becca harrison

STS PhD Candidate • @Cornell animal science alumna ‘14 • public engagement & #scicomm • unapologetic political junkie w/ healthy balance of cute pony photos

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

Scientist friends: Read this. All of this. Multiple times. Every day.

@marklargent #AAASmtg #WarOnScience

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@hovah76 Probably because their behavior is encouraged.

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@ontologoff And don’t forget about all of the people from schools/departments/agencies who have been cut because of $$$$$ and are also now on the job market (but with experience)

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@ontologoff THAT PART

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@KunstGabriel @aliciaandrz It 100% must be field-dependent. Additionally, there are very likely hiring trends like this in the Ivy+ community.

[helena constance 🕊 @helenarambles]

my friends are getting articles accepted, book contract offers, incredible presentation and conference opportunities, writing for public as well as academic audiences, and no one is getting jobs. our whole generation is in premature mourning for our promised futures.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Young scholars are SO accomplished and yet the demands for productivity just continue to climb - despite that productivity producing 0 jobs. Advisors recommend ridiculous output for students to be "competitive on the market" but the markets already rigged. 1/3

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@babieswithb The part I don’t get is how some of the women manage to fit in manicures and hair appointments and stuff, too! Not the financial part, but the TIME !!

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

I will never forget an event last fall where I witnessed a current Dean at Cornell begin his talk by saying he LOVED Covid because he was able to use it as a case study for his political science work and therefore got so many papers out of the topic.

[Winter @PunkyBrewstuh]

Suffering patients:

Please help us! We are putting our lives in your hands!

Patient-Led Research Collaborative:

Good news, everyone. We published another paper!

We gathered a bunch of patients whose lives had been obliterated in wildly different ways, reduced their suffering to checkboxes, and then acted surprised when the data didn’t fit into neat little clusters.

The guy who can’t lift a glass of water to his own mouth? Fatigue.

The woman who lost her career, independence, and ability to leave her house? Also fatigue.

A person who gets tired after a part-time shift? Believe it or not, fatigue.

After years of work, we’ve concluded that collapsing human suffering into simplistic questionnaires may not perfectly capture reality. But don’t worry, we plan on spending a lot more time and money to try it from a different angle for our next paper.

Could we have spent that time figuring out what’s actually causing the disease? Maybe. But then how would we keep publishing papers to impress other people whose careers also depend on publishing papers?

Patients may have lost their lives, but some of us might lose a citation.

Please stop making this illness all about you and respect what’s really at stake here.

[The Sick Times @thesicktimes]

A new COVID-19 antiviral called Xocova (ensitrelvir) will soon be available in the U.S., the first approved as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). But its impact will hinge on how easily people can access it.

Read @mileswgriffis's reporting: https://t.co/jgZPIfl4Zt

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We really CANNOT have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

For AI to respect human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage: from those who design and develop these systems to those who use them and rely on them for concrete decisions. It must be possibile to identify who must “account” for decisions, justify them, monitor them, and, when necessary, challenge them and remedy any harm caused.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@ForestParkPharm Just see how much more affordable many of the same drugs are when purchased through veterinary pharmacies!

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

In an alternative universe, the hogs are producing an identical @LastWeekTonight segment on feral humans and how they became one of the most destructive invasive species in America.

[Last Week Tonight @LastWeekTonight]

Here’s last night’s story about feral hogs, how they became one of the most destructive invasive species in America, and why their biggest problem is that they simply cannot stop fucking. We mean that. Scientifically, it’s an issue. https://t.co/TjlV0zF86x

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@PatMcAfeeShow In order for this to happen, Freeman has to not be down and out after the adrenaline of the game lowers. He looked horrendous standing up.

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

We’re (rightly) paying increased attention to concussions in American football, but my god soccer needs more scrutiny.

That Freeman scored on a header just moments after somehow passing a concussion protocol review while wobbly means 0 about his well-being.

@ChrisNowinski1

[goalpostFC @GoalpostFC]

🚨 Alexander Freeman finds the back of the net!

🇺🇸 USA 2-0 Australia 🇦🇺

🇺🇸🇦🇺 #USAAUS

https://t.co/HPRRooRRrM

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@JeremyPond @TaylorTwellman SERIOUSLY.

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@StanMuckerman Did his arm not immediately fall when they dropped it?

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

@khaiykhaiy @SinCityCarol @garonnevik *especially* if you don’t know if the kitten is male