Reposted by Liz RennerLukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 14hAddiction has become the default framework for interpreting problematic social media use. It shapes how it is measured, discussed, regulated, and what support young people are offered. But does it match the experiences of young people who report feeling addicted to social media? 🧵(1/7) 34720
Reposted by Liz RennerTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2hThe best advice for grad students is to have them picture an enormous fire. Their work is on fire. The buildings are on fire. The fire has consumed all and its flames reach into space and consume even the cold and silent moon. Also don’t enter your original work into a chatbot. 0379
Reposted by Liz Rennerhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 21hwill you people shut the fuck up 2526118597
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 14hYes I agree with you (& of course there's lots of evidence about spaced practice etc.). Hoping your students find value in it! I'd be interested to hear how it went at the end of the semester. 010
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 14hGood luck with your semester! This is definitely food for thought, and I'll try to find folks in other disciplines who do it. (some ppl in my department are concerned about 'overassessment' which I cannot believe is a word that is used in the 21st century) 110
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 15hI would love to know more about how you do weekly quizzes in the UK context 110
Reposted by Liz RennerSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17hthey’re having to sell inevitability a little too hard 2829
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026kinda wondering if we're gonna get a menswear take on this 030
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And to think, just a few months ago we were saying "not now, hantavirus cruise ship" life moves fast 010
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026250 locally acquired cases of dengue in Florida. (!!) This is a disease you don't mess around with. Dehydration is a big risk (among other symptoms), especially for the young and old. Dengue mosquitoes tend to be day biters, & you may not notice them hanging out under tables & similar places 020
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Let me highlight this bit again: "Scientists cannot passively trust this industry." 010
Reposted by Liz RennerJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/20263. Taken together — scientists rely on AI to generate work faster and the AI companies steal their work — this actually looks worse than the widespread theft of art and literature that has powered these models, as companies cultivate use to them steal for their own development. 13810
Reposted by Liz RennerClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥 420082
Reposted by Liz RennerEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH 1233
Reposted by Liz RennerMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI. 520777
Reposted by Liz RennerRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My priors about chimp anti-sociality confirmed: They stole from "friends" 61% of trials, from non-friends 70% of trials. Continues to be one of the biggest puzzles about human evolution, which mechanisms and evolutionary history make humans qualitatively more cooperative than other apes. 710821
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm prepping for lecture tomorrow (scold if you will but I have a good excuse), so instead of watching a bedtime episode of TV, I'm re-watching last year's lecture. Maybe I can pretend it's a really low-budget Netflix special 010
Reposted by Liz RennerChaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026pouring one out for mturk today 210513
Reposted by Liz Rennerlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tragic epic poem about a postdoc who finally gets tenure only to find that to get there they turned themselves into exactly the sort of clout chasing professionalised neurotic who couldn't possibly actually enjoy the freedom it offers. 1523422
Reposted by Liz RennerNoah Haber @whaleactually.com · 08/09/2026... and that's where Registered Revisions comes in The Registered Revisions Meta Trial Pilot Report is OUT NOW!! osf.io/preprints/me... But new(ish) policy involves developing a new(ish) multi-headed trial design, workflows, infrastructure, piloting, mistakes, and a super team. And it's all here. 22117
Reposted by Liz RennerBrendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am part of a team guest editing a special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on "Digitization and use of legacy datasets in primatology” and we are seeking out submissions due on 1 September 2027. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 13832
Reposted by Liz RennerIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14680661981
Reposted by Liz RennerUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning. 17842
Reposted by Liz RennerUCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves. 36662
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But this has inspired me to get some cough drops for them. I can at least do that 110
Reposted by Liz RennerHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03676775
Reposted by Liz RennerNew England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Silky sifakas (Propithecus candidus) are native to a very restricted range in northeastern Madagascar. One of the rarest and most threatened sifaka species. Females mate only one day a year, in late Dec or early Jan. Threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting. Critically Endangered. 0105
Reposted by Liz RennerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81167550
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jeez! In another one, "the life stages" is replaced with "a life sentence". 🤦 Transcription usually does well with my American accent, but I think the freshers flu coughing must've really messed with it last year 020
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wish I could do this! I'm the 4th hour of a 4-hour block (4 different 1-hour sessions) at 2pm... but the class is 420 students 😬 120
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just reviewing my intro to developmental psych lecture from last year and realising that the captioning needs some work ("the end of life" or "the end of life period" is rendered as "the end of the world") although it is reflecting the current mood, so 130
Reposted by Liz RennerMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.researchprofessionalnews.comTo save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional NewsUntil debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn 22515
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's so weird to wake up and experience anger again. haven't felt like this in a long time. Gonna wake up with angry energy every day this week! 010
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ot but: in 3 years I have never had a student come to office hours ☹️ I wish they would but it seems to have gone out of style (though I teach at a large university so maybe that's part of it) 220
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026in the UK they have cranked this up to 11: drop-off and pick-up fees, mandatory post-security walk through duty-free, gate announcements coincide with the start of boarding. 000
Reposted by Liz RennerRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The plot to enslave America entails destroying every university except for the business school 112234
Reposted by Liz RennerMichael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m beginning to think that all of our brilliant research minds putting all of their unpublished work into the giant knowledge–stealing machine are maybe not quite as bright as we give them credit for being 1336
Reposted by Liz RennerUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026Our members at Edinburgh University commence a 5 week strike today over crippling job cuts. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning. 37145
Reposted by Liz RennerElodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New paper on sheep vocal expression of emotions & sociability with A. Villain. Using a genetic line selected for reaction to social separation, we found that vocal expression of sociability prevails over emotions. Thanks to A. Boissy for the collaboration and @carlsbergfondet.dk for funding!royalsocietypublishing.orgVocal encoding of heritable sociability prevails over emotions in sheep bleatsAbstract. Vocalizations of animals are good indicators of their emotions. Temperament is known to influence the regulation and expression of emotions. Howe 096