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Justino J Flores @justinojflores.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

If someone contends they've never heard Ponyboy by SOPHIE, it may say more about the listener than the song.

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 26/09/2026

I got approached by a server at a bbq joint asking if I was “Zelda” from the “crazy house party” in Bristol (a ski resort town, apparently). I am not, but glad I still got the aura, I suppose

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 26/09/2026

Trapped in Connecticut, thx Amtrak 💞

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 20/09/2026

Dropped my glasses in the midst of a packed and dancing festival crowd last night and somehow managed to reach down into the dark at the exact spot they’d fallen and recover them, unscathed. Burned off half a lifetime’s luck with that one

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is how zombie statistics are born. It's tempting to speculate but best not to. Even research that tries to come up with estimates is often pretty bad because it's very difficult to accurately measure these things, let alone vibe about them.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Want to join an NLP reading group with me? 📚 I'm starting a virtual section of a reading group that I ran in Copenhagen. We'll spend 30 min reading quietly (your choice of readings) + 30 min sharing with each other. You get to read and learn a surprising amount! 🌐 Zoom 🗓️ Mondays @ 12PM ET

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NLP Reading Group

We will meet virtually on Zoom every Monday at 10 AM MT / 12PM ET / 9AM PT. Structure: 📚 30 minutes quiet co-reading time (you choose what to read!) 💬 30 minutes sharing summaries + thoughts You get...

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 13/09/2026

I desperately need to get less OCD* about my lecture slides. I really do envy the “this looks like butt, who cares” cohort *I have OCD, don’t @ me

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 09/09/2026

Do any folks have feedback/tips for complying with NIH open access requirements when publishing in an extremely niche area (hypothetically, maybe something like gambling) with few journals that officially support the zero month embargo?

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 06/09/2026

ymmv but to me there is something poignant about seeing a normie-ass pharma ad for BIKTARVY, an HIV antiretroviral, featuring middle-aged people gamboling around and trumpeting U=U. Well within my lifetime this stuff was still discussed in hushed tones

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 02/09/2026

I agree with this. But the academics proclaiming that AI grounding for older teens should be banned and replaced with Latin or whatever are risibly naïve. This stuff is out there, irreversibly; it’s worthwhile to know, to understand, to leverage, and to call out and interrogate when poorly used

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 01/09/2026

Anyone have icebreaker activities that don’t make you want to gnaw a finger off? This would be for a Zoom thing that I need a lot of interactivity to pull off

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 31/08/2026

The most consequential inequity in academic career development I never see mentioned has to be access to funded grant proposals. afaik it’s still secured by begging and scrounging 1:1 among one’s network (with a mentor’s assist). Would love to see a pooled resource kept current by seniors and ECRs

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 31/08/2026

I worked through three straight weeks and weekends hitting job market deadlines (including adapting my entire K for an EU setting), had a rollicking good birthday weekend with friends, and am currently the direst piece of lazy couchbound shit and I love it. I literally never do this

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 27/08/2026

Am I the only one without intense parasocial relationships with celebrities

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 18/08/2026

I’m being baited, but it worked: To hell with this. This will inevitably lead to productivity expectations unobtainable _without_ one-shotting manuscripts, something I refuse to do even as a genAI researcher. If you hate the writing so much, find another job

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 18/08/2026

#academicsky Has anyone ever been penalized for not having a ResearchGate? Now that I’ve got to waste a nontrivial amount of my life maintaining my ORCID + SciENcv I’m trying to cut out additional “paste in your research achievments, no not like that” makework

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Check it out! Lea is live and open to the public 🥳 Lea is an experiment to build better social media by researchers and for researchers, where we own our own data and can build our own feeds, events, and communities. This is still very much a proof-of-concept; we welcome ideas + collaborators!

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 11/08/2026

If you are interested in doing a PhD and the overwhelming tone of abrasive bitterness on this site is discouraging you, you are welcome to DM me. My experience was wonderful. Not everybody's is. I am happy to talk through how, why, and whether that may be the case for you, without judgement.

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 07/08/2026

Forgot to wash my face between biking and makeup so now I’m essentially painting over the grit like a landlord

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 06/08/2026

The fact that the first reply to this basically no-joke nails it is why I still dig this place

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

please read this

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

any reporting on anti-trans policy that does not mention the consequences trans people will face under those policies is propaganda

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

lemme get this straight: in the last week, they’ve proposed to ban trans health care on the aca exchanges, nancy mace sicced the death threat mob on a random trans teacher, and elon musk went on a massive anti-trans rant about hormones making people violent & none of it is getting MSM coverage

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