Reposted by Avril MansfieldAlan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Big Gav Statement 09023
Reposted by Avril MansfieldCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Beoga and Aaron Rowe pulling out of Sheeran's tour is so admirable. Putting principles in front of career is incredibly brave and I hope they get huge support because of it. 1452377
Reposted by Avril MansfieldTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead. 7566163
Reposted by Avril MansfieldGordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience Article worth reading, & sharing w/ your student researchers. Can't get this out of my head: "Bishop’s law: The better designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Meimoun & @lakens.bsky.social 310134
Reposted by Avril MansfieldStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”. 282115232170
Reposted by Avril Mansfieldaoifseywoifs @aoifseywoifs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026When you donate money to her Imagination library, the two Irish places you can choose from are Tallaght and Cork. 023
Reposted by Avril MansfieldColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 351562633
Reposted by Avril MansfieldResearch at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · 07/07/20261/ After stroke, regaining mobility and balance can be challenging. A new study from @kiteuhn.bsky.social found that more reactive balance training was associated with improved balance control in people recovering from stroke. 🔗 Read more: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/7-07-20... 123
Reposted by Avril MansfieldJEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Tip for junior authors: A power analysis is only as good as the effect size you feed it. "Medium" is not a justification. Tell us whether your effect size comes from prior empirical work (justifying that choice) or from theory (e.g., the smallest effect you'd care to detect). #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 42710
Reposted by Avril MansfieldJadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." 695952896
Reposted by Avril MansfieldISPGR @ispgr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026ISPGR launched its first regional chapter, the Ontario Society for Posture and Gait Research (OSPGR). Read about the launch of this chapter and their successful inaugural conference in our latest blog: ispgr.org/the-inaugura...ispgr.orgThe Inaugural Meeting of the Ontario Society for Posture and Gait Research (OSPGR) - ISPGR 063
Reposted by Avril MansfieldMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Reposted by Avril Mansfieldryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/05/2026yes!! prospect.org/2026/05/20/e...prospect.orgElon Musk’s Plan to Make You Invest in SpaceX - The American ProspectHe’s got his eye on your retirement savings and his net worth. 351267408
Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 27/05/2026PubMed is currently unusable due to lack of clarity around what constitutes a bicycle 050
Reposted by Avril MansfieldDr. K @kurleymcd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026They are absolutely going to beat up women that don't confirm to the trad wife aesthetic, all in order to... *checks notes* protect women. 063
Reposted by Avril MansfieldDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The choice is not between p-values or effect sizes. They go hand in hand. The p-value is there to keep you from seeing effects where there are none. If that bar is passed, you can treat effects as non-zero, and start to reason about what they mean in practice or for a theory. 0326
Reposted by Avril MansfieldAriel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026. We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control www.levine-lab.orglevine-lab.orgHome | Levine Lab 1714934
Reposted by Avril MansfieldMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/04/2026just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material 3773107
Reposted by Avril MansfieldDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat. 8638381222
Reposted by Avril MansfieldTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026You have no right to demand I cede control of the road to the car, because fundamentally you have no better reason for being on that road than I do. 2504
Reposted by Avril MansfieldAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them 5180282143
Reposted by Avril MansfieldDamien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 30/03/2026When I was a child my mother bought a hostess trolley. It looked insane in our cramped little house. But she'd spent the cash and insisted we use it all the time, bumping and scratching as we went. It was, in every way, a worse experience than just carrying stuff yourself. This is a post about AI. 524647
Reposted by Avril MansfieldJJ @jjodx.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...kuleuven.bePhD researcher for the FWO research project: MoCo: Motor Complexity and AgingPhD researcher for the FWO research project: MoCo: Motor Complexity and Aging 11213
Reposted by Avril MansfieldMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389549564
Reposted by Avril MansfieldCyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I teach power analysis in terms of “what is a minimally meaningful effect size? Are you powered for that?” A minimally meaningful effect size can be deduced from principles (eg cost-benefit), eliminating the kind of guesswork you mentioned. 1261
Reposted by Avril Mansfield✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026People are missing the point in replying to this. Shes not a billionaire because she gives her money away to charity and help people ten times over. But think about all the money she gives away TO help. She should have been one waaaaay before now She is quite literally the billionaire that ISNT. 5727192
Reposted by Avril MansfieldKarlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation. 11385212889
Reposted by Avril MansfieldmedRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Differences in centre of mass measurements between markerless and marker-based motion capture systems during balance and mobility assessments in individuals with chronic and sub-acute stroke www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 001
Reposted by Avril MansfieldProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/02/2026This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back. 10873303
Reposted by Avril MansfieldSK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system. 7549671784
Reposted by Avril MansfieldKate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick 85119884138
Reposted by Avril MansfieldSilicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.siliconrepublic.comNew Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blockedMozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser. 492122696
Reposted by Avril MansfieldKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex 293197364615
Reposted by Avril MansfieldOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026do you all have a moment to discuss the Good News of seitan 46946131
Reposted by Avril MansfieldChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich 42113962918
Reposted by Avril MansfieldMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I try to stay out of politics here, but... wtf are american elected officials doing? Your president is threatening war with NATO. Impeach him. "But we have a 4 point lead in the midterms." "He'll support a challenge to my seat." Impeach him. Now. Wtf. I can't even. www.bbc.com/news/article... 1274
Reposted by Avril MansfieldAndrew Monaghan @andrewmonagh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026🎓 Fully funded PhD @ QUB Psychology Project on how the brain supports attention & balance using EEG and behavioural tasks. Great fit for MSc / final-year students into cognitive neuroscience & movement science. Deadlines: 26 Jan & 13 Feb 🔗 ow.ly/9EhP50XWGtA #PhD #Neuroscience #EEG #AcademicSkyow.lyPhD Funding Opportunities | School of Psychology | Queen's University Belfast 011
Reposted by Avril MansfieldRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd" 1022487
Reposted by Avril MansfieldTatjana Tchumatchenko @tatjanat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out. 13840
Reposted by Avril MansfieldOdd @odd1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Here’s her prize-winning poem, if anyone’s interested - it’s a gut punch ❤️ poets.org/2020-on-lear...poets.org2020 Academy of American Poets PrizeOn Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin 529387
Reposted by Avril MansfieldJoe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Please don't use AI to abuse your elderly relatives for clicks. 1377
Reposted by Avril MansfieldMina @ariseis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025They put microplastics in all of nature that bore us. In our blood. Our brains. Our wombs. Out ballsacks. "But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born. 2692191
Reposted by Avril MansfieldJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025As a disabled guy, I don't care that much about a few abled people faking disabilities. My concern lies with the myriad disabled people who have talked themselves into thinking they aren't disabled and hurt themselves over and over trying to stay invisible. 8480127
Reposted by Avril MansfieldRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented. 1011106752820
Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 07/12/2025In my field (rehab, kinesiology) resource constraints are often a major factor in sample size consideration, if not the primary factor. Our publications should be transparent in how we've determined our sample sizes 010
