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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 13h

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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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a social science or humanities scholar who has heard about ORCID iDs but isn't completely sure what it does? In today's #FeedingTheElephant post, James Shulman explains the importance of having an ORCID id.
➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

ORCID iDs for the Humanities | H-Net

A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 2d

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Emma Francis @emmajfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

I remember watching that episode when it originally aired! Might have to rewatch.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 4d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family.

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 5d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5d

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 5d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 5d

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6d

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Data protection (UK GDPR)
Obtain confirmation that Anthology will continue to meet its UK GDPR Article 28 obligations as your data processor throughout the process.
Get clarification of sub processor stability (no changes planned; if changes are anticipated, please provide advance notice and details).
Confirm that no organisational changes arising from the restructuring will alter how your personal data is accessed, processed, or transferred; if any changes are envisaged, please outline controls, locations, and safeguards.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, it's ON @openresearchuoa.bsky.social Inspired by your contest, we're now taking your advice/guidance/contest and created a competition at LJMU. It's now live for all of our @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social PGRs. Check your inboxes and let's GET CARVIN'. With thanks to our open research friends!

Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 9d

It's the first day of October and therefore the start of the Halloween Season 🎃👻🍬

We're thrilled to announce another year of our Carve your PhD contest, where we challenge our wonderful PGRs to represent their dissertation topic as a Jack O' Lantern. Have Fun! Get Spooky!
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 8d

christopher walken in works of art: thread

Christopher Walken in The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8d

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her

Jane Goodall discusses what keeps her motivated six decades into her career and how she combated sexism.

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 8d

Once again, for #blackhistorymonth I'll be highlighting some of the all time greats from the world of sport and performance in a month-long thread.

Trailblazers, record breakers, game-changers. One every day.

Settle in....

Let's start with...

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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 9d

It's the first day of October and therefore the start of the Halloween Season 🎃👻🍬

We're thrilled to announce another year of our Carve your PhD contest, where we challenge our wonderful PGRs to represent their dissertation topic as a Jack O' Lantern. Have Fun! Get Spooky!
abdn.site/phD

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Emma Francis @emmajfrancis.bsky.social · 8d

I’m delighted we have been able to launch this project and develop a digital preservation platform. I’ve been involved in discussions around the importance of digital resilience and longevity for over 15 years so this is a milestone to be celebrated 🥳

Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 8d

Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/

Preserving tomorrow's history today with new digital partnership

Books and manuscripts held in the University of Aberdeen's collections date back centuries.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 10d

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

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Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social · 9d

Janeway version 1.8 is available rolling out onto our hosted installations now. Checkout some of the awesome features including work on @researchorgs.bsky.social and CRediT by @joemull.bsky.social.

github.com/openlibhums/...

Release v1.8.0 Paris · openlibhums/janeway

Main Changes Typesetting plugin is now integrated into Janeway core and , as such, the typesetting plugin will be deprecated. Janeway now integrates with the Research Organization Registry for aut...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9d

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

- Terry Pratchett, The Truth

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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