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Ivmaruva @ivmaruva.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day! For mothers day I kept thinking about Measure of a Man Hermione, and how she loved Scorpius way before she loved Draco. Even if Scorpius is not biologically hers, she Mum-ed that baby SO HARD, right when he needed her the most. ❤️‍🩹 Fic: Measure of a Man by @inadaze22.bsky.social

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/05/2025

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

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It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.”

(Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Haaaaaaaaaawt 😍 but like.... fluffy hot ❤️🔥 And LOVED the playing with fire scene - totally worth the wait!

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Christiane Amanpour is ALL OF US right now.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

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Other disciplines that have experienced male flight include:

Biology. While most STEM professions remain male dominated, 10 years ago biology became a 50/50 male/female split. By 2022, 62% of biology majors were women. Biology is now often considered the “easiest” of the STEM majors.

Interior Design. William Morris is considered the father of interior design. After finishing his education at Oxford, he began an architectural design school called “the Firm”— just for men. Many universities had interior design programs. Until women began to enter the design space, at which point it was relegated to a mere “hobby.” Since the influx of women, interior design programs have been pulled from almost all universities.

Teaching. In the 18th century, schooling in colonial America was reserved for the white and the wealthy. Most tutors were men who taught boys. By the middle of the 19th century, girls started becoming students and women became teachers. Consequently, men swiftly left the profession, the pay dropped and teaching was no longer considered a prestigious occupation.

Similar patterns of male flight have occurred in nursing, cheerleading, social work, architecture, gymnastics, library sciences and psychology.

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Taylor x Kam FOREVER 💖😭💖

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Long Live x New Year's Day I am crying ALL THE TEARS 😭😭😭 Truly the end of an ERA

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Forever in my REPUTATION ERA 🐍🐍🐍

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Kaaaaaam. FOR THE LAST TIME, NO!

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And so, we have had our last Cruel Summer 🥲🥲🥲

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm so grateful, cause it means Tay starts about 6am my time instead of like 2am 😅

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Can't believe we started this 💙sky journey more than a year ago. So happy to see everyone finding their way back 🫂

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Hummingbird @hummingbirdff.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

After agonising for nearly a week about an acceptable first post, I'm finally ignoring my anxiety and saying.... HI!

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