In all this shit happening rn in Ukraine and the world, the only thing that is keeping me sane is news like this. I'm so happy for our 103 defenders, who have finally returned home. Welcome back 🫂🫶🏻 #Ukrainianview
N. R. M. Roshak (Natalka)
@nroshak.bsky.social
Canadian, author & reader, nerd, parent. She/they. SFWA, SCBWI, Codexian. Invisibly bi/pan 🏳️🌈 Proud member of 🇺🇦 diaspora in 🇨🇦. https://nrmroshak.com and https://rdbms-insight.com
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Stephen R. Smith@stephensmith.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is the phone I read your posts from.
#ottawa friends, pre-order this epic horror-fantasy from Perfect Books here: shop.perfectbooks.ca/item/4FwPA6M...
Rise From These Dark Waters by Megan M Davies-Ostrom | Perfect Books
World War Z meets Game of Thrones in this horror-fantasy epic! Min, royal daughter of the elven-like Yhathlin, was born to be a diplomat. Representing her nation at the joint American-Canadian embass...
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Megan M. Davies-Ostrom *Pre-order RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS*@mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social · 2w agoI can't wait to see this story in the world! For my Canadian friends, you can pre-order from Chapters/Indigo. (Note: the more pre-orders, the more likely the bookstores are to put the book on shelves, which isn't always a guarantee, for us Canadian authors.) www.indigo.ca/products/ris...
A Freshwater Giant Living in the Great Lakes May Be Older than the United States "scientists discerned that it’s more likely that lake sturgeon can live for over 400 years." www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...
Signal boosting:
Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · 2w agoI hate that the 21st-century American safety net is @gofundme.com, but here we are. My friend @strangetree.maenad.club needs help staying in her apartment post-surgery until disability insurance comes through, so I have set up a campaign on her behalf: gofund.me/5dec93780
I'm excited about this book. The Holodomor (Stalin's genocide-by-starvation of Ukrainian peasants) isn't well-known in the West outside Ukrainian diaspora. To know the history is to understand why Ukrainians fought so hard against the 2022 invasion. press.georgetown.edu/Book/When-th...
press.georgetown.edu
Kristina Hook@kristinahook.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhy did Ukrainians recognize Russia’s war as an existential threat long before much of the world? Since Moscow’s 2014 invasion, I’ve traveled Ukraine asking this question. 10 yrs in the making, my new book When the Ukrainian Sun Rises is now open for pre-order with Georgetown University Press.
Wonderful news 🥹❤️🔥 #UkrainianView
Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦@angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 2mo ago160 hearts are finally coming home❤️ Today, 160 Ukrainians were returned from russian captivity. For 160 families, today is no longer just another day of waiting. Welcome home, Heroes. Ukraine never stops waiting for its people🇺🇦💙💛
Would love to see someone run a study on this & write it up
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Wow. Philip Morris' strategies for hooking kids on ultra-processed foods included "creating products that “produce a quick hit of reward that fades” so people will come back for more quickly."
Hannah Harris Green@whatsitlike.me · 3mo agoWhen I was a kid, I ❤️ Lunchables, although they didn’t taste great. But I got to squeeze chocolate frosting onto a “pizza!” For a kid, what could be cooler? Philip Morris was using the same psychological techniques to hook kids on ultra processed foods it did for adults w cigarettes. My latest.
ICYMI, US science is getting political officers
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3mo ago🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
“In organisms that sexually reproduce, scientists categorize the sex that makes the larger gametes as ‘female’ and the sex that makes the smaller gametes as ‘male.’ Therefore, we must use this same standard when [checks notes] deciding which human beings can use which restrooms." #ScienceSky 🧪
Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 3mo agosince apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
nbcnews.com
Accidentally left all your worldly belongings to your cat? Will issue.
S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social · 3mo agoYour moonshine isn’t coming out right? Still issue.
Arm yourself with facts before you go into battle. US public health experts see a decline in quality of treatment for women having miscarriages in states with abortion restrictions. medicalnewsbulletin.com/mifepristone... 🧪 reprosky medskies medsky #healthequity #feministsky 🩺📊 🏛️ #SciPol
Abortion Restrictions Change Miscarriage Care | Medical News Bulletin
In US states with abortion restrictions, women having miscarriages are no longer receiving evidence-based medical care. Learn more with MNB
medicalnewsbulletin.com
Help health and wellness information avoid the AI doom spiral! google’s latest AI summary changes mean we are finding it harder to reach people than ever. If you are interested in health research the msm thinks is too obscure to report, why not give me a follow? 🧪 🩺
Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.
Peer Review "At its core, peer review faces an unsolved tension: Science advances by embracing uncertainty, yet institutions survive by minimizing it." Insightful new work by @rebekkabrandt.bsky.social 🧵
Rebekka B.@rebekkabrandt.bsky.social · 4mo ago1/4 Peer review is one of the foundations of science.🧪But history shows that even good systems can fail. Some important discoveries were delayed not because they lacked evidence,but because they challenged dominant assumptions too early. That tension between rigor and openness is fascinating #sciwri
Who can tell me what this "Go live" button does?
Good news! TIL that councillor Jeff Leiper is running for mayor of Ottawa. I just sent his campaign $50 -- an investment in future on-time buses, parks, community spaces, and bike lanes www.leiper2026.ca
Jeff Leiper for Mayor of Ottawa
Ottawa can be a city that works. We just have to choose to build it that way.
leiper2026.ca
Publish-or-perish creates a strong incentive to put out AI slop. "[Business] schools that compete on the UTD [publication] rankings submitted more papers after ChatGPT, and those additional papers... disproportionately [scored high-probability for AI]." #scicomm 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
forbes.com
hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation
Robert Heinze@rheinze.myatproto.social · 4mo agoLiterall every article, especially those written by men, was like this, where at the end I realised oh it’s because they flatter you
Using AI agents with full permissions to change anything is kind of like getting in a car without a seatbelt or airbag. You know something bad's going to happen to someone who does exactly what you're doing, but you carry on & just hope it isn't you www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
tomshardware.com
And 9 seconds later … www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
tomshardware.com