Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Nicholas Weaver: The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter The edge is where it’s at Blog post by @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t... Interview with Nick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251107-nic... - podcast time: 26 min 53 sec

Join us for Cafe Autistique 3 Dec at @contactmcr.bsky.social. Talks from: Niamh Farrell on transgender autistic individuals' experiences with social communication & Busra Besdere on primary school teachers’ experiences supporting autistic student mental health. Reserve a spot tinyurl.com/4x9974fc

Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight? I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

V tired of seeing people I respect and admire talking about how they use LLMs. "I don't use it to write but I do use it to interrogate my ideas". Why don't you talk to other writers to do that? Or other people in general? Have you considered the ethics?

One way Autistic people can be misunderstood is when we’re trying to be very thoughtful w/ our words under stress Some of us stumble Some of us go blank Some of us have scripts locked & ready to go we don’t want to be misunderstood They can misinterpret our thoughtfulness with intent to deceive

It would be such a shame if this article was shared, and upset a few more transphobes.

Somehow I love these scientific sleuth stories.

@alisonhunterslt.bsky.social aww, hi Alison! Apologies in advance for my rank unprofessionalism on here

Autistic and/or ADHD fam! I've just realised with help from my excellent therapist that I'm probably audhd. I've been so settled in my autistic identity since my late diagnosis that I'm not sure what to make of it. Not sad or anything but a bit discombobulated. What does audhd mean to you?

It feels somehow unreal that this is unfolding all around us. I have survivor's guilt from being at a university that's not currently threatening staff with taking away their livelihoods, but I'm not convinced it'll last.

What a joyful thread

Today my lovely, weird, almost certainly autistic dad whatsapped me and my brothers "check your email". About WHAT Dad? And which email? For context the only time he phones me without warning it's because someone has died or got diagnosed with something dreadful

I acknowledge I am a boring pendant but when my union releases campaign materials with missing apostrophes I do feel tired.

This is just to say I have taken the salary raises which were due for inflation and which you were probably depending on for COL Forgive me they were delicious so undeserved and unnecessary

Evidence that being "gender critical" has nothing to do with listening to women. Women have made it clear that trans women are welcome in the ladies' pond at Hamstead Heath, and now a small group of transphobes is going to court to override them.

Want to help with autism research? The Social Experiences of Loneliness of Autistic Adults (SELA) Project at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute is forming a Community Council of autistic adults (ages 18–35) to help guide a 5-year study on loneliness and social connection. Info in flyer and alt-text.

I would like to know how high-profile academics get loads of time off to do tv series and I'm not even allowed a sabbatical. If I go on Big Brother is that a REF impact case?

Yay, phrenology revival! Hand my my monocle and ouija board! Will go nicely with my taxidermy owl I got during the Great Taxidermy Revival in mid 2000s Brighton.

Once I woke up with the name Sponster McGluggan in my head. No idea where that came from.

I’m not always proud of everything I have to do for work (hello admin) but I am very proud to be part of this project, Realising Disability Inclusion for PGRs and ECRs: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display...

Pippa Durham, 26, was thoroughly enjoying her daily ricotta ravioli when, without any warning, it turned on her mid-bite. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/118532...

I wear an FFP2 inn busy and/or poorly ventilated spaces because I know from my partner that you can have covid with zero symptoms and don't want to infect anyone, and also because the two times I've had it I was the most unwell I've ever been and I don't ever want to feel that grim again.

Not only is Tom Hanks protecting his own health, by masking up he’s protecting everyone else on public transit. Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off. They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford. Masking is community care.

Squirrels can't die from falling: The terminal velocity of a squirrel is ~30 km/h (20 mph) compared to a human at 200 km/h (120 mph). This, combined with their low weight & tendency to flatten out on landing, makes falls from any height survivable (though injury still possible!).

Does anyone wanna help me put something together for German academia finally? Open letter…? I‘m so fed up. apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@nmwilkinson.bsky.social hang on, are you Nick Wilkinson who I knew when I was doing my PhD?

I will never, ever get tired of videos of robots falling over

My poor, usually fearless warrior Daphne cat is hiding under the armchair from the fireworks 😢

Autistic ways of saying “I love you” (that you might miss): - “I researched your problem. Here are your options” - “I made a spreadsheet/ list/ plan to help you” - being ourselves around you (infodumping, not masking etc) - “Here’s a meme that I think you’d like” #AutismAwareness

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

Somebody tell me to get on with my marking pls

I didn’t learn about adverbials until I did my English Language degree, having done an English Language A-level. No year 6 needs to know about them. (And yes I know it’s hard to believe that was my degree judging by my typos on here)

if the curriculm review does nothing else, binning the fronted adverbials nonsense in Year 6 (if you know you know) means it was worth it frankly www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I'm still looking for participants to interview about Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing co-ops and feminist architecture! Please share 💗

ABA proponents often claim play-based methods are “evidence-based” bc they produce measurable outcomes. The problem is what they measure. Most studies in ABA research focus on short-term behavior change—not long-term psychological health, identity or self-regulation. endseclusion.org/2025/10/31/t...

Music is everything. Here's the John Lewis advert but his son gives him Barbie Girl. Offf, right in the nostalgia.

Also I don't want to do vibe anything. One of the proudest achievements of my work life is that I'm a proficient R user and when things go wrong in my code I can work out why. Vibe learning to walk! Vibe learning to speak! Where!

“Please think about students using chatbots to ‘augment’ their learning and thereby becoming conditioned to expect that their interactions with their educators, whether human or digital, should start from a foundation of obsequiousness.” - @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

Roooty toot tooooot!

EDI lunch and learn sessions don’t seem massively… inclusive to me? It’s just fitting some extra work into what’s supposed to be a break because that work isn’t sufficiently valued by the institution to have the sessions at other times...

I'm really glad @thinkingautism.com went over this study and avoided the eugenicist rhetoric and ideas behind so much of the coverage of it. There are a million good reasons to avoid Covid in pregnancy. Leave autistic babies out of it! buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

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Can't recommend Alissa enough as a PhD supervisor!

This really bothered me. I don't get why reporting their skin colour/cultural heritage was relevant.

Family zoom update: heated conversation about damp. The word differential has been used. Thermal imagers being advocated for.

Autistic woman is hungry but only for one specific egg sandwich and the cafe is closed on Sundays so goes to the pub instead

And I wish I'd known about Tina Law last year, when I made a limited podcast series for work about AI, which interviewed expert women and always ended by asking "is AI going to kill us?" All of the sensible expert women pretty much said exactly this 👇

and here is the paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...