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Liz Renner

@lrrenner.bsky.social
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Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci

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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 14h
Addiction 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)
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2h
The 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.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 21h
will you people shut the fuck up
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 14h
Yes 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.
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 14h
Good 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)
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 15h
I would love to know more about how you do weekly quizzes in the UK context
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17h
they’re having to sell inevitability a little too hard
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
kinda wondering if we're gonna get a menswear take on this
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And to think, just a few months ago we were saying "not now, hantavirus cruise ship" life moves fast
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
250 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
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
what!
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤭
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let me highlight this bit again: "Scientists cannot passively trust this industry."
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
3. 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.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
oooh The Onion.... getting me right where it hurts
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities 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.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My 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.
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'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
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
pouring one out for mturk today
“Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026.”
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tragic 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.
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Noah 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.
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this dream has layers
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I 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...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Our 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.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 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.
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But this has inspired me to get some cough drops for them. I can at least do that
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you 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
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Silky 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.
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I shall nickname it Odorf
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would watch the hell out of that
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’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:
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jeez! 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
A screengrab from a lecture capture.

The slide says "Key concepts in Developmental Psychology"

The transcript says "The first thing we're going to do is talk about a life sentence."
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wish 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 😬
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just 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
Screengrab of a lecture recording.

The slide says "What is developmental psychology?

Developmental psychology covers all aspects of human development across the lifespan, from infancy through adulthood."

The caption says "adolescence, adulthood and going to live adulthood and the end of the world."
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Margot 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.
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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News
Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it'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!
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we need Lloyd Morgan's canon for software?
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love this, what a great idea!
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ot 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)
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if you need accurate meeting minutes
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
in 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.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The plot to enslave America entails destroying every university except for the business school
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’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
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Our 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.
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New 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!
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Vocal encoding of heritable sociability prevails over emotions in sheep bleats
Abstract. Vocalizations of animals are good indicators of their emotions. Temperament is known to influence the regulation and expression of emotions. Howe
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah the glory days are well in the past ☹️
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