I love this paper! It was very helpful as I was wrapping my head around the ethical problems surrounding "AI".
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I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who actually have that condition and start masking.
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Please hold conferences of international interest outside of the US for the time being.
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I've noticed a trend in requests for tenure reviews, asking letter writers to compare candidates to other "top" scholars at the same career stage. Can we please not do this?!?
Making tenure a moving and competitive target risks ratcheting up increasingly untenable expectations for productivity.
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Dalhousie teaching assistants, part-time instructors approve strike mandate | CBC News share.google/SoQUXiQerz7Z...
Dalhousie teaching assistants, part-time instructors approve strike mandate | CBC News
Dalhousie University employees that include part-time instructors and teaching assistants have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate ahead of conciliation talks with the school in October...
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The reactions by historians to that Nature paper are because we are routinely consistently told by both laypeople and too many STEM colleagues that our methods are irrelevant, nonexistent or inferior, and our fields pointless. Our institutions agree. Miss me with defending STEM in this moment.
Reactions by historians here indicate that barriers for interdiscplinary work are robust, even may reflect hostile attitudes. Although they seem more rooted in different styles of thinking and communicating, rather than ideological differences.
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Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions.
They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind ind...
