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Paula Kuokkanen

@paulakuokkanen.bsky.social
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computational neuroscientist: single cells' signals in field potentials & EEG, #auditory system, #barnowl PI @humboldtuni.bsky.social Berlin | alumnus: jyu.fi , @univofmaryland.bsky.social knitter | sourdough baker | swimmer | she/her/hän | RT≠endorsing

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I couldn't recommend this opportunity more! A fantastic team doing incredibly important research in Long COVID and human physiology. Definitely check this out! 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTF081/r... #LongCovid
jobs.ac.uk
Research Associate in Human Physiology Immunology and Long COVID at Loughborough University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate in Human Physiology Immunology and Long COVID is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openin...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 07/10/2026
Two panels at the #Disinfo2026 conference seem to have particularly upset the MAGA people. It would be a shame if people weren’t aware of them.
Day 1, October 7, 11:45 - 12:30
Under attack: How the counter-disinformation community is dealing with US government pressure
#solutions
room: Zeta
Panel
On 23 December 2025, the US government (USG) imposed travel bans and deportation orders on five European figures - former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von
Hodenberg, and Josephine Ballon - accusing them of censoring US social media platforms.
The use of legal intimidation to wage personal attacks raises its own free-speech concerns as well as questions about the appropriate use of legal punishment in a policy debate. The United States Government's attacks to intimidate individuals and organisations are an unprecedented escalation in defense of US corporations seeking to avoid regulation and criticism. This panel will examine the chilling effect these tactics can potentially have on the community of researchers, journalists, and former government officials who fight disinformation, propaganda and hate speech online. The panel will also discuss how some are fighting back against these tactics.
Speakers:
Claire Pershan, Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Josephine Ballon, HateAid
Chair:
Gregory Rohde, EU DisinfoLabDay 1, October 7, 10:45 - 11:45
USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back #infospaces
room: Alfa
Presentations
This session addresses one of the most uncomfortable questions in the counter-disinformation field today: how did the United States become a FIMI threat for Europe? The session will explore how the counters disinformation community rebuilds resilience without Washington, what solidarity looks like in a fractured transatlantic environment, and how to push back against on these operations.
Speakers:
Adam Fivenson, Center for Security, Innovation & New Technology at American University Alex Finley, Former officer of CIA's Directorate of Operations, Centre for Strategic Advantage Emerson Brooking, Nonresident Senior Fellow, DFRLab
Chair:
Carlos Hernández-Echevarría, Fundación Maldita.es
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This Kickstarter is down to its FINAL HOURS, gang! 72 hours left! Just $470 in pledges would let us hit our stretch goal and get @secase.bsky.social a cover enhancement for the volume!!
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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if you have somehow missed the chance to read A History of the World in 47 Borders so far, then today's your lucky day: it's currently 99p from the ebook retailer of your choice
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ADFC Berlin @adfcberlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Junge Menschen haben ein Recht auf Mobilität! Zum ersten Mal widmet der ADFC Kindern und Jugendlichen eine eigene Umfrage im ADFC-Fahrradklima-Test. 👐 Mitmachen beim #FKT26 Jugendliche können alle von 10-20 Jahren hier 👉 fkt.adfc.de/befragung Bitte teilen 🙏 Jede Stimme zählt!
Jugendliche auf Rad auf geschütztem Radweg
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Paula Kuokkanen @paulakuokkanen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61m tonnes. It is [about] 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” said Jaco Cilliers, the UN Development Programme’s special representative in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a fun game: which category of AI-generated emails will be biggest today? (PS if you're doing any of these, please stop. it isn't helping you at all, and it isn't helping the world.) 1️⃣ A 2️⃣ B 3️⃣ C 4️⃣ D 5️⃣ A tie of 2 or more of the above -- leave a comment 📊 Show results
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
axios.com
U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And that, as they say, is the ball game. 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 21/09/2026
The next frontier is even more exciting. The “Invite” stage is where cycling becomes the most attractive choice—not just because it works, but because it is delightful. Wide, uninterrupted routes. Green corridors. Car-free spaces. Places where riding feels less like transport and more like freedom.🔚
Cyclists in casual autumn attire ride along dedicated and protected cycling infrastructure lined with buildings, trees, and trams in Budapest.Cyclists in casual autumn attire ride along dedicated and protected cycling infrastructure lined with buildings, trees, and trams in Budapest.Cyclists in casual autumn attire ride along dedicated and protected cycling infrastructure lined with buildings, trees, and trams in Budapest.Cyclists in casual autumn attire ride along dedicated and protected cycling infrastructure lined with buildings, trees, and trams in Budapest.
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Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wir warnen vor der Fokussierung auf das Rennen zwischen SPD und AfD und rufen unsere Unterstütz*innen dazu auf, in MV die Grünen zu wählen. Warum wir so eine rechtsextreme Regierung verhindern können und was wir zur Kritik an der Wahlempfehlung sagen - dazu mein Interview jetzt im Campact-Blog: 👇
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„Wir dürfen nicht nur darauf hoffen, dass es schon irgendwie gut geht“
Campact ruft auf, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern strategisch zu wählen – und sich für die Grünen zu entscheiden. Warum?
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Julia Krohmer @juliakrohmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Studie "Klimapläne in Großstädten: Stadtgrün hilft, wird aber kaum genutzt" idw-online.de/de/news876356: "Obwohl positive Effekte von Grünflächen ausreichend erforscht & bekannt sind, schlägt sich dieses Wissen nicht konsequent in Klima-Strategiepapieren vieler Großstädte Europas nieder“.
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Klimapläne in Großstädten: Stadtgrün hilft, wird aber kaum genutzt
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...
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Climate action comes in waves
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 10/09/2026
Rather odd request, and a very long story, but do I have any followers in Badajoz 🇪🇸 who could lend me a bike Saturday morning to cycle to Elvas 🇵🇹, buy some Interrail reservations, and then return to Badajoz before a 14:00 train? #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This piece is free to read - no paywall. If you find it helpful, consider subscribing for free. And if you are a frequent reader of Democracy Americana, please consider a paid membership. As an independent writer, I fully rely on the support of my readers to make this work possible. Thank you!🙏
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Democracy Americana
A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism Germany is facing the imminent prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the United States. My new piece:
steady.page
Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism
Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Andy Hall @testtubegames.com · 01/09/2026
Agent Higgs 2: Escape from the Standard Model. A particle physics puzzle game/adventure, out everywhere - PC, Mac, Linux, Android - even finally iOS! Chapter 1 takes you through Electricity... coming soon: the rest of particle physics*. testtubegames.com/higgs2.html *no "strings" attached
Movie poster titled Agent Higgs 2: Escape from the Standard Model. Underneath a red Higgs boson wearing groucho marx glasses is surrounded by a variety of particles and blue characters. Underneath, the tagline: time for another run. The particles are listed by name underneath, like actors in a movie poster. At the bottom: Coming August 28, 2026.Level in Agent Higgs 2, titled Electricity 3. Agent Higgs and a mysterious figure are both in a room with many crates. Two electrons seem seem to be repelling with the help of a photon. The figure says: "The Electric force! Just like in your first, very popular adventure, which of course we all remember."Large proton tile highlighted in the middle. Titled Field Agent Proton. Underneath a quote: "Do I think we'll escape? Yeah... I'm certain."
Stats listed underneath.
Charge: +1e, Spin: 1/2, Mass: 3 pips, Lifetime: Stable, Team Hadron, Found: In every atom
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Was able to make an $800 dollar payment towards rent, just $1166.59 to go. We have til end of tomorrow before late fee hits. So, I really need to get some art sales going.
Screenshot of payment confirmtation for $800 towards rent. screen shot showing a remaining rent balance of $1166.59
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"the largest capital cycle in the history of technology is underwritten, to the tune of roughly one trillion dollars, by two private companies that do not make money" Seems dangerous! www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
groundbrkr.com
The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.
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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/
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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hier gibt's erstmals die Übersicht: Wo in Deutschland werden Rechenzentren gebaut, wo entstehen dafür Gaskraftwerke, wo ist das Grundwasser besonders belastet, wo gibt es schon Proteste? Die gesamte Karte & alle Daten zur Weiterverwendung: fragdenstaat.de/aktionen/cli...
Deutschlandkarte Rechenzentren
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
nytimes.com
F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer (Gift Article)
In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...
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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Check out our new @grantwitness.org website! 18 months ago, we launched as a humble Google Sheet listing 8 terminated NIH grants. Today, we’ve launched a new site tracking tens of thousands of grants and new awards at several different agencies. THANK YOU to everyone who's made this possible! 🧵
grantwitness.org
Grant Witness
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026
I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.
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Michael Albert @michlalbrt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Einer Studie zufolge, die das Handelsblatt in Auftrag gab, verliert die Wirtschaft an jedem einzelnen Tag mit mehr als 30 Grad rund 431 Millionen Euro (…). Allein die letzten beiden Juniwochen haben demnach mehr als sechs Milliarden Euro gekostet."
tagesspiegel.de
Dürre, Hitze, Waldbrände: Der Bundeskanzler und der Preis des Wartens
Klimaschutz kostet. Was kein Klimaschutz kostet, kann Friedrich Merz heute in der Eifel besichtigen. Nächste Woche geht es auf der Kabinettsklausur dann um die politische Antwort auf diesen Sommer.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time
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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Belgium's office for foreigners – overseen by the far-right Flemish nationalists – is pulling ICE-style sh*t: calling in asylum-seekers for interviews, then detaining them. (In French.) This is the issue with removal orders: the first to go will be the most integrated, law-abiding people.
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Des dizaines de demandeurs d'asile arrêtés après avoir été convoqués à l'Office des étrangers - BX1
L’Office des étrangers assure qu’aucune “ruse” n’est utilisée et ne prévoit pas de changement dans sa procédure. Mais la pratique est dénoncée par de nombreux acteurs de terrain. Depuis le début de l’...
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
3/3 Military service is based on the idea of an intergenerational contract. But when young people see that it is precisely this effort to secure the future through climate protection that has been delayed for decades by the older generation, the call to take personal risks rings hollow.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
So, as of June, it is very literally illegal in NC to teach, among other things, that "The rule of law does not exist but instead is a series of power relationships & struggles…" Like… a lot of "anti DEI" shit is silly, but this literally outlaws large swathes of sociology & political philosophy…
ncleg.gov
Senate Bill 558 / SL 2026-21 (2025-2026 Session) - North Carolina General Assembly
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Live Science @livescience.com · 13/08/2026
Saving old trees may protect people's health more than planting new ones, study of Chicago neighborhoods finds www.livescience.com/health/savin...
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Saving old trees may protect people's health more than planting new ones, study of Chicago neighborhoods finds
A study tracking tree cover in Chicago over 11 years found that neighborhoods losing canopy saw death rates climb, especially in the city's hottest areas.
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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
mahmoud needs help
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Further to this: the news about OSF is the perfect time to recommend @re3data.bsky.social, the Registry of Research Data Repositories - you can search for potential repositories for your data, and filter the results by a vast number of repo features (e.g., does the repo offer versioning or not)
re3data.org
Home | re3data.org
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.
abc.net.au
Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/08/2026
The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Teenagers are spending as much time on social media as they would for a full-time job. Girls are spending 35+ hours a week on social media and boys are close behind. If they keep it up, the average teen will spend more than 10 years of their life doomscrolling www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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