Iâve been saying for months that the AI tools used in hiring are disproportionately rejecting various competencies and arenât actually working. There is no way that I can skills match the job at 98%, BE BILINGUAL, and have a doctorate and not even get shortlisted. But Iâm disabled. #bias #killAI
National Academy of Sciences experts denounce Trumpâs NSF board purge
Honestly this. I donât want MORE papers, I donât want MORE conferences to attend, and I donât want MORE meetings scheduled. I want a quality papers. I want a few good conferences that are representative of the field and an EMAIL summary not a zoom đââď¸
Wally has been nominated for an Eisner Award!!! 𼚠So proud of my little guy đ
For people outside the science bubble: over the last 3 years, NIH researchers like me were informally encouraged to avoid working with mRNA technology in grant proposals. Pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on discoveries made with public funding first. This is the result:
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In an open letter, thousands of researchers criticized the White Houseâs firing of the research agencyâs board as âan alarming attackâ on U.S. science
Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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AI tools lead to âclear racial disparitiesâ in job hiring ft.trib.al/0XwHVpD
FWIW, I donât think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more.
I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and Iâm increasingly convinced weâd benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more âefficiently.â
