Jacqueline Alderson

From now on, we call it "hockey" and "men's hockey."

What a great thread! Once they think they've got the question sorted I always ask them to follow up with the "so what" question. Why is this valuable to ask and know, what does it add to knowledge, who are the stakeholders both positive & negative. It helps them set the broader framing at the outset

I co-chaired a conference once and just prior to the poster sessions we held a 'pitch your poster" flash round where every presenter got 1 minute and a max 2 slides to sell their research. Poster session attendance increased & presenter feedback (esp student & junior researchers) was great.

This really is a great picture:

Olympic highlight in this house.

Four images of clothes on a line which are positioned to resemble animals, an elephant, a zebra, a cow and a fox

More of artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

🇦🇺 Australia 9th on the Winter Olympic medal table as we head into day 10! One gold behind Japan & ahead of powerhouses like Canada, South Korea, GB & a raft of Euro countries.

These are indeed the stangest of times my friends.

If I was taught biomechanics (planes of motion, perspective and measurement) in this way, I'd be a psychologist today ...

One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.

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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

"Big Tech has taken the social out of social media, it's just media." — @seabass.bsky.social

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Black-and-white portrait photograph of Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (1941–1981), the brilliant New Zealand-born astronomer and cosmologist who revolutionized our understanding of galaxy evolution. She is shown in a close-up headshot against a plain, softly lit gray background, smiling warmly and just past the camera with an intelligent, approachable, and joyful expression. Tinsley has short, wavy dark hair styled in soft curls that frame her face, and she wears earrings with round pearl or gem accents. Her eyes are bright and engaging, and her expression radiates quiet confidence and enthusiasm, capturing her during her groundbreaking career in the 1960s or early 1970s when she developed influential models of stellar populations and demonstrated that galaxies evolve significantly over cosmic time.

Beatrice Tinsley was born #OTD in 1941.

British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of #astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow, and die. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.

‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...

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Heads up Reviewer 2 with a PhD

Not all heroes wear capes ..

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨(Software) Update:

In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.

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Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

This is a good tip my Python coding friends.

“There is no more “state of the humanities” as such. There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack..And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled..We are all humanists now”

A new paper from Stanford adds further, incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data.

The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

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arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Painting created with dots showing sixteen squares encasing different symbolic motifs and significant symbols in various colours

Indigenous Australian artist Loongkoonan, who started painting at 95, and first exhibited her work at age 105 #womensart

a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table looking at the camera . Alt: A fluffy tired looking cat is sitting on a wooden table. The caption reads “Me”

Last year felt like a decade passed.

Guess this year is going for a century worth of events in a year.

A black-and-white vintage graduation portrait of Alice Ball, a young Black woman with short, curly dark hair. She wears a traditional black academic cap with tassel and a dark gown over a high-collared white blouse, with a light-colored hood draped around her shoulders. She gazes directly at the camera with a calm, confident, and composed expression against a plain studio backdrop.

Chemist Alice Ball died #OTD in 1916.

The first Black woman to earn a Master's in Chemistry, she developed the Ball Method & it became the standard treatment for leprosy worldwide for >2 decades. BUT, just a year after her discovery, others took credit for her work. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)

It's turning out to be bad that almost no one understands what actual research is. Like, too many people have no idea how *hard* it is to produce new knowledge.

(I've said this before. I'm going to keep saying it.)