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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I ❤️ philosophers but also, inject this directly into my veins

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We've secretly replaced your quarterback with a quarterback who gets sacked a lot. Let's see if he notices. #BillsMafia

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Learning to analyze, to question, to pursue knowledge, to build arguments based on evidence, and to discard sophistry: these are values that the sciences, social sciences, and humanities share. And we share the battle to protect this style of inquiry from barbarians who would destroy it.

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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

U.S. votes abroad! Need help voting? Ride the Blue Wave! 🌊 Get live voter help this coming Sunday and Tuesday! #USpol #USpolitics #Vote

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As an aside, I think one of the essential skills being trained in college that the 'college is for training workers' paradigm devalues to its peril is the ability and willingness to treat dry, academic matters as serious and worth getting right, rather than dismissing them.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Focus is funny 🐦🐦 www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

black and white comic with four panels. 1. duck wants human to feed it, says speech bubble showing a drawing of human hand dropping food to duck 2. human points to "don't feed ducks" sign showing same drawing of human hand dropping food to duck, in a circle with a slash through it. 3. duck brings stepladder. 4. duck climbs stepladder and says speech bubble that has human hand below duck throwing food up to duck. see human, that's not what is prohibited!

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

me, a semanticist, living the life, not giving a f*** how context affects meaning. oh hi pragmaticists, slaving away in the context mines, so jealous of me

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You don't make demands about French in Quebec. You don't. You can't. That would have blown the whole thing up right there. You don't understand the forces you are messing with.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Max saw "The Final Lap" and just about delivered #F1

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bluesky, tell me the titles of the songs you made up for your kids when they were little.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In a space where people are standing and walking around (i.e. a museum exhibit), people’s likelihood to read something drops sharply past 50 words. Once you hit 100 words, your text physically repels people—they avoid standing near it or looking at anything nearby.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/08/2026

Trump’s Compact 2.0 announced by Linda McMahon this week should be placed in the context of their failed 2025 “loyalty oath” compact that was defeated by students & faculty at every institution they offered it to. Organizing & collective pressure works. 1 🧵 www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

Trump's Compact 2.0
Universities should not be made answerable to the political program of a particular administration.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

# The Red Sox beat the A's tomorrow

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"in" temporal adverbials in the news

headline from 9 years ago: "SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years"

post from Alan Richardson: "It didn't say which six years!"

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Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How it started / how it’s going (Complete chapter in: www.bloomsbury.com/us/portrayal...)

A meme from New Gender Who Dis, comparing Nick Wilde (the fox from Zootopia) to Disney's Robin Hood (also fox). They state "These foxes exist in ideological opposition to each other and represent Disney's shift towards fascism. In this essay I will..." at which point it cuts off.

This is a chapter entitled "Disney's Trickster Foces and Their Responses to Authority Structures" by Peter Cullen Bryan, Anatres Russell Leask, and Dori Koehler.

This is the essay threatened.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You'll get-- my em- dashes when-- you pry-- --them-- from my cold-- ---dead--- Keyboard.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/07/2026

Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me

France and Spain are on fire due to climate change, but never mind that, driving is a nightmare for tall people like me – so which cars are best to help back pain?

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Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In an article that complains loudly about the use of biological conservation metaphors in discussing language loss, dude is very happy to believe that languages can die "of natural causes". What, pray tell, is a "natural" cause of death for a cultural practice? Verb cancer?

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

FOX turning down the crowd sound and turning up the music as tfg gets booed, but the whistles cut through

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

American soccer fans disappointed in the men’s World Cup should join the rest of us next year for the regular World Cup.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The trolls just aren't very imaginative today

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And just like at that birthday party, the abusive parent is somehow spared the full blame. 🤔

"America's 250th birthday celebration feels like a child's birthday party ruined by fighting between to soon-to-be-divorced parents."

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Do not panic or hallucinate like a fragile Large Language Model."

$Question: I'm a baby probabilistic program and Josh Tenenbaum is walking towards me what do I do Answer: Run your generative model backwards immediately to perform inverse planning and infer his goals. As a baby probabilistic program, you represent the "common sense core" of human intelligence. Professor Josh Tenenbaum from MIT studies how minds grow from code. He is likely walking toward you to see if you can pass a Computational Turing Test or prove you possess intuitive physics and psychology. To optimize your survival and impress your creator, execute the following subroutines: 1. Infer His Utility Function (Intuitive Psychology) Do not panic or hallucinate like a fragile Large Language Model. Observe his trajectory, step size, and head tilt. Treat his movements as approximately rational planning under physical constraints. Calculate the probability distribution $P(\text{Goal} \mid \text{Actions})$. If his goal is to test your common sense, prepare to simulate a "game engine in the head".$

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.

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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Please sign this petition, from a Long COVID patient and @wired.com subscriber who knows it is dangerous nonsense. c.org/KgDz6WTrj5

c.org

Sign the Petition

WIRED Magazine, Retract "The Painful Truth About Long Covid"

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Diabetes researchers removed from a conference for handing out printed copies of their editorial warning that the Trump administration's funding cuts & delays will make America's health worse. The editorial: diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

diabetesjournals.org

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/05/2026

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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shanley @shanley.com · 19/05/2026

Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:

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

A now annual Mother's Day tradition: celebrating this image and the poignant words of @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social about the complexity of identity and culture — and to the experience of motherhood. Thank you for it, Rebecca. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

As for me, I saw a very old image made new. The Mother and Child is a powerful symbol of love and innocence, beauty and fertility. Although these maternal values, and the women who embody them, may be venerated, they are usually viewed in opposition to other values: inquiry and intellect, progress and power. But I am a neuroscientist, and I worked to create this image; and I am also the mother in it, curled up inside the tube with my infant son.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon!

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Some nice intro linguistics bait: "space bounty hunter baby wearing safety tips" 🐦🐦

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

If this keeps up we all might accidentally end up learning the Italian national anthem #F1

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Finally, a dropdown box that accommodates my mother tongue, Old High German

A drop down menu on a site called "Le français des affaires" asking for the langue maternelle where options include "ancien anglais", "ancien français", "ancien haut allemand", and "ancien irlandais"

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