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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

How can we hope he has a serious plan for ending "the terrible suffering of people in Gaza" when he can't even bring himself to name Israel as the genocidal aggressor causing the suffering? We need concrete action - a full arms embargo and an end to trade with illegal settlements.

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It is a great honour and privilege to have been appointed by the Prime Minister to serve as Foreign Secretary.

My parents came to Britain as Jewish refugees from the Nazis. To them, Britain was both a sanctuary and a beacon of hope in the global fight against fascism. I will carry my parents' faith in that spirit of Britain to my role representing our country.

I will be a Foreign Secretary who fights for Britain's interests and our values of democracy, freedom and the rule of law on the world stage.

Today, as we face a time of greater instability and threat to international law and democracy than at any time since the Second World War, these values are more important than ever.

From Russia's illegal war in Ukraine to conflict in the Middle East, time and again we have seen the consequences of a more dangerous world in the cost of living crisis that families and businesses face.

For Britain, that means we must work with others to defend the principles that we cherish, because it is in our national interest to do so, building on the excellent work of my predecessors and friends, Yvette Cooper and David Lammy.

I will seek to deepen and strengthen our strategic alliance with the European Union which is so important for our prosperity and security and at the same time nurture our strong, enduring and essential alliance with the United States. I will uphold our commitment to multilateral institutions from NATO to the UN as well as working with global partners, particularly in the Global South.

Pursuing our interests and values means continuing to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Ukraine against Russia's illegal invasion, as Britain has done for the last four years. It means playing our part to seek to end the conflict in Iran and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It must also mean working tirelessly to seek a sustainable peace in Palestine and Israel, including an end to the terrible sufferi
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That “small majority” is still bigger than the “majority” that voted to leave!! Brexit was ridiculously stupid and the fact we smashed everything up because of such a small vote difference in an ADVISORY referendum will never not make me angry.

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

12th VPDVP conference (Padova, 26th June 2026)

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 14/03/2026

Technology is politics. You can't embed Palantir into the army, the police and the health service without embedding its poisonous politics. So there's no place for Palantir in our NHS. newrepublic.com/post/207693/palanti…

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Delayed foveal and parafoveal masks disrupt peripheral target processing: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action. Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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End the sewage pollution scandal

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Perceptual organization and its visual subcomponents in schizophrenia and schizotypy: A systematic review: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Exited to be in Tübingen for this symposium with an amazing group of vision scientists: summerschool.lizhaoping.org

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"And even when they built computers to do some thinking for them, they designed them not so much for wisdom as for friendliness. So they were doomed." Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I'm very honoured to have given the Geoffrey J Burton memorial lecture on the topic 'On the appearance of shapes in the visual periphery'. Unfortunately this is the only picture I have.

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theava-uk.bsky.social @theava-uk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Our final keynote of the day is from Prof Marco Bertamini (Uni of Padova) on the phenomenal appearance of shapes in the visual periphery #AVA

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art. www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....

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Dr. Roberta Ross-Fisher @robertarossfisher.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The so-called school choice and voucher systems were set up to further starve down already cash-strapped public schools. The goal: To widen the chasm between the rich and the poor. #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE

Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Applied Vision Association meeting in Liverpool on the 28th of April www.theava.net/meetings.php...

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The AVA - Promoting Vision Research and its Applications

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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

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PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium: Aug. 11-22, 2025 Tübingen, Germany The Third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school is designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. summerschool.lizhaoping.org/application

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Prof Dorothy Bishop resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. Fellowship is "a contradiction of all the values" of UK’s national academy of sciences www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship

Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

This may be of interest mainly to those in Italy, however on Monday (Sept 30) we inaugurate a new Centre for the Study of Perception and Art (CARPE) www.dpg.unipd.it/en/carpe

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“Centre for the Study of Perception and Art” (CArPe) Welcome to the home page of the Centre for the Study of Perception and Art (CArPe)

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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Testing if this works... Trying to make a starter pack for researchers in #perception science Please share ! Will be adding more folks as I learn how #academicsky works ! go.bsky.app/V99fSBK

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

The 10th annual workshop on Visual Preference (VPDVP) took place in Rome (June 14-15). The videos of the talks are now available: www.bertamini.org/lab/vpdvp.html

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Visual Properties Driving Visual Preference

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Do *not* give Elsevier your data when they ask you stuff like this, even if it is *required*. Their main business is now data analytics, and they sell your information for profit. eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-h...

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Twitter is awful, I moved over here on BSky, let's hope for the best

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