Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102142874700
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's weird to think about the fact that my last permanent position was as a barista over 12 years ago, where I was offered an assistant manager position at age 23. But in academia, I'm still an early career researcher living off temporary contracts like a vulture🤡😭 091
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's also difficult to imagine their journey out, with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and the 6 months that followed as refugees in Jordan. It's difficult to think of all the amenities, clothes, diapers, health check-ups etc I have for my son and how different things were for my parents. 0131
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My son is now the same age (4 months) I was when my parents fled Iraq in the middle of war. I can't imagine what they went through holding tiny me, as I look at my same size son, or comprehend how those first 4 months were in Baghdad in the midst of the worst bombing. 1222
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New paper🗞️ How does the pace of brain development relate to mental health? Using brain scans and symptom data from youth in the ABCD Study, we found that youth whose brains increasingly drifted from the typical path for their age also showed rising anxiety, low mood, and behavioural difficulties.nature.comSynchrony between brain age and internalising and externalising symptoms across adolescence - Communications BiologySelf-supervised neural networks are directly compared to category-selective visual cortex using a functional localizer approach, indicating that model features exhibit many classic effects of high-lev... 0104
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDFared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this. 5629461402
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You can't be apolitical and neutral by calling the Holocaust, South African Apartheid, Slavery, or Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, just 'conflicts'. 140
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDJamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More U.S. kids live in net worth poverty than income poverty, and almost no one studies it. Our new paper argues wealth deprivation shapes children's development in its own right, and that standard wealth measures miss the debts poorer families carry. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan... 12614
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Published 📃 In this paper, we investigated whether cardiometabolic health is associated with brain structure and microstructure development in 10-17-year-old youth from the ABCD Study.onlinelibrary.wiley.comCardiometabolic Risk and Structural Brain Development in a Large Community‐Based US CohortIn a large longitudinal cohort of US youth, cardiometabolic risk factors showed predominantly null associations with global brain structure across adolescence. Aside from modest links between higher ... 072
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Iraq. But every game going forward will be Norway 👀 110
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 17/06/2026hehe first half felt like a family reunion, second half felt like one side of the family stabbed me in the heart. 110
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n 2719231090
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I can't believe I became a father and Arsenal won the league in the same week. 490
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My first born son is due in 4 days and all I can think about is Arsenal. 060
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDAlexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 13/05/2026New publication in DCN, co-led with Natasha Chaku! 🧠Combining our expertise in brain and pubertal development, we sought to clarify how adversity shapes timing and pace of adolescent development across multiple levels of analysis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comTiming and tempo of puberty and neurodevelopment following adversity: A registered reportStress exposure may influence the pace of pubertal and brain development; however, empirical findings are mixed, with evidence for both acceleration a… 11815
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDValerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026❗New Preprint! “Within-person prospective associations between youth psychopathology and white matter development and the moderating role of parental mental health” doi.org/10.31234/osf... A summary can be found here: 174
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Yesterday I used my new smash burger press on the new grill griddle this is now one of 3 things in life that make me happy. 030
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDAlexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Deadline extended to May 1! 032
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 17/04/2026please suggest me as your next reviewer, I will gladly pay it forward 😀 020
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Absolutely butchering my manuscript in order to appease my reviewers. It's like playing jenga, but in addition to removing vital structural integrity, you add completely random shit like a cactus here, a dildo there, some hippo turd on the side, and sprinkle it all with dead bees. ta-da, science. 1182
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDMark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026“Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise. Once characterised by their winding streets lined with stone buildings overlooking sweeping valleys, verified videos now show how they have turned grey from dust and debris of explosions.”bbc.comSatellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyedBBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March. 58574
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDDr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026🌟 NEW PRE-PRINT! 🌟 “It seems that everyone has got something”: A qualitative study of adolescents’ attitudes towards self-diagnosing with mental health problems from me and @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... 73912
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun, on the massive wave of Israeli strikes across Lebanon: “These barbaric attacks, which neither recognize right nor respect any agreements or commitments, have repeatedly demonstrated their contempt for all international laws and norms” 01912
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDOmar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Today, Israel is collapsing apartment buildings all over Lebanon, including central Beirut, leaving an untold death toll. This mass terrorism is either an attempt to sabotaging Trump's ceasefire, or a final tantrum of a strategically defeated Israel eager to manufacture a mere image of victory. 05726
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDLina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming 2524551393
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The threat alone is a violation of international law. 060
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you 4370521743
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026media.tenor.coma movie poster for the mad-king shows a pile of gold coinsALT: a movie poster for the mad-king shows a pile of gold coins 010
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Incredible to think that all of humanity is in this picture, and on that little blue planet, only a few handful of world leaders and billionaires are ruining everything for everyone. 0101
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Damn, first we find out Jesus was whitewashed and now the moon 060
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Received an invitation to review a paper on the 1st April at 21:54 Oslo time, which expired after 4 days with no response. In Norway, 2nd April - 6th are mandatory days off because of Jesus Christ superstar rising from the dead. Not sure I had a fair chance to respond here! 180
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I'm sorry I don't make the rules, when you view someone's LinkedIn profile it means you want them. 030
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDJombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 19/03/2026"achievement produced under chronic disadvantage" Exactly. You don't have to punish people for having a great educational advantage etc, but a wider lens than what's immediately in front of you is essential and valid. 042
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDEge @iolairdhubhalba.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Superb post! I fully resonate with this although my experience has had differences but plenty of common points. #UK #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky 052
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I feel you, a difficult path to recommend. And thank you :) 020
Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit. @academic-chatter.bsky.socialmedium.comWhat committees miss when they judge meritDiversity and equity policies are often dismissed as a numbers game: too many white men at the top, so institutions try to balance the… 21611
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it. 5403157
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Oh my god. This is my ex wife’s sister. She was nominated for a Nobel Prize a few years ago for her work. I’m absolutely crushed. She was a spectacular human. 53541208
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 13/03/2026From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home. 101654644
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDMoudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it. 191462583
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDMatt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026God-awful fucking amoral, flat-out racist decision. Appalling. 071
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDWIRED @wired.com · 09/03/2026Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.wired.comBluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping DownVenture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement. 162864398
Reposted by Dani Beck, PhDDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/03/2026it scares me to think that big tech/big AI's primary target demographic is kids 591005190