@bsky.app Why are accounts I’ve never followed appearing in my ‘following’ timeline? Have they paid to override my choices?

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Sometimes I feel like Japan is the final boss of the social sciences

Ukrainian defenders have completely liberated Kup'yans'k, Kharkiv region, from the russian fascist invaders. Merry Christmas!

For several of my friends, this will be the 1st Christmas after losing a loved one. I'm sure there are some of you in the same boat. I've been there myself, too many times. It's hard in so many ways to deal with a loss like that, especially when ppl all around you are celebrating. This is for you:

Beautiful and heartwarming www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sometimes all the wisdom and truth in the world can be found on the side of an 18th century Wedgwood teapot; Health to the sick Honour to the brave Success to the lover And freedom to the slave Sharing this one again because it's awesome, someone should start reproducing these.

Oh no i accidentally bought a wine with a cork I will have to drink it all

May 2026 bring more people their own tribes to support them and bring out the best in them.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quiners gonna quine.

Let's agree never to mention the last 30 years again :D

Do naturalistic emotional facial expressions catch our eye like posed ones? 👀😀😠😐 This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!) link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8

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Now *that* would be a universal Xmas present... (kudos to apnews for having bluesky share) apnews.com/article/russ...

Just one poll etc. But Labour & Tories will be relieved to see marginal increases, while support for Reform falls, halving their lead from 10 points to just five. 🎁

And speaking of cats...

me: i can’t find my kindle anywhere 6yo niece: did you check in my room

Woohoo! Best Christmas present ever:

Hey, it's actually pronounced "jaslight" You've been saying it wrong this whole time.

Hundreds of foreign prison staff 'offered emergency extension to visa' to stop the prison system collapsing

"It doesn't matter whether ChatGPT is conscious"

@chrisbryant1962.bsky.social Brilliant on BBC Breakfast :D 👍

This AI winter can’t come fast enough.

If you are interested in animal cognition, AI-generated animal videos are absolute noise. I will block anyone I think is posting them.

Woohoo! 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" —Emma Lazarus 🗽

Do you know why I think Google will win the AI race? Because users voluntarily submit vast amounts of high-quality training data to Google every day. Look at what OpenAI has had to resort to. They reportedly scraped images from 500px to train GPT-Image-1.5.

And I must not leave out the famous Greek goddess, Telephone. Or her sisters Cellophane and Methane.

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…   5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

Talking today about whether attention can modulate retinal activity, come join! 👁️ #nvp25

My most optimistic take is that, now that the entire internet is turning into a cesspool of AI slop, actual physical books written by real authors and published by reputable publishers will have a resurgence, because they are (or can be) the medium with the tightest quality control.

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

🎉 Hoping somehow we’ll need real libraries back too…. Not info-latte-hubs, libraries….

I have been emailing with a student offering advice about navigating the post-PhD job market and it struck me that the advice was general enough that more people might benefit. So here you go! tl;dr: Figure out what you want your contribution to be, and make choices that can make that happen.

“Compilers are… the bridge between human thought and machine execution. Everything modern software is built on this assumption that you can write in a language designed for humans, and a compiler will translate it to machine code that executes efficiently.” voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/13/f...

Finally, an inspiration from sports I can get behind...

Some nice examples of salient rump stripes in motion (in the background) youtu.be/INcW26-iyqU?...

Good morning! 🪶

Clever cockatoos versus wheelie bin locks.. An entertaining cognitive arms race in Aussie gardens!

Do my rump stripes look attention-grabbing in this?

Stuck on a Christmas stocking filler? Then why not run out to the shops and get 'Learning: A very short introduction" by me. amzn.eu/d/abLEyUu As this reviewer says "Dr Hazelgrove has made a profession out of experimenting on children" Say it in a sinister voice, for extra festive fun.

Perhaps we should pay reviewers in citations.

Reminder that this is the age of routine miracles that don't even make the news.. Double lung transplants - what a time to be alive :) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How the other half sieves.

Saw this crudely spray painted by the back road next to the railway line, near the level crossing with the flowers and the teddy bears... My favourite piece of graffiti :)