Journalist. Deputy Editor @voxdotcom's Future Perfect. Author CULTURED https://xitter.cf/t.co/oEWrnXCr0D + OCTOPUS! https://xitter.cf/t.co/jZCLEX9PUU. Novice trail runner.
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Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing.
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying? nautil.us/does-gpt-4-really-…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Of all kids 0-14 years-old worldwide who are injured by guns, 87% live in the US. In fact, gun injury is the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the US. This is a public health tragedy, why are we not outraged and doing something meaningful about it?
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Hellloooooo 🦑🐙 It's that time of year again! Are you a #cephalopod expert living in/near the LA, Houston, Miami or Atlanta area? Interested in spreading your tentacles into the outreach world at events?
I'm booking for @scifri #CephalopodWeek! DM or email me + spread the word
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Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Editors might have something to do with it, methinks. But I’m biased! 😅
Here's a mystery: When famous writers write on Substack the result is usually far worse (even at a sentence level) compared to their official published work. But why? erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
No one on Twitter at this moment is reading the links they’re commenting on, which makes this indistinguishable from every other day on this site.
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Scientists are studying "the metabolism of sea ice," which seems a strange pursuit in a barren, almost otherworldly abiotic landscape. But the polar ice holds consequential secrets of—and for—life, writes @KHCourage.
Click for this and more from Nautilus. bit.ly/3J8Q7Nq
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Maybe a first for @NatureCareers Q&A: a mother-daughter duo of astronomers who work together on @NASAWebb exoplanet research. Interview by @sophurky
Mother–daughter duo work together to find new worlds nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
A sh*t article by @whippletom about the super sewer. 😉
“A Crossrail of crud..” apple.news/AT4oUPjchQt-J8Eyg…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
AI also has potential in the fight against antibiotic resistance. In 2020 @KHCourage wrote for Quanta about a deep learning technique that was used to find a totally novel antibiotic.
quantamagazine.org/machine-l…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
Well, THIS is getting interesting. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has just unveiled a website that tries to detect if a long blog of text was written by a person or an AI. Current accuracy: 26%. openai.com/blog/new-ai-class…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
the worst month of the year starts next week and this is still the best video on the internet xitter.cf/_lil_i_am/status/14885…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
new paper - we analyze blood parasites in 2268 birds sampled over 3000 m of elevation
but I want to talk about this by telling a personal story - about how one morning I woke up on the concrete floor of my hotel room, with no memory of how I got there
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
A universal basic income wouldn't lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into brighter futures bit.ly/3IuCPe7
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
So many people feel that apocalypse narratives are what will motivate us into action. After 20 years of activism, I’ve found just the opposite. We have to create a vision of the future we want to occupy. www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject…
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
People who engage in random acts of kindness may not fully recognize the impact of their behavior on others bit.ly/3WEskJe
Katherine Harmon Courage retweeted
This is an unputdownable piece -- packed with fresh perspectives on how racism affects sleep in ways that now seem obvious but have not been laid out so powerfully.
By @KHCourage
statnews.com/2022/12/20/slee… via @statnews
