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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Everyone stop, this is important

A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Campus looking amazing today. What a great way to welcome the new students @stir.ac.uk

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My cat thinks we hot desk around here.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Today might be an 'Im on fire . Keep clear' day

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My daughter is going a Masters. The course guidance says to send the module coordinator a hamster gif (to check who reads it). Shes just sent an email 'as per Course document please see attached hamster' 💀💀

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Chairman of the ESC Task Force Environment and Cardiologist @tmuenzel28.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

12 Policy-driven key messages concerning #nicotine and #cardiovascularhealth #cardiology #publichealth Please retweet this link: doi.org/10.1093/eurh...

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Your daily reminder that basic AI can't reliably copy maths formulae from the Internet

$Formulae for 'to the power of 1\4' incorrectly stated to simplify to the square root by Google AI overview$

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Age verification- does their personal email have a pre 1900s number in it?

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This excerpt from 'Island' by Aldous Huxley is without question something worth saving to your phone, writing down in your secret notebook, committing firmly to your memory, so that when you find yourself in a dire moment, you can call upon it to aid you. ❤️

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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 10/07/2025

Look, I've got an AI-powered multi-omics program to sell to the worried well here, so less about the social determinants of health please.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Pay universities to do this work. We have more expertise, can do it independently, and for less money.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Amen - coefficients from different (often non-linear) models don't mean the same thing, but they get compared all the time. The "effect" of interest is a marginal effect for an explicit target population, not a parameter. Software guided workflow could help, plug into tools like marginaleffects.com

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

UK Prevention Research conference next March registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

When the authors are 'grateful for such a careful and conscientious reading' in my 2nd round of reviewer comments. I can imagine how this is phrased in private 👹👹 🙉 🙉

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

re-upping this because I just overheard a fellow statistician say: "Multicollinearity is not really the problem that people make it out to be. I have a really nice paper on this I can send you which a colleague showed me a while ago." (who was the colleague? pretty sure it was me.)

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Institute for Social Marketing and Health quarterly meeting in sunny Stirling. 🌞

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New report on vape displays. Young people more likely than adults to notice vapes in a shop window and were more likely to take positive messaging from such window displays. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you know anyone looking for a week long hybrid course on social statistics this summer- have a look at this one my husband is running 👇 essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Strong work here from Altmetric 😁😂. The real twist, is that a huge number of citations by-pass thought

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

During the pandemic, restrictions about partners being present during birth was one of the biggest sources of anxiety for UK expectant mothers in the UK. New paper bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 24/03/2025

Happy Large Enough N day for those who observe

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Right. It's Friday Home Time. Tune Trump out (if you can). And listen to this (or whatever music works for you). Doof doof doof.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

UK PM Starmer to Zelensky: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In Jan, three unis dropped their 'big deal' with Elsevier Now, a survey of 100+ unis found 60% might drop their big deals with the five big publishers: Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley All these are being renegotiated this year... @sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports

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Six in 10 universities ‘consider dropping big publishing deals’ - Research Professional News

Survey finds three-quarters of libraries are making budget cuts this academic year

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Getting paid ten of thousands of pounds to put pdfs online incredibly profitable shock.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Sexy murder poet in the introduction, basically pleasant bureaucrat in the conclusion

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Is the Labour Research Department survey on behalf of UCU genuine or is this part of a Cybersecurity education intervention by my employer or actual phishing? Decisions decisions...

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you are interested in research on Commercial Determinants of Health -sign up to the free newsletter from the Institute for Social Marketing and Health at University of Stirling eepurl.com/iY89Sw

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Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Allegory alert!

Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Looking for a PhD opportunity? Check out these funded studentships at University of Stirling www.stir.ac.uk/research/res...

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Institute for Advanced Studies Studentships | Research | University of Stirling

Explore funded PhD opportunities at the University of Stirling.

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you are interested in research on Commercial Determinants of Health -sign up to the free newsletter from the Institute for Social Marketing and Health at University of Stirling eepurl.com/iY89Sw

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Testing of these tools is very welcome. Same needs be done for AI research assistants e.g elicit

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Tyler Burch @tylerjamesburch.com · 28/01/2025

@chelseaparlett.bsky.social I'm shocked partial pooling didn't make it into the meme

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Marion Campbell @marionkcampbell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

An issue that often comes up is how to set a “non-inferiority margin” in a non-inferiority trial and how to ensure it is appropriate 1/8 #MethodologyMonday #109

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is niche content & totally what I'm here for 😀

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Blue skies after yesterday's storm

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Catherine Best @cathbest.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is a great resource for anyone interested in trial design. So useful to have all these points pulled together in one place

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Caitlin Notley @addictionuea.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

High‐certainty evidence that incentive schemes conducted amongst pregnant people who smoke improve smoking cessation rates, both at the end of pregnancy and postpartum www.cochranelibrary.com/web/cochrane...

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Incentives for smoking cessation - Notley, C - 2025 | Cochrane Library

Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

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