I don’t want my entire intellectual world to be consumed by convincing people that their brains are worth using 😭

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‼️Rethinking age-specific fecundability: New Research Article by Amanda Jean Stevenson, Leslie J. Root and Jane Menken demonstrate that selection alone can generate substantial depression in observed fecundability at later ages. 🔗https://austriaca.at/?arp=0x0041ddba§0x0041ddb7 #demography

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Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

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The ethical question of whether SBI can be ethically used is its own important question, particularly given corporate uptake of “basic science” techniques. But saying “it’s all the same” actually functions to mystify for our colleagues and members of the public who are not technically trained.

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The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.

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