Megha Srivastava

Ever wanted to generate smokey logograms from the heptapod language in the awesome sci-fi movie "Arrival" (2016)? Probably not 😅 But a few people asked for the text-to-image model I trained, so it's now on @replicate ! replicate.com/meghabyte/arri…

What happens when you query chatGPT with 362 breast cancer cases? -46% responses differed from breast cancer expert opinion -when the same case was entered 3 times, the responses differed ~2/3 of the time ! -for examples, see 🧵..

"Just because I’m not on the keyboard—and you have to add two extra steps for me to appear correctly—I’m suddenly the product of some soulless technology?" mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-e…

imagine the lucy benchmark -- can u get lucy to do IMO problems? can u get lucy to draw a well-proportioned person? can u get lucy to stop scrolling labubus on tiktok? truly difficult, next-level stuff

The grant was funded through a specific NIDCD RFA to promote "workforce diversity." As someone with congenital severe-to-profound hearing loss, I was eligible. A researcher with hearing loss, studying hearing loss, at the National Institute on Deafness... it felt right. 3/15

Thank you @KensingtonRoyal for highlighting the rollercoaster of cancer survivorship. I often tell my patients, the time after treatment is often the hardest. The adrenaline phase is over but the body and mind need time to adjuvant to a new normal. today.com/today/amp/rcna…

I find the story of AI and radiology fascinating. Of course, Hinton's prediction was wrong* and tech advances don't automatically and straightforwardly cause job replacement — that's not the interesting part. Radiology has embraced AI enthusiastically, and the labor force is…

There's a lot going on in the world, but if you're looking for a brief academic escape — I just started a blog! First post on how I use GenAI in my workflow as an academic. Would love your thoughts — give it a read + follow me on Bluesky too: yeganeha.substack.com/p/academic-pro…

It’s not breast cancer awareness month but don’t forget to get your mammogram. I’m getting mine today.

Woman reader in the rural public library reads the news of Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize. 🌷🌿📚

Why is it so hard to show that people can be better decision-makers than statistical models? Some ways that common intuitions about the superiority of human judgment contradict statistical reality, and a few that don't. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/dum…

The veil is off. Cutting NSF Graduate Fellowships by half is a pure attack on science. If you believe in meritocracy, this is it. If you believe in STEM, this is where it starts. If you believe in Making America Great Again, this is what it looks like.

Interestingly, the protective effect was much stronger in women than in men (for men, the effect is statistically insignificant). Future studies should investigate why!

Getting too excited at the scholastic book fair is a dangerous slippery slope to a PhD

Leaving aside whether it's good or not, you can tell this was trained on Murakami: "with a cat in a cardboard box", "like a stone dropped into a well", etc. are all vintage Murakami-isms.

excited to announce that i joined waymo as a research scientist! 🚗🏁💫

Spring has disappeared from South Asia. Soon we're going to suffer crop failures, famine, and mass migrations due to lack of water and intolerable heat. Our political leaders in the region are clueless, and our societies are ill-informed and unprepared, including psychologically.