Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎

learning scientist, computer scientist, #CS|#AI#datascience #K12 #education research, author @a2zk12cs #CSEd #AIEd #CSforALL; opinions my own

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

Shameless plug (on behalf of the 40 awesome authors of the 26 chapters of @a2zk12cs)-Gift yourself or the CS teachers in your life (or school) this amazing comprehensive, practical resource on the what/how of teaching programming in schools #csk8 #CSForAll https://t.co/VVv1Z0HYdo

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity!

Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals.

While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today.

From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳

#PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage

["5th Generation Memes" Implied Carrot @ImpliedCarrot]

@DavidSacks

[ARYA™ @elia_mafhh]

Omygoooooooodnesss!!!!! WHY have i never seen this before?!? What an awesome idea!!!

Can you imagine as a prerequisite all seniors choose a kindergartners to mentor and teach....... teaching the seniors patience and pride, and the kindergartners have someone to look up to ( not in their family)

And when the seniors graduate, the kindergartners will graduate with them (into first grade)

That would be an AWESOME program!

[ITBP @ITBP_official]

History made on Mount Everest. 🇮🇳

#ITBP’s first-ever All-Women Expedition summited Mount Everest (8,848 m) via the South Col Route on 21 May 2026. With the first summit at 0652 hrs, all 11 women climbers reached the top. Proud moment for India.
@PIB_India
@PIBHomeAffairs

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

@UF_CSEveryone 🎉😍

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

This is exactly the OPPOSITE of what this generation needs, given how much affirmation they’ve been programmed to seek (having grown up on a healthy diet of social media).

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

@hschhaya The “generation gap” has begun to feel quite real of late.

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

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[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Future of manufacturing

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.

Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.

The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.

The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.

At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.

Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.

But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.

Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)

[WFAA @wfaa]

Everything's bigger in Texas — including the bragging rights! A new report just ranked the 25 best places to live in America. Texas claimed 10 of them. See which cities made the cut: https://t.co/la95Tap4Ty

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

#NYT #spellingBee does not recognize TUPLE as a legit word? 😡🤔

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

@TracesofTexas Complete with blue bonnets.

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

#LinkedIn post: https://t.co/Uy392KJ7Nf

[Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 @shuchig]

A milestone in my #research and scholarship in #K12 #CSEducation #AIEd I'm allowing myself to celebrate: 10,000+ citations on Google Scholar 🥂🎉 (https://t.co/6jGkXP2xVG)

[Shawnee Gregorio @GregorioSh64773]

Anthropology class? Nope. Just kids at school experiencing what the 1990s were like. Honestly, it's funny watching them treat these items like absolute relics. My personal favorite is the Rolodex!

Anywho, I wish this was integrated in classrooms everywhere. I think lot of parents would agree this generation has a fascination with how we used to live.

[Anang Mittal अनंग मित्तल @anangbhai]

The first signs are here: Butter Chicken Dumplings

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

100 years old and still the coolest person alive. Happy birthday, Sir David!

[Girl patriot 🙏 🇺🇸 🦅 @Girlpatriot1974]

🚨HISTORY MADE!
Rachel Entrekin just won the Cocodona 250 outright — first woman ever to take the OVERALL title!

The 250-mile race from Phoenix to Flagstaff was an absolute beast, and she crushed it in 56:09:48, smashing the previous course record by over 2 hours.
13 minute mile pace for 56 hours!

She only slept 3 times the entire race (one 5-min nap + two 7-min naps) and still dropped the entire elite men's field. Absolute legend!

[Hunter Williams @Hunt_Wx]

Insane explosion of color in the sunset this evening over Austin, TX.