VANCOUVER – The family the girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has launched a civil court lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come:
Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
“In summary, excising RNA vaccine research from the NIH research portfolio is antithetical to current goals of making America healthy.”
Grateful to join the great @akelvinlab.bsky.social on why we need to document the impact of MAHA funding cuts to understand the grave consequences that will follow
Every time an editor tells me about this I say I can think of many ECRs who would make great reviewers who rarely get contacted. Yes, there's a problem, but I think part of the problem is poor sampling of the reviewer pool. I'm actually getting *less* requests than just a few years ago!
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Thanks, @bhanlon15.bsky.social Here’s a free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e
It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.
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Again, I want to thank the commentators for engaging with our piece. Here is a link to our Discussion article they were replying to. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Second, assuming we want to study behavioral relevance, there are a number of things that need to be addressed, like the natural behaviors to focus on, what visual dimensions are important, and how it is shaped during development. Here commentators made a bunch of great suggestions! 5/x
But overall we think these commentaries made clear that work remains to be done in clarifying the differing frameworks, and and their opposing theoretical claims and empirical predictions. 4/x
First, some commentaries drew distinctions that did not quite aline with our contrast between category-selectivity and behavioral relevance. TL;DR, the former is centered on selectivity for region-defining stimuli; the latter selectivity for stimuli relevant to region-defining behaviors. 3/x
Overall we think the commentators were sympathetic to the more ethological focus we argued for in our piece, even if they raised criticisms with our suggestion that research should focus on behavioral relevance, rather than category-selectivity. We highlighted two avenues for future work. 2/x
Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
the benefit from writing the paper is not having a 30-page paper as a result
the benefit is the thinking that goes along with writing the paper — that is part of writing the paper.
If all that's done is the pre-analysis plan and the analysis then that limits the new thinking
Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. We are urging Congress to act now to protect the American people by impeaching and convicting Vought. We invite all Americans to join us by signing on to our letter to Congress.
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This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.
The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.
Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.
Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
This is correct. A serious “middle power” would be investing like mad right now in advanced knowledge right across the disciplines. It is the best reaction to the world’s greatest power seeking to return to the Middle Ages.
Since coming back to Canada I've been shocked by the lack of Long Covid research funding compared to the US (eg RECOVER-TLC at NIH). LC is now the most common chronic illness amongst kids. It needs to be a Tri-Agency priority.
@altfda.altgov.info challenged us to list #5Things that each of us Alts think have caused the most damage in our agencies over the past year. Each of the five items is chock full of sub-items…adding up to far more “things.” Here goes.
On the invitation for a commentary on Mazviita Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted, I had the pleasure of writing on equating the brain with computation.
The Ontological Reversal of Computation and the Brain
in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences.
Below see what I agree & disagree with in the book.
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Wow.
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Well, this seems downright evil
The guy is a AI hype man who was accused of making fraudulent claims about his model a year or so ago.
He's about the last person I'm gonna listen to.
Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly.
In case y'all happen to know someone:
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