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Björn Jörges

@bjorges.bsky.social
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CogPsy: perception in microgravity, prediction, VR; open science, queer feminism, sex work, men in crop tops, good cities; bjoerges.com

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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Girl I love being handed a great talking point just like that
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
cbc.ca
Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Biked to BCN airport, honestly it was lovely. Certainly made better by the fact that it was 4am. But still, pretty much 100% bike lanes, nearly all structurally separated from cars 👌👌👌👌👌
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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😡
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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 · 30/09/2026
Its like spice tolerance, you gotta build it up!
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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Paolo nooooo
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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Forgot the alt text: it's a photo of a transparent green 1.5l bottle of sparkling water, brand "Gourmet" (the design of the logo makes it look a little like GoUrMeT, which fits)
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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This little shit is my motivation because I just bought it and it commits the gravest sin of them all: barely any bubbles. It's sparkling water for people who don't like sparkling water. I, enlightened, want my gums to burn. 1/10 (holding space for even worse experiences just in case)
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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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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The spidey senses... 🥲 my life would be infinitely better if they weren't necessary
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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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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the way they *touched* you and they still drove off????
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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 · 27/09/2026
Dadbodflation is real, damn
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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
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Germany







Iceland







Ireland







Luxembourg







Malta







Norway

•





Portugal

•

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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


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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 · 18/09/2026
"if only I could be relied on to repeat this" I felt that in my soul
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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 · 16/09/2026
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"its been 84 years" meme where 84 is overridden with 8 (because the paper I found was published 8 years ago)
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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
:(
white cartoon person trying to catch yellow ball pink blob meme where the white person is labelled as "me", the yellow ball is labelled "cool idea I think is original" and the pink blob is labelled "the giants on whose shoulders I stand"
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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
🥲❤️🫂
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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
For the life of mine I cannot understand what the hell these super stars want, like, what's another three millions to them???
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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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Björn Jörges @bjorges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You get matched with a panda at the end!!!
Picture of a panda called Cory with heat-shaped eyes, a purple beret and a purple scarf
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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
🥲🥲🥲🥲
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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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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 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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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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