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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lets actually, truly, cancel some men

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The way I couldn't figure out why we would need enforcing for ebike parking 😂

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my most cherished German trait (after earnestly and correctly insisting that so many things are a slippery slope towards Hitler) is loving sparkling water, so I'll be rating every brand of sparkling water I can find here in Barcelona

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funny how it's always exactly three months post moving to a new city when my brain goes "omg everything here is so fucking annoying". Can't wait for the annoying stuff to turn into soft background noise again 😂🙄

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finch West LRT finally has real transit signal priority! Phase rotation is active at multiple intersections, such as Finch & Signet/Arrow. This means adjusting the car left-turn signal in real time based on predicted LRT arrivals to minimize transit delay. Video: @ontariotrafficman.bsky.social

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Transit priority phase rotation is active at Finch & Signet/Arrow!

YouTube video by Ontario Traffic Man Clips

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026

This tool from @observingthecity.ca is fantastic. It shows the traffic mode share by intersection using City data. Many downtown areas are dominated by pedestrians (in green). Yet *we still give most of the space to cars on almost every street.* www.observingthecity.ca/intersection...

Map of downtown area of Toronto. Pie charts show the mode share at every intersection.

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Sara Cowan @saracowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, it finally happened. A driver doing a right turn hit me on my bike, in a bike lane. I'm physically ok. My spidey senses served me well; the driver wasn't signaling, but my gut said they might turn, so I slowed down and watched. Slammed on my brakes, so only light contact with my front wheel.

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me on why I favor post-publication peer review:

Screenshot of an interview with Björk where she says: "The minute I start pleasing five peole, I won't please anyone. But if I only please myself, I might please ten people, you see."

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

CEO should really be in favor of stronger regulation/enforcement cause otherwise Mangioning them is kinda the only option

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trans women in sport: This table shows how massively out of place the UK is in Europe. The UK is the only country that bans trans women from most sport. Even recently-fascist Hungary is fairer than the UK. Britain is a transphobic outlier.

Trans Legal Recognition and Amateur Sport in Europe
Adult amateur women's competition • September 2026
Country
EU
Recognition
Equality-law sex

Adult amateur women's category

Football
Hockey
Cricket
Netball
UK 2024

UK 2026

Belgium

Denmark

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•

Finland
•
Germany

Iceland

Ireland

Luxembourg

Malta

Norway

•

Portugal

•

、、

Spain

•

Switzerland

•

OTHER LEGAL RECOGNITION

Ancona

•

Austria

•

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

•

Cyprus

Czechia

Estonia

France

Greece

Italy

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands
Poland

Romania

Serbia
Slovenia

Sweden

Türkiye

Ukraine

NO / VERY LIMITED RECOGNITION

Albania

Armenia
Azerbaijan

Georgia

Hungary

Monaco

North Macedonia

スズズズメ

San Marino

slovakia

Broad legal recognition
Partial / very limited

No functioning domestic route

Specific sport exclusion

Uornpro yods sds on /
Sport: adult amateur women's competition. HRT/estosterone eligibility requirements count as not excluded.
UK 2024/ UK 2026 comparison reflects the pre- and post-2025 Equality Act interpretation.
Sources: ILGA-Eurooe (2026): national aovemina-body policies: UK Supreme Court 120251 UKSC 16: EHRC Code (2026)

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think we found a good use for LLMs (keeping Piers Morgan busy so he doesn't bother actual people)

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How nice of Instagram to implement anti-addiction features (sending me into ad breaks while scrolling)

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What in the editor is this headline 😭 every time a newspaper imputes intention to LLMs, a tiny kitten dies -- have you no mercy, El País?

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A longread on why Cofnas is doing pseudoscience, by yours truly. Many thanks to @forbetterscience.bsky.social for hosting the text!

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

See the funny thing is I walk and bike every day and as a pedestrian I have one near miss with a cyclist once per year (which would lead to a few bruises tops), whereas as a cyclist I have about two near misses with cars per week (which would hospitalize me)

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

just had a car going 60 kmh-ish cutting me off to turn right in front of me with like ~30cm to spare and, wow, all my biking-in-traffic cPTSD wants at this point is bloody murdery revenge

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

retrained myself so successfully I don't trust people without vocal fry and/or upspeak anymore

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey Siri, how to say "no worries if not" without sounding insecure, when the issue is that I want to *seem* open to feedback on my proposal but in my heart of hearts I REALLY don't want to put more work into it

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I swear to god, why the fuck would you want a "Quick Read" for an academic paper, the authors literally provide one themselves?????????

screenshot from google scholar that has a "Quick read" button for a bunch of the papers listed

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"It's fine I'm nearly done with the proposal I only need to cut about 15% word count" 🥲

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 09/09/2026

one thing organizing for a long time teaches you is that the boss fighting a union is almost never about money, it is almost always about control and power.

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My friend here at Uni of Barcelona is conducting a study on how people enjoy music. If you wanna help her out (and speak Spanish!), you can complete this 1 minute survey: ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... If you have any questions, you can message me, I'll give you her email :)

ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

okay this is the least of the problems with these people but HOW DOES SOMETHING INCREASE SOMETHING CORRELATIONALLY! 😭 PLEASE 😭😭😭

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

as a first principle, 'how other men behave toward me' has zero evidentiary value in evaluating how they behave toward woman

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who up inventing taxes from first principles

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

40k deaths in the US and 1.2m globally from car crashes? Invisible. 40% of California GHG emissions, 2/3rds in many cities, caused by private cars? Invisible. Nope, let's all lash out at e-bikes and bike lanes.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ashamed of politicians across the spectrum here in Europe for having ignored the genocide and continuing to do so. *All* human rights orgs working on the ground agree with this assessment, including *all* Israeli ones. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza

Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yay I also got a paper acceptance in the Journal of Causal Inference, wherein we (me and coauthor Dan Malinsky) argue that if for social constructionists about race one shouldn't neatly separate "racism causes X" from "being of such and such a race causes X" and this has methodological implications.

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

See one thing that we kinda don't talk about is how pollution is bad not in an anstract way but like, actually, tangibly kills a lot of people. This is saving an incredible number of lives

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Practicing self-care by setting boundaries with my reviewers 😌

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Paul Jenkins @pjenkinslab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The new bike lanes in Ann Arbor are amazing. The drivers, on the other hand... Literally every single day someone turns across the bike lane or pulls out into the lane without looking.

A worker puts up a zero on a sign marking the number of days without someone almost killing me in the bike lane

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Get ready.

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is so frustrating to me that their stupid-ass phrasing ("aligned") makes it into a Guardian headline. Bitch its a probabilistic tool and they fucked up using their probabilistic tool!!! LLMs don't have a moral compass to "align with human values"

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Normalize sleeping enough every single day

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'll vote for anyone who vows to inflict "real harm" on drivers

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Neil Kornutick @neilkornutick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The lime e bike I rode this week was speed limited at 20 mph, for safety

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From Eric Kaufmann, who published fraudulent and unethical "research" on free speech/academic freedom (for Policy Exchange) and then tried to cover it up by surreptitiously editing it *after publication*.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a favourite tactic of transphobic ideologues: taking bits of language from medical groups, removing all context and contorting them beyond recognition to serve their bias. Jesse Singal does this as well … and so does the nyt

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nearly all of these studies are cross-sectional ... why not say that reduction in working-memory span is linked to consuming short-form videos instead? It's equally supported by data. (deleted & resent bc of typo)

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is doomscrolling bad for you? To answer this question I will cite a study whose design does not allow me to answer this question

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What in the right-wing peopaganda is going on at Inside Higher Ed? First the Cofnas piece, now this?

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