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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 17h

The election is v soon so important question. Supporters of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, is it Zohranastrians or Mamdanistas?

Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 1d

So now we happen to know how they feel about the machine or

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Thank God, the ambiguity was unbearable.

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 1d

Southwark, I miss your silly every day (but no shade to anyone, I also mispronounced it for a while while living there!)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 3d

Asking Pelosi of any year to be quiet honestly

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 10d

Reframing tenure as a form of worker protection rather than promoting its benefits for academic freedom will help scholars win the debate around its merits, according to the author of a new book, writes Patrick Jack #academicsky
https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 10d

On the topic of Madonna still, a lot of how it works really, really well is essentially about bumping up the bpm, it turns out, old person shock as if I've never visited a club. This is not so fast, but apparently yes to Material Girl gabber? www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...

In Focus: Madonna 26th September 2025

Playing Pop. Two hours of hits, album sleeper tracks, edits, remixes and more from the provocative icon who changed the blueprint for pop. Selected by Sofie K.

www.nts.live

Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 10d

Coding to Madonna also works? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Objt...

Madonna - Get Together (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Madonna

www.youtube.com

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 11d

I don't know if it will help at all, but I believe it can be opted out of!

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 11d

Anecdotally, I know one more academic who uses Miss Spears' music to do work, but I don't know if it's for coding and I don't know if it's Blackout (her other records don't work so well to me)

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 11d

Is it just me or does Britney Spears' Blackout, her best record, undeniably, helps with dealing with code that one is struggling with?

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 17d

Something to be said about how the political fears that animated Damon Albarn at the time feel pretty recognisable now. In this essay,

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 17d

Feeling v weird realising that I haven't coded to music in... weeks? Feeling also a bit awkward that a person in the department gave me a weird look while I (wordlessly, with headphones and mask on) bopped to the synth line www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR...

Gorillaz - DARE (Official Video)

YouTube video by Gorillaz

www.youtube.com

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NY-CURES @nycures.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀

Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.

Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Sep 8

TIL that Ed Miliband has a Polish mom, and I am somehow v shocked that nobody has told me

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

www.medrxiv.org

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Aug 17

Aw, o no

Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Aug 16

I showed this to my partner and they were like, you didn't know about Peyronie's disease? In my defense, I don't have a carrot (or aubergine?)

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Aug 12

They cleaned subways during Covid. Now, they’ll get millions in back pay.

So proud of our team in the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social’s Bureau of Labor Law who won this $3 million settlement on behalf of 450 mostly immigrant workers who risked their safety for ours.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

They Cleaned Subways During Covid. Now They’ll Get Millions in Back Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 11

Many progressives think Open Science is a good thing but it has an ambiguous stance re IP.

Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page.

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Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our online seminar with Prof @kathybowrey.bsky.social on"Open Science's Progressive Potential. A Critical IP Perspective" is on youtube now, in which she diagnoses the potential and limitations of Open Science in relation to IP & other proprietary practices.

More online seminars to come in autumn!

Open Science’s progressive potential. A critical IP perspective, Seminar ISHTIP 2025

YouTube video by ISHTIP Video

youtu.be

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Aug 10

I am not a coffee person (it's hard in Brooklyn where no one seems to have ever roasted or bought a light roast...) but I really like James Hoffmann for his careful testing and comparisons, but this was weirdly funny and delightful www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1O...

I Bought David Lynch’s Weird Coffee Maker

YouTube video by James Hoffmann

www.youtube.com

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Aug 3

NYC peeps (or California peeps as I am supposed to be going to California soon): where can you buy opal apples? My local store carried them for a grand total of a month and the not amazing Amazon-owned chain pulled them also. I love my glorified golden delicious, please help!

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · Jul 24

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hey epidemiology friends, can I talk to you about mediation models in R? I am trying to use the R package mma (my models have multiple mediators and I am trying to assess contributions of each mediator within that model, not just a joint effect), but the models never converge and I get errors.

Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Jul 25

I missed out on an opportunity to make a joke that it’s Murphy’s law (because, you know, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus? I’m too tired)

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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · Jul 25

Can I somehow make my way into your department? That sounds awesome (and thank you so much!)

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