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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UK friends: Apply for the @prideinstem.bsky.social small grant scheme until October 30th (Halloween is the holiday of our people, after all). The theme is "Empowering Queer People With STEM", and grants of £1,000 will be awarded in late 2026. Spread the word! prideinstem.org/2026/10/01/s...

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Small Grant Scheme 2026 | Pride in STEM

Pride in STEM is once again funding our “Small Grants” Programme.This year’s theme will be “Empowering Queer People With STEM”.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Robin's recent work has been so brilliant, and reminding me why I love podcasts as a creative medium.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm very sorry for your loss, Izzy

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Agreed. But also this was a grant exclusively for outreach. It’s not even an activity within a research grant.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I genuinely hate this. Using AI for science communication tells me that no creativity, craft, or thought went into it. Might as well not bother.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They couldn’t spend some of it on a graphic designer or illustrator?

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

EU Researcher Night in Ireland received almost €300k in EU funding (to run the one-day event in 2026 and again in 2027).

Clearly AI generated poster for the Minerals In Action event on EU Researcher night on Friday 25th September. The poster is filled with text, images, and the usual hallmarks of AI slop, and several science event cliches.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

NEW WRITING 👀 I finally got my shit together and wrote a little newsletter about the Spectrum of Allies which is a helpful exercise and a better theory of change than "nobody with a bad point of view can ever change their mind" Please read and use and share the links within!!!

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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries

A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work head

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the source of my discomfort, definitely. There was a lot of this research in my original field (developmental biology) too, and the authors rarely (never?) acknowledged the proximity of their work to eugenics.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do too. It's holding up as a really elegant way to explain the process, but every time I see new studies on it, I think about how they could be weaponised.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have to admit, as important as science is to me, research like this makes me deeply uncomfortable

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

he looks like he's wearing an Ireland jersey 😍

2017 / 2019 Ireland soccer jersey, with the 3 and new balance logos, mostly green with orange and white trim on the collar and sleeves.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are a handful of newsletters I always read as soon as they appear in my inbox, and The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Space-Time by @chanda.blacksky.app is one of them. Today I learned about The Spectrum of Allies and it has shifted my thinking in so many ways. Subscribe here: news.chanda.science

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The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Space-Time

Cosmology, Particles, and the Stuff That Came After. A newsletter from theoretical physicist and Black feminist theorist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Had no idea he played all these characters! Wow.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

omg I didn't realise he was in so many fictional podcasts that I love! he's brilliant in them too

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

thank you Björk

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026

All of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts and his touring band have dropped out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know who doesnt use children as an excuse to talk about difficult topics and genocide? Ms fucking Rachel! Her message for Ed:

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the way people invoke "on both sides" as some sort of protection spell

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Flock is trying to recruit ARTISTS on job recruiting sites. I saw this while helping an artist friend look for part-time jobs and nearly vomited. “Visual storytelling” — What in the Leni Riefenstahl is this shit?

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's definitely a drop in quality. I think it's due, at least in part, to increased use of AI editing tools (which are terrible). This, combined with the pressure of algorithms that favour frequent publishing, is causing people to rush their work. It's really harming the medium.

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"There are people out there who have the power to cast trans actors, but what the fuck are they doing? Are they so inured with the system that they’re burying their heads in it? Seems like it." This is a fantastic interview variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you missed this at PAX, there is a great recent interview with the people running the exhibiton on the Video Game History Hour with @philsalv.bsky.social! gamehistory.org/the-video-ga...

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The Video Game History Hour | Video Game History Foundation

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh this is very cool. I interviewed the producer of The X-Files fmv game earlier this year. It was so interesting to hear how the smaller studios in the 90s were trying to be as ambitious as possible with the genre. www.heydannyitsmulder.com/episodes/epi...

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Phil Peters — Hey Danny, It's Mulder.

Phil Peters is the producer and production designer of The X-Files Game, developed by HyperBole Studios and released by Fox Interactive in 1998 for PC (Windows 95 and Mac OS) and 1999 for Playstation...

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The X-Files 720p Cinema @xfiles720pcinema.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"D.P.O." (1995.10.06) S03|E03|3X03 Director: Kim Manners Writer: Howard Gordon Director of Photography: John S. Bartley Art Director: Graeme Murray #XFiles #TheXFiles

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've had it since maybe 1990 and it's still my favourite

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah I’ll be sticking with this one for another while so

Photograph of my wristwatch, an old, pretty scratched up Casio

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

so much love to these protesters, and a moment of appreciation for the beautiful lettering on the left

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Joan Chen's Criterion Closet video is lovely www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9aa...

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Joan Chen’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... When women in Iceland went on strike, everything shut down. "Men were forced to bring their children to the office and, later that day, easy-to-cook sausages sold out at stores with men in charge of dinner."

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50 years ago, the women of Iceland took a day off—and inspired the world

Iceland is widely recognized as the world’s most equitable society for women—in large part thanks to the women’s strike that transformed the country 50 years ago.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A significant contributor to the gender pay gap and the continuing financial disparity between men and women is the undervaluing of all of the unpaid care work done by women in Ireland. Women all over Ireland get up early, every morning, and go to work, unpaid and unvalued.

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