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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 1h

"Consistently maintains dog care supplies Selects vibrant hair color products Regularly replenishes caffeinated beverages Likely prioritizes high-caffeine content in beverages Likely favors international food products" I am very... mysterious. (That's what you'd know also after meeting me. Once.)

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 13h

historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social & crystallographer Brian Sutton argue Franklin knew earlier photo revealed a helix—the epiphany Watson claimed for himself—&..why she made a 2nd photo 51..Franklin “knows exactly what’s in front of her,” says Betty Smocovitis..this analysis “adds justice" #HPS

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 8h

Piece by @edyong209.bsky.social on the Nobel in 2017. May as well be 2026, though. "They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors." www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science

They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 15h

Any women in this year's prizes?

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

The cops shot stun grenades at high school kids in Calais, blowing off the hand of a 15 year old boy. That's how vicious the response of the authorities has been.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22h

dictatorships are incredibly inefficient, as you'd know if you ever read a fucking book you pissbaby nazi wannabe.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

As a German, I love efficient multifunctional design. You basically have a music-playing heating installation that also acts as a stove/kettle and humidifier. I'd patent it!

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

Only slightly, though, I feel. Though I hope they changed your building's air filters in the last 50 years (oh, those postdoc years). If not... let's hope it creates superpowers! Ps: I am laughing way too hard at your 7 m/s testing. THIS is why you got tenure. RIGOR!

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

Watson is the Sam Altman of Genetics.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

They should try landscape painting instead, then.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

HA! An alternative is that you have AC yet no window. But if you turn the AC off, brown water rains from the ceiling. We moved. But do I remember that glorious moment I realized the options.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

To be honest, I have been tempted to start a cult, I mean, church.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 22h

And here I was, under the naive impression that there had been numerous alternatives throughout history and today. I know, I know... that whole reading books thing again that I am so insistent on... still. It seems to hold answers.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23h

I have an older friend who lives at the National Arts Club. It’s always such a delight to see that Donald MacDonald skylight dome ☺️

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 23h

*Any* movie with professors sitting in comfy office chairs near windows, musing about the world. No, you write emails. A window means you got tenure. You cannot open said windows. Because your administration fears you may jump. Not that they care. But the paperwork resulting from this... oh gawd.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Statistical power has been lionized in metascience. First, you care about statistical power only bec your whole scientific vision relies on the results of a hypothesis test. Get over it. Second, power can never make up for poor design, lack of theoretical understanding, or biased samples/measures.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Altman does not see the future. Stop assisting him in selling and building this bullshit myth. Want to know who saw the future? It was not "Aw, shucks" marketing boy. It was a woman with an intellectual backbone.

Book cover of Hannah Arendt's Human Condition

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All those missed opportunities to sell your soul, and you let them pass by! It's almost as if you actually paid attention to the things discussed in your seminars... darn.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He probably thinks he should have majored in Philosophy at NYU just to sell out hard, and peddle the hard problem (which somehow applies only to biological brains, not AI) to Anthropic.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Meanwhile, in Cambridge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztKp...

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meanwhile, in Cambridge. Mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_O...

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New banger by D.Cohn "How this building came to be offers plenty of insights into how the sausage is made at IU...how decisions about the campus are made and its treatment of graduate students through the lens of the housing that it does or does not make available to them" medium.com/@dncohn/on-g...

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On graduate housing (or not) at Indiana U Bloomington

Last Friday, IUB held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Beverly, a new apartment complex on the site of the former Poplars Building that is…

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A good read from @zey.bsky.social. Related to @arxiv.bsky.social 's oral exams: i) chalk talks are going to be really interesting during interviews. ii) Peer reviewing, I've also noticed folks winding up further out over their skis with stats.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The rise of metascience embodies and builds on this result-centric focus that has come to define the scientific endeavor over the past few decades. Maybe the backlash against AI will help us finally push back against this trend and bring the focus back to the context, process, assumptions & models.

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Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What AI scales about science are the parts that are most broken and gameable. With the exception of combinatorial problems like protein folding, we need more thinking and less rote computation.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Writing centers should be championed, not dissolved... Colleges are racing to outspend each other with new AI-focused programming. But individualized, human support for student learning should not be sacrificed on the altar of these ambitions." (by Lizzie Hutton, Miami U Ohio's WC director)

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AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, I turned my chaotic little developmental biology rant into an actual article that is hopefully somewhat less chaotic and a bit more approachable.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Depending on your interests, he wrote a few good books that integrate philosophy with psychology and communication theory—and I liked "Munchausen's Pigtail and Other Essays" and "The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know?"

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Archaeologists discovered 3,400yr-old fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty...signed c.1269 BCE by Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II & Hittite king Hattusili III...the fragment contains text...related to treatment of refugees...It reminds us of our responsibility to protect human life & dignity"

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great post entitled "Three Women, One Breakthrough" from AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists). First sentence: What do you think was the first profound, wide-reaching, economically effectual technological breakthrough in petroleum geology? Hint: 3 women are behind it 👇 #WomenInSTEM

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Three Women, One Breakthrough

The first major technical breakthrough in petroleum geology was foraminiferal micropaleontology – made by three young “girls” in 1921, which, within three years, created oil industry jobs for 300 micr...

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Paul Watzlawick's work, research in addition to his popular writing, is highly recommended.

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ~ Langston Hughes #RadioFreeAmerica #politics

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Idealization! 🫡 (Galileo has entered the chat, nodding approvingly)

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 21/09/2026

N. Katherine Hayles says LLMs are hideously innefficent. www.instagram.com/reels/Ddeogb...

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No gatekeeping? "But is this (really/still) philosophy?" has entered the chat. 😶‍🌫️

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Physicist Dr. Ursula Franklin helped invent archaeometry--the application of materials science to analyze archaeological artifacts. She used modern physics tools to date/determine the compositions of ancient metals & ceramics to uncover how ancient peoples lived/worked. Born #OTD 1921. #WomenInSTEM

A charming photograph of Dr. Ursula Franklin (1921–2016), the pioneering Canadian experimental physicist, metallurgist, and humanitarian activist. She is positioned slightly off-center against a minimalist, solid slate-blue backdrop. Captured from the chest up, she looks off-camera to the right with a bright, genuine smile that showcases her warmth and sharp intellect. Her short, styled silver-grey hair frames her face, and she wears thin-framed, amber-toned glasses. She is dressed in a crisp, purple-and-white vertically striped button-down shirt. Around her neck hangs a delicate silver chain supporting a striking teardrop-shaped pendant featuring a vibrant orange-red stone or amber setting. The lighting is soft and even, accentuating the fine lines of a long, accomplished life. The clean, professional composition evokes a mood of joyful wisdom, deep dignity, and enduring historical significance, celebrating a legendary woman in STEM.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good. They might still be hungry, though.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now imagine their internal monologue: *hearing an explanation of how LLMs work in a philosophy class, furrowing my brow to look like I know how it works because I study computer science - but really I am just hungry and have no clue*

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 14/09/2026

The government’s university funding policy is forcing women out of the academy. The example below is a pattern. This is one of the many ways the whole mess is unjust.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is very good on the psychological damage caused by universities ripping themselves apart, but it presumes that leaders want to repair that damage. My experience is that they deny its existence or simply do not care.

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