Bridget Copley PhD
@moppety.bsky.social
Parisienne Buffalonian linguist spoonie mom. http://bcopley.com "The line separating good and evil passes...right through every human heart." -Solzhenitsyn
I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...
science funding and the cherry picking problem
Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…
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You'll get-- my em- dashes when-- you pry-- --them-- from my cold-- ---dead--- Keyboard.
Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me
In an article that complains loudly about the use of biological conservation metaphors in discussing language loss, dude is very happy to believe that languages can die "of natural causes". What, pray tell, is a "natural" cause of death for a cultural practice? Verb cancer?
FOX turning down the crowd sound and turning up the music as tfg gets booed, but the whistles cut through
American soccer fans disappointed in the men’s World Cup should join the rest of us next year for the regular World Cup.
And just like at that birthday party, the abusive parent is somehow spared the full blame. 🤔
As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵
"Do not panic or hallucinate like a fragile Large Language Model."
The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
Please sign this petition, from a Long COVID patient and @wired.com subscriber who knows it is dangerous nonsense. c.org/KgDz6WTrj5
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WIRED Magazine, Retract "The Painful Truth About Long Covid"
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Grimly holding out against technically far superior opposition in a way that slowly drives them out of their minds while hoping for a lucky break that bounces a long ball off someone’s head into the net is at the heart of Irish football’s golden age. In summary, Ireland stands with you, Cape Verde.
Diabetes researchers removed from a conference for handing out printed copies of their editorial warning that the Trump administration's funding cuts & delays will make America's health worse. The editorial: diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo agoMembers of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:
A now annual Mother's Day tradition: celebrating this image and the poignant words of @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social about the complexity of identity and culture — and to the experience of motherhood. Thank you for it, Rebecca. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon!
OASIS@oasis-ontology.bsky.social · 3mo agoOASIS 6 will be held October 13-16 in Lisbon. Call deadline: May 15. oasis.cnrs.fr/meetin...
Some nice intro linguistics bait: "space bounty hunter baby wearing safety tips" 🐦🐦
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 3mo agoMay the 4th be with you(r baby).
