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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 16h

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18h

That West German motherhood penalty 🥲

Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 19h

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 22h

If those economists could read what sociologists write they'd be very upset

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

“if you comply, there’s nothing to fear” is perhaps not the most comforting messaging coming from a German politician

Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 1d

Autoritäre Verhältnisse sind auch solche, in denen jemand im Social-Media-Team denkt: Das ist doch ein super Zitat, damit sollte die Sache für alle vernünftigen Menschen vom Tisch sein.

Zitatkachel der SPD mit dem Bas-Zitat "Wer mitmacht, der hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten."

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Or Tuttnauer @ortuttnauer.com · 1d

I’ll do 4 words in one (German):

Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

(Look it up)

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 1d

I also use the Thames model for my papers - a steady but slowly increasing amount of effort untuil I am halfway through, where my work experiences drastic highs and lows, until completion, where they merge in the great literature sea.

Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 4d

Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...

THAMES mnemonic for reading science:

T
Theory
•What BIG IDEA is the focus?

H
Hypothesis
•What SMALLER IDEA is actually getting tested?

A
Assumptions &
Alternatives
•What needs to be true to connect T:H?
•What else could explain results/predictions?

M
Methods:
Measures & Manipulations
•Were methodological tools validated?
•Evidence that we’re measuring/manip what’s claimed?

E
Evidence &
Ethics
•Are claims calibrated to EVIDENCE? Is EVIDENCE appropriate?
•ETHICALLY sound in practice/intent/implication/application?

S
Sampling
Statistical Model
•Who was studied? Who are claims about?
•Do stat results match verbal ideas?

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 4d

Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing that another round of austerity and punitive workfare reform can't fix

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters on.ft.com/4q2iwIm

German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters

Weak August data raises risk of Eurozone’s biggest economy falling back into technical recession

on.ft.com

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 2d

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 3d

Busting out the Daihatsus to heal the TL.

A Midget II in front of a Ford F350 brodozer

A race-prepped Midget II. Grrrr... *bites a Porsche's ankle*

A bunch of Midget IIs racing in a Best Motoring video. They all have samurai-style banners.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 4d

In other news: Sylvan Adams is no longer partner to Factor & Premier Tech, meaning for the 2026 season Israel-Premier Tech will no longer be the team name. New name has yet to be announced, but might just be Premier Tech as they've been racing or Factor-Premier Tech, kinda like Lidl-Trek

🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 18d

Yo no, you know what? Hell yeah to Factor bikes saying "Fuck you, we're not Boeing" to IPT

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

The technical consensus is clear: you can't create a backdoor that only lets the "good guys" in. However they're dressed up, these proposals create cybersecurity loopholes that hackers & hostile nations are eager to exploit. 6/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

The reality is that scanning any content before it is encrypted (or after! or during!) negates the very purpose of encryption and is a dangerous backdoor. No amount of tinkering or word games can change that inescapable reality. 5/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

In particular, we must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy via word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious & dangerous stuff. 3/

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 5d

Academia rewards resilience, by which I mean the ability to rewrite the same sentence forever

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 5d

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

Three Student Assistants (m/f/d) Projects German Sexual Identity and Election Study as well as VisibleQueers

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de

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