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Ada Kępińska

@adakepinska.bsky.social
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"Gothy geneticist" in psychiatry, PhD • Cardiff University • they/she

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tetris Company says it owns the pieces in Tetris, but there’s one problem: Those geometric forms were described decades before Tetris existed. Julien Mailland details the game’s Kafkaesque journey from Soviet labs to “capitalist copywrongs.”
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The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I lived in New York City so I get to say this: SNL in an English accent sounds WEIRD (also, as a Pole, Ania Magliano being consistently called Anja is sending me)
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank heavens that Queens of the Stone Age have a massive discography because that is apparently the only music I can progress my writing to (everyone welcome to the goth manuscript factory) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOI...
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Queens of The Stone Age - "Where The Goth Girls At?" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@jonicoleman.bsky.social I've just sent you an email about case-case ED sumstats, it may have landed in your spam! Thanks!
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/09/2026
To reiterate: ALL MY PROFITS FROM "LOSER BABIES" WILL BE DONATED TO THE TRANS AID ORG @hausofcodec.bsky.social!!!! Buying the album will help trans youth in need of housing and other critical assistance!!!! Preorder now!!!!
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Loser Babies: Music Inspired by Josephine Riesman's "The Last Temptation of Beck", by A Few Good Records
11 track album
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reading papers on polygenic scores to criticise my polygenic scores (I am great at playing the academic game) bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/...
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Effects of polygenic risk score communication on short term health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective To summarise the evidence so far from all randomised controlled trials on the efficacy of communication of polygenic risk scores in changing health outcomes.Design Systematic review and meta...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
in this age of incessant AI graphics, i will be purposefully sourcing as many of my graphics for class from colored-pencil drawings done by random wikipedia contributors as possible en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populat...
a extremely hand-drawn graphic of genetic bottleneck effects. Our original population, all of which are strange cow-horse blobs with frowny faces, are hanging out in a field. two have a pink dot (to indicate pink fur) and six have blue (for blue fur). next, a volcano that looks exactly like every cartoon volcano you've ever seen erupts. Our surviving population is just six horse-cows, now looking even sadder. by chance, 5 are pink and one is blue. After time passes, our population rebounds to 11 individuals, but now all are pink- despite the original population being mostly blue. again, the whole thing is in color pencil that was scanned in with low saturation, and i love it for its overwhelmingly human-made quality
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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 16/09/2026
Welcome to the House of Leaves
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Supposed to finish a paper today. I have just finished editing the intro, which means that I still have to edit methods and results, the two most difficult sections (my methods have a statistics supplement going on for 15 pages...), and write the discussion. Big L, dear chat, also brain not detected
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's one of those levels of unfairness that are truly unimportant in the grand scheme of fascism, but, like, non-men are constantly pushed, emotionally and financially, to look "polished" and all these politicians get to look like... this, just because? It upsets me every time, as tiny as it is
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Asking myself every day if the Mendelian randomization was worth it
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The main discussion should be that the sanctions are much too little, too late, and this is just low (and I am saying this as a person born in the area of Poland heavily impacted by the Holocaust, and the Milibands were Polish Jews)
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Both Cisco, that I need to connect to the HPC, and my Word have just crashed. We all live in this vibe of "I will never finish this paper" sometimes, but I am trying to finish three, I have rewritten each of these at least once, and just, help me, gods of academia
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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The children yearn for the mines
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Modern academic structures are constraining scientific creativity A new paper says research is structured around short funding cycles, productivity-based evaluation criteria, and risk-averse frameworks that favor predictable and non-transformative research outputs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The joke itself is funny but the fact that about half of the mocking British English jokes underneath is conversations I have with my American wife is giving me pause (I am an Eastern European with a weird accent, no posh British, I promise)
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Booked my first haircut in the new city. Eek!
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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Big news for the backend of Wikipedia. Glad to see that the labour situation for Wikimedia employees has resulted in a union. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...
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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America.
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I am unwell democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕
Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000. 

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hilariously, romantic rejections through the years & my current partner are v whatever about Interpol, but it's autumnal weather here, so it is time to say it, as every fall, you will always have my heart, the silly melodramatic sexy persona of Paul Banks from Antics www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jeq...
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YouTube video by Interpol - Topic
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Epi/stats friends! I want to learn about ("modern", i.e., recent) longitudinal analysis techniques so that I don't try to fit data like an evil doer from Scrooby-Doo. Any recent papers/reviews, your absolute fave new models? @eikofried.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social @georghenning.bsky.social
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Epi/stats friends! I want to learn about ("modern", i.e., recent) longitudinal analysis techniques so that I don't try to fit data like an evil doer from Scrooby-Doo. Any recent papers/reviews, your absolute fave new models? @eikofried.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social @georghenning.bsky.social
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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
my surgeon is getting hand surgery and my own top surgery date under her care is delayed at least 6 weeks. I don't have a new surgery date yet, but I am still crowdfunding to cover it. Thanks for your support, friends. ko-fi.com/riversidewin...
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some cool new work on ARFID from my new lab! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Investigating the Genetic Aetiology of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): A Study of Children and Young People With Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants
Background: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a serious eating disorder, with considerable clinical heterogeneity; however, its genetic basis
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don’t talk about it but, over the past year, I have experienced burnout and had to work (and move jobs and countries) thru it. Before we left, my wife asked what I wanted to do if I could just do whatever, and I said, go to Dollywood. We didn’t due to work and moving, and now I regret it even more
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Arnold Schwarzenegger pose for Annie Leibovitz and Rolling Stone in 1977:
Dolly stands in front of Arnie flexing, such that you can't even see his head behind her hair. HEAVENLY BODIES COLLIDE is the title of the centerfold photo
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When you cannot sleep because you think of statistics
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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am so, so grateful to you all! We are 52% of the way to funded, and with 21 days left till my top surgery payment is due. Insurance and credit have failed me, but you're saving my ass. Thank you so very much for helping me access lifesaving healthcare. 💙 buff.ly/3Ahsowy
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
After two years of nobody citing what I consider one of the more important papers I have written, it got its first citation, ha
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I just finished my first full draft of a literature review on a field new to me. I started in my job three weeks ago. Is that what being a postdoc is like always
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new Dialogue & Debate article by Jeffrey Endelman and Julie Dawson describes additive and dominance effects to promote proper use of these quantitative genetics terminologies.  Find out more in the August issue of #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/GKZnel7
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. It's time to APPLY HEAVY PRESSURE. Call you Senators NOW: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb... I know, everyone hates calling. But this is CRITICAL. Make the calls today! (Use our super easy autodialer tool linked above) www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap
It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After a month of no internet at home, we have internet at home. And my work computer came, and it’s a dark blue Macbook. I guess I may shed a single human tear
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Room on Fire was The Strokes' magnum opus: fun, sexy, very tight, leans into that Casablancas can texture if he tries, and the band's technical talents. The new record leans into that, too, but in a self-winking way. Casablancas wears his Californian divorcee in New York surprisingly well
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wow, I really am threatening my status of an indie icon (I have only just heard that the Strokes released an album, and I found out by reading the Guardian)
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So my two alma maters and my new place of employment joined this? Grand
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 26/07/2026
Wanna feel old? This is what the members of Run the Jewels look like now.
Filmmakers John Carpenter and Jordan Peele hanging out together
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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So far, the account has had about 2,900 visits and 112 subscribers, generating about $650 in tips, well short of what Dr. Blumstein said was required to continue the research for the foreseeable future. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...
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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
History colleagues: for those of you who still have jobs (😢) & are updating your teaching notes/syllabi for the Fall, a reminder that free, open-access materials on teaching the Black Death are already available. Your students are pandemic survivors. Give them the narratives they need. Links ⬇️.
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