest PBM in the U.S., tells activists Gilead needs to lower the price of its new HIV drug to get on formularies, according to an email obtained by STAT.
www.statnews.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“An Oct. 20 email sent by a [CVS Caremark] chief medical officer to PrEP4All was explicit in stating that the company believes Yeztugo is overpriced and this is a hurdle to coverage.”
Sure, we need implementation science, but, just as much, we need a commercial determinants lens on PrEP uptake.
Sure, we need implementation science, but, just as much, we need a commercial determinants lens on PrEP uptake.
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HMS postponed an online course on transgender healthcare after the National Review contacted the school about the legality of offering fee waivers to transgender participants.
Abigail S. Gerstein and Ella F. Niederhelman report.
Abigail S. Gerstein and Ella F. Niederhelman report.
Harvard Medical School Postpones Transgender Healthcare Course After Inquiry Into Fee Waiver Legality | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Medical School postponed an online course on transgender healthcare after the National Review, a conservative news outlet, contacted the school about the legality of offering fee waivers to…
www.thecrimson.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
HMS postponed an online course on transgender healthcare after the National Review contacted the school about the legality of offering fee waivers to transgender participants.
Abigail S. Gerstein and Ella F. Niederhelman report.
Abigail S. Gerstein and Ella F. Niederhelman report.