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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Guess I had better learn some needlework skills that extend beyond suturing. Cool study!

Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Zero surprises here although from my 5 years in the US, I think the biggest barrier will be overcoming the mindset of individuals refusing to pay for other people to have health care via additional taxes. Anything approaching socialism was generally met vitriol and contempt from people I spoke to.

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

💧◀️💧Diffusion in reverse!💧◀️💧 I added fluorescein & rhodamine B to a water bath under UV illumination. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #Chemistry

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Damn. Can we relocate my lab to Denmark!?

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A Jarvis Cocker tribute spam email! Sing it with me: "🎶I want to write for Common People, I want to write whatever Common People read 🎶"

Spam email reading:

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is a great start but should go further. If the UK govt. believes the Israeli state is backing this ethnic cleansing, then sanctions should be against the entire state, not just illegal settlements. Anti-apartheid sanctions didn't target only parts of SA! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing

In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I teach about Ariely's fraud in my methods class and it is probably not the best message to undergrads that he still has his job

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It continues to be profoundly disappointing when scientists who I respect and whose work I value talk about using text generators. Do you value your own work so little that you would replace it with slop? You don't have to participate in the bubble. And the next AI winter cannot come soon enough.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was telling my son about laws (or lack thereof) about food additives in the US, and remembered a blog I kept as a postdoc at NIH over a decade ago. It's weird looking back through the eyes of my younger self to a life before kids, Trump & Brexit. legalnonresidentalien.blogspot.com/2013/11/gene...

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Generally Recognised as Safe

Today, I want to talk about food additives. That evil institution despised by crazy UKIP and an increasing number of 'mainstream' conser...

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm a solid 0/25 here. Who the hell are all these randos!?

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The new @scotrail app really is a steaming pile of horse shit. About 20% of the time I buy a ticket I can't download it. FFS.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Never be afraid to be different. 😂 (spotted this on a small loch where my son is having kayak races today)

A white farm duck in a loch surrounded by wild mallard ducks

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is absurd. The person charges students hundreds of euros. BTW, here is the open access textbook, for free!!! Please feel free to use it, just credit us, e.g., by citing us or otherwise. bsky.app/profile/iris...

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm not religious but I hope that there is a special hell reserved for people who send manuscripts to journals with figures, legends and results all on different pages instead of inline figures and legends. Makes reviewing electronically so much more, erm, dynamic. And scrolly. And annoying.

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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What good news 👏 Impressive numbers of bilingual kids in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The front cover of the Scottish Daily Mail today, the headline in bold font says, 'NOW 198 LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN SCOTTISH SCHOOLS'

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not much of an eclipse in Glasgow... 😭

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Stumbled across the new @brookmyre.bsky.social in my local bookshop this afternoon. It's now almost 2am and I'm still reading... Gonna feel tired tomorrow. Oh well, good use of summer holidays 😂

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Maybe they can cure the Andrew formely known as Prince... 😏

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Have to admit that I personally avoid Edinburgh like the plague every August as I'm getting more and more misanthropic with age, but those more sociable creatures should check this out!

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Writing methods for an experiment. Is "novel object recogniton test objects were whatever random crap the PI could hurriedly find from Morrison's tat corner on a rainy Wednesday in Glasgow when it turned out the original objects were not exciting enough for our diva mice" too honest?

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ah, houghmagandie is one of the funnier Scots word. Not one I use often but always makes me smile nonetheless.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I've had a lot of fun this afternoon with a stripper called Titan while my wife was out with the kids.

Wallpaper stripper and a hallway covered in debris from a wild afternoon of stripping

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Really cool (and somewhat freighting) work on Gen AI use and highschool performance in China. Homework Scores rocket up, time spend doing homework collapses, then predictably exam scores are way down. Results show bimodal response ~75% see scores drop, the other 20-25% keep doing the work.

papers.ssrn.com

The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Welp, Stephen Miller happens to LOVE the new Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Doctor say that vaccines are one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. A nepo baby who snorts cocaine off toilet seats, bathes in raw sewage, and takes raccoon penises home for “further study“ says they cause autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

These jellyfish larvae: * . * . * . * . * * . * . * * . *

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Okay, this is all really bad, but I am confused in what sense Frontiers wasn't immediately recognisable as a predatory paper mill from its founding. Yes, there are people publishing in their journals whose work I respect highly, but Frontiers' business model and priorities were *never* in doubt.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I've said many times that friends don't let friends publish in Frontiers... sad to see another example of why this is correct. 😟

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There is LITERALLY nothing more English* than the Cornish language. It is endemic, spoken in England, in one form or another since the Iron Age, via its Common Britonic ancestor. It is a sign of the callousness of the fascist Reform extremists to seek to erase this cultural gem.

bbc.com

Reform councillor questions Cornish language demand

The strategy to boost written, heard and learnt Cornish was debated at a meeting.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sign up for SfN then get turned back at the US border and sent home (if you're lucky)... it'll be a long time before I attend a #NeuroSkyence conference in the US again.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you are worried about this, can you please write to your MP asking them to stop the unfair & cruel ban on trans ppl using public spaces. I’ve included everything you need to target your MP. This actually works & we need straight ppl to do this, too. I’ve included data to help! Please!

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The approach to the early 18th century Snuff Mill Bridge in Cathcart, with one of Glasgow's few surviving mill building from the same period. Cont./ #glasgow #snuffmillbridge #streetscars #cathcart

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The US is no longer a function democracy but is led by an authoritarian regime. If this happened in any other country, people would be up in arms.

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Maggots that only eat living, warm-blooded flesh. Truly stuff of nightmares here... 😱🫣

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The first 2 pages of this report are essential reading. AI is an unmitigated ecological disaster...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026

I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

unu.edu

The Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

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