And this:

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I really appreciated this breakdown and the way it structured the reviews I've been hearing from kinksters. "You don’t have to agree with the other group. But if you can’t even recognize its reasons to exist, you’re not debating. You’re policing" mstrq.substack.com/p/pillion-th...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🧪Same-sex sexual behavior provides an evolutionary advantage, according to a new study across 59 primate species🐒🦍🦧 www.lbscience.org/en/2026/02/1... @mayasaar.bsky.social @lbscience.org

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Indeed.

The reason I let students choose their research topics is because I end up learning something - it's been a fun morning learning about Lesbian Sheep Syndrome

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Very excited for this news - looking forward taking over as Editor in Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Lots of developments to come, and prep work between now and March. link.springer.com/journal/1211...

Quoted in this BBC article on Pillion - www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

"New research published in the International Journal of Sexual Health suggests that the reasons why individuals watch pornography are more predictive of their sexual health than how often they watch it." via @psypost.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/01/20/w...

I'm enjoying seeing the influx of new people to bluesky - I'm just going to have to post more now...

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Registering for something online - part of the sign up process was asking my 'Skype Username' - that was a throwback

Weed companies are using Dry January to market their gummies and drinks, Yasmin Tayag reports—but does taking the edge off sobriety with THC really count as “dry”?

#72: Shag a massive apple

It seems everybody and their friends/family decided to do legs today at the gym. While I'm also trying to do legs. It's very inconvenient.

#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries. Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805

Beyond Monogamy: What Sociology Reveals About How We Really Relate by @ryanscoatsphd.bsky.social. www.bcu.ac.uk/research/blo...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

I'm using January to finally sort out things. Ive got over 1000 files in my downloads and my folders have too many things in different places. This is the year of keeping on top of things (and not saving files as FINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSION 3.5...)

Are the arts and humanities still needed as universities retrench staff and cut costs? Patty Raun explains why curtailing or eliminating these disciplines is an egregious mistake: https://ow.ly/BGJ350XR8Oz #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

AI research itself is facing a slop problem with some authors claiming to produce over 100 papers a year www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pantone colour of the year being white is just tone deaf.

I did an interview with Mashable about #Pillion, discussing how kink is often represented in popular media. It's a great short contextual insight that you can watch here: mashable.com/video/romcom...

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

While “No Nut November” is a relatively recent phenomenon, it has deep roots and reflects humans’ longstanding and very complicated relationship with self-pleasure. Dr. Eric Sprankle https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/episode-450-the-weird-history-of-masturbation/

Far too little attention's given to this in research methods training. And since online surveys are now the default method - wrongly assumed to be quick, easy and cheap - we're in a big mess of our own making. Even if 'real people' respond, surveys are often so badly designed data is meaningless.

Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know

Although only 2-3% of people say they're currently in an open relationship, about 1 in 5 say they've had an open relationship before. https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2019/4/17/one-in-five-people-report-having-been-in-a-sexually-open-relationship/

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Can everyone please just stop using AI until it's actually good

Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...

And now, an official broadcast from the Queen youtu.be/Nn2KZOiYgUY?...

How a free weekly breakfast initiative at one university’s School of Chemistry has strengthened student belonging, improved attendance and proved surprisingly easy to sustain on a small budget: https://ow.ly/YHbJ50XjT8f #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

This feels very relatable...

Hard hitting but unsurprising to see my childhood home in the top 1% of most deprived

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

This genuinely made me want a bowl of scouse, as it's been well over 10 years since I've last had one 🥲

I want you to imagine what you would have said in 2005 if someone told you a company would do this and not only get away with it, but evade wide public outrage

Can women be as big of losers as men? An investigation

www.bbc.com/news/article... Is so frustrating that the BBC can write an article about the cost of chocolate soaring from £2,607 to £8,567 a tonne. Yet make absolutely zero mention of the fact climate change is one of the driving forces behind crop failures.

Starmer has just ended, by dictatorial fiat, a harm-reduction policy that protected minority groups dating back to the murder of Stephen Lawrence, because he hates trans people.

READ: Locktober (and beyond) – Thinking About Chastity. “why would anybody lock themselves up and deny themselves pleasure?! Well, this blog discusses some of the things people give up, the impact of chastity, but also explores why ...” by @liamwignall.bsky.social. 📲 bit.ly/Article-Chas...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...