Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

PSA: Friends don't let friends sit on manels.

Be the supportive face you want to see in an audience

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

This excellent website allows you to scroll down into the deep sea and get a better feeling for how profoundly deep it is. And what lives where. neal.fun/deep-sea/

The Deep Sea

Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.

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Metascientists need to be required to read history of science. We already know so much about how an individual experiment is not a miraculous thing that is supposed to single-handedly produce fail-proof scientific facts. More than science, it's our assumptions about science that we must fix.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Fontana thinking his 6000+ experiments may not have been enough to feel confident in his conclusions in the 18th century while we expect our singular experiments and their standalone replications to do wonders some 250 years later... (excerpt from the intro of Jutta Schickore's About Experiment)

A magnified transection of a thistle stalk by Nehemiah Grew. Grew was one of the first scientists to use a microscope to study the internal structure of plants.

All. The. Time.

The Menopausal Marauder@menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 4w ago

A favorite of mine is when an idea has to be shared by or accepted by another man before they can move on. Not necessarily vilification, but a non-starter until someone else verifies it. Also a favorite: when they’re surprised by the outcome after you’ve said exactly what will happen.

@olivia.science has so much more patience, when she shouldn't need to. People (men!) keep trying to debate her over which exact root cause is responsible instead of... Just. Listening. To. Women. And committing to an attempt at fixing instead of procrastination.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4w ago

I know this is probably a hilarious thing to say but I have a PhD in psychology and this is not a problem that can be solved by psychologising: it's a superstructure problem that requires social not individual psychological change. Women know what changes are needed, just listen to us.

Dolly got 330 million books in the hands of kids around the world helping them with life skills and cognitive development and tech bro billionaires needlessly destroy priceless books for AI slop that is actively harming humanity and brain function. With every choice, #BeMoreDolly

"Something happened on the day he died..." All our heroes and legendes are passinge. Thei have done so much. Thei have given us so much. Thei have showne us the waye. It ys tyme for us to be our owne heroes and legendes. Ich knowe, Ich am not at all readye eyther! But heere we go. Hande yn hande.

Perhaps AI will be the grit that makes the pearl: making institutions articulate, for the first time in decades if not ever, what the hell they’re about and what an education is supposed to be for. (This from the MIT committee‘s report on AI)

"Lastly, two-thirds of postdocs do not know about EMAP, the 24/7 counseling hotline for MPG employees and families" Come on, Uncle Max. This is unacceptable. And easy to remedy - coasters, pens, mouse mats, tshirts. Give eveyone an EMAP coffee cup when they arrive. EMAP is important

Christina Bergmann@chbergma.bsky.social · 4w ago

"All Postdocs want is stability and challenge their brains" @germanpostdocnet.bsky.social's Keynote speaker Nicholas Russell presenting the very important results of the regular surveys of the Max Planck Postdoc Net Read more here: www.postdocnet.mpg.de/survey

"All Postdocs want is stability and challenge their brains" @germanpostdocnet.bsky.social's Keynote speaker Nicholas Russell presenting the very important results of the regular surveys of the Max Planck Postdoc Net Read more here: www.postdocnet.mpg.de/survey

Brilliant thread from an expert on academic freedom & race science 👇 Academic freedom is "the freedom to exercise authority in guiding your own courses & research programs so long as you are exercising your authority within the bounds of professional competence"; it also comes with responsibilities

Charles C Roseman@evoroseman.bsky.social · last mo.

RE: freedom of speech, academic freedom, and race science. In this (long) thread, I’m going to 1) establish my bona fides on academic freedom and race science, 2) show why academic freedom and freedom of speech are different and… 1/34

Consonant neutralization and vowel space area in Tashlhiyt Berber’s infant-directed speech. Final version by Abdellah Elouatiq, @chbergma.bsky.social , Evan Kidd & @carorowland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/01427237251392438

Do you know a good candidate for the SIPS leadership role? Or maybe you are such a person? Then, nominate them (or yourself) to be a member of the SIPS Executive Committee! 📅 The nominations are open until August 23, at 11:59 PM US Pacific Time, so wait no further! #PsychSciSky #OpenScience

SIPS Executive Committee Nominations 2026

We are currently soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Any member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. SIPS…

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what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception

A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.

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#IchBinHanna ist im Fernsehen — & ich gleich mit! Morgen um 21:45 Uhr läuft die extrem gelungene Doku von Moritz Hoppe über Betrug in der Wissenschaft auf ARTE. Ich komme mit 1 paar Takes zum dysfunktionalen Wissenschaftssystem zu Wort — auch zum kontraproduktiven Einsatz von Kl. Schaltet ein! 📺

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

Don't forget, if you want to be run for the #OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors, you can nominate yourself *now*! 🗳️ Do you know someone who would be a great candidate? Why not ask them to run! more info: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundat... #OSMF #OSMFAGM2026 #OSMFoundation

Foundation/AGM2026/Election to Board - OpenStreetMap Wiki

OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) members will vote to elect a new board in October. Results will be announced during the 2026 Annual General Meeting, which will start on Saturday 17 October 2026,…

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Monthly reminder to read "Why does he do that?" because many people are bullied growing up & we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes to the cycle. dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...

Yes! The way men in academia benefit from misogyny is direct & less personal than how they benefit from misogyny generally even if these are interlinked. Destroying a random woman at work can be very rewarding with a promotion, for example. Mistreating your wife more obviously directly backfires.

Further to this: the news about OSF is the perfect time to recommend @re3data.bsky.social, the Registry of Research Data Repositories - you can search for potential repositories for your data, and filter the results by a vast number of repo features (e.g., does the repo offer versioning or not)

Steve Kambouris@steve-kambouris.bsky.social · last mo.

My single top recommendation would be Zenodo (zenodo.org), but there are other very good options, such as Dryad (datadryad.org) and the Dataverse (dataverse.org), which is deployed by institutions (for Australia, see dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataverse/ada)

Ever thought meta-research and Open Science needed a virtual conference that all could attend? @reproducibilitea.org is putting one together in September, with the program shaping up to be insightful and impactful. Please reach out if you would like to help! reproducibilitea.org/conference2026

On a quick skim, the core function that OSF will fulfil is registration of studies (plus protocols and analysis plans) and hosting preprints. This means we will need to find data repositories for new projects following mid-November; perhaps Github, Zenodo, or university-operated commons.

Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · last mo.

Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes

Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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Sci comm master class Yes, this is the eclipse

DLR-next@dlr-next.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Weil es so kompliziert ist, hier nochmal eine unserer aufwendigen Visualisierungen, die (natürlich nur stark vereinfacht) den Unterschied zwischen einer partiellen und einer totalen Sonnenfinsternis zeigt.

A little reflection on women having our precious time, bandwidth and money wasted by various men's unprofessional and gross behavior katemanne.substack.com/p/the-misogy...

The Misogyny Tax

On the bullshit our male counterparts do not have to deal with.

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Considering now, a year later, we’ve seen chatbots induce psychosis and suicide in their users, I think we can answer the article’s question with “no.”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

"Just because a chatbot talks like a therapist doesn't mean it thinks like one. And just because something's cheap & always available doesn't mean it's safe. Guest: "Therapy requires a human-to-human connection... people want other people to care for and about them." www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...

This means nonsense race "science" is not "looking at cold hard facts" - it's actually INCOMPATIBLE with the cold, hard facts of human genetic variation. An outmoded bundle of ideological preconceptions that fails to describe actual underlying facts in any useful way.