Derek Kane
@dgkane.bsky.social
Mathematics is too powerful to be used without an ethical foundation.
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Me: Opens up new journal article about how AI extracts racial data from digital pathology slides and then is biased and racist
Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"
Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Me: Opens up new journal article about how AI extracts racial data from digital pathology slides and then is biased and racist
Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"
Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
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A friend sent me this wonderful video of women sharing their love of math and excitement about their work.
A friend sent me this wonderful video of women sharing their love of math and excitement about their work.
Inspiring Women in Mathematics - Meet Our Group Leaders
YouTube video by mpiMathSci
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May 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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A friend sent me this wonderful video of women sharing their love of math and excitement about their work.
A friend sent me this wonderful video of women sharing their love of math and excitement about their work.
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual discussion to learn about how big polluters’ past emissions are driving current global warming and future sea level rise. Wednesday, May 14, 4pm ET / 1pm PT. act.ucsusa.org/4jtpB0F
Tracing Tides: How Major Carbon Producers Drive Sea Level Rise and Climate Injustice
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual discussion to learn about how big polluters’ past emissions are driving current global warming and future sea level rise. Wednesday, May 14, ...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual discussion to learn about how big polluters’ past emissions are driving current global warming and future sea level rise. Wednesday, May 14, 4pm ET / 1pm PT. act.ucsusa.org/4jtpB0F
Google's AI Overview informed me that "Morse Code Day is celebrated on April 27th. It commemorates the invention of Morse Code on this day by Samuel Morse."
Oddly enough, April 27th is also Samuel Morse's birthday.
Oddly enough, April 27th is also Samuel Morse's birthday.
April 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Google's AI Overview informed me that "Morse Code Day is celebrated on April 27th. It commemorates the invention of Morse Code on this day by Samuel Morse."
Oddly enough, April 27th is also Samuel Morse's birthday.
Oddly enough, April 27th is also Samuel Morse's birthday.
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state
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Call me crazy, but maybe a more effective way to combat campus antisemitism than surveiling Muslim and international students would be not to have people giving Nazi salutes at the front of government, and for organizations ostensibly combating antisemitism to condemn those people.
January 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Call me crazy, but maybe a more effective way to combat campus antisemitism than surveiling Muslim and international students would be not to have people giving Nazi salutes at the front of government, and for organizations ostensibly combating antisemitism to condemn those people.
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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
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Did you feel the earthquake? Report it for Science!
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Did you feel the earthquake? Report it for Science!
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Obviously I care deeply about all the research I've done been involved with and think it's all important and very valuable, but I did not think that, of the fields I've worked in, cancer research would be the first to be directly targeted by this administration.
January 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Obviously I care deeply about all the research I've done been involved with and think it's all important and very valuable, but I did not think that, of the fields I've worked in, cancer research would be the first to be directly targeted by this administration.
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Maybe someday cricket will stop calling an over in which no runs were scored a maiden over. It's especially jarring to hear on commentary between two teams of 18-year-old girls. It grates in the same way as when people talk about research being seminal.
January 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Maybe someday cricket will stop calling an over in which no runs were scored a maiden over. It's especially jarring to hear on commentary between two teams of 18-year-old girls. It grates in the same way as when people talk about research being seminal.
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Ah, the Patriot Front. Always hitting the eugenics classics.
January 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Ah, the Patriot Front. Always hitting the eugenics classics.
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It's horrible how disappointing and mealy-mouthed and lacking in backbone the Democratic congressional delegation from New Hampshire continues to be. What shameful stuff from Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen.
Shame on the Dems who just voted to advance the Laken Riley Act to a vote, which would enable Trump to ramp up a deportation agenda and empower right-wing cops and AGs:
Cortez Masto
Gallego
Hassan
Kelly
Ossoff
Peters
Rosen
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Fetterman would have if he were there.
Cortez Masto
Gallego
Hassan
Kelly
Ossoff
Peters
Rosen
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Fetterman would have if he were there.
January 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's horrible how disappointing and mealy-mouthed and lacking in backbone the Democratic congressional delegation from New Hampshire continues to be. What shameful stuff from Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen.
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I have just procured a ginger molasses cookie in honor of the 106th anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood.
January 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I have just procured a ginger molasses cookie in honor of the 106th anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood.
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I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.
January 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.
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can we see at least one “maybe imperialism is bad” op-ed or article publish in at least one of the american publications of record. please
January 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
can we see at least one “maybe imperialism is bad” op-ed or article publish in at least one of the american publications of record. please
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This book is available as a PDF now.🧪
January 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This book is available as a PDF now.🧪
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we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience
January 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience
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If you're not immediately affected by the fires around LA and want to understand more about this age of fire that we seem to have entered, Fire Weather by John Vaillant, which is primarily about the Fort McMurray fires in 2016 but also about fire more broadly, was a mind-blowing book.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you're not immediately affected by the fires around LA and want to understand more about this age of fire that we seem to have entered, Fire Weather by John Vaillant, which is primarily about the Fort McMurray fires in 2016 but also about fire more broadly, was a mind-blowing book.
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Great bipartisan legislation idea for the new congress:
Pass universal free breakfast and lunch in public schools.
It would cost less than one percent of what the federal government spends on education.
No hungry kids. No stigma. Higher morale. Better grades.
It's a no-brainer.
Pass universal free breakfast and lunch in public schools.
It would cost less than one percent of what the federal government spends on education.
No hungry kids. No stigma. Higher morale. Better grades.
It's a no-brainer.
January 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Great bipartisan legislation idea for the new congress:
Pass universal free breakfast and lunch in public schools.
It would cost less than one percent of what the federal government spends on education.
No hungry kids. No stigma. Higher morale. Better grades.
It's a no-brainer.
Pass universal free breakfast and lunch in public schools.
It would cost less than one percent of what the federal government spends on education.
No hungry kids. No stigma. Higher morale. Better grades.
It's a no-brainer.