“Experts say the algorithm failed to take into account key cultural issues, including that there is no standard form of transcribing Bengali names into English script, and that Bengali surnames have been adapted over generations, leading to small spelling inconsistencies between family documents.”
If they did email, it would just be "I'm here! I'm here! I'm here" repeated over and over.
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Gonna get this printed in poster size and hang it in the shop and all the rooms in the house that regularly become satellite shops.
Sure, you *have* a whole box of those fasteners and the screwdriver/wrench/pliers you need for the project, but you live with people who never put anything away or never put it back in the same place, so it's faster and less rage-inducing to go to the hardware store again.
An image of the article "Desistance": A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵
psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
When did sushi become a food that every student at the University of _Oklahoma_ eats regularly? 4/x
Every single student answered "sushi." So now i have a history/culture question. When i was a college student in the late 80s/early 90s in the Bay Area, people ate sushi, but i didn't until i was an upperclassmen dating a guy who was gainfully employed in Silicon Valley. 3/x
The quiz was to solve the case from an old episode of This Week in Parasitism, where the patient vomits up a small worm. Since this was the last lecture on foodborne parasites, i also asked them to tell me which food they're maddest i've ruined for them. 2/x
I give my parasitology class a quick quiz at the end of every lecture. It's mostly to incentivize showing up for lecture, but it also reinforces whatever they've just heard about the parasites of the day. Yesterday's lecture was foodborne nematodes. 1/x
Lobster is too sweet
I wonder if those protrusions might have a function in dispersing pheromones or something.
Live your life in such a way that you don't spend your retirement trying to make life worse for teenagers who don't look like you
Gauntlet thrown at the bird nerds
"Motivated ignorance" is the term i have been stumbling about in search of.
I would be encouraging her to think about what she wants to do in college and with the degree after. Then think about where she wants to go and what a successful application there looks like. She could change her mind, but the planning is a way to explore what she wants to do and be.
Offit “embarked on what would become his greatest professional accomplishment: researching & developing, over 25 years, the RotaTeq vaccine, alongside Stanley Plotkin & H. Fred Clark… Since hitting the market in 2006, RotaTeq has prevented ~70,000 infant deaths a year” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
This is why I keep it out of my classrooms.
This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI.
This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students.
We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Trans activist flouted bathroom law at Kansas Statehouse. She proved ideologues weak and cowardly. #ksleg
Statistical Probability Regurgitron!
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Don't turn up your nose at tamales made with schmaltz (i raise chickens; it's what i have), either.
One aspect of bathroom bans I don't see discussed much is how they disproportionately impact trans folks with disabilities/chronic illness.
Just a heads up, we've gotta talk poop. And in particular, diarrhea.
A fascinating read about one particular war crime, but it also explains what’s going on in universities and companies everywhere; the automation of decision-making that removes judgment and worker-autonomy in the name of efficiency and management tyranny.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
Illustration showing 4 types of human-to-electric eel encounter used in the study. (Plus some illustrations electrical circuit diagrams, unrelated to the illustrations of human-to-electric eel encounter.) All 4 are little vignettes with a tiny photo of the guy who served as "human target for the eels" in the study. But the water's murky so you can't see where the eel is. So each vignette has a larger illustration that better shows the human/eel encounter. The illustrations are slightly higher in quality than Microsoft Paint. All 4 illustrations have the guy holding a rod. It's not clear whether it's a measuring device or for defense if the eel gets to aggressive. All 4 also have a rope around the guy's waist. It's probably for safety so if he has trouble moving post-electric shock, they can pull him back to shore, but it does really give "human bait" energy. First illustration: guy is standing in the water. No eel. He looks nervous. 2nd illustration: an electric eel is poking its head out of the water and touching the guy's chest. He's a little bent forward and seems to be yelling "ow." 3rd illustration: the eel is 1/3 of the way out of the water, touching the guy higher on the chest, and he's leaning back. Also yelling "ow." 4th illustration: dude is reclining & just barely in the water at the shoreline. The electric eel is cuddling his leg.
Just needed to let you guys know that if you annoy electric eels enough, they'll jump out of the water to slap you. WHILE electrically discharging.
So naturally they did a study
The diagrams do seem to raise as many questions as they answer
The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...
BREAKING: The DOJ inexplicably dropped its lawsuit seeking access to Oklahoma’s unredacted voter data — retreating before a judge could weigh in.
The department had previously revealed it reached a potential settlement with a state it sued.
"ACT-UP's example is a reminder that even institutions like the Catholic Church aren't immune to disruption and public pressure. So get angry and...stop praising the damn papacy. Religious figures are not special. Their bigotry is not less repulsive because it's wrapped up in liturgy and ceremony."
