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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 11h

If you are an undergraduate student interested in computational and systems neuroscience research, this is your chance to attend #COSYNE27 !!! Apply here for our undergrad travel grant tinyurl.com/cos27ugtravel deadline is Oct 30 (and if you are not an undergraduate, please help to spread the word!)

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Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program

This is the application form for the Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program. The deadline to apply is October 30th 2026.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 16h

Fucking enraging.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 17h

Our next profile is here! Dr. Katie Tschida (@katietschida.bsky.social) studies the neural circuitry underlying vocalizations. Follow the link below to listen and learn more! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

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Katie Tschida @katietschida.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for the fun conversation, @storiesofwin.bsky.social!

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 18h

Butterfly wing patterns in flight create illusions that misdirect predator attacks 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @grahancock.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18h

This looks pretty good now. The card image updates within a minute of my updating the national data file so the numbers will be dynamic with updates election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

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UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics

Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 19h

that's obviously a kookaburro

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 21h

New Maryland laws that kick in Oct. 1. Read more: buff.ly/D7rsUeu

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Earthbound.txt @earthbound-txt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm pretty forgetful. I even forgot why I'm here. Hmm... I just forgot something... Who am I? Am I a man?

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⚫️ #CancelRent @maunciple.devil.computer · 29/09/2026

[running the numbers] Spain is Better than America

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a few minutes, Dr. Olivia Clifton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will be giving a talk on Pattern Formation Through Nonlocal Competition and Facilitation. Please see below for information to join the seminar.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

it is just monumentally depressing that at the time we need honest supreme court coverage the most, the place that used to be the best resource for it has been turned - like most other media outlets - into a sycophantic shitshow dedicated to glazing the worst people in america

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're trying something new for Brain Awareness week

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is also The Plot to Enslave America — monomanical focus on destruction of our education system comes first

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026

What I would not give for a publicly funded search engine. Like an uncaptured PBS or Library of Congress but for search. Lol we should name it COBOL

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

wow, can't believe the Functional Languages Inventor is unable to understand why White Collar Work (TM) is more than a series of discrete tasks without side effects

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 28/09/2026

> (...) LLM coding _is_ enabling fascists, that it _does_ hurt users and hurts the future of the project's community, _and_ it even hurts the possibility to train up new devs. and OSS lives not on its ability to ship out volumes of code, but on its ability to bring new people into the community (..)

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to yes-and this, even though i know hardly anyone is going to listen who disagrees: the reason this is so bleak is that LLM coding _is_ enabling fascists, that it _does_ hurt users and hurts the futur...

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For anyone that wants to learn more about Eien ni Hen, there is actually an old 2014 interview with her on the Romhacking Histories podcast. The website for the show is no longer online but you can still listen to the episode through the Wayback Machine. web.archive.org/web/20161027...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The end times fascists may want us to believe that the end of the world is nigh and inevitable but this book shows, again and again, that there is a different way. It's up to us to follow it" - Thank you Ericka Taylor for this generous and thoughtful @npr.org review! www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...

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'End Times Fascism' looks at supremacist groups uniting around end-of-the-world ideas

Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it." Brandon is spot on.

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Halcyon eras of third spaces by country: 1. Spain: 700 B.C.-present 2. France: 1K B.C.- present 3. Mexico: 544 B.C.-present 4. U.K.: 1347-present 5. Canada: 1786-present ... 99. USA (1981 opening of Mall of America - 2012 day of Borders bookstores going out of business)

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

Authors and artists explaining their problem with AI

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 28/09/2026

Just saw this news now (looks like it is a few days old) arXiv has received private funding -- $17.2M to be distributed across the next 3-5 years to help it establish and transition to an independent not-for-profit. This is good news for the preprint server and open access resources! 🔭🧪

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arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit

arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…

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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's one of these moons hanging in the museum of natural history in Ottawa, and I drew it earlier this year! It's stunning in person at night.

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 27/09/2026

I just got done assigning genders to each of my body parts, and boy are my arms

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

college for all, college for all

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please tell Goose that I have an idea for a song they should cover

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

showing this post to the Starbucks barista and then asking "so can you make one?"

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tyreforhyre @tyreforhyre.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

i am absolutely convinced that the now iconic Mixers from the Shiren series started off their life in 2 as someone in Chunsoft just fucking around and learning how 3d modeling software works.

Mixer from Shiren the Wanderer 2, their existence looks like a mistake.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡

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

The messengers generally look down on most scientific inquiry unless it’s a very specific form of applied science. We can’t let these folks divide us; in the end, much of STEM has more in common with the humanities and social sciences than with, e.g., business.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

“Much of STEM has [a lot] in common with the humanities and social sciences.” This. I’d say scientific discovery has *everything* in common with scholarship in other fields. It’s why the Trump/Vought/ view that we can kill academia and still have science research is so totally wrong.

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