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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

.@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social rejected my last two preprint submissions, arguing that they were not relevant to evolutionary biology (one was published in Theoretical Population Biology, the other is under R&R at Journal of Theoretical Biology). 🫠 So I'm back to submitting preprints to arXiv.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unspoken rule of academia: the moment you hit send to a paper submission, you can stop working and go home.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your sense of humor may differ from mine but I find this one of the most hilarious jokes I have seen in recent weeks

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not one word. Not one sentence. The whole paragraph was written by AI.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somebody converting from PDF to Word some document I have sent to them, and then sending back to me such Word document with comments, is one of the scariest things of my professional life.

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

…and interdisciplinary people are precisely those who can’t get jobs because “how could you possibly teach intro to X”

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What is Southern Europe? Three main lines divide the Europes into two parts: the tomato/potato line, the wine/beer line, the olive oil/butter line. If you are simultaneously on the tomato, wine, and olive oil sides of these lines, you are in Southern Europe. Otherwise, you are in Northern Europe.

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research

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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The number of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications in 2026 (21,627) has more than doubled since 2024 (10,360 proposals) and more than tripled since 2022 (7,044). Stating the obvious here but this is not sustainable.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can both love and hate art. You can both love and hate science. You can both love and hate AI.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

these people axed their writing center

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How do you fight the far right? By confronting the far right, by mocking the far right, by shaming the far right. How do you not fight the far right? By remaining silent and complacent.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Loving what is going on now with Canada and Ed Sheeran. 🍿

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026

Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

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Man Lying on a Pile of Money

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First they steal most of the Parthenon, then they have one of their mathematicians disprove the clever use of geometry of ancient Greek architects. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

theguardian.com

UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

French or the impossibility of communication without onomatopoeiae.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2026 mathematician grading student papers and doing admin paperwork while ChatGPT enjoys proving beautiful theorems:

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers. itsfoss.com/news/swi... 1/2

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Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Celsius: Set 0 °C as the freezing point of water and 100 °C as the boiling point of water. Fahrenheit: Set 0 °F as the freezing point of a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, and 90 °F as my best estimate of the average human body temperature. USA: The latter makes so much more sense.

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you into mathematical modelling of ecological and evolutionary systems? Look at this job ad for a senior lecturer in Lund. I've visited many times, splendid compact city, splendid department! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology

Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pissed because they took the name of a gulf? Pissed because they took the name of a lake? Don't make me laugh. They took the name of a whole continent long ago. Do you want to be consistent and fight? Stop calling that country "America".

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Publishers: Would you like to write a textbook? Me: Maybe. Will I get paid a lot? P: Not at all. M: Oh so it will be affordable for students? P: Also no. M: But at least I can easily make edits after release? P: Definitely not. ….

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Where the fuck are you? Where the fuck are you? Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?" System of a Down, always relevant. Where the fuck are you, voters? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.Y.O.B...

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B.Y.O.B. (song) - Wikipedia

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Do humans still genetate em dashes? Existence guaranteed.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No, not everything done with AI is great. No, not everything done with AI is slop.

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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This campaign needs you now

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Political leaders, take note. This is how you should speak. "While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon, and we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people."

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

First you're robbed (housebreaking), then you're interrogated by the police, then you're interrogated by your landlord, then you're interrogated by your insurance company, then you're interrogated by the expert hired by the insurance company. At this point you are only waiting to be sent to jail.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Many thanks to the Toronto Star for inadvertently showing us why we should all use the Oxford Comma. Apparently Sylvia had some, let's say, complicated hobbies:

Headline from the Toronto Star:

The latest historical fiction
books take inspiration from
Sylvia Plath, a New York
vigilante and Shah of Iran

We review ‘Daffodil Days,’ ‘Lady X,’ ‘Love Lane’ and
‘Mistress of the Persian Boarding House.

July 16,2026 at 12:45 p.m.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17/07/2026

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

a bee with its fuzzy little butt covered in pollen, hanging over a leaf all assed out, face not visible, just bee butt

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Zoe Purcell 🕵🏻‍♀️ @zoepurcell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How can we collectively contain the threat of dishonest delegation to AI? Our paper "Whistleblowers can contain the unethical externalities of human–AI delegation" is out in PNAS, with @nckobis.bsky.social , Andrew Samuel, and @jfbonnefon.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I had a paper accepted and learned that PNAS got rid of their free, “closed access” (preprint ok) option - they now charge at least $3K to publish because they are greedy little pigs who have no shame.

PNAS charges $5575 for immediate access at $3925 for delayed open access, because they are greedy pigs without shame.

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm sorry to agree with the Argentinian national football team but las Malvinas son argentinas.

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Julien Lie-Panis @jliep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵

Screenshot of article title page, "Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules"

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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Peer review is unpaid. Click "claim credit" for a review and that record enters a database owned by Clarivate, the company that also sells the impact factor. Your free labour becomes their inventory, and once anonymised, raw material for profit. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/who-owns-y...

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Who owns your peer review?

The reward for reviewing has quietly become an asset on someone else's balance sheet.

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