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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 4h

Yesss this is my thinking tho it might have to be someone I can also enlist to help me do all my Vinted listings because omfg the clutter that needs navigating too And then of course it’s the project of finding someone as well 😬

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 4h

Have any of you had your colour analysis done and was it worth it?

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

Oh I meant to write four but I think my brain glitched in denial, lol

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

meanwhile my partner’s work situation is also very much in transition, I still have no childcare or option for coparenting on Mondays or the whole of the weekend beyond literally early mornings and bedtime, and increasingly I find myself wondering if I can now afford a cleaner

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

Or, maybe I’m just really fucking tired because there are no rest days while we navigate the current big transitional period where I now have apparently three jobs, one as a researcher, one as a social enterprise founder, one as a parent and one as an advocate for my ND child in the school system

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

I am quiet and I have no stories because things are quite… a lot, I guess I have been working so hard to be more grounded and succeeding in some really important ways (new job! new writing! more structured automated processes in the social enterprise!) but recent weeks have really thrown me for 6

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

Heard a brief bit on the radio news that tiger enclosure designers would now need to think a bit harder about how to keep people out rather than focus on keeping the animals in and it felt like a metaphor for something

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

loving this story of triumph and also the notion of informal searching so as not to scare things away

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bbc Sounds have gathered all their spooky stuff into a Halloween list www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/curat...

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BBC Sounds - Halloween Horror - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Halloween Horror on BBC Sounds

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This made me laugh this week.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Apparently we’re living through a moment of revolutionary knowledge creation about pangolins owing to a lady named Maria rescuing a baby called Honey Bun who walks six miles a day on her back two feet with her front paws crossed like some kind of scaly royal advisor to eat ants

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here’s me laughing at pangolins walking on two legs and then the documentary switches to pangolins being the most trafficked species in the world

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Might fuck about and watch a documentary on pangolins OH MY GOSH HAVE YOU SEEN THEM WALK ON TWO LEGS

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why is the Button Moon theme song slightly out of tune

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them." zenodo.org/records/2008...

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies and their rhetoric infringe on academia in harmful ways, mirroring past uncritical acceptance of industry logics, such as those of tobacco and petroleum. In this...

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The mathematicians have absolutely had enough of Open AI’s bullshit www.ahmath.org/statements

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Statements — AHM

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Forgot somehow about the very specific genre of Traitor Music where it’s just slow breathy versions of pop and indie songs

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

here just to yell FOR FUCKS SAKE loudly into the abyss a bit

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Might fuck around and get myself a cape

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

closely followed by "how many times will I have to think about whether I want to talk about kinds of x versus types of x versus forms of x" while refusing adamantly to consut a metaphysician

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

literally just heard BBC radio news repeat this headline and highlight the finding that diagnostic levels are believed to be 'outstripped expected numbers in the population' WELL SURE JAN IF WE'VE GOT HISTORIC UNDERDIAGNOSIS AND WE NEED TO RECALIBRATE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE NUMBERS THAT TRACKS

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

how many times in my career will I have to google "what is the difference between a typology and a taxonomy", answers on a postcard

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I somehow memory holed the fact that from about 2015-2020 I had a 7” iPad mini that I used ALL THE TIME for reading especially in access contexts and so now I think I’m going to nab myself a 7” Boox if I can find one that’s not white and comes with a UK charger

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Jess @ GROVE @gr0ve.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I went off on a little side quest a while ago and wrote an 18 page booklet on this (also free) www.gr0ve.org/school-reaso...

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Help with reasonable adjustments for Autistic students

Free, detailed guides on reasonable adjustments in school for Autistic young people.

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fab zero- & low-cost reasonable adjustments egs below. YP won’t know what to ask for if they haven’t seen them modelled & accepted in sch. Share with fams & ask which ones might be helpful. Normalise their use. V powerful when (eg ND) staff model own RAs. autisticgirlsnetwork.org/knowledge_ba...

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School - Reasonable Adjustments | Autistic Girls Network

Here are some possible reasonable adjustments that can be established in schools for neurodivergent pupils.

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Schs now need to upskill so they can coproduce #inclusive approaches with fams & avoid jeopardising disabled children’s MH. Fab free NHS-funded training here: www.annafreud.org/training/cou...

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Neurodiversity and Wellbeing in Schools Programme

Join our autism and wellbeing training for teaching staff. Increase your understanding of neurodiversity, and learn how to support autistic students.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh my GOSH this whole absence of modelled RAs thing used to drive me bonkers as a PGR, thank you

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Which incidentally the Ed Psych basically validated as being her potential read especially with a highly/hyperverbal kiddo who reads “bright”, she wondered if there’s a tendency to assume his capacities are higher than they are and then focus on him unduly as failing to meet expectations

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

he’s now on reduced hours, with plans for “heaps of positive praise” which coincided with my/our realisation we’d heard literally none in four weeks and certainly none reported by him. She was very apologetic, seems v proactive but my inkling is the issue might be at the classroom level…

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so far I’m leaning towards a Boox (either the 7” or 10.3”) or a Surface Go of some kind. It HAS to have Zotero integration that runs directly because I’m now too tired and busy for something requiring some kind of workaround set up. Thoughts? Experiences?

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also tho iPads just seem so 2015 compared to vast range of tablets now out there, including eink options?

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ve never seen a paper be retracted because it’s philosophy and we don’t do that

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good to know about this, thanks, the size looks perfect — but the Zotero thing is non negotiable

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah I remember this life and I don’t want to go back there because it’s SO SMOOTH AND GOOD NOW

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My eldest just started school and I’ve been brewing some articles on how evidence based medicine occludes knowledge or care in healthcare and now I’m like ALRIGHT STRAP ME IN WHATS THE SITCH IN EDUCATION, because already, I am wondering. Which is to say, I would like to subscribe to these rants.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

This is the same issue with the hiring process and TA too now that I'm thinking about it: Higher volumes of shittier resumes that TA has to wade through which makes the entire process bad for everyone involved.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was gonna ask because I’ve been doing some reading on academic blogs and remarkable sounds like it’s integration with anything but a folder of PDFs vs eg Zotero is just painful.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

instead of blah blah blah insert defensive and/or aggressive response or just no acknowledgement

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