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John Wilkins was an English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal… more

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Few graphics are as significant as this one, on the difference between the realities of US deaths and the media coverage, which is out of all proportion (deliberately?)
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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d
What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d
What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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by John Wilkins

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The Japan Prize is meant to be a big deal
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 2d
The Nobel prizes will be announced starting Monday, and they’re considered the most famous awards in science. In the past few years, though, a number of other prizes have popped up. Nature examines how these prizes compare with one another. 🧪
These science prizes want to rival the Nobels: how do they compare?
Being named as a Nobel laureate is the ultimate prize for many scientists, but how do other science prizes compare?
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The Nobel prizes will be announced starting Monday, and they’re considered the most famous awards in science. In the past few years, though, a number of other prizes have popped up. Nature examines how these prizes compare with one another. 🧪
These science prizes want to rival the Nobels: how do they compare?
Being named as a Nobel laureate is the ultimate prize for many scientists, but how do other science prizes compare?
go.nature.com
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by John Wilkins

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I do wish I could edit this
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Unlike Alanis Morrissey she knows what irony is.
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Yeah, but you also voiced a psychopath killer clown. For all we know you’re a Republican
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If it works, it may not again.

Reposted by: John Wilkins, Joe R. Feagin

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📽️A MUST watch from Marc Elias: It's easy to disengage with the constant stream of bad news flowing out from the Trump administration. But when we become immune — when we stop being outraged — our democracy crumbles.
https://bit.ly/48aleVG
There Are No "Good" Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.
Excerpt from Guest & van Rooij, 2025: As Danielle Navarro (2015) says about shortcuts through us- ing inappropriate technology, which chatbots are, we end up dig- ging ourselves into “a very deep hole.” She goes on to explain: "The business model here is to suck you in during your student days, and then leave you dependent on their tools when you go out into the real world. [...] And you can avoid it: if you make use of packages like R that are open source and free, you never get trapped having to pay exorbitant licensing fees." (pp. 37–38)
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I don’t know about intentions, but apart from averaging I don’t think groups have interests.
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Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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by John Wilkins

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I have come to the view that AI is a trade off between error and convenience. The inflection point is when the time taken to manually correct the errors exceeds the time saved by using AI
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If the moderation on Bluesky is starting to make you all Meta inside, read this
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d
These are the directions I followed and they worked pretty well:
So, You Want to Leave Bluesky...
The most important thing you need to know is:
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No, that’s Fezzick and Inigo Montoya

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These are the directions I followed and they worked pretty well:
So, You Want to Leave Bluesky...
The most important thing you need to know is:
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ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE TO BLACKSKY, RIGHT NOW!!!!
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Fuck your discourse. I want myself and my community to have *a* place where we don’t have to fear being doxxed and banned for being ourselves.

Have you ever considered our outrage is justified? We’re not letting this go.
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I sat down with Prof. Cordelia Fine for an in-depth discussion about her wonderful new book “Patriarchy, Inc.”

She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.
S5 E10 - Cordelia Fine on
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 03/10/2025 · 53m
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by John Wilkins

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B-tree algorithms are not exactly new in IT. Who allowed that patent?

by John Wilkins

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The one person an atheist would pray for.

by John Wilkins

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Yes! Yes, please!!!!

by John Wilkins

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Redefine productivity to mean "number of words handled"
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The leprechauns have won.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9d
nooooooooooo, he never got to eat that leprechaun

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post by @bredelbored.bsky.social, "Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go "this is the normal sane leadership the political left doesn't understand normal sane Americans crave" and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like "Leprechauns are real and I'm going to cook one"
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Michael Servetus (Span. Miguel Serveto) who, discovered the small or pulmonary blood circulation, was born 29 September 1511 #histsci #histmed
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Not a martyr for science.
Those who still mistakenly subscribe to the White-Draper hypothesis of a war of religion against science, and these days it is mostly gnu atheists and their ilk, invariably produce lists of the mar…
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Philosopher John Searle has died. He was known for his work on the philosophy of mind (including the famous Chinese Room thought experiment); he was also stripped of his emeritus status at Berkeley for sexual harassment. A brief write up from the Daily Nous:
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John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous
Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act theory. He is especially well known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence. He has also made contributions to philosophical work on social ontology, rationality,
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
nooooooooooo, he never got to eat that leprechaun

@brendelbored.bsky.social
post by @bredelbored.bsky.social, "Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go "this is the normal sane leadership the political left doesn't understand normal sane Americans crave" and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like "Leprechauns are real and I'm going to cook one"
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by John Wilkins

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Or, and just hear me out, he knew damned well about the racism, sexism and fascism Kirk espoused, and agreed with him.
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by John Wilkins

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Watch out Portland Venezuela
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Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals new species and records of Beltraniaceae (Amphisphaeriales, Sordariomycetes) from southern China

#Beltraniaceae
#Amphisphaeriales
#Sordariomycetes
#Beltrania
#Beltraniella
#morphology
#newtaxa
#phylogeny

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Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals new species and records of Beltraniaceae (Amphisphaeriales, Sordariomycetes) from southern China
Beltraniaceae comprises mainly saprophytic fungi that occur on various substrates in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. In our ongoing survey of terrestrial plant fungi in southern China, we ...
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