A.S. Barwich

A problem with decorum in academia & other areas is that it benefits those who set the standard for what sounds appropriate and elevates those who publicly mimic it. When those ppl bully others with no one watching, decorum is nothing more than an anesthetic for moral discomfort. Screw such decorum.

I feel my dog is trying to tell me that she is not happy. She even bit into my toilet roll when I was out. While wearing the cone of shame. HOW!?!?

Inclusion is often conditional with "a hidden cost of fitting in" and facing "an unspoken expectation to adapt: to align with dominant norms of speech, behaviour and self-presentation" + creating "distance between who people are and how they feel able to present themselves" that erodes confidence.

Getting a lot of AI-generated emails offering to promote my book, Smellosophy. Feels like a weird manosphere flirting manual: (1) This is what the book is about (I know, I wrote it), (2) You had the right idea, but some readers say (negging), (3) I can help you bc you clearly need me for validation.

Shooting yourself in the head relieves migraine pain. (Another new paper in Science, the magazine.)

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

According to a dozen current and former Scientific American employees, over the past two years the magazine has struggled to protect its editorial independence in the face of sometimes overwhelming pressure from its corporate ownership.

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The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

Writing Chapter 7 of my book. Going through two Barbara McClintock biographies, by Keller and by Comfort, side by side. Oh, do I have opinions... and you bet they are not mere feelings. They also do not side with Comfort.

Going to watch Give Me the Ball about Billy Jean King today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFG...

Barbara Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, which she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/re...

Replace the e-nose and machine-learning smokescreen front end with the sender pressing one of five buttons, and the receiver would do the same. The chemical sensor remote controls a perfume dispenser with five pre-filled odors. This is a peer-reviewed @science.org paper. And it is badly written.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, we're highlighting the achievements of the Black scientists, mathematicians and engineers who have made their impact on the modern world. Read our thread below.

how are men doing, knowing that the CEO of one of the most powerful data companies with profiles on all of us is tweaking the algorithm "in defense of working class men" how will you respond to that and act on it? how will you vote?

One woman scientist named in UK’s GCSE science syllabus. Three named in A level science. How many men? 85 and 178. Funny that. Half of my 50 PhD students have been women; four of them (and one man) are now professors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2026 anyone. But her emails.

The one, the only.

Janeway, my beloved!

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In contrast to #AIhype we find a more sensible perspective further back in history. >100 years before cogsci was formed as an interdiscipline, Ada Lovelace warned against "the possibility of exaggerated ideas ... as to the powers of the Analytical Engine ["AI"]" (cf. ACT 1) 19/n

It's almost as if this debate on AI and consciousness is held as more of a social buzz show for people to posture and sell their names as relevant than an actual philosophical and scientific inquiry. Of course this is all but a fleeting hunch.

Replace Richard Dawkins's view of genes with Susan Oyama. www.dukeupress.edu/The-Ontogeny...

My son very kindly sent me a link to the Wikipedia page for this gentleman, Preserved Fish. “There were at least ten other Fish family members with the Quaker given name Preserved, whose lineages are often confused.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserv...

On why learning to code is still important despite (or because of) #AI. Five minutes of your time 🕐 to listen to a well-grounded point of view on coding! 🧪 #science 👩‍💻 #coding #programming

It's disheartening to see the largest publications in the nation not cite original reporting from independent/individual reporters. Not one mention of @marisakabas.bsky.social's work in ID'ing Tommy. Instead, the WSJ implies that Tommy came forward himself. Disingenuous, at best.

Saudi_Gov_Docs would have been the better choice.

🚨 New publication! 🚨 WaveSpace, a python tool for analysis and simulation of cortical #traveling_waves is now published in the Journal of Open Source Software! This work was headed by former Dugué Lab postdoc, Kirsten Petras. joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Can’t fall for a phishing scam if you never open emails. Check. Mate.

The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

Physicist Dr. Marguerite Perey discovered the element francium in 1939. First woman elected to the French Académie des Sciences, 1962--an honor denied to her mentor Marie Curie. She was born #OTD in 1909 & is among the 72 women to be honored with an inscription on the Eiffel Tower. #WomenInSTEM

At which philosophy of AI conference is that?