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Ellie Moore
@elliem0.bsky.social
29 (She/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ A shapeshifter, computer scientist, engineer, and sleep-deprived grad student who sometimes makes music. Author of Homura (UCI rollout-hybrid chess engine) and Blipsort (fast, generic sorting algorithm).
A scientist is often wrong. A scientist *admits* when they are wrong. But the current administration wouldn’t know this. They actively resist education.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 AM
They are *not* scientists. They don’t care about the truth, they only care about being perceived as “right”… about forcing their uninformed beliefs on others.
January 12, 2026 at 6:41 AM
These are men with preconceived notions about the world. They seek out any evidence that might support their beliefs and ignore any evidence that might contradict them. They spend a lifetime reinforcing these prior beliefs rather than updating them— never learning, never growing.
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Which leads to the second bias extremely common among cis people, especially today: confirmation bias… the one that always prevents growth. The “research” of the current HHS is riddled with it.
January 12, 2026 at 6:33 AM
The craziest part: my uncle is an engineer. He took stats 101, at the very least.

He should know better.
January 12, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Correlation does not imply causation— undergraduate statistics 101. And you absolutely cannot claim causality without performing a statistical test on a sufficiently large sample. The DSM-5 is based on such tests, and easily debunks this claim.
January 12, 2026 at 5:56 AM
They may use this assumption to exclude those that don’t fit their mold. More often, they use it to make wild claims about the entire population.

For example: my uncle recently told me he believes mental illness causes people to “choose” to be trans.

This is an unbelievably naive take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Unless you hurt people, you are very much a person deserving of dignity, no matter what you look like.
January 12, 2026 at 4:12 AM
I'll have to see if the relevant MIT lecture is any good.
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Crazy to think I understood it 5 years ago, and now I'm back to square 1.
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
It's not entirely their fault. This kind of egocentric "at-a-glance" judgement is just a sign of immaturity. With AGI, humans will experience a period of accelerated growth in the coming years, but it might still take quite a while for them to mature.
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Was just reminded of the other discovery I made early on: cis people and the true trans often think visible trans women are unaware that they are visible. I've been painfully aware for the last 10 years, to the point that it almost killed me and completely changed the trajectory of my life.
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I think I just need to keep music playing in my earbuds while I’m walking around campus.
January 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
While staying focused.
January 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Which I expected. I’m just trying to figure out the rational way to deal with it.
January 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I’m starting to present how I want to again, slowly… and already, I’m getting the same reaction I did when I was younger.
January 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
And then they judge you twice as harshly, until presentation eventually becomes about them. Which is part of the reason I forced myself to stop looking in the mirror and paid 0 attention to my appearance in undergrad.
January 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM