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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 10h

Jumping on the Wifi long enough to past a quick #bird pic from this morning, Golden-hooded Tanager, #RanchoNaturalist, Cartago, Costa Riica #birding

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · Jul 1

Great Coxwell barn in Oxfordshire was built in 1292. Dendrochronology has shown that some of its timbers were felled in 1256, whilst the majority were felled in the winter of 1291. It was part of a Cistercian abbey founded by King John.

The full interior of the great barn at Coxwell in Oxfordshire showing the steep roof dominating the image with the arcade timbers rising from old stones. Has a Scandinavian feel. The light is contrasty but warm - it pricks out the openings at the gable which is in the distance.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 9h

I wrote about my time in the holy Japanese town of Kōyasan: Every Tree Can Be a Buddha. “You don’t want your pilgrims getting lost — how are you going to find eternal salvation if you can’t even make it to the temple?” [kottke.org]

Every Tree Can Be a Buddha

I began at the end. The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route is an amazing 12-mile trail that winds its way up through the forest from the Jison-in temple in the town of Kudoyama in the valley to the Danjo Garan temple in th

kottke.org

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Monica Hunter-Hart @mhunterhart.bsky.social · 10h

1/3 Reddit’s popularity has exploded in recent years.

Daily users have approximately doubled since the summer of 2023. It’s become one of the top sources cited by AI chatbots. And organic search to the platform has skyrocketed (you may have noticed more Reddit results when you Google these days).

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 2d

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Well, there are some interesting details in this…

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · Jun 4

This shit ain't nothin to me man. I'm in the White House snorting Special K and pitching continental missile defense. My self-driving scam long like the Trojan War. Shorty wanna invest in magical thinking, that sound like her problem. My chatbot so racist it says the pyramids built by Andrew Jackson

Elon Musk in the kind of condition where you can easily imagine him going off on some Dracula Flow shit (actual image from his recent appearance at CPAC, wearing terrible glasses, a gold chain, and a "gothic dark maga" hat

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Anna Spysz @annaspies.dev · 3d

“We need to have fewer things in the world that make us wonder whether everything is just made up bullshit.”

Another banger from @anildash.com www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

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Emmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social · 4d

Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei)

Starlit Night, 1930s
woodblock print

I appreciate you all ✨️
have a good night🌙

illuminated houses in silhouette, two figures with lanterns walk along the waters edge, winter trees and bright stars

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 4d

"Evil or Irrelevant: pick one." > I wrote up why I'd usually prefer to have an 'evil' company succeeding in Leeds than a good one succeeding in London. (But really it's about Stoke-on-Trent). tomforth.co.uk/evilorirrele...

Evil or irrelevant: pick one.

Why I’d probably rather have an evil tech company in Leeds than a good one in London.

tomforth.co.uk

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5d

Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶

A brown pelican, just appearing as a black bird against a muted orange sky, dives into the ocean.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 6d

h*ck yeah pumpkin challah french toast #poliscicooks #pacooks

French toast on a plate with sausage and buttermilk syrup and whipped cream

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Robert Ghoulet @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 7d

The speed that these AI video generators are getting better is mind boggling. If it wasn't so catastrophic for the earth and easy to be used to shatter any semblance of shared reality as the ruling class continues to take over the world and send us back to serfdom, it would be incredibly impressive.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10d

A sampler of soundwalks:

Field Notes: A Beginner’s Guide to Soundwalks

Soundwalking exists at the intersection of art, field recording, urban studies, and acoustic ecology.

daily.bandcamp.com

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 11d

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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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13d

I love @abeba.bsky.social's characterization of “critique as service”. I hope this work will be received in that spirit. 19/19

Dr Abeba Birhane, 'critique is service' is the hill I'm going to die on

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13d

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14d

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · 14d

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Claude for Life Sciences

Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.

www.anthropic.com

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Dara DataVis @daraprojectcity.bsky.social · 14d

We are raising awareness of #aphasia by:

1. Talking about our research. The Dara project looks at everyday information - like maps, pie charts, and physical data to see how easy-to-use people with #aphasia or #DLD find it.

#DevLangDis
@sayaphasia.bsky.social
@thestrokeassoc.bsky.social

A map of a street system showing roads, a park and two landmarks: "Botanic Gardens" and "Dara Bridge"

A Pie chart labelled "Popularity of ice-cream flavours at a seaside town". Flavours shown include chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and rum & raisin.

A photograph of four chunky knit scarves - each showing different sized blocks of colour.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15d

One thing I’ve observed in recent wks: it’s important, even for public-facing political education — re: democratic process, civic institutions, etc — to *cite your sources*; citation is a political practice and it acknwldges the value of the resources your work builds upon, + which need support too!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17d

The mist-shrouded morning at Point Reyes National Seashore, hiking with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social, felt not just haunted or ethereal, but otherworldly. The zenith of that sensation came when a huge bull elk appeared out of the landscape as if a ghost from another land entirely.

slope of darkness with mist over the ocean cliffs

huge antlers over low bushes, in the mist

the bull elk slowing appearing out of the mist

bull elk framed by mist, suddenly come clear to us, casually eating a plant, with plant stalks draped over part of his rack.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 16d

Going to make a thread of free software that's useful for making zines (writing, illustrating, image processing, laying out, publishing...)
Different operating systems. Let's go...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 16d

Zine-aspiring people, this looks like a great list of resources! (cc @ruthmalan.bsky.social)

Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 16d

Going to make a thread of free software that's useful for making zines (writing, illustrating, image processing, laying out, publishing...)
Different operating systems. Let's go...

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 16d

More Mt Airy, Philadelphia - Support from the garbage truck driver was awesome

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 16d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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