There really is a hamster in this otherwise interesting paper – I checked! 🐹 "One detail that never makes it into the methods section is our ongoing competition to sneak pets into our figures. Previous papers featured a dog and a cat; this time my hamster Minni made an appearance."

When success doesn't stick: How the explanations we give for feedback shape our self-image

Why do some people embrace their successes while others dismiss them as luck? In this study, we used angel and devil robots, computational models, and a feedback-learning experiment to investigate how...

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A nationwide Swedish cohort study reveals that an increasing number of infants are missing the essential vitamin K shot. Out of 2 million infants, the opting-out rate doubled from 2003 to 2021, and those without prophylaxis experienced a higher incidence of bleeding during infancy.

Vitamin K Prophylaxis in Newborns and Bleeding in Infancy

This cohort study investigates if the rate of nonreceipt of intramuscular vitamin K prophylaxis among newborns is increasing, and if nonreceipt is associated with an increased risk of bleeding in infa...

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This looks wonderful. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘We were broke, but fascinated by freedom’: exhibition showcases East German artist Gabriele Stötzer

Show at Martin Gropius Bau gallery in Berlin is biggest ever celebration of an East German female artist in a state museum

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"The gallery has said more than 41,000 tickets have already been sold for Frida: The Making of an Icon, which opens on 25 June, making it the highest pre-selling exhibition in Tate’s history."

Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestry

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If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

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Cool new paper: A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in #longCOVID.

A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in long COVID

Acute SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers the de novo production of diverse, functional autoantibodies (AABs) that remain elevated in long COVID (LC), but t…

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Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Saw the ceiling painting that gave @stockholm-uni.bsky.social its logo today at Spökslottet 😍

PCOS is being renamed PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), providing a much clearer description of the condition. An interesting example of how medical understanding evolves.

What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS?

Polycystic ovary syndrome is being relabelled polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome to correct the misconception that it is solely a gynaecological disease that creates ovarian cysts. Here’s what y...

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🧵 & @cwolbrecht.bsky.social’s essential chart, updated. This is what was great about old Twitter & is good here, if less so. You get the smartest scholars in political science sharing their expertise & discussing the most important topics together. And you get to learn from them.

Christina Wolbrecht@cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 3mo ago

By popular (?) demand, I've updated (and cleaned up) my suffrage and citizenship timeline with recent events and some additional clarifications. Feedback welcome! I will make the file available on my website (christinawolbrecht.com) by COB.

Balcony season is here 🌞

"Open-mindedness predicts support for public health measures and disbelief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic across 68 countries."

Liam has reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for a while: Why "Beauvoir" and not "de Beauvoir"? A thread 🧵

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Citing de Beauvour like

Yes, and also

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I wrote up my response. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...

Lovely portrait by Norwegian painter Even Ulving, Lesende kvinne (Reading Woman, 1886).

"Why has it taken so long for us to treat misogyny as a political problem?"

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny

We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activis...

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Two days ago, Andrea Pető recalled that when asked 10 years ago about the future of CEU, she said: "We’ll leave Budapest, live splendidly in Vienna, and when things change, we’ll come back and rebuild what can be rebuilt." May her forecast become reality. verfassungsblog.de/after-collap...

After Collapse

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Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Will the MA in Gender Studies return to Budapest? It will be interesting to see whether Orban’s aggressively regressive gender politics will be quickly dismantled.

"Trump joins a long list of political leaders who have been beguiled by the prospect of overwhelming early blows achieve decisive effects only then to struggle to find a new strategy when they did not, and the enemy turned out to be resilient and resourceful."

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Trump made every mistake in the strategy book but also some new ones that aren't in any book because he's so absurd.

Mozart-Magic meets Chandelier-Magic #ChandelierSunday Thanks for sharing, @killedbyproxy.bsky.social 🌼

Ina Hallström@killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The auditorium's ceiling features a large crystal chandelier. Several other crystal chandeliers can be found in The Golden Foyer. It's definitely worth visiting since the opera house is set to close in 2027 for a five-year renovation.

"F. D. C. Willard (1968–1982) was the pen name of Chester, a Siamese cat, used on several papers written by his owner, J. H. Hetherington, in physics journals. On one occasion, he was listed as the sole author."

Brunch outside premiere 🌞 been waiting all winter for this

SPLASHDOWN!!! Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation. Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists. Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!

Sweden's got you covered since 1978

NPR@npr.org · 4mo ago

Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men." n.pr/3OwioTq

It’s Friday, the sun is shining, and the construction crew in the courtyard is blasting Pixies' Where Is My Mind – and somehow, it all feels perfect

A Stanford University study tested 11 major Al systems, and found *all of them* show high levels of overly agreeable, flattering behavior. This creates a feedback loop: users like being affirmed → developers train Al to validate → Al gets even better at flattering at the expense of truth

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

Not only are AIs far more agreeable than humans when advising on interpersonal matters, but users also prefer the sycophantic models.

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Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

Tuna@antea04.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Swedish scientist Almira Osmanovic Thunström created a fake disease and uploaded a preprint to see if LLMs would swallow it. You'll never guess what happened next.

The famous baby box, given to every Finnish mum. It's filled with useful things for her and the baby. There's also padding at the bottom so the baby can even sleep in the box. Via the always-excellent Molly Young - who doesn't seem to be on Bluesky but is on Substack.

Last night at the opera. I grew up watching Ingmar Bergman’s TV version of The Magic Flute (1975). Just now learning that Mozart was a Freemason, and the opera is full of Masonic symbolism, rituals, and ideals like conquering the irrational Queen of the Night to pursue enlightenment and progress.

New OECD report estimates the projected annual cost of #LongCovid. "The impact of long-term illness suffered by people after Covid-19 infections is estimated to cost OECD countries a total of up to $135bn a year and will dog their economies for at least a decade, according to new research."

Long Covid projected to cost OECD economies up to $135bn a year

New research forecasts hit to GDP from lower productivity and workers quitting because of long-term illness

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