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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

What I've gathered from having to unfollow many fitness accounts over the Gillis thing is that men wearing clothes that show muscles they've gained as a result of a lot of hard work is Good and women wearing clothes that show muscles they've gained as a result of a lot of hard work is Bad and Slutty

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

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Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pity you didn't stick with it. You missed a couple of great "jokes" about how Siobhán and Niamh are spelled versus pronounced 🙄

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big Gav Statement

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Beoga 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.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

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Gordon 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

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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aoifseywoifs @aoifseywoifs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you donate money to her Imagination library, the two Irish places you can choose from are Tallaght and Cork.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I 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...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over 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...

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Research at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · 07/07/2026

1/ 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...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tip 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🧪

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda 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."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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ISPGR @ispgr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

ISPGR 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...

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The Inaugural Meeting of the Ontario Society for Posture and Gait Research (OSPGR) - ISPGR

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’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. 👇

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Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

PubMed is currently unusable due to lack of clarity around what constitutes a bicycle

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Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So odd that the purpose of the webinar is supposedly to improve quality of peer reviews, but all the examples of changes that could be proposed relate to how people apply, not how they review

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Dr. K @kurleymcd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

They are absolutely going to beat up women that don't confirm to the trad wife aesthetic, all in order to... *checks notes* protect women.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The 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.

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Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm in Toronto, where games will be played in a month. Zero buzz here, too

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Ariel 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.org

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Home | Levine Lab

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/04/2026

just 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

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not 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.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I 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

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

When 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.

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JJ @jjodx.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026

I 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...

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PhD researcher for the FWO research project: MoCo: Motor Complexity and Aging

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I 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.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

People 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.

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Karlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Snow is bullshit

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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Differences 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…

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This 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.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Found 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.

Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Mozilla 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.

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New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the 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

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

do you all have a moment to discuss the Good News of seitan

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026

Epstein’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

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I 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...

A headline from the BBC reads: Trump doubles down on Greenland, saying there is 'no going back'

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Avril Mansfield @avrilmansfield.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I went about 20 years ago and it was definitely worth it.

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Andrew 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 #AcademicSky

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PhD Funding Opportunities | School of Psychology | Queen's University Belfast

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Richard 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"

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Tatjana Tchumatchenko @tatjanat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Please 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.

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Odd @odd1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Here’s her prize-winning poem, if anyone’s interested - it’s a gut punch ❤️ poets.org/2020-on-lear...

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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

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