Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal. Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Rationalist Cults
Articles on rationalist-adjacent cults: the Zizians, Leverage Research, and the darker outgrowths of the rationalist / LessWrong-derived / Aella polycule scene that is behind "AI Safety" in Silicon Valley. Working thesis: MIRI and CFAR read as high-control groups (cults) who believe in P(DOOM) and use sex (and power) maliciously — yet they are unfortunately the ones who have captured the framing of "AI Safety," which has little to do with actual safety.
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Department of Population Medicine Postings
I'm posting papers shared by @deptpopmed.bsky.social
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My Experience with Leverage Research

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
banteg (@banteg)
The Techno-Religion at the Center of the A.I. Debate
SE Gyges (@segyges.bsky.social)
CEA's response to sexual harassment

Moonwalk

Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies

A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election

Disrupting Dark Networks
Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains

↳ Slopaganda: The Inauthentic YouTube Network Selling Secession to Albertans — Canadian Digital Media Research Network

Provision of Onsite Prenatal Care Services at U.S. Federally Qualified Health Centers

Associations of Sociodemographic and Neighborhood Vulnerability With Cardiovascular Health in Midlife Women in the United States

Genetic Determinants of Macronutrient Intake Are Associated With Specific Food Intake in Youth: A Cohort Study Across Childhood and Adolescence
Most Community Health Centers Provide Prenatal Care, But One-Third Still Lack Services | HPHCI: Department of Population Medicine

Isopod Site
B A K E A | Restaurante en Mungia
New paper finally out in @NatureComms with E. Leib, D. O’Shaughnessy, C. Gallardo, @sferrigno.bsky.social, and @spiantado.bsky.social. 📝Chi…

Discourse Graphs and the Future of Science | Protocol Labs Research

toward a system of neo-xunism

Hallucinated Gods

The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

Is METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?

Silicon Valley’s Safe Space (Published 2021)
I use AI for security work - Tilmon Edwards
Lena @ Things Of Interest

LLMs Can Design Near-Optimal OR Algorithms

The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise ( RWE ‐ DE )

The Medium is the Message: How Non-Clinical Information Shapes Clinical Decisions in LLMs | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Labeler Relay

Lexidraw, an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you
Glean

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks
@brianell.in/atproto-claude-skill

Humanitarian Governance

Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics

A world in turmoil: governing risk, establishing order in humanitarian crises
www.equator.org

Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account - Daniel H. Nexon, Iver B. Neumann, 2018