I keep thinking about that "great feminization" essay and specifically how *bad* it is. No rigour. Just vibes. Just post hoc ergo propter hoc and a couple of shoddy citations. And *this* is what we're supposed to take as serious commentary on gender relations?! Really?!

The two worlds contained within bluesky, people who don't understand shitposting, and people who yearn for shitposting.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Your guide to the November night skies courtesy of @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social. Wishing you all clear skies and lots of lovely #Leonid 'shooting stars' (meteor shower peaks on the 17th)! 🤞🧪🔭🤩

youtu.be/p4yAB37wG5s because I figured the internet could use a little pick me up today, a beautiful recording from my favourite pianist

Apparently today is International Pronouns Day. Pronouns aren't scary, we have a bunch of them in the English language. I answer to she/her and they/them; both feel like accurate-ish pointers to the Osnat concept bundle.

“context MATTERS”, insist the academic historians, immediately before giving a lecture full of jokes and references to pop culture that was already a decade old when the 20 year olds in the audience were born

Also, we have a cool website now. openpredictionmarkets.com

We are in v1.0.0 for SocialPredict! 🥳 🎉Customizable home page 🎉Easier deployment Come check it out if you're interested in better decision making github.com/openpredicti... #OpenSource #FOSS

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

The number of people who will respond to "Ask me for a copy" is a tiny fraction of those who would love to click on a non-paywalled link. Don't make people ask. SocArXiv is free to share, free to read, non-profit, academy-owned at a public university. Hello! Thanks for sharing.

It's great some authors will share their work if you email them for a pdf. But this isn't a good use of your time, or theirs. I do think academics have more important things to do than a system where they reply one by one to every potential reader who wants to read beyond the abstract.

"This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath." Yeah, I truly do not believe this is how shame works www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

NEW EPISODE! Episode 19 of #KioAndMaxi is OUT NOW! Big thanks to everyone who took part (listen to the episode all the way to the credits to find out who - and how amazing they were). Also, you can find every episode so far on linktr.ee/twostrangers... - if you so choose!

'“If this…scenario is confirmed, basic research is heading for disaster,” Deketelaere wrote. “€31.5bn over seven years…is a fraction of what the USA and China invest (annually) in fundamental research.”' 2/2

'the only guaranteed EU funding for basic research from 2028 will come from the €31.5bn allocation from FP10 for the European Research Council, plus “minor contributions” from the collaborative windows and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, he said. The MSCA is expected to get about €10.5bn.' 1/2

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

I acknowledge that this is a minority position but I genuinely feel that shame is a corrosive feeling and that shame-based morality is corrosive to the psyche

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

Hi internet - Long story short I need to make some extra cash & as such I'm looking for extra editing work. I'll edit your novel/thesis/article/blog post; I can do developmental edits, copyediting & proofreading. I have a super fast turnaround & 7 years experience Please share widely

Last call for #OpenScience Conference FOR2026 ⏰ ‼️ The deadline for submissions is tomorrow night - all who practice, study or govern Open Research, please send an abstract and join us in Munich in May 2026 to foster equitable open research. All details: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

It's interesting. I read this guide on how to like poetry and now I think I like poetry *less*. Perhaps I'm just not built for it. amateurcriticism.substack.com/p/how-to-lik...

Some cats I met on my morning walk. #CatsOfBluesky

Sunday afternoon standing TTRPG campaign. We are playtesting some new classes (I get to take 2 levels in philosopher, yay). Have just asked GM if my next character can be a pretty pretty princess.

New post on RestoRes's website. "New initiative seeks evidence for effective open science practices" The Global Research Initiative on Open Science, officially launched last week, aims to identify what works (and what doesn’t) in Open Science worldwide. restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/n...

Unfortunately, many historical science anecdotes are probably false. • Edward Jenner didn't deliberately expose a young boy with full-blown smallpox to test his vaccine; and he wasn't the first to try using cowpox • Pasteur didn't discover a chicken cholera vaccine accidentally

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waiting for my brain to come online

Today I wore my Magen David necklace out in public and got 0 street harassment. This should be the baseline instead of something to celebrate, but here we are.

very beautiful poem here by Zoe Dickinson - www.consilience-journal.com/issue-22-exc...

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Ralf Vandebergh)

A small share of people, on Bluesky as elsewhere, produce most content seen by others. 4% of YouTube videos account for 94% of all video watched on the platform. Half of all YouTube videos have fewer than 35 views & 5% have zero views. Source: journalqd.org/article/view...

We made it to 100 stars on SocialPredict! github.com/openpredicti... #OpenSource #OSS Thank you to everyone who has contributed and supported! Here's to pushing forward the future of forecasting :)

A massive 2024 study analyzing the outcomes of 2.5 million children found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy increases the risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability once sibling comparisons are taken into account. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

we are at 99 stars :) can we make it to 100 stars? github.com/openpredicti... #OpenSource #OSS

Oh, not this shit again. The combined vaccine is safe and effective. This is just...needlessly risky.

Interesting opportunity in research policy with the EU’s research council 🔭🧪

Today feels like a "solvitur ambulando" kind of day.

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands in South America each year and is getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. These lower the odds mosquitoes can transmit the virus to humans. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love this. Giotto had a great image of a comet over his adoration of the Magi which is speculated to be Halley’s Comet. www.sciencemusings.com/giottos-star/

to my astonishment, I think I am becoming a morning person as I head towards my 30s. what on earth is going on here

Reading the Asterisk Magazine piece from @stuartbuck.bsky.social and...yeah. Chaos. [skull emoji goes here]

Badenoch: "I think he was saying, if people are violent, fight back" What the leader of the opposition says is not true. Musk called for *pre-emptive* violence. He wants people to begin the violence. She says it would not "de-escalate" to reject this!

Since we're doing the discourse: D, and it's not even close

As a result I was forced to make my own IMAP launch press kit which I now share with you... (corrections welcome) planet4589.org/latest.html

Hi #AcademicSky folks, I'm one of the people who has been working on this Would love some help/advice on an elegant solution for making sure the last better here gets their position calculated and priced in Thanks in advance :)

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

We Literally Didn't Start the Fire