The US is preparing a genocide. (Again.)
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The US is preparing a genocide. (Again.)
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(It’s fun dating a photographer.)
Yours truly sitting on a bean bag chair with a computer and a cat in the 3am dark.
What my writing process looks like.
Maybe I should’ve chosen a different photo for this quote. This is actually the part where I joked I didn’t have any Nobel prizes yet. (Speaking after 4 Nobel laureates.)
#StandUpForScience #Boston
To paraphrase Dr. Robin Kimmerer: To love America is not enough. We must find ways to heal it. 🫶🏽
Full text of my #SUFS speech is here: kuwisdelu.github.io/speech-march...
Once again, America is poised to destroy the world. But the new world that takes its place has yet to be decided. Boston is no stranger to dreaming a brave new world. We have always been a city of rebels. The America we dreamt is already breaking. What will we do?
I am tired of being told that politics has no place in science when scientists have a responsibility to be political. To stand up for science is not enough if we as scientists fail to stand up for civil society…
In the Western world, we speak of rights. In the Indigenous world, we speak of responsibilities. I am tired of my peers ignoring our responsibilities as scientists.
It’s no accident that Dr. Oppenheimer found meaning and guidance in the wisdom of Sanskrit poetry written over two thousand years before he was born. A scientist by another name is a Natural Philosopher…
To be a scientist is to seek an understanding of something beyond what we understood yesterday or today. Call it truth. Call it the Creator. Call it the universe. We all have our “why.”
What can we do as mere scientists in the face of such reckless abuse? We all choose science for a reason. To be a scientist is to believe in something greater than ourselves.
Merely hours before the strike, the makers of that Machine-God — named Claude by its Anthropic creators — warned our military leaders that artificial intelligence was not yet ready for life-and-death decisions, not yet knowing their warnings came on the eve of war.
Last week, one of those targets was Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab, where a US-Israeli airstrike killed at least 170 elementary school girls and staff.
…once again, we are lost in a world of dangerous probabilities, searching for the safety of certainty. Our Princes of War speak to Machine-Gods for guidance, and through the man-made magic of artificial intelligence, those probabilities transform into an enumeration of suggested military targets…
One hundred years ago, our deterministic understanding of physics gave way to the uncomfortable probabilities of quantum mechanics, planting the seeds that would one day bloom into mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945…
They are also the words recalled by a scientist faced with the profound responsibility of unleashing the strong nuclear force and changing the world forever with the fire of atomic fission…
These are words from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu epic poem that describes the conversation between a Prince and a God on the eve of war.
Dr. Kylie Ariel Bemis speaking at Boston Stand Up for Science (2026)
@standupforscience.bsky.social
“And now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”
Anyone with an ethical bone in their body should be leaving OpenAI.
Decent turnout despite the gloomy, cold weather. The closing speech from @kuwisdelu.bsky.social was powerful - it reminded all of us there's still hope.
#StandUpForScience #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Make no mistake: this is on the humans who chose to rely on AI for a task for which its very creators warned it was not ready.
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I am scheduled to be the final speaker.
Maybe rules of engagement aren’t stupid. Maybe they exist for reasons.
61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.
A rough beast? Slouching toward Jerusalem? In this economy?
Sam Altman is sad his actions are indefensible and people are mad.
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I’ll be speaking in #Boston today.
See you soon, friends.
“Perfect” now must include “consistent with the president’s agenda.”
We’re entering a Stalinist/Lysenkoist period where political commissars are in charge. They must be obeyed.
Today’s the National Day of Action called by #SUFS
standupforscience.net/march7
This was predictable, and we did predict it last summer when the multiyear funding policy first emerged.
This is how we know this admin is coming after science as a whole. Health equity, transgender health, mRNA vaccines… these areas are just the start.