Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

In London, hate will never win.

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤

Personally, I don't see what the problem is... It's very clear that the Long is connected to the Dong via the carbon sonk node provision using a post-optization otimation bhfjhfihfijfessvnkmnj thingy 🤷

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

It all went to hell when we quit painting pictures of oryxes on cave walls

4. Science of Science, with its data-intensive descriptive approach is useful, but insufficient. Metascience, with its laser focus on a replication crisis in psychology, likewise. We need broader humanistic thinking about the social processes involved in the construction and valuation of knowledge.

On second read, a masterpiece. History, power, (in)humanity, all on full display across decades & continents. Characters you feel deeply for & about. Depth of worldbuilding, tersely and sparingly revealed. It’s dark, it’s bleak, it has passages that’ll sear. Not for all, but richly rewarding

Obviously you need empirical work, and the best mature work integrates both models and empirical data. And obviously there’s a lot of crap modeling (and also tons of crap empirical studies). But the best thing about the field of cultural evolution is arguably its mathematical theoretical foundations

Brilliant strategy: become the contemporary version of a Victorian bachelor whose debts keep him from having Prospects

Gotta say genius move by me to accumulate student debt in my 20s that would haunt me in my 40s while I struggle at my genteel-precarity brain job

Say what you want about the tenets of Darkseid, Dude, at least it’s

Haven’t been on here much this summer. Have a picture about it

Heya stats nerdy friends! Brainstorming materials for a new 1st year course aiming to teach just the conceptual side of stats -- the kinds of things we're trying to do with stats, how things like NHST work at a purely conceptual level. Any tips for short/fun/accessible/cheap books to pair?

🧵 1/4 🥴 Enough with calling agnosticism the ultimate fence-sit - it's its own philosophical question! CCE’s @willgervais.com et al pre-print shows religious metaphysics (theism vs. atheism) and epistemology (gnosticism vs. agnosticism) are totally orthogonal (fully unrelated)

who the @nytimes.com calls an ‘academic’

🧵 1/ New paper by CCE superstars Julieta Baker, Aneeka Shrestha, Ssanyu Kayser & @loraadair.bsky.social on abortion attitudes following experience of abortion in the UK published in Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health Abortion attitudes aren’t just politics - they’re personal stories 📚

Spiderman was named after being bitten by a radioactive spider, ergo He-man was bitten by a radioactive patriarchy

Meet the Indo-Pacific violet blanket octopus. Females grow up to 6 ft (2 m) long—and are more than 10,000x larger than males! They also sport massive “blankets,” or webs of skin connecting their dorsal arms, that they can detach to distract predators. Photo: Mike Bartick, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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you can always tell when a product is a cool thing that everyone loves when they place access to it on places people will click by accident like its a scammy ad on a pirated sports stream

alien graffiti can be pretty hurtful 😔

Ahoy Canadians! You can currently purchase my book Disbelief for less than 9 whole Loonies! That's less than $1 per time the word "shit" appears in the book, a bargain by any metric. www.amazon.ca/Disbelief-Or...

BREAKING: Massive explosion at fireworks factory in Yolo County, California.

There's a certain kind of pop sci salesman persona that is always one bad day away from becoming Jordan Peterson

This is the most concise and accurate description anyone has ever said about this I think

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"Nosek also wants academia to create clear career paths for people doing replication studies—it should be something that university bosses admire and want to promote." Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.

It remains frustrating that prominent voices in #metascience are seeing weaponization of science reform as more of an opportunity to push their preferred policies than the threat it is. cen.acs.org/research-int...

This is such a critical point. Replication, in the sense of running formal replication studies, is neither necessary nor sufficient for to generate reliable knowledge. It ranges from feasible and perhaps reasonable to incoherent and unnecessary across science.

Never attribute to Robert Hanlon that which was adequately expressed by Robert Heinlein.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

Okay, so here's a comic I made a couple years ago

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One of the clearest examples I've seen of the need for politicians to lead the polls rather than follow them. People's opinions on policy are *highly* malleable in response to different messaging frames.

One of the greatest graphic novels ever is getting a new Absolute Edition. @fabiomoon.bsky.social and #GabrielBa's Daytripper is a breathtaking meditation on life, love, and mortality—each chapter a poignant reminder that every moment matters. okcomics.co.uk/products/pre...

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

Know someone interested in furthering their #psychology studies with an eye to working in the field in some capacity? Meet Brunel's BPS accredited conversion MSc Programme, now with a built-in work placement option to help people gain experience while studying! www.brunel.ac.uk/study/course... 🧠🧪

Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong

THE BELL JAR HARD ❌ It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York EASY ✅ That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

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hey man sorry it’s last minute but we need a virgin for our solstice altar, u free?

Holy shit, there's a lot going on here, and I'm not sure how much I care for it.

In episode 369, I talk with Dr. Alberto Acerbi about his book, Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age. #culture #evolution #technology #psychology #Science youtu.be/AX0Jy0__DbE

The 80s were a difficult time. There were maniacs, hungry wolves, and maneaters on the loose

PRODUCER: our new show is about a ragtag group of mutant ninja turtles STUDIO EXEC: HOW OLD ARE THEY

Congratulations to @brunelcce.bsky.social's doctoral researcher Julieta Baker on the publication of her first, first-author publication! 🎉 “It Makes It More Real to You”: Abortion Attitudes Following Experience and Contact With Abortion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...