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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 1h

Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt

Oblique Strategy of the Day… Into the impossible

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5h

Fall of 1987 I filled out a single, double-sided sheet of paper to apply to the University of Illinois.

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Dr. Gary Ackerman @garyackermanphd.bsky.social · 8h

When no data can prove you wrong, it’s time to stop calling yourself “data-driven.”

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Education should be about exploration,” the letter reads. “We want to go to school to connect with people, discover things, and learn....We can’t now, because of the rigidity of the new lesson plans and rules makes it almost impossible to explore new ideas...”

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Hundreds of Fort Worth ISD students sign petition against scripted lessons

A student-written petition has been signed by more than 900 Fort Worth ISD students as of Tuesday morning.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 14h

Isn’t is obvious that, posthaste, we need to rename all schools, colleges and universities “brain gyms”?

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course.”

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i'm not scared

painting of a quokka holding vhs tapes of horror movies while a skull is on fire on the tube TV screen, there's a capybara looking at the screen, a possum desperately scared and a hen with several chicks scattered around

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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature. Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 06/10/2026

Oh cool, there's a whole school named after Rosalind Franklin!

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Grateful to the team at @studiosity.com for inviting me on their podcast with Judyth Sachs to talk about why I think human writing matters. Here's something I said that I think gets at what humans can do that chatbots can't --and why teachers and writing centers matter more than ever.

And this thing is that often what really will sort of light the fire under a student is when you help them figure out not how to do something with what's ont he page, but how to find the thing that's not yet on the page. That's what we're doing.

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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

corporate-speak grates so much because language is supposed to be expressive, a way for us to communicate information, whereas the sole purpose of corporate-speak is to create the illusion of information without the substance or to outright conceal meaning. it is an abomination

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy birthday! And I love this for you! 🥳

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/10/2026

Toddler Scientists Finally Determine Number Of Peas That Fit Into Ear Canal theonion.com/toddler-scientists-fin…

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A consistently pernicious framing of student experience is that they are not in the “real world” yet, as if the debt they’re accruing and incessant punitive surveillance of their labor and speech isn’t entirely of a piece with the broader cultural moment.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Statistical power has been lionized in metascience. First, you care about statistical power only bec your whole scientific vision relies on the results of a hypothesis test. Get over it. Second, power can never make up for poor design, lack of theoretical understanding, or biased samples/measures.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions?

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The push for abstraction, datafication, that there's some pure truth that's unpolluted by reality, it just seems like willful ignorance at this point. The idea that you're going to abstract out everything that doesn't lead to a model that confirms what you want to be true about the world.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel like we need to create like a rapid-response series of rebuttals for each episode that comes out. Like: hey, here's what you actually need to know about this from people, you know, who actually know

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Indeed—you can make any change you want and then renormalize the scores. That provides no information at all.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3 cheers for nature’s surprises!

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Rachel Burdin @rsburdin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting ready for Phonetics tomorrow by finally making a lung model! Instructions here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/t4-media/...

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And of course they ignore how every single capacity to act a computer has is carefully arranged BY US

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

High five. 🙌 bsky.app/profile/llml...

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've found recently that repeating "Efficiency isn't one of my values" as a kind of affirmation has been really freeing.

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If we had more people like your grandfather, we’d be okay. Sounds like a lovely guy. Being curious like that is a great way to be.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My grandfather didnt get to high school, but in retirement he loved to read and learn. He would always say he was so slow to learn. But he was endlessly curious and eager for knowledge. He would have loved college

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The answer is yes, no matter the question. Should you have it? Yes. How much should you have? Yes. Which should you have? Yes. To all of it.

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heterogenous points of view in your company provide more ways to do things, plus odds are, they’re providing a new way to approach problems because those voices haven’t had access prior to DEI. And it increases your customer base. Who thought there would be financial benefits to eliminating that?

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Oblique Strategies @obliquestrategies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Courage!

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The “initial consensus” is hopefully still the consensus, because I’ve seen no reason why it should have changed.

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s helping know what to focus on with anatomy because gadzooks 😱

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is living a risk factor for dying???

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you! I realized I’m bringing multiple disciplines & also life experience to the topic, but it’s a different way of approaching it than I’m used to, so it seems to be that sweet spot for learning more.

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will apparently be doing a thesis based on slow science principles. Which is cool, if I do say so myself. 🧐

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

US is 1 November, I think. But I’m not sure! 😂

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Australia & where else? I can’t keep this stuff straight!

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Anjiolina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When you study the brain expecting machine logic, you'll always find it flawed. When you study AI expecting human depth, you'll always find it empty. That gap between what we want them to be and what they actually are is where we get lost. The whole conversation is set up to mislead you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thought that was nice. It’s like Open Access nowadays, where it’s actually collegial & not scraping or whatever.

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Emile Duchenne to Charles Darwin, 1871: “Vous comprenez donc, Monsieur, qu’entre hommes de science là question d’argent ne saurait exister. Choisissez, dans mon album, toutes les figures qui vous conviendront.”

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I believe there exists… an instinct for truth … & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.” —Charles Darwin, 1848

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OHHHHHH 🥹 That’s so sweet! 😭

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Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is hard to watch with my peers & lecturers as someone who went back to school after working for a very long time. It’s under the surface of everything. For folks where it’s about housing & food & chasing funding & fewer & fewer positions for addressing things that matter, we all lose out.

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