Tom Kash

Tom Kash

@superkash.bsky.social

Goats. Great science. Gruyere. https://www.med.unc.edu/alcohol/faculty-research-2/thomas-kash-ph-d/

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.myatproto.social

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3. The Department of Communication at North Carolina State University invites applications for an open rank tenure/tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Communication specializing in science communication #SciComm Application review begins Nov 15: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/235...

jobs.ncsu.eduOpen Rank T/TT Faculty (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor)The Department of Communication at North Carolina State University invites applications for an open rank tenure/tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Communication specializing in sci...

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Zoe McElligott
@nanopharmnc.bsky.social

FINAL REMINDER OF 2026: Winter Brain Enthusiasts, today is your final deadline for poster submissions for #WCBR2026! The time to act is now! Get those abstracts submitted! (plz repost)

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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.blacksky.app

an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

Experts say balancing the need to govern AI for public safety with user privacy is 'extraordinarily difficult'.

aljazeera.comThe chatbot murder guide: AI's struggle between privacy, reporting violenceExperts say balancing the need to govern AI for public safety with user privacy is 'extraordinarily difficult'.

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Ted McCormick
@tedmccormick.bsky.social

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I’m thrilled to announce three new professorships in compressed air thruster ethics, compressed air thruster policy, and social impact of compressed air thrusters. we are also headhunting a Vice Provost of Thrust

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Matt Hill
@cannabrain.bsky.social

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7. Found Footage - Possibly my favourite horror subgenre as it really seems to be one of the only types of horror that still has the potential to actually scare me in some way. A few of my favourites: The Outwaters Blair Witch Project Lake Mungo Host

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
Tom Kash
@superkash.bsky.social

Do you think this is a panda who is a doctor?, a doctor who treats pandas exclusively, a person who is named Dr Panda, a person who is really into pandas.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

The money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity.

Tom Kash
@superkash.bsky.social

I was at a workshop recently and had to reflect on the university's stated values and how the actions align with those values. This is an interesting read related to this.

Matt Hartman@themhartman.bsky.social

after the wsj wrote off unc's investigation into its civics school as a smear campaign, one of its professors pushed back. but the wsj declined to publish his response. he thinks that's due to the same political pressure creating problems in the first place www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

theassemblync.comFired UNC Civics Associate Dean Breaks His Silence on InvestigationDavid Decosimo objected to a Wall Street Journal editorial. The paper didn’t publish his response—which he says is part of the problem.

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Matt Hill
@cannabrain.bsky.social

**Recruitment** We are looking to hire a psychiatrist/scientist (MD or MD/PhD) who focuses on neuromodulation, particularly rTMS in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. Come join myself, @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social and more. Details 👇 careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1829278...

careers.ucalgary.caAcademic Position in Neuromodulation Research, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, ...Academic Position in Neuromodulation Research, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, ...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.