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Robert Alexander @bgsuprof.bsky.social · 7h

New BGSU/YouGov Poll of OH registered voters N=800 MOE +/-4.5 (sample weighted Trump+10)

Trump favorability (41-51) -10

OH Senate -

49/48 Brown/Husted

OH Governor-

50/47 Ramaswamy/Acton
49/47 Ramaswamy/Ryan

Tons more on Epstein, Kirk, ICE

www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sci...

BGSU Poll

The BGSU Poll conducts regular statewide polling in Ohio to better understand citizen views on a variety of issues and political preferences. A team of scholars

www.bgsu.edu

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 5h

amen

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Bernadette Vielhaber @bvielhaber.bsky.social · 5h

Get me out of here.

Robert Alexander @bgsuprof.bsky.social · 7h

New BGSU/YouGov Poll of OH registered voters N=800 MOE +/-4.5 (sample weighted Trump+10)

Trump favorability (41-51) -10

OH Senate -

49/48 Brown/Husted

OH Governor-

50/47 Ramaswamy/Acton
49/47 Ramaswamy/Ryan

Tons more on Epstein, Kirk, ICE

www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sci...

BGSU Poll

The BGSU Poll conducts regular statewide polling in Ohio to better understand citizen views on a variety of issues and political preferences. A team of scholars

www.bgsu.edu

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 16h

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky

Our new paper out in American Psychologist.

Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.

Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

👇🎯 Even if AI has all the positive, transformative effects its paladins claim, the scarce resource will still be folks who can think, write, & communicate. Demand won’t be for <degrees> & <curricula> in AI. It’ll be a commodity tool, & the case for liberal arts education will be stronger than ever.

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17h

I've been saying for a couple years now that the AI-will-fundamentally-reshape-the-academy craze has all the elements of the mid-2010s MOOCs-will-fundamentally-reshape-the-academy craze.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 19h

Panda taking care of here at 12:27 yesterday and Teddy keeping watch an hour later.

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 19h

She's a lot better. Advantage of being a puppy (she's just <18 months.)

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the utility for huge protests like No Kings is that they undermine the fundamental basis of Trump's power, which is elite consent. If universities, private companies, government officials, etc. think they could get caught up by a popular backlash they're less likely to comply w/ the regime.

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 1d

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?

Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

We think in pain from a tweak. Like all frenchies she's prone to spine probs but hers is in the best health of 5 we've had & she doesn't have 2 copies of the IVDD gene & we're as careful as we can be with 3 dogs. Her brothers are way bigger but she's boss. Launches herself everywhere. So probably...

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

the kids are alright; exhibit one bazillion

mona 🐋 @wheresthatwhale.baldursgate.love · 1d

chat i cannot handle the ragebait in this class like im hiding in the restroom rn and its so frustrating and im on my period and im just angry why tf are you right wing and studying sociology

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

the little one is sick; emergency vet appointment secured, office hours canceled.

Miśia being even more clingy than usual. Small white french bulldog lying parallel to a person's leg, while on a footstool, photo taken from above. Wooden floors in the background (Southern yellow pine, 1865)

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d

While I always knew that the Trump administration would eventually pivot from disingenuously using antisemitism as way of silencing political dissent toward actively embracing antisemitism I’d admit I did not expect it to happen this quickly and this boldly

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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Rotem Perach @drrotemperach.bsky.social · 1d

Do #facemasks present a unique ‘persuasion point’ to enhance public #health #communication?

We manipulated exposure to the #NHS symbol in health messages in two online studies.

Our new paper:
shorturl.at/LOt6t

@psychologyatuow.bsky.social
#socialpsychology
#appliedpsychology
#behaviouralscience

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently this film features philosophy professors (No).

Read the excellent review to understand the parenthetical.

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A paragraph about the film, with the following sentence highlighted: "it’s frustrating to see their fictionalized counterparts play up every Fox News stereotype of university culture: libertine morals, left-wing mob justice, snowflake students, and everybody making French casseroles and taking naps in the middle of the day."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Someone needs to do a roundup article on "Charlie Kirk censorship" because there's so much repression of free speech for anyone who had anything irreverent to say about him. From Jimmy Kimmel to these immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

U.S. Says It Revoked Visas of Some People Who Criticized Charlie Kirk

www.nytimes.com

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 2d

So someone had a call with Rep Dave Taylor’s staffer and this was in the background. 🤦🏼‍♀️😡 www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 2d

People who abuse their power in one way abuse it in every way. Cuomo and Trump are such men.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

This looks against every conceivable code of research integrity worthy of the name... what are they thinking?? New depths reached

Nature @nature.com · 2d

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Hey we have a timeline on this @unbreaking.org

unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 2d

What do we rely on more when judging a person - the way they look or what they do? It depends! Often, behaviors matter more than facial appearances (Josh is “helpful” if he helps an old woman cross the road, even if he doesn’t “look” like a helpful person).

Juliane Degner #PMIG2025

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 3d

Excited for Jeffries and Schumer to say that we need to show them some grace, meet them halfway, politics is about compromise

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 3d

The director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has just been laid off.

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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 3d

What I mean is in the text citations are available for the perimetry techniques (1D and 1E) as well as the demos of the importance of the foveal region (1A, B and C).

manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 3d

Only 1F is not cited in this figure.

Imagine doing work so fully accepted that it is not even cited (speaking of the cortical magnification of the foveal area as identified by Roger Tootell).

Nice 6-panel scientific figure illustrating the small sensitive area in central vision called the fovea (or foveola here). The phenomenological experience of macular degeneration is depicted in 1C, perimetry techniques and their limits are the content of 1D and 1E.

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