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Martin Brümmer @derbruemmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We git push —force-with-lease’d these tiny feet into the GitLab socks. Actual deployment is still a few sprints ahead, but staging looks very promising.

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Lyna @blooym.dev · 17/08/2026

GitHub should stop using a unicorn for the error page because unicorns are supposed to be rare, mythical creatures and not show up every other minute

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/06/2026

Guys, guys!!! I think I have figured out a solution. I call it "German AC"!

Illustration of Maxwell's demon from Wikipedia
By User:Htkym - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1625737

Labels have been added: Maxwell's demon is German AC, one gas chamber is inside, the other one outside.
The second panel says: The German AC only lets fast (= hot) molecules pass outside, thus lowering room temperature without creating surplus heat.

Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment to ostensibly disprove the second law of thermo dynamics. From wikipedia:
In the thought experiment, a demon controls a door between two chambers containing gas. As individual gas molecules (or atoms) approach the door, the demon quickly opens and closes the door to allow only fast-moving molecules to pass through in one direction, and only slow-moving molecules to pass through in the other. Because the kinetic temperature of a gas depends on the velocities of its constituent molecules, the demon's actions cause one chamber to warm up and the other to cool down. This would decrease the total entropy of the system, seemingly without applying any work, thereby violating the second law of thermodynamics.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 03/06/2026

Wake up babe, new Rohrer just dropped! Happy to welcome little Emmy ✨

Smol baby with pink stripped hat under Shippo Tsunagi patterned baby blanket gets a kiss from mother

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2026

Just received some swag from my husband’s employer! I’ll have to git push --force that baby out before we can put it to use tho

Thin baby blanket with GitLab branding that says “One good nap, one issue closed”

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 03/05/2026

I apparently missed the release of the 42 episode on siblings for which I was interviewed, in case you missed it as well: You can now watch me sort apples, oranges and pears on television.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/04/2026

I just learned that my husbands lets the 3yo decide what to buy, and the 3yo has an interesting taste.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 15/04/2026

I gave a TED talk today!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17/02/2026

Apparently there is a survey showing that a substantial number of US Americans mistakenly believe that Noah of Noah's Ark was married to Joan of Arc. What those who are gloating are missing is that this version of history would be quite sick.

Fake AI-generated Baroque Painting "The Arrival of Joan & Noah" with Joan D'arc arriving on the shores riding an elephant, her husband Noah on a Zebra beside her, followed by an army on animals.

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Zeta Of 1 @zetaof1.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Using IaC we have automated the entire loneliness lifecycle and are able to provide loneliness at scale by rapidly deploying one ec2 instance per user that is in its own VPC with no external communication, subscriptions start at 49.99€

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 15/01/2026

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" plotted over time

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 07/01/2026

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

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The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine

The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/12/2025

Great article about fertility in South Korea. That motherhood penalty 😳 worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is...

Graph comparing motherhood penalties in Sweden, the United States and south korea

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan! There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 26/11/2025

Imagine you lived in the 18th century. Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine? In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!

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The history of vaccines

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/10/2025

The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...

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CIIG Seminar: Julia Rohrer | Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream | 20 Oct 2025

YouTube video by the Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG)

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This has now been published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... The original authors also posted a reply: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Quick thread on some additional thoughts and then I'm probably done talking about this one 🧵

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Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant | PNAS

Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/08/2025

Turned out that he was right insofar simply not using GitHub Actions easily fixed the problem.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/08/2025

Just finished "The Collapse" about the precise events that led up to the opening of the Berlin Wall -- struggle within the Soviet Bloc and demonstrations in Saxony (most prominently Leipzig), bureaucratic miscommunication, and the chaotic and improbable events in the night itself.>

Cover of "The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall" by Mary Elise Sarotte. Cover shows a person peering through a crack in a wall covered in graffiti

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/07/2025

1. Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia diagnosed a baby with a life-threatening genetic disease within days of birth, and spent 6 months designing & testing a personalized gene therapy to fix his deficiency. He could reduce medications, gain weight and move up on the growth chart

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Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM

Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality ...

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Why it's okay to use ChatGPT, in 4 graphs

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Dr. Primestein @drprimestein.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It took more than a decade of arguing over p-values and replicability -- but it's inspiring to see that meta-science in psychology is finally tackling important questions.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 02/01/2025

Thrilled to announce that I’m starting 2025 with a new editorial role—excited to serve as a Senior Editor at Psychological Science!

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a man with a mustache and a blue jacket is holding a glass of wine .

Alt: a man with a mustache and a blue jacket is throwing confetti

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 18/12/2024

New post on The 100% CI! We unravel a series of mysterious research misconduct cases that can be traced back to a single villain striking from the shadow: Rogue RA www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...

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The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA

The 100% CI unravels serial cases of mysterious research misconduct that can be traced back to a single villain striking from the shadows: Rogue RA

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 07/12/2023

Pandemics have killed millions of people throughout history. How many deaths were caused by major pandemics, and how have researchers estimated their death tolls? New article by me! ourworldindata.org/historical-p...

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