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Kerry Kole

@merrykerry.bsky.social

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Just here. Slowly dying. Personal Account. Not representative of any organisation. Interests in Dataviz / Intelligence / Philosophy / Psych / Linguistics / Cultural History / Knitting / Alpacas kerrykolosko.com grafiqinsights.com workoutwednesday.com

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 1h

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.

We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.

tiu.nu/22989

An aerial photograph of the Tilburg University campus.

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 1h

Oh no. I couldn't keep reading past the second paragraph. That is nightmarish.

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 1h

I went and switched off all three radios in the office last week. I lost my cool :)

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4h

Read the headlines and you’ll see wildly different conclusions about whether AI is taking jobs or not. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com break down what the data actually shows in their new newsletter The AI Shift. It's free to read here: on.ft.com/4niHdxo

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 5h

Oooohhhh!!

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 7h

it gets slapped with this ...

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 7h

2 million members and ...

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 7h

Oh thank you - I was trying from the taskbar

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 7h

I'm trying to change the Icons in my taskbar because they are visually distracting... my google foo is failing... I right click on the icons and no option to change them appears... help?

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 12h

Lol

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

COME TO AUSTRALIA!!

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

ooooh - an upset plot!! my fave :)

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's nice

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

Technologists that spend all day having to use a CYAN interface... no wonder they have difficulties sleeping!!

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really tired of eye watering highly saturated colours and gradients.
Colour, colour, everywhere.
A few weeks of black, white and sepia Kindle screens would give my brain a rest.

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really tired of eye watering highly saturated colours and gradients.
Colour, colour, everywhere.
A few weeks of black, white and sepia Kindle screens would give my brain a rest.

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

A self-appointed king needs a crown

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

Flagging this both because it's cool research, and because the graphs shown here illustrate a very important best-practice of showing both the curves/confidence intervals and the raw data points themselves whenever possible.

BOU @bou.org.uk · 2d

Colours of urban selection: carotenoid-based signals reveal divergent urban/rural evolutionary trajectories in two closely related passerines | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology 🪶

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

Just admiring the colour drenching

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

It's that your living room?

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

That is why I bought one that runs on batteries.

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 2d

That purple gradient background surfaces again

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 3d

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 4d

a cartoon of a girl with the words happy happy happy written on it

ALT: a cartoon of a girl with the words happy happy happy written on it

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 5d

Lol, old buildings with sloping floors and rested on a hillside.
Uni I went to had a 2A and 2B because the building wasn't level... Some of the foundations had sunk.

Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 5d

Me too before android moved the button. Then I stopped using it full stop.
No voice control for anything.