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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 5d

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, for SciCafe: Mapping the Costs of AI. Kate Crawford (@katecrawford.bsky.social), research professor at the University of Southern California, will explore the environmental and human cost of AI systems.

SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. Get tickets: bit.ly/4nB7w33

The Hidden Costs of AI: SciCafe October 8 | AMNH

Kate Crawford will explore the hidden costs of artificial intelligence and how its vast infrastructure reshapes our physical world.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 7d

Heading to the Bronx. Betting hard on the idea that they won’t throw punches at a middle aged professor.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 7d

Is there any other?

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t encourage me

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 7d

Shhhh! That part is supposed to be a secret!

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 7d

Darling, come visit us. You’ll re-calibrate your sense of noise in no time!

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t know of specific work, but sounds like something Tim Sweeney or Jason Haberman would do.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 9d

My favorite subway graffiti right now is anti-friend hot takes.

Graffiti on ad reads "and is a living being — not AI!"

Graffiti reads "AI fuels isolation — reach into the real world!!"

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 9d

Sure. Here's Spring 2025. The first column is the project name, subsequent columns are goals for each month, color-coded by task type (data collection, analysis, dissemination, etc.)

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 11d

For yourself or the whole lab? For the former, whatever you will actually update. For the latter, I find a shared Google docs spreadsheet works.

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 16d

Happy new year to all my peace-loving, freedom-fighting, justice-seeking Jews. May 5786 bring peace to the people of Palestine, freedom to the prisoners of the empire, and justice to the workers of the world.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! Who is my foe? Why, the dumbass I was last week, of course.

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 23d

Penn State Psychology is Hiring!

Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social

Questions can be sent to:
[email protected].

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 20d

New Yorkers: ICE is arresting electeds for fighting for our immigrant neighbors.

Now is the time to make your voice heard.

Show up for immigrant New Yorkers on September 25th at Foley Square at 6PM ET.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 29d

MAXIGOBLIN ALL THE THINGS!

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 29d

Transcended? Nah, I'm just setting a new bar for *peak goblin mode*!

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 29d

Guys? I had a coldbrew at 3:00 this afternoon and think I might be able to sleep sometime next week. We’ll see if I can stop shaking so I can at least use the buzz to finish some reviews

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

#sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]

Indexing 233 datasets
with 927 uploads.

13416 peers, 8590 seeders sharing
216.8 TiB in 8514732 files.

Swarm capacity 1.0 PiB

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Aug 29

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

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Colin the Copywriter @colinthecopywriter.bsky.social · Aug 24

A great piece on female servitude in science fiction is mostly a story of male dissatisfaction/worship and female rebellion. Certain men never seem to appreciate that ‘the perfect woman’ is likely to despise them - if they notice them at all.
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick

www.newscientist.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 23

if you're not from or have never been to new york i cannot stress enough how normal the subway is 99% of the time. kids take it to school. everyone is basically chill. you learn to be in proximity with harmless weirdos or minor irritations pretty quick. for all its issues it's an incredible thing

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · Aug 22

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn
Questions can be directed to me.
Please share widely!

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · Aug 22

Vibe *thinking*? Excuse me while I lock myself in a room and cry.

Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch

After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microp...

techcrunch.com

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · Aug 20

My grad school office mate and I would have “juice rewards” as if we were monkeys learning some task.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · Aug 18

Curious: Would you consider empirical work, or just theoretical?

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