Lauren Herckis

In my seminar last week, the students discussed "Understanding and improving artifact sharing in
software engineering research" by Timperley, @laurenherckis.bsky.social,
@clegoues.bsky.social, and @michaelhilton.bsky.social. For their presentation they chose the overhead projector ...

The image titled 'Health Care Workforce Recovery After the End of the COVID-19 Emergency' shows predicted vs. actual trends in employment levels from 2016-2024 in healthcare and non-healthcare sectors, hospitals, physician offices, SNFs, and behavioral health facilities.

Health care employment growth decreased amid the #COVID19 pandemic but fully recovered by 2024.

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This seagull took an 80-mile truck ride twice to find food Researchers say it's the first recorded case of a seagull using a vehicle for transport while foraging.

#Waterbirds in the news! @axios.com just featured Cimino et al.'s new study, "The First GPS Observation of a Western Gull Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck" bioone.org/journals/wat...

ttps://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/06/04/hitchhiking-seagulls-san-francisco-climate-change

@npseaver tweet from 2/26/21: “forget STEM, now I’m all about STEAMED HAMS: science, technology, engineering, art, math, humanities, anthropology, music, and such”

For those wondering, I’m fully onboard @nickseaver.website’s STEAMED HAMS educational train.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Yeah, so the Tuskegee experiment was also a case of doctors pretending to administer treatment for a condition they knew they actually weren’t treating.

I cannot believe how little it has rained while I've been in town!

Hi! I'm waving southwards!

Portland is lovely!

#SfAA2502: "A Global Care Chain Analysis of Recent Trends in Transnational Nurse Migration" Contact me to learn more about the project!

I am looking forward to sharing the work 🧪 of my TruMerit (CGFNS) colleagues and I on Saturday at #SfAA2025:

"A Global Care Chain Analysis of Recent Trends in Transnational Nurse Migration"

Contact me to learn more about the project!

AI Literacy Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Students across @cmu.edu are invited to register to attend, whether you already build your own #AI, or are simply interested in exploring AI opportunities in the future.

AI Literacy Workshop (2-day)
Mon. 3/31 + Tues. 4/1
5-8pm ET

Join us: bit.ly/ai-lit-reg

Congrats to our #STEM Librarian Lauren Herckis @laurenherckis.bsky.social, who was recently elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social! 👏

PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen!

Please share!

Learn more 👇

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Haskell Indian Nations University lays off dozens of employees after federal orders Numerous employees of Haskell Indian Nations University lost their jobs Friday as part of sweeping nationwide cuts ordered by President Donald Trump's administration.

“There will be students on campus whose classes have no instructors when school resumes Tuesday, sources on campus said Friday. The university’s accreditation could also be at risk, as it cannot support all its students with the reduced staff.”

lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

*️⃣ *️⃣ AE FORUM (52.1): I Was Wrong *️⃣ *️⃣

Featuring articles by Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Gil Hizi, Carole McGranahan, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, & Laura A. Meek, w/eds' note by @llwynn.bsky.social, Susanna Trnka, & @kopyor.bsky.social!

Find it here!: ⬇️
americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.

It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.

Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

CDC staff have been told to RETRACT all studies submitted to journals (but not yet accepted) if they include the words “gender” or “pregnant people”.

#holdtheline #publichealth

A Framework for AI Literacy Academic and technologies teams at Barnard College developed an AI literacy framework to provide a conceptual foundation for AI education and programm

Targeting AI Literacy? I really appreciate this great 4-part framework for AI Literacy, developed by a team from @Barnard-College.bsky.social: Understand AI, Use & Apply AI, Analyze & Evaluate AI, Create AI er.educause.edu/articles/202...

#EduSky #AILiteracy #LLM #AI #Science 🧪

I have a 99.8% snapshot of all zipped files from CDC Vital Statistics Online as of today. Documentation pdfs too. The one missing file was cut off part way 🤷‍♂️ will try again from time to time. Anyone needs anything reach out

As data goes off-line under Trump, researchers upload backups A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.

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