Dr. Stephanie
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
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yes, it’s really that bad.
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
yes, it’s really that bad.
Upside: you write quickly and well, so everyone comes to you when it’s time to get the text out the door
Downside: you write quickly and well, so everyone comes to you when it’s time to get the text out the door
Downside: you write quickly and well, so everyone comes to you when it’s time to get the text out the door
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Upside: you write quickly and well, so everyone comes to you when it’s time to get the text out the door
Downside: you write quickly and well, so everyone comes to you when it’s time to get the text out the door
Downside: you write quickly and well, so everyone comes to you when it’s time to get the text out the door
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Democratizing protein language model training, sharing and collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOikv) 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/westlake-rep...
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Democratizing protein language model training, sharing and collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOikv) 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/westlake-rep...
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The American Economic Association says it has accepted Larry Summers' resignation and "imposed a lifetime ban on his membership." www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The American Economic Association says it has accepted Larry Summers' resignation and "imposed a lifetime ban on his membership." www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
It’s a bad sign when no one can tell if I’m being sarcastic any more, right? That’s bad.
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It’s a bad sign when no one can tell if I’m being sarcastic any more, right? That’s bad.
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If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals.
The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
Playing fully downloaded songs, entirely offline, from phone speaker only, without bluetooth…. Qobuz still mysteriously stops playing a playlist when going from a standard-def song to a high-res one. Every time.
Searching for a fix has a 3-year-old reddit post with NO SOLUTION as the top hit. 🤷🏼♀️
Searching for a fix has a 3-year-old reddit post with NO SOLUTION as the top hit. 🤷🏼♀️
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Playing fully downloaded songs, entirely offline, from phone speaker only, without bluetooth…. Qobuz still mysteriously stops playing a playlist when going from a standard-def song to a high-res one. Every time.
Searching for a fix has a 3-year-old reddit post with NO SOLUTION as the top hit. 🤷🏼♀️
Searching for a fix has a 3-year-old reddit post with NO SOLUTION as the top hit. 🤷🏼♀️
Further on the Qobuz complaints: it’s 2025. What the fuck is this? Did they decide to pay the musicians and instead fire all the good developers?
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Further on the Qobuz complaints: it’s 2025. What the fuck is this? Did they decide to pay the musicians and instead fire all the good developers?
I just *love* that they say the point of this fee is “so travelers, not taxpayers, foot the bill” because what this is *really* going to do is ensure I’m stuck in line with a bunch of miserable boomer fucks acting like they haven’t flown since 1992 - but now in a new flavor!
TSA to start charging travelers $45 if they don't have a Real ID. Here are the details.
Flyers without Real IDs, passports or other accepted forms of identification will need to pay a $45 fee starting Feb. 1.
www.cbsnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I just *love* that they say the point of this fee is “so travelers, not taxpayers, foot the bill” because what this is *really* going to do is ensure I’m stuck in line with a bunch of miserable boomer fucks acting like they haven’t flown since 1992 - but now in a new flavor!
All the “anti-AI” blue wave people posting genAI images ripping off the work of two living children’s artists is just a bit fucking much.
Bloooooockety block block block.
Bloooooockety block block block.
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
All the “anti-AI” blue wave people posting genAI images ripping off the work of two living children’s artists is just a bit fucking much.
Bloooooockety block block block.
Bloooooockety block block block.
I’m supposed to go to a leadership training thing this afternoon, and unfortunately right now my feelings about humanity are just this gif. I need to, I don’t know, go scream or run around the block or something and get it out of my system.
Flames Pissed GIF
Alt: GIF of the woman from Clue, looking frustrated and saying “flames… flames on the side of my face”
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December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’m supposed to go to a leadership training thing this afternoon, and unfortunately right now my feelings about humanity are just this gif. I need to, I don’t know, go scream or run around the block or something and get it out of my system.
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
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I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
I’d really like to have a conversation with the people who decided to put “cool” music in yearly required trainings. What exactly is going on in your tiny, pointy heads?
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’d really like to have a conversation with the people who decided to put “cool” music in yearly required trainings. What exactly is going on in your tiny, pointy heads?
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Actual five-day workweek just feels rude.
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Actual five-day workweek just feels rude.
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So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
The thing that strikes me even more than how objectively terrible that essay is is how readily OU threw the TA under the bus. They were perfectly happy to have her, a grad student, as the only person teaching the course… and now they’re going to sacrifice her to try and buy off the outrage machine.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The thing that strikes me even more than how objectively terrible that essay is is how readily OU threw the TA under the bus. They were perfectly happy to have her, a grad student, as the only person teaching the course… and now they’re going to sacrifice her to try and buy off the outrage machine.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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My favorite guilty pleasure show is "Random reply guy steps disrespectfully to a global expert in a technical field, probably because she's a woman, and gets dragged behind their chariot for three full laps around the Coliseum"
(Guilty only because these brilliant women shouldn't have to do this)
(Guilty only because these brilliant women shouldn't have to do this)
what's all this about why I am mad when you're replying in all random placed just because I told you you're wrong about AI, my literal job? bsky.app/profile/noab...
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My favorite guilty pleasure show is "Random reply guy steps disrespectfully to a global expert in a technical field, probably because she's a woman, and gets dragged behind their chariot for three full laps around the Coliseum"
(Guilty only because these brilliant women shouldn't have to do this)
(Guilty only because these brilliant women shouldn't have to do this)
Tonight’s g&t&tea is brought to you by Barr Hill barrel-aged Tom Cat gin and pumpkin spiced black tea syrup, because I may intermittently be a basic bitch, but I have taste.
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tonight’s g&t&tea is brought to you by Barr Hill barrel-aged Tom Cat gin and pumpkin spiced black tea syrup, because I may intermittently be a basic bitch, but I have taste.
So - as far as I can tell - what causes Qobuz to lose its mind and stop playing in the middle of a fucking playlist is a standard-def song ending and being followed by a high-bitrate one.
The only way to “fix” it is to play only standard-def songs. wtf.
The only way to “fix” it is to play only standard-def songs. wtf.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
So - as far as I can tell - what causes Qobuz to lose its mind and stop playing in the middle of a fucking playlist is a standard-def song ending and being followed by a high-bitrate one.
The only way to “fix” it is to play only standard-def songs. wtf.
The only way to “fix” it is to play only standard-def songs. wtf.