Prob just gonna start using Bluesky when I decide to venture onto one of these platforms. Twitter been done and my feed is meh…so might as well just make the switch…
profdancy over there as well
Logic(s), in partnership with Arab Reform Initiative (@ArabReform_ARI), is excited to introduce the inaugural cohort for the Palestinian Journalist Fellowship: Eman Alhaj Ali (@EmanAlhajAli1) and Hamza M. Salha (@edwardmsalha)!
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Excited to be giving a talk at Brown tomorrow and have some discussions with folks over at the Black Health Heritage Data Lab! Especially excited to hear what @LittleBitK_Reyn has been up to over there.
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PSU has a grad school open house (run through grad equity office 👀). Great opp for ppl looking at grad school and to make connections. I prob will be there to meet w/ prospective students (3rd/4th/5th years). Travel expenses covered (sept 16 deadline) - gradschool.psu.edu/equity/op…
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For Fall 25 I have a (likely TA funded) slot open for an Ind Eng PhD student in “Human Factors”). I want someone who can think through cognitive processes and social structures (racialized) and computing (but you can have some but not all of
that then learn) . Please pass along
Folks interested should def apply to the STEM open house (by 16-Sept) to visit and find out more about PSU - gradschool.psu.edu/equity/op…
This person would have an opp to potentially work on projs with Center for Black Digital Research (Liberatory Tech) and/or nsf funded AI-SDM.
In the preface to this issue’s tech explainer (@PennState) Professor Christopher L. Dancy (@ProfDancy) writes about the militarization of neuroscience research and how the cycle can be broken.
logicmag.io/issue-21-medicin…
As we are celebrating the power of Black womanhood and Black jobs check out and share our CFP for a symposium and edited collection on Frances Harper—activist, institution builder, and the most prolific Black novelist and poet of the 19th century with @DigBlk@ARCPennState!
“Last fiscal year alone, the price tag of universal vouchers in Arizona skyrocketed from an original official estimate of just under $65 million to roughly $332 million, the Grand Canyon analysis found; another $429 million in costs is expected this year.”
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects propublica.org/article/arizo…
100% this. Thiel, Garry Tan, and Andreesen are all far-right ideologues who hide behind a sheen of "innovation" and a preconception of SF as a progressive place, but who would much rather have a world full of tradwifes and militarized streets.
Short article on psychologists & cognitive scientists using generative AI systems more responsibly with some basic references in Nature Reviews Psych now out. Just a start into some issues (~1500 words and < 15 citations by design)
rdcu.be/dMK2q