eileen
@eileenyxu.bsky.social
PhD student (autistic edition), fan of knitting, dogs and bees. Academic interests include youth mental health, public engagement and science communication (they/she)
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On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
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"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
Today in thesis writing motivation:
September 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today in thesis writing motivation:
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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
June 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Can't figure out if I'm more frustrated or humiliated by the fact that I can't seem to make sense of all the author guidelines when trying to prepare a manuscript. It feels like such a ridiculous thing to find difficult, but there's just so much information...
#PhDSky #AcademicSky any advice?
#PhDSky #AcademicSky any advice?
May 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Can't figure out if I'm more frustrated or humiliated by the fact that I can't seem to make sense of all the author guidelines when trying to prepare a manuscript. It feels like such a ridiculous thing to find difficult, but there's just so much information...
#PhDSky #AcademicSky any advice?
#PhDSky #AcademicSky any advice?
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Enjoy this photo from today's #transrights march in London I wasn't going to post pics, but this made me giggle.
April 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Enjoy this photo from today's #transrights march in London I wasn't going to post pics, but this made me giggle.
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I say this on a regular basis, but I think if you are thinking about #statistics and how to communicate about statistics in one way or another most days (like many academics do), it is always striking to see graphs like that, which show just how little "normal" people relate to it.
A paper on the probability words used in intelligence analysis. Each word is meant to relate to a specific probability range. But people interpret these words in varied ways. "Participants greatly overestimated the probability for realistic possibility"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I say this on a regular basis, but I think if you are thinking about #statistics and how to communicate about statistics in one way or another most days (like many academics do), it is always striking to see graphs like that, which show just how little "normal" people relate to it.
I was trying to remember if I'd walked the dog tonight because I had no memory of it and then I remembered that I'd put my watch on to go out so I MUST have walked the dog.
I love finding out what silly little details my brain picked up
I love finding out what silly little details my brain picked up
March 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I was trying to remember if I'd walked the dog tonight because I had no memory of it and then I remembered that I'd put my watch on to go out so I MUST have walked the dog.
I love finding out what silly little details my brain picked up
I love finding out what silly little details my brain picked up
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A reminder to my disabled friends.
Your value is not based on your productivity. Your bodies & minds are valid, beautiful & important just as they are.
You are worthy of love, deserve comfort, joy and safety.
We will fight ableist narratives about our lives. You're not alone #DisabilityJustice
Your value is not based on your productivity. Your bodies & minds are valid, beautiful & important just as they are.
You are worthy of love, deserve comfort, joy and safety.
We will fight ableist narratives about our lives. You're not alone #DisabilityJustice
March 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A reminder to my disabled friends.
Your value is not based on your productivity. Your bodies & minds are valid, beautiful & important just as they are.
You are worthy of love, deserve comfort, joy and safety.
We will fight ableist narratives about our lives. You're not alone #DisabilityJustice
Your value is not based on your productivity. Your bodies & minds are valid, beautiful & important just as they are.
You are worthy of love, deserve comfort, joy and safety.
We will fight ableist narratives about our lives. You're not alone #DisabilityJustice
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Some people can work. Some can, but not right now. Some never will. All are equal.
I do not deserve more state support just because I’ve been able to work at times. Disabled people shouldn’t be ranked by ‘productivity.’ We deserve dignity, full stop.
#DisabilityBenefits
I do not deserve more state support just because I’ve been able to work at times. Disabled people shouldn’t be ranked by ‘productivity.’ We deserve dignity, full stop.
#DisabilityBenefits
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Some people can work. Some can, but not right now. Some never will. All are equal.
I do not deserve more state support just because I’ve been able to work at times. Disabled people shouldn’t be ranked by ‘productivity.’ We deserve dignity, full stop.
#DisabilityBenefits
I do not deserve more state support just because I’ve been able to work at times. Disabled people shouldn’t be ranked by ‘productivity.’ We deserve dignity, full stop.
#DisabilityBenefits
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People aren’t out of work because their ‘aspirations are low,’ MP Jo White. They’re out of work because they’re disabled. Because their communities have been starved of opportunity. Because vital resources like the NHS and social support have been gutted cementing disability.
March 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
People aren’t out of work because their ‘aspirations are low,’ MP Jo White. They’re out of work because they’re disabled. Because their communities have been starved of opportunity. Because vital resources like the NHS and social support have been gutted cementing disability.
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Honoured to add a lived experience perspective to this article. I can get nervous sharing my own experiences as stigma and discrimination are out there but I decided to be brave. It’s been so worth it.
"The menstrual cycle: an overlooked vital sign in psychiatry?"
It's worrying how often menstrual, hormonal and menopausal questions are missed out of a psychiatric history. Timely work from Dr Katie Marwick and colleagues.
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
It's worrying how often menstrual, hormonal and menopausal questions are missed out of a psychiatric history. Timely work from Dr Katie Marwick and colleagues.
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
The menstrual cycle: an overlooked vital sign in psychiatry?
We argue that psychiatry has overlooked a significant modifiable risk factor for mental illness in female patients: cyclical symptoms associated with the menstrual cycle. Premenstrual dysphoric disord...
mentalhealth.bmj.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Honoured to add a lived experience perspective to this article. I can get nervous sharing my own experiences as stigma and discrimination are out there but I decided to be brave. It’s been so worth it.
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Wanna say one more thing.
Nobody is going to assign you the task of doing something like this. You have to assign yourself this task. Just do it. It's cheap, it's easy, it helps your neighbors help local insects, it's fun, it staves off the crushing anxiety of being alive in 2025.
G'head. Do it.
Nobody is going to assign you the task of doing something like this. You have to assign yourself this task. Just do it. It's cheap, it's easy, it helps your neighbors help local insects, it's fun, it staves off the crushing anxiety of being alive in 2025.
G'head. Do it.
Trying to get low-barrier native plant info + materials out to people in time for spring. Just placed a “Literally just plant something” seed packet distribution jar at Reanimator Coffee.
People can pick up a free packet of seeds, with instructions on how to plant & a QR with detailed info.
People can pick up a free packet of seeds, with instructions on how to plant & a QR with detailed info.
March 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wanna say one more thing.
Nobody is going to assign you the task of doing something like this. You have to assign yourself this task. Just do it. It's cheap, it's easy, it helps your neighbors help local insects, it's fun, it staves off the crushing anxiety of being alive in 2025.
G'head. Do it.
Nobody is going to assign you the task of doing something like this. You have to assign yourself this task. Just do it. It's cheap, it's easy, it helps your neighbors help local insects, it's fun, it staves off the crushing anxiety of being alive in 2025.
G'head. Do it.
I would LOVE it if my nervous system could stop freaking out every time I think about anything annual review/thesis/PhD admin related. It's just a little inconvenient is all.
March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I would LOVE it if my nervous system could stop freaking out every time I think about anything annual review/thesis/PhD admin related. It's just a little inconvenient is all.
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I’m really sorry to the person whose email I have been meaning to respond to since September.
February 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m really sorry to the person whose email I have been meaning to respond to since September.
My dog is so nice :)
October 12, 2023 at 11:11 PM
My dog is so nice :)
Got so many things I want to do, and so little time and so few spoons!!
Really want to write/create something on the whole "there's no such thing as normal' comment which has always bugged me in ways I couldn't explain until recently.
Really want to write/create something on the whole "there's no such thing as normal' comment which has always bugged me in ways I couldn't explain until recently.
October 7, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Got so many things I want to do, and so little time and so few spoons!!
Really want to write/create something on the whole "there's no such thing as normal' comment which has always bugged me in ways I couldn't explain until recently.
Really want to write/create something on the whole "there's no such thing as normal' comment which has always bugged me in ways I couldn't explain until recently.
It's silly but I'm a bit proud of how much my coding has improved over the last year! #phdsky #academicsky
September 29, 2023 at 1:12 PM
It's silly but I'm a bit proud of how much my coding has improved over the last year! #phdsky #academicsky
Watching a statistics lecture while crocheting counts as being productive right?
September 28, 2023 at 1:09 PM
Watching a statistics lecture while crocheting counts as being productive right?
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"we dont need gifs on bluesky" just say you hate me. just say you want me to get hit by a bus. just say you would throw me down a well if you could
September 25, 2023 at 2:57 PM
"we dont need gifs on bluesky" just say you hate me. just say you want me to get hit by a bus. just say you would throw me down a well if you could
I am not yet sure how I will use this account since on the Previous Bird Place I had two accounts and I simply cannot be bothered with that anymore. So uh, if you know me in an academic capacity I apologise in advance for any unhinged posts you may see, since I am a deeply unprofessional person
September 25, 2023 at 4:03 PM
I am not yet sure how I will use this account since on the Previous Bird Place I had two accounts and I simply cannot be bothered with that anymore. So uh, if you know me in an academic capacity I apologise in advance for any unhinged posts you may see, since I am a deeply unprofessional person
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Once again thinking about this dog from 1908, who kept pushing children into the river so he could get steaks for rescuing them.
September 20, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Once again thinking about this dog from 1908, who kept pushing children into the river so he could get steaks for rescuing them.
I feel like there's no good words for anything right now, but sending warmth and love to everyone here #MadSky
September 21, 2023 at 9:22 PM
I feel like there's no good words for anything right now, but sending warmth and love to everyone here #MadSky