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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

2nd the rec for “We.” Really thoughtful dystopia.

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚪 Tried to blow the hinges off @icamobile.bsky.social's Scholar in the Spotlight! Thanks @klingelhoefer.bsky.social for the baton ;) www.icamobile.org/scholar-in-t...

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Scholar in the Spotlight | Morgan Q R | ICA Mobile

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Pol Comm Tech Lab @polcommtech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 New Episode Alert! 🎙️ In the latest episode of Wonks and War Rooms Elizabeth Dubois chats with Christelle Tessono (@christelle.bsky.social) to unpack what AI governance really means. www.polcommtech.com/post/season-...

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LA has The Illiad Bookshop and The Huntington, what more could one want?

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The person who designed that symbol would be very happy to know their work was chosen by someone purely for its artistry.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I got caught with an unauthorized toaster oven in my undergrad dorm. The punishment was writing an essay about fire safety.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It makes me glad that my work is not interesting to bots 😆

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Each Russian aggression is horrifying. Each casualty one too many. As a scholar, this cowardly act against the Academy of Science is impactful. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Russian strike on Kyiv’s science academy kills at least one in latest daytime attack

Three others wounded as jet-powered drones increasingly target Ukraine’s capital, with medical centre also hit

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the things that shocked me most in my study of campus sexual violence is that so many of the cases were just like this. The evidence was full of confessions. The perpetrators didn’t deny their violence. They just argued they should be allowed to do it and the school agreed.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can we collectively agree not to contribute to or edit volumes for publishers who outsource their copyediting? Especially if an AI is involved?

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Magnificent film. That long single shot through the battle with the baby at the end is spellbinding.

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of our current solutions (and we’re not the only lab to be doing this) is to run a parallel in-person data collection with the ambition of having human ground-truth data against which we can train a classifier. With rapid advances in LLMs, I’m unsure how successful we’ll be in this arms race

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I streamed and loved it after hearing similarly enthusiastic recommendations from your colleagues Walton and Palmer. I wonder how much of the sff community is a fan?

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The scholars who dump their slop onto editors, do they know they are slowly destroying their chances at having a good reputation in their field?

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 19/09/2026

Of all the ways I imagined Google Scholar going up in flames, being made inaccessible from university IP addresses due to AI-driven scraping wasn't at the top of my list.

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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/09/2026

shoutout to my husband who still chose to be in love with me even after he watched me yell at an entire CVS, "Don't use self-checkout! It's trying to steal your job!"

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would put in a word for famous but only among a specific kind of nerd.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I visited for the first time last Spring, it’s awesome-inspiring to stand in there. The whole capitol building is gorgeous and carefully restored.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You have the prettiest campus in America, it’s your duty to spam us with photos.

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Latest university guidance on phishing emails

A fictitious page from the real book Catch-22. Test says:

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that an email from a suspicious account was not to be opened because it might be a phishing attack. But phishing attacks were often sent from legitimate accounts that had been compromised, so an email from a legitimate account could not be opened either, because it might be a phishing attack. Faculty would be crazy to open emails from suspicious accounts and sane if they didn’t, but if they were sane, they would have to avoid suspicious emails. If they avoided them, they might miss a legitimate message; but if they opened them, they might be phished. And if they received an email from someone they knew, they couldn’t safely open that either, because their account might have been compromised.

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do not want a Briefing or a summary Please just go away - a Haiku about AI

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

P.S. I talk to a librarian almost every day, I married one 😃

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Many sketch journals disappear and I certainly don’t trust them, but the big publishers, for all their greed, are in it for the long haul. I would prefer other models, but relying on donation-driven nonprofits isn’t a long-term solution either. I remember when OSF was the forever solution…

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I get where you're coming from, but "proper" is doing a lot of work there. Repositories are of uncertain long-term stability relative to a publishing house which will work hard to keep all of its property in perpetuity. We are also asking non-profits to foot the bill for permanent repository storage

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My paper with Ted Avtgis on identifying school opinion leaders for peer-based interventions has just been published in Communication Research Reports. We offer a 3-item measure for identifying adolescent student leaders. Free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QEXBF...

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Identifying school superdiffusers: preliminary evidence for the validity of the adolescent superdiffuser measures (ASM)

We propose that the superdiffuser model offers a good structure for identifying students who are connected, persuasive, and a maven on school topics to promote school-based interventions. We conduc...

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think we should each pick our own favorite emoji and put that at the beginning of pub announcements. 🧦🦭🍙🧃⛲️💾🕰️⚜️

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“CLEAR!” *click* *fsssh* *glug glug*

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Deeply disturbing. I generally support posting datasets but researchers need to do better about anonymity. Some of these cases would warrant an IRB investigation.

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s really that simple

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don’t see anything about “exemptions apply” in the open data requirement on this official policy and I find that deeply troubling. Saying it on BlueSky isn’t saying it there.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I suspect they are targeting old books either out of copyright because of age or because no one renewed it.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you ever needed the encouragement to keep weathering the shit storm, here it is www.jezebel.com/stay-alive-f...

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seriously y'all can we just quit with the robot-writing? As a journal editor, you're taking *so much of the joy* out of reading human science. You've smoothed it out into a series of banal and often inaccurate claims. So rarely do I read a paper with AI content that is very good, in any event. =/

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do you argue about whether a particular cloud is an altostratus or an altocumulus?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Analyzing 1.7 million social media posts, a series of controlled experiments, and a large global survey covering 40 countries (total N = 49,222), we find that extreme opinions are overrepresented on social media by 6-22% compared to their true prevalence in our samples. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BRILLIANT words

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 19/08/2026

Send this to a young adult who looks at their phone while walking on campus.

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Increasingly convinced that the enduring popularity of books is that they're the one medium left that you buy and then own forever; can loan out, pass on, or sell; and which never become obsolete.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

LeGuin was a genius ❤️ Sci-fi writers in the 60s couldn’t even imagine people not smoking cigarettes everywhere

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