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Emma Wilson 🎃

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PhD student at University of Edinburgh working on evidence synthesis and research FAIR / open research; neurodivergent; she/they; views my own

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · Nov 10

Re-introduction time! I’m currently wrapping up my PhD thesis looking at evidence synthesis and open research in biomedical studies.

I’m also a speculative fiction writer (trying to get some short stories published 🤞), I love knitting, and I will like every cat picture I see.

#AcademicSky #writing

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michael veale @michae.lv · 10h

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 16h

If you live near Pittenweem, Pittenweem Library is having a PUMPKIN RAFFLE! The winner gets their very own pumpkin carved by me, with an image of their choice.

Today's pumpkin share is the scene last year's winner chose.

#PumpkinCarving

A photograph of a pumpkin carving with a black cat on the left, creepy trees and bats in the sky, and a church with a a graveyard and a creepy figure in the door.

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 17h

I did and they were!

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 21h

Was just thinking about what to make for breakfast so I’m interpreting this as a sign 🥞

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 1d

The reclaiming/reframing of frogs as Antifascist after enduring years of the execrable Pepe is glorious and I am here for every scrap of new heroic frog art

Christopher Doll @blackbirdcd.bsky.social · 1d

This is Space Frog

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d

"The ban will impact aspiring researchers who are outside the institutional structure. Many are from marginalised communities, working in practice, or on breaks and trying to return to academia. For them, shadow sites are their only resource."

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences

The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 2d

I love these! 🎃

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

If no human at Claivate is double checking the AI generated metadata, what's to indicate it will increase visibility and relevance in any more meaningful way than not having that metadata at all? Hallucinations aren't helpful.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Megan All Hallows' Eve 🦇 @meganeve.bsky.social · 3d

📣OA event idea for December! ALN are looking for speakers and presentations focusing on Green OA (such as promoting, challenges, journals vs books and discoverability) Please let me know if you are interested or would like further information.💚

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 3d

As I move further into my working life I discover that every question I want answered is a sociology question.

As ever, politicians would just like it if everyday folks stopped learning to ask questions and just did what the ruling classes told them to do.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Simon @simonxix.com · 6d

I was talking briefly to @kjsanders.bsky.social last night about how engaging with computer architecture and systems through e.g. installing Linux, reshapes to some extent the way that you think about your interaction with computers. It helps strip away the obfuscating layers of the GUI...

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 7d

I'm going to share two carves from previous years today. These are both of Pittenweem Pier, but in the right one, I added some details of the Scream by Munch to be funny... And I don't think anyone noticed it was Pittenweem Pier in the background.

#PumpkinCarving

A pumpkin carving of the small light house on Pittenweem Pier

A pumpkin carving of the Much Painting The Scream, but with the end of Pittenweem Pier in the background.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 7d

🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:

📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Core reasoning issues (first column), which we name after the relevant numbered section, are characterised using a plausible quote. In the second column are responses per row; also see the named section for further reading, context, and explanations.

See paper for full details: ** Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · 7d

Hey... You, yeah you.
Psst, over here.

*Opens grimy trench coat*

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Queer as folklore - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Queer as folklore by Sacha Coward

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 9d

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.

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