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S. Scott Graham

@sscottgraham.bsky.social

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Writing about health, ethics, COI, rhetoric, AI, and anatomy museums (usually only 2-3 in any given act of writing) at UT-Austin. https://sscottgraham.com

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · Apr 3

Sharing a little bit more about my NEH-sponsored research on anatomical museums today. I have no idea if this project will retain funding, but I am incredibly grateful for the NEH program officers and reviewers who have made so much humanities research possible. sscottgraham.com/archives/911

Entrance to Musem Vrolik. White brick corridor with fat trim black outlined doorway. Blue sign of museum name and posters of anatomical specimens on the wall.

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 8h

I love this story with my entire heart and soul. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US scientist Dr Fred Ramsdell was on the last day of a three-week hike with his wife Laura O'Neill and their two dogs, deep in Montana's grizzly bear country, when Ms O'Neill suddenly started screaming.

But it was not a predator that had disturbed the quiet of their off-grid holiday: it was a flurry of text messages bearing the news that Dr Ramsdell had won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 3d

thanks!

S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 3d

Impressive results, but the lack of academic or student writing in the test sets are a bit of a red flag for me. I see from your other post that you don't rely on it exclusively, and I appreciate that.

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 3d

I'm particularly interested in studies like this this show only 35% of instructors could consistently identify AI writing. (I worry lists the one on Wikipedia increases the undue confidence.) jalt.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/ja...

View of Can instructors detect AI-generated papers? Postsecondary writing instructor knowledge and perceptions of AI | Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching

jalt.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 3d

Many faculty are confident they can identify AI submissions. The data mostly says otherwise. Some students are confident they can identify AI-generated faculty feedback. Anyone seen any studies on this yet? I suspect this might be easier since the individualization gap is probably greater.

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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Great piece on the massive conflicts of interest when private equity firms own IRBs that they then use to assess drug trials for their own companies.

@hollylynchez.bsky.social: "If you are just focused on turnaround time, that doesn’t tell you really anything about quality.”

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

www.nytimes.com

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 4d

Jennifer for me 🤷‍♂️

S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 5d

I can think if six different ways to agree with you here

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6d

Bluesky feed is like

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 7d

This is the next iteration of “participants were 138 undergrads looking for extra credit it psych 102”

Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 20d

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

arxiv.org

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 9d

I've defaulted to "The Shituation"

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 9d

The This-Is-Fine-cene

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

“The current climate” etc.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 12d

Was the argument more about the first L or the second L?

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 13d

Do historians have established guidelines for when to use and not use parenthetical lifespans, e.g. "Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)"? I can't discern the rules from reading and google's search disaster just wants to give me population statistics.

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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 14d

Are you planning on a project collaborating between international basic, translational, and clinical scientists? Apply for the @IASPpain’s Collaborative Research Grant! Find more information and how to apply here bit.ly/46gTkoc

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 15d

Ugh- I hate that I have to keep saying this. There is no need to redact your name for review in APA. All you are doing is drawing attention to your identity and making a claim for prior expertise. This is bad practice, and it should die.

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 15d

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share our @jama.com Viewpoint on dual-trained clinician-scholars in medicine & humanities.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#medicalhumanities #healthhumanities

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Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation

This Viewpoint explores how training in both the medical and health humanities complements biomedical research, expanding clinician-scholars’ understanding of human health.

jamanetwork.com

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 19d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

on.ft.com

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Vinayak Jain @vinayakjain.bsky.social · 19d

Medicine has largely underutilized the power of humanities to advance scientific research.

In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.

(1/4) #MedSky

ja.ma/4puvyhl

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 21d

I don't have a solution mind you. We should not follow people who make are lives worse, and we should always be open to generous and generative critique. Probably just file this under "social media was a mistake."

S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 21d

A stray thought: The practice of BlueSky is to block quickly. This is good. No one is required to endure toxicity. But social media it optimized for outrage, and I worry that these two things makes allies into enemies. The wrongest person in your feed is always someone not wrong enough to block.

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 23d

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879289...

This is a good job for a critical scholar of ai! please apply and send around your networks

Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and AI - New York, United States job with Stony Brook University | 37879289

Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and AI Location: Stony Brook, NY Open Date: Aug 28, 2025 Deadline: Oct 06, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern...

jobs.chronicle.com

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 27d

I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress.

Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...

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Stephen Aguilar @stephenaguilar.com · 27d

Aw man I wish academics had headlines like this.

“Stephen Aguilar (existential dread) is not expected to write today, per @mpolikoff.bsky.social”

Mike Reiss @mikereiss.bsky.social · 28d

CB Christian Gonzalez (hamstring) is not expected to practice today, per Mike Vrabel.

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