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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 10d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 8d

“What they’re trying to do is quietly end it, essentially slashing and killing DACA in front of us, one case at a time, one individual at a time.” interc.pt/4pTFsJU

A photo of Catalina "Xochitl" Santiago, who has spent more than 50 days in immigration detention in El Paso, Texas, overlaid with the headline, "The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely," and the DEK, "Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires."

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 9d

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.

A blue-grey box with a Red Cross on it, which reads: "BLOOD TRANSFUSION SET."

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23d

🩷💛 Check out @olivia.science ‘s CAIL website, with beautiful posters, video/podcast, papers and more! 🤩 olivia.science/ai

Colorful poster with text “Have you considered NOT using AI”, and a QR code going to our preprint “Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ technologies”

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 11d

Nah, that doesn't cut it, this is all Trump's nonsense.

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 11d

I can't with the escalator hissy fit, how is this real life?? 😆

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11d

As a scientist with three biology degrees from a top 50 global university & a post grad in statistics, I approve this message as factual. Love this T - T as in the truth. Sex is a continuum or spectrum, not binary. We need to challenge the Eugenicists every time.

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 11d

Sporting my super cool shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social —design by @franzanth.bsky.social 😁

Selfie of me wearing a black T-shirt that says “biology is bigger than binaries.” It has a design with a fish, bee, and flower.

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 14d

Wow.

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Trump Blames Autism on Tylenol While Americans Prep for the Rapture on TikTok | The Daily Show

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14d

AI regurgitation is the new smoking

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 14d

That headline reads like Simon Harris is attacking the flotilla...

Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 14d

Apropos of hearing PhD students casually referring to using Ai to "brainstorm" or to do copy editing. You are killing your brain. Copy editing is an exercise. It makes you a better writer and a better thinker. And don't get me started on 'brainstorming with Ai'...🤦‍♀️
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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14d

On Weds 22 October, we visit historians at the University of Suffolk and Suffolk Archives, to discuss partnership working.

Our Ipswich visit includes a guest public lecture by Tim Grady (Chester) and a reception to meet fellow historians and RHS members bit.ly/4medzcd All are welcome #Skystorians

Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars

A public lecture as part of the Royal Historical Society's visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, with Professor Tim Grady

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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 18d

3.27 — Our session on ‘The state of our bones: mortuary practices, taphonomy, and the conundrum of commingling’ continues now (6B); where Catherine Roberts et al. are ‘Testing the waters: The effect of deposition environment on dental diagenesis’ 🌊🦷🔬 #BABAO2025

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 18d

Any journalist who signs is no longer a serious journalist. "Access" isn't everything.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19d

“.. Those who refuse to sign the new policy will be stripped of or denied permanent credentials to cover the Pentagon.”

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 19d

What the hell, @ucddublin.bsky.social?
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University College Dublin teams up again with Israel's Technion

Irish authorities are under an obligation to act against genocide.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 19d

"And as of March this year, V-Dem in Sweden
said that 72% of the world is now under authoritarian rule,
that we are electing illiberal leaders democratically because
of insidious manipulation.
So they go hand in hand, money and power."

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Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 19d

I hate this timeline.

Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 19d

"The anti-vaccine fringe is now setting CDC’s agenda."

The latest from Dr. Leana S. Wen:

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s dismantling of the vaccine schedule has only just begun

Why it matters that the CDC is altering the childhood immunization schedule.

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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 19d

#BABAO2025 Poster Sessions:

3 — ‘Biomolecular analyses in bioarchaeology’ 💀⚗️🧬

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19d

I can't get over how weird this photo is. I love that someone in England captioned it: "Darling, be a dear and DO click on the floor lamp."

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 19d

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LGBTQI+ refugees in South Sudan trapped between a rock and a hard place

The unending political turmoil in South Sudan has created one of the world’s biggest refugee crises. But not all refugees, internally displaced persons and

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

"AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism …”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19d

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 20d

This is gold 😆
Well done @thedailyshow.com!
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Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

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