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Theresa Gaasterland is an American politician and scientist. She is a Professor of Computational Biology and Genomics and Director of… more

Terry Gaasterland
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
📝 So, the fellowship actually ended up removing the Diversity Fellowship as one of the formal requirements without notifying people! 🤔🧪

I still ended up submitting my statement by adding it to the end of my research proposal because it definitely influenced my scientific direction 🫣👩🏽‍💻
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Reposted by: Terry Gaasterland, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson , and 6 more

drugmonkey.bsky.social
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I got a liver biopsy yesterday and, wow, I didn’t expect that to hurt as much as it did … Thank goodness I have sick days so I can rest! 🥲

They also weren’t able to give me as much sedative because my blood pressure runs pretty low to begin with so I felt everything 😭
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
Pinning this for later! 📌 Thanks for all of the educational posts as always 🤩
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
My parents keep pointing out parallels between what has /already happened/ in the Philippines and the resulting aftermath versus what's going on in the United States today 😬

... And comparing that to why they left in the first place during the Marcos' regime 🫠
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niema.net
Again, this is *verbatim* the exact messaging Rodrigo Duterte used in order to run his deadly drug war in the Philippines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
Oh wow, this is super cool work! 🤩 I'm excited to look deeper into the paper 👀

Tagging with some emojis and whatnot so that it gets on the #SciSky 🧪 feed too! 🧬💻✨
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
Americans, I am once again begging you to consider that sometimes people aren't in America and may be discussing their own bad governments on the niche microblogging website. Please. I am begging.
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I attended a @anvilproject.org workshop 🧬 💻 🧪 yesterday and we were outrageously Zoom bombed 💣 💥 🫣

Luckily, the workshop runners handled things well, but … it goes to show that passwords in Zoom meetings are still important for webinars because we can’t trust people 🙃 🫠
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Reposted by: Terry Gaasterland, Joe R. Feagin, Elizabeth Stokoe

trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
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Reposted by: Terry Gaasterland

chanda.blacksky.app
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
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Reposted by: Terry Gaasterland

kortizart.bsky.social
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
Hmm, that’s a good point! I’ll ask the fellowship coordinators to try and learn more! 🤔

Reposted by: Terry Gaasterland

abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Intentionally attacking civilians like aid and rescue workers, and journalists, is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.
Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist on murdered journalists and Trump's America
Intentionally attacking civilians like aid and rescue workers, and journalists, is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.
www.abc.net.au
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gregpriest.bsky.social
New study on #BlueSky for #SciComm.

“Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.”

🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
For sure! I feel like with AI/LLM-generated content, there’s a lot of filler text and fluff that isn’t very useful 🥴
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
Sharing this here on my main feed as well 👀 ! 🧪💻👾

I replied to @carlbergstrom.com’s post about the #GoogleSearch AI Responses, but somebody wrote a cool thing to make them look like “fortunes” and it was featured on @gigazine.net 💪🏽✨
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · Aug 29
This article is in Japanese but @gigazine.net posted a nifty gadget somebody made to make AI suggestions look like some “fortune” instead 👀✨💻🌐🔮

👩🏽‍💻 GitHub Repo: github.com/mina37010/Fo...
Google検索の最上部に表示される「AIによる概要」を無害なおみくじに変えるChrome向け拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場、「でたらめ言われるくらいならおみくじの方がマシ」という要望に応えて
Google検索では、検索結果に「AIによる概要」が表示されます。このAIによる概要はしばしば訳の分からない回答を出力することがあるため、AIによるめちゃくちゃな概要を集めたXアカウントがあるほどです。そんなAIによる概要が不要という人に向け、AIによる概要を占いに変えるChrome拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場しました。
gigazine.net
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
The more I think about it, the more I believe that we’re in the New Gilded Age 💛🥲

by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
This article is in Japanese but @gigazine.net posted a nifty gadget somebody made to make AI suggestions look like some “fortune” instead 👀✨💻🌐🔮

👩🏽‍💻 GitHub Repo: github.com/mina37010/Fo...
Google検索の最上部に表示される「AIによる概要」を無害なおみくじに変えるChrome向け拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場、「でたらめ言われるくらいならおみくじの方がマシ」という要望に応えて
Google検索では、検索結果に「AIによる概要」が表示されます。このAIによる概要はしばしば訳の分からない回答を出力することがあるため、AIによるめちゃくちゃな概要を集めたXアカウントがあるほどです。そんなAIによる概要が不要という人に向け、AIによる概要を占いに変えるChrome拡張機能「Fortune-telling-instead-of-AI-explanation」が登場しました。
gigazine.net
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I also miss StumbleUpon and randomly finding delightful corners of the internet 🥲
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I went to my community’s monthly 🏠 HOA Meeting 🌳📆 last evening, and the amount of yelling at board members (then gaslighting them by saying it was polite conversation and comments 🙃) was absolutely insane 🫣

Are other communities in #SanDiego also doing special assessments and balcony projects? 🥲
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
Is there a transcript or recording of these conversations somewhere? 🤩🧪

Would love to hear what was discussed, especially since I couldn’t make the @uaw4811.bsky.social event that recently happened! 💪🏽
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I was a little surprised that they were asking for one given ✨everything going on🤪🧪 but a good exercise nonetheless?
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prisonculture.bsky.social
My pet peeve is people who tell other people to quit their jobs while they would never quit theirs.
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I just forwarded this paper to my lab's Slack! Super cool work! I'm excited to go more in the details in a possible journal club 👀🧪🧬💻
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
That's true! I've been looking there, and then what positions might be available at Community Colleges as well! 🏫

Dude ... you've honestly been such a HUGE inspiration to me since we were wee lil undergrads 🤣 Along with some of the other CSE and BISB faculty from @jacobsschool.bsky.social 🤩✨
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
I stepped away from it years ago at this point (around ~2021? 🤔) and it has been super beneficial to my mental health ✨ even though I wasn't necessarily engaging with people I didn't know?

Not seeing a lot of the anger and vitriol toward me or other friends has been wonderful 😌💖
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
This "Social Engineering" example is a little crazy -- I do wonder how this training can and should be updated to take the LLM tools into account 🤔 🫠
Screenshot from the University of California Cybersecurity Awareness Training. The screenshot contains a message sent to the user for an exercise to identify social engineering attempts. In the message, "Riley" has sent the following text to the user, named "Gina": "Dear Gina, I read your profile on linked-in, and you caught my eye, and if you don't mind i would love to communicate, and sharing more about me with you, I am interested in communicating more this is me being honest and i hope no offense is taken, I understand the medium is a business networking medium and not a dating or social networking website and I don't intend to use it for one. I will wait for your response soon hopefully, I will send you pictures on my next email. Talk soon, Riley" While this message is probably the Social Engineering example (compared to the other messages with this exercise), it is something reminiscent of other messages I've gotten on Instagram or even LinkedIn itself already ... In those cases, it most definitely wasn't a social engineering attempt however ...
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
For the 🦅 MAKE ❤️ AMERICA 🤍 GREAT 💙AGAIN 🇺🇸 campaign, can we PLEASE bring back the trains and public transit modalities that people used to travel around the United States 🥲 (and then modernize them)
clarissakickass.bsky.social
Claire (derogatory) @clarissakickass.bsky.social · Aug 27
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
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by Terry Gaasterland

mragsac.com
Also in working on this fellowship, I'm considering what it would be like if I were to stay in academia 🏫👩🏽‍💻 I love writing and mentoring trainees, but I'm not sure if I want to go the tenure track faculty route yet 😅🧪✨

So if anybody is looking for a Staff Scientist this time next year~ish 👀🤔
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