Scientist (PhD; she/her), writer, cartoonist. 🦘 I blog about metascience, science history, epidemiology, grief, social media data, & evidence generally. Following and reporting on next generation Covid vaccines. And I write at The Atlantic sometimes. Newsletter: Living With Evidence https:// hildabastian.wordpress.com/ # MetaScience # SystematicReviews # Epidemiology # ClinicalTrials # Grief # Vaccines # Wikipedia # History # HistSci # Science # OpenScience # OpenSocialWeb
Scientist (PhD; she/her), writer, cartoonist. 🦘 I blog about metascience, science history, epidemiology, grief, social media data, & evidence generally. Following and reporting on next generation Covid vaccines. And I write at The Atlantic sometimes. Newsletter: Living With Evidence https:// hildabastian.wordpress.com/ # MetaScience # SystematicReviews # Epidemiology # ClinicalTrials # Grief # Vaccines # Wikipedia # History # HistSci # Science # OpenScience # OpenSocialWeb
Adjusting to the Changing Internet
When ads flooded some parts of the internet, I adjusted by avoiding those places when I recognized the signs—or hitting the back button quickly when I hadn't. When "AI" scrapers led to an explosion of sites making me wait while checking if I'm a robot, I got used to it, though it's a drag. And so on it goes. Now it seems cyber surveillance could advance in ways that might require bigger behavioral adaptation.
https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/adjusting-to-the-changing-internet/