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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)

@altibel.bsky.social
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Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 50m
Laughs in polycrises fueled by late-stage capitalism & neoliberalism 🫠 I know we must be weary of making facile comparisons w the past but the #EarlyModern does not feel like a very distant/weird country. ie univs organising events around #impact but do F-nothing on #ClimateJustice. #skystorians
satirical poems). Although official sponsors created a utopian vision
of society and the government, their rituals were literally cultural constructions that sought to ignore and even hide the very real socioeconomic tensions that pervaded society, thereby forestalling any
attempt to resolve them. It was at this disjuncture between the recog-
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 3h
Different industry, same tactics. As communities push back against unchecked AI data centre expansion, Big Tech is borrowing from Big Oil’s native advertising playbook buff.ly/HEss4jJ
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The Datacenter Playbook: How Big Tech Is Copying Big Oil’s Native Advertising Tactics – Climate Action Against Disinformation
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 5h
POSIWID - it has worked very well for some en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...
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The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 17h
PleaseGodItWouldBeSoFunny.gif
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 17h
Especially this part: what you STILL have. My mum had FTD. She had a catering business & loved cooking; she had reversed engineered many recipes. While she was still OKeish she wanted to "learn" how to make cookies that she knew how to before. I think one day we made 5 times the same cookies.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 21h
I *hate* him but I like Iñarritu and Berman. Trust me, you should see it.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 23h
@causticcovercritic.bsky.social
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 23h
As the Fabulosos Cadillacs say: ¡no hay nada que festejar!
Graffiti on a wall with an image of a caravel. The text says: 12 de octubre ¡Nada que celebrar!
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
😮 notifications are weird. Some days I get nothing and next morning is a barrage of 50 which happened the day before 🤷🏽‍♀️
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richie @theregoesrichie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it’s always your ocd is driving us nuts never thanks for keeping us safe from unforeseen disasters with your uncanny pattern recognition
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh, it's a movie ;)
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The most frustrating thing about this moment is having to discuss with (senior) colleagues why using genAI is unethical & does not rhyme w #ResearchIntegrity. Many colleagues give zero Fs about the communities being sacrificed for data centers. Others collaborate with the fossil fuel industry. 2/2
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Whatda... science is not intrinsically good. Scientists & scholars justified colonialism and slavery, they have justified austerity to benefit the rich, experimented on women without anesthesia or consent. Not all scientists ofc, but assuming that science focuses on the well-beinf of ppl... 1/
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This 👇🏽. We can be critical without resorting to racist, ableist, etc tropes. That type of thinking also acts as an obstacle for true solidarity across the board. We should not strive to maintain our rights but expand them.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I want to ask if u have recently consumed a piece of media but don't want to ruin your experience in case u haven't. So not naming it. If u have, u know ;)
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
##skystorians
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Medievalsky ##BookHistory check the OP
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Someone on bsky was mentioning that it might be functional illiteracy on narrative and art. Like sure, it has some layers but it is not that difficult. Likely ppl hate the content plus are used to pre-chewed media. I think for scientists it can be a great way to discuss research integrity.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I hate Tom Cruise but I love Iñarritu and Berman so went to see #Digger and it is absolutely brilliant. I want to watch it again with PhDs and colleagues from the institute, and have a discussion about it afterwards.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We just saw it and my partner said something similar about the sledgehammer - the thing at the credits feels like too much in your face, but if not now when.
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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"much less error prone than humans" is a fascinating comparison. What humans have you been "using"?
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
TBF many senior scientists have not bothered to understand what these companies do and are wooed by what they got back from one of the chats. So they would believe this.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Excellent term, 12 points. From now on everybody pls make sure to update your glossary: lesser clerics.
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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“We’re now expected to either (1) check all this garbage that OAI is producing or (2) concede that all of these conjectures have been proven,” one algebraic topologist wrote to me. “I believe in politics this is known as ‘flooding the zone.’ We simply don’t have the resources to correct the record.”
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We and 120+ organisations across Europe are calling on our governments to cut ties with Palantir for good! @corporateeurope.org @epsu.bsky.social
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Nadim Mansour @nadimmansour.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is why AGI isnt happening. Sense perception, movement, and memory are chemistries coupled to each other and all coupled to direct matter exchange with the environment, like a centrifugal governor. Nothing is representation, interpretation, “info processing”, or math.
There is another, radically different way to solve this problem, that is to couple the opening of the valve to something that necessarily varies in response to steam pressure and workload in a way that results in constant flywheel speed. By ‘necessarily’ I mean that the physical properties of this thing respond to changes in steam pressure and workload in a particular way. Such a solution responds in one step and does not require measurement. Thus, there is no time lag problem or concomitant source of error. Nor does it require an executive. In our current example, the thing that responds to both steam pressure and workload is the speed of the engine itself. Hitching the valve control to the flywheel couples the thing you want to control (the valve opening) directly to the thing that embodies the relevant sources of variance (the flywheel speed). So far, so good. The remaining problem is connecting these objects with the proper relation. In this case, we want a negative relation between flywheel speed and valve opening - increased flywheel speed should close the valve, while decreased speed should open it. The solution is to attach weighted arms to flywheel-driven spindle and to link the valve control to these arms (see pic). As the spindle turns, the arms raise and lower according to the centrifugal force generated by the speed of rotation. Faster spinning raises the arms, which pulls the valve closed. Slower spinning lowers the arms, which allows the valve to open. The degree of valve opening / closing varies continuously in response to the height of the arms. The result is uniform flywheel speed linked to oscillating pistons. This beautiful solution is implemented in the Watts centrifugal governor, and 18th century piece of technology that still works brilliantly.Diagram of bacterial chemotaxis. The stimulus ligand is environmental material. The MCP is a sensory receptor that interacts/bonds with environmental material, which triggers a change in rotation of the motor and thus changes the movement behavior of the cell. The “adaptation” mechanism on the left is the memory, it modifies the sense receptor to make it less responsive over time so that it will more likely stay in the area with all the good material instead of flying right through it. All these systems have feedback mechanisms to reset the processes. All things coupled together in  an intricate dance of molecular activity, directly doing things and not measuring, interpreting, or representing.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026
As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...
A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When someone told me a Canadian writer had won I was hoping it was Dionne Brand! Oh...
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Spongebob Squarepants' Disappointed Reaction
Alt: Spongebob Squarepants smiles then it gets sad and disappointed
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat...
	
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Similar to (scientific) publishing: increase of shitty things produced > increase review time (wasting precious time), while ppl further deskill themselves cause "lifelong learning" + "technology = job security." The tech narrative is so powerful that ppl cannot imagine a different present & future.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In case you haven't seen it. It is actually a screenshot so I guess I need to make the meme.
A screenshot of a bskypost of an image of the Pope with a baseball bat in his hands, the text says: the last thing you see before opening ChatGPT
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sucks they didn't cite you.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did they do an AI poem about it?
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Was it a good summary or Slop?
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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reading student coursework that is written with an AI assist is annoying. And if I ever have to see the construct "this is not only X but also Y" again I might scream
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Net gelezen in De Groene terwijl er vanuit de Utrecht-Gouda trein een heleboel boerenvlaggen op de velden te zien waren 🫠
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
See also bsky.app/profile/amka...
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scientific American doing free marketing! Good to remember a point from the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence & Mathematics: "Results are attributable to specific authors who take credit for their discovery and assume responsibility for their correctness." leidendeclaration.ai
leidendeclaration.ai
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blair @blairaf.com · 15/09/2026
🎯 and I'd also add to this strengthening and enforcing existing laws for product safety, fraudulent marketing, and non-discrimination
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pls tell me this is fake?
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The eggs are super weird. The rdge of the bread doesn't look right. Is it...?
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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😱 could you pls share with me the ad? I checked on that institution but cannot find it. Is it ok if I dm you about it?
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Özcan Akyol @ozcanakyol.nl · 06/10/2026
Brr. Dictatuur.
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