Wes Ph.D. (@wslchiang) 's Twitter Profile
Wes Ph.D.

@wslchiang

Post Doc @KraussLabUR | Dog Dad | Aspiring dinner party host | VP @ROCSciPol | 🏳️‍🌈 | he/him

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calendar_today16-08-2020 16:45:47

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People's City Council - Los Angeles (@pplscitycouncil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The incarcerated youth firefighters at Pine Grove are currently risking their lives on the fires in LA. Working 48 hour shifts with no sleep. These are their faces.

The incarcerated youth firefighters at Pine Grove are currently risking their lives on the fires in LA.

Working 48 hour shifts with no sleep. These are their faces.
Wes Ph.D. (@wslchiang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And also rejected a ban on forced prison labor. For all you indignant folk saying how unfair it is for the incarcerated firefighters … you had the power to put your money where your mouth was

Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OMG. The City of Atlanta crushed a homeless man to death with one of its bulldozers as the city attempted to clear a homeless encampment ahead of MLK Day celebrations scheduled for Monday. They didn't check to see if anyone was in the tents. Welcome to Hellscape America.

Sami Gold (@souljagoytellem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I know all the reasons behind it and don’t need an explanation for why it’s happening, but the almost overnight mainstreaming of Trump into normal pop culture by supposedly apolitical actors is astonishing

Karl Max 🪶📃 (@karlmaxxed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

TikTok is now region locking Americans from looking up things like "fascism" and "Donald Trump rigged election" on the left are results from a device in America, and on the right are results from one in the UK.

TikTok is now region locking Americans from looking up things like "fascism" and "Donald Trump rigged election"

on the left are results from a device in America, and on the right are results from one in the UK.
Wes Ph.D. (@wslchiang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a graduate of one of the first few classes to include women at West Point, you would hope Janet Petro (even as a Drumpf appointee) would be someone that understands the value of institutional mechanisms to help historically-excluded talent feel welcome in science / academics

Wes Ph.D. (@wslchiang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The way this clip shows him capitalizing on two distinct fears - police brutality / abuse of power and then the general public’s fear of mass shootings - to “sell” why AI (and by proxy video cameras and automated decision systems) should be more prolific is so evil to me

Science Magazine (@sciencemagazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth scim.ag/3Cp5C35

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth scim.ag/3Cp5C35
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 (@mnolangray) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People say the Vegas Loop system is useless, but I disagree: it's useful to the extent that any halfway intelligent person who uses it immediately realizes that this is not the mobility technology of the future.

People say the Vegas Loop system is useless, but I disagree: it's useful to the extent that any halfway intelligent person who uses it immediately realizes that this is not the mobility technology of the future.
Gray Kimbrough (@graykimbrough) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.

Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.
Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: The Attorneys General of CA, NY, AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NC, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI, and D.C. have all filed suit against Trump for his budget freeze on vital health services. The fact that 0 Republican AGs are joining this lawsuit, despite

Victor Shi (@victorshi2020) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THIS is the fire I want to see from every Dem: “Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over financial systems of the Treasury but you don't control money of American people. Congress does that. We don't have a 4th branch of gov called 'Elon Musk.’”

Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

She’s right. She was right when she first wrote her paper on the value of structural separation, she’s right in the op-ed suggesting we should apply it to our silicon calves