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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if only there were a story in the Gospel where Jesus direct addressed executing people with stones

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two panel comic of a speaker addressing an audience. The top panel has the speaker saying “Who wants to allow participants to be able to fully describe their ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity” with all audience members raising their hands. The bottom panel has the speaker saying “Who wants to clean this data so we can use it in our analyses”. The audience lowers their hands and heads, and a fly buzzing over their head to indicate silence.

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Teaching a research skills module this semester, and just set an exercise cleaning and recoding a hypothetical free text survey response for a demographic question. It's kind of evil (that is, realistic)

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is official: I am old. I bought this notebook weeks ago b/c I liked the colors, and someone today asked me "Are you a Blackpink fan?" to which I answered "I don't know what you're talking about". Apparently it is a K-pop thing.

A Moleskine Blackpink-branded notebook. Black cover, with a pink and white design (that looks like a page flipping). Pink ribbon.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To the original argument, Solving complex problems does not require thinking or understanding. It’s not a dichotomy whereby either humans have souls or whatever. It’s entirely possible that, say, thought as we experience it is a spandrel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandre...

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Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I find it weird that the reaction to calling LLMs “stochastic parrots” (a statement about *how they work*) is to deny it because of their apparent capabilities. The reaction should be “isn’t is interesting what a stochastic parrot can (apparently) do?” or to query the appearance.

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APOPO @herorats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At 4 weeks HeroRAT pups start to open their eyes and soon after begin their #socialization and #habituation. We take them outside, like Chip and Dingo, meeting new people, sights, smells and sounds (while mama gets a well-earned break). #APOPO #HeroPUPs #FutureHeroes

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Elon Musk, FRS. Royal Society justify not booting him out because, after all, Isaac Newton wasn’t a nice person. And yes, he was doing exactly these things in summer of 2024 when @royalsociety.org first reconsidered his fellowship

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS FROM CHICAGO

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the axiom of choice kind of give me the ick - is that weird?

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I think of how weird things were post-9/11, I think of this story. We were driving on the Interstate from Missouri to Texas at dusk, and at some point we merged onto an under-construction segment of highway. It was clear the construction crew went home and didn't put up signs or cones, so

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/03/2026

folks, I am using Microsoft Word for the first time in like a year, and if you actively choose to use this software, my only explanations are (1) you don't know how much of your own time you are wasting; or (2) you do know, but you don't mind wasting it

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

he should have added "or her" just to send everyone on the right into a fit

Headline from the Independent: "Gary Oldman claims James Bond is now cast: ‘They have picked him’ // Actor speculated that the announcement is coming ‘soon’"

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For the Replicability Project: Health Behavior we need some editors and reviewers of analysis plans for secondary data replications, especially for complex designs including multilevel, weighting, clustering, missing data. Earns coauthorship on the summary paper. Interested? replications@cos.io

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 21/08/2026

"The ability to write JavaScript is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to write JavaScript well is the sign of a wasted life."

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

And for a quick hit here’s one from my personal library of obscurely comforting TikToks.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Anyone choosing to work with data or to make use of the results of its analysis (managers, head teachers, policy makers) absolutely needs to be shown the horror. Too many people making decisions using this data or deciding how much resource to put into data management have absolutely no idea.

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nothing in my experimental-cognitive/math-psych background could have prepared me for the unique horror of large-scale routinely-collected medical and educational data

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

at least when the universities fold and I'm unemployed, the government will have made sure there's a pub open near me

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are very gradually going to start realizing with horror how completely we have fucked the brains of an entire generation.

Account from a teacher of students suddenly being unable to complete an assignment not amenable to AI

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

wikipedia fraud spam of ice and fire

Sign off on an email: "

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Maelor Virewood
Wikipedia Editor"

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

pretty sure this is an electoral offence in the uk now polls are open so could end up among our funniest most niche AI court cases if anyone could be bothered to pursue it

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

avehtari.github.io

Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

People are dragging him for this, but Mark Twain might agree that this is the right way to read Fenimore Cooper: www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3...

Quote from Twain's essay FENIMORE COOPER'S
LITERARY OFFENCES: "[The rules governing literary art] require that when the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk shall sound like human talk, and be talk such as human beings would be likely to talk in the given circumstances, and have a discoverable meaning, also a discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain in the neighborhood of the subject in hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale, and stop when the people cannot think of anything more to say. But this requirement has been ignored from the beginning of [Fenimore Cooper's] Deerslayer tale to the end of it."

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

cos.io

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026

The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.

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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch

Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...

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alebrelle.bsky.social @alebrelle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If Emily Wilson does have that effect it is literally, in plain daylight, fostering public engagement. Now say what you actually mean.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

hermit-tech.com

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have found a great new #stats teaching hack to find new open datasets for teaching. I've been going to the Collabra: Psychology journal website, and typing in an analysis type (e.g., logistic regression) into the search bar. Both quick and high-quality data! online.ucpress.edu/collabra

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

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The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/05/2026

It feels many only know my work pushing back against AI, which is very fair — but I have a broader research interest, which also forms a protective belt against such forces, as well as being what I have been thinking about since discovering "cognitive science" in ~2006: 🍃 metatheory.space 1/

metatheory.space

Hello! 🍃 metatheory.space is a group that works at the foundations of cognitive science. We are interested in the intersections of psychological and computational neurocognitive theorising with critic...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The issue in that piece isn’t how open science and science reform initiatives are funded worldwide, the issue is that *in United States* these topics have been co-opted by a donor class that has a vested interest in discrediting science. Reading comprehension is your friend

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026

The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

I am reposting my photo of the ferocious baby gator sitting on his mother's head, with a snail on the nose, because I know I am not the only one needing to see something like this today. I took this photo a few years ago in Brazos Bend State Park, Texas. #Herps #Photography #NaturePhotography 📷🐊

A baby alligator, its eyes half closed, sitting on his mother's head (mama has her eyes completely closed). The baby has a snail crawling on its nose.

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