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LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

First two free book packages are packed and heading to Edmonton Public School Grade 1 classrooms this Monday. Know a Grade 1 teacher in YEG? Share this or tag them below. If they’d like a free set of books, send me a message and I’ll get them sorted.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026

anw sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-the-h... > In these venues he has repeatedly advanced claims about the supposed cognitive inferiority of Black people , along with broader arguments about the “feminization” of academia and suggestions that eugenic ideas deserve renewed scientific consideration.

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Stop the hiring of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

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Michael Goldstein @mikehgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Timing matters for learning. However, contingency has long been associated with a narrow view of how learning works. In this special issue, we freed contingency of its Skinnerian roots to examine its role in prediction and social learning across species and timescales. The issue is open access!

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What does it mean for us being human when a massacre does not stop you in your tracks? In this essay I examine the various ways in which scholars have tried to imagine the undoing of the endless night of the Zong, the undoing of a world we cannot live within. folukeafrica.com/what-you-do-...

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What you do after you hear about the Zong massacre and why it still matters

What does it mean for us being human when a massacre does not stop you in your tracks?

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Autism is not overdiagnosed.📜 Self-identifying vs diagnosed autistic adults tended to have similar autistic traits & understanding of autism but *higher* unmet needs, unemployment, & distress. They mostly wanted a diagnosis but barriers eg costs, lack of support. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Mark Rutte best illustrates what neoliberalism and extreme right authoritarianism have in common: a strong disdain for the rule of law, int. law and human rights; the deeply held conviction that, ultimately, might is right; and the presupposition that 'freedom' merely belongs to white, wealthy men.

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

[...] One may therefore begin to ask:“Do we want [assassination] to become a permanent capability available in principle to any of the 192 [now 195] sovereign states in the world that think of themselves as having particular persons as enemies?”

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Whether the targets of recent assassinations “deserved” their fate is, however, less important than the implication of a shift from legality to morality for the international order. While legal arguments can be rebutted, moral claims about worthiness are less susceptible to meaningful contestation.

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Is the International Norm Against Assassination Dead?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

this!!!

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Its fundamentally "American," isn't it, since red or brown people (depending on how one racializes our ancestors) were genocided to make way for a white Christian nation state? My goodness, people, get another guiding story because this one is clearly a lie.

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Terrifying times for our Latin American region. Once again terrorized, usurped and stolen. Our greatest misfortune is the absolute useless nation that neighbors us. Fuera Yankee ✊🏽

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Coming up soon (9 am today) an opportunity to hear this classic episode of In Our Time on Bird Migration featuring Tim Guilford of @biology.ox.ac.uk www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Bird Migration

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

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Pi @therationalpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Goose chasing man meme.
First panel: Voice off frame says "Antifa has been around since Weimar Germany."
Goose says "Who were they fighting?"
Second panel: Goose chases after man shouting "Who was Antifa fighting in Weimar Germany?"

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

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Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

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Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

R.I.P. Assata Shakur 🙏🏽❤️✊🏽

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

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Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie

Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

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Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

You probably missed it - the US govt just added FOUR new groups to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. For decades, there have been about 2 new FTOs per year. This year, the Trump admin has added 18 (EIGHTEEN) new FTOs. Can CT practitioners really pursue so many groups? Is this only talk?

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Since you mentioned it in one of your blogs, I have tried to find a way to read that book. Finally found a relatively affordable used exemplar. Looking forward to reading it.

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A good time to read this book again... And I never fail to just get absolutely enraged by every single paragraph. 🤬 Some things I am even left in absolute disbelief. Like how? How?!

Cover of a book called 'Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism'

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 18/09/2025

I'm so excited to finally be able to share these animations! Here's the @thrivingautistic.bsky.social page about them, along with the companion blogs (two of which I wrote myself). Please share them widely, if you like them. 😊 www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...

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Educational Animation Videos about Autistic Experiences

Our two new neuro-affirming educational animation videos celebrate Autistic experiences and perspectives.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

NYT GUEST ESSAY
Barnard President: Now Is the lime for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"The ongoing project Radical Climate Action Bird explores how communication between humans and animals can have political impact. At its core is the song of native songbirds." www.cityofmediaarts.de/en/werke/rad...

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Radical Climate Action Bird, 2025 - Karlsruhe UNESCO city of media arts

The ongoing project Radical Climate Action Bird explores how communication between humans and animals can have political impact. At its core is the song of

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It is interesting to see the self-proclaimed 'Land of the free, the beacon of democracy' nation succumbing to authoritarianism with so little resistance from its citizens. It reveals its extremely faulty democratic structures and how little power/influence its normal citizens actually ever had.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/09/2025

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/07/2025

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

title and abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 1 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The Netherlands is the largest EU investor in Israel, accounting for two-thirds of all EU investments. It’s also Israel’s top global investment partner, receiving 6x more Israeli capital than the US. www.somo.nl/economic-san...

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Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor - SOMO

SOMO’s analysis of trade and foreign investment into and from Israel reveals how deeply intertwined the European and Israeli economies are.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Although some researchers manage to perfectly adhere to preregistrations, it is common to need to deviate. Not all deviations are consequential, but some are, and it is important to evaluate the impact of deviations on the severity of a test. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We live in an age of spectacular fascism. Not only do they build concentration camps, but they are actually showing off with them. The camp embodies a political paradigm in which law is unapologetically instrumentalized for political purposes - thus conveying that in this new order, might is right.

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

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Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition

Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

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Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca RTs appreciated 💫

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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

In this new preprint, in review @elife.bsky.social, we show what processing steps make up the reaction time using single trial #EEG modelling in a contrast #decision task. In this 🧵 I'm telling the story behind it as I think it is quite interesting and I can't write it like this in the paper...

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Volatility-driven learning in human infants

Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 24/06/2025

#Spain, the only large EU member state with a centre-left government, has recently been in the headlines for rejecting the increased NATO spending target. But it also stands out for its liberal migration policy (much to the benefit of its economy) - and for increasing its development aid spending.

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Seyma Nur Ertekin @seymaertekin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Do kids show adult-like working memory patterns? 🧠 We analyzed nearly 1M observations from 9K+ Dutch students in a real-world adaptive learning platform. ✅ Benchmark effects in children 📊 Bayesian modeling + big adaptive data = new insights ⬇️ Authors & links #WorkingMemory #DevPsych

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

NATO uses the language of human rights & collective security to conceal the underlying motivations for its birth and current existence. It would be worthwhile to set aside this rhetoric and look at the actual record of this military –not human rights– alliance thetricontinental.org/dossier-nato...

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NATO: The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat ...

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Jess Ramos-Sanchez @jessramos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

While the treaty contained a detailed regime regarding non-proliferation by states that didn't have nuclear weapons, it lacked clear details/timeframe for countries to implement disarmament, who show no sign of fulfilling that obligation after more than half a century www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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The 'unsustainable' reason behind who can have nuclear weapons, and who can’t

Israel has said its attack on Iran on Friday was partially aimed at destroying its nuclear infrastructure. But it's far from the only country to have developed its capacity in recent years.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Speaking of waving nation state flags, i wrote this in March: "Less and less do I understand great numbers of individuals needing to identify the power of our collective human and nonhuman capacities to sustain one another with jingoistic and garishly-coloured settler state flags."

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I won't wave your national flag, but I will stand with you

Written in Ottawa, Ontario and Santa Cruz, California

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Probably a bad idea to put emotionally fragile men in charge of society’s violence workers

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