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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 7d

Bodø v Man city in late Jan should be a chance of a big upset! Maybe the Juve game too. Tottenham were lucky to head there now in hindsight

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 7d

Well...I wouldn't mind living in Lofoten to be honest. I go through Bodø a fair bit though and I can't say its the most interesting spot in Norway

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 7d

Haha classic

Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 7d

I was wondering about the bench since they seemed very reluctant to make many subs. Bodø deserved the points...hopefully they smash everyone else that.heads there!

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 7d

Lol...which commentator said that?

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 7d

Much better with them on but tbf it is hard to make a direct comparison...Bodø looked pretty tired by then after putting in big shift.

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Dr Eva Plaganyi @drevaplaganyi.bsky.social · 8d

An excellent thought-provoking read about what we as humans should be contemplating before we resist or resign ourselves to the GenAI revolution. Just one of several great quotes:

“Promote and produce original work of value, work that’s cliché-resistant and unreplicable, work that tries”

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 8d

This one hits close to home...was just watching this poor girl play football with my daughter the other day (& by chance have taken my own kids out fishing in that exact spot a number of times). Terrible for her family and for the family of brave diver who lost his life in the rescue attempt.

VG @vg.no · 9d

Båtkantringen i Lofoten: Svenske Ebba Torstenson (11) døde

www.vg.no

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Flemming Leer Jakobsen 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳🇳🇦 @flemmingleer.bsky.social · 10d

#Nappstraumen, #Lofoten #Norge

Vi skal huske, at nogle sætter livet på spil for at redde andre.

Desværre havde denne redningsforsøg en trist afslutning.

www.nrk.no/nordland/red...

Adrian (36) døde under redningsaksjonen: – Den mørkeste dagen på 100 år

Fredag mistet Adrian Willyson Brask livet da han forsøkte å redde liv etter båtulykken i Lofoten.

www.nrk.no

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 12d

I had a quick look for data but no luck

Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 12d

@robbieandrew.bsky.social I wonder if electric lawnmower and garden appliances sales mirror the carsales trends in the Nordics. Anecdotall but I seem to have noticed that the noise from lawnmowers had decreased a lot in the last five years.

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Per-Erik Schulze @pererikschulze.bsky.social · 12d

Fjord- og kystfisket etter torsk i Skagerrak og Oslofjorden er ikke som før. Mulighetene både for yrkesfiske og fritidsfiske for matauk har dermed kollapset for halve Norges befolkning. La oss se litt på hva vi har mistet og kan få tilbake ved mer bærekraftig forvaltning.

1997: Kragerø. 17 kg. 1/

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 13d

"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish

Illustration of a fishman creature with human limbs and fish head and tail, interacting with a DNA string

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13d

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

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Romaric Jac @romaricjac.bsky.social · Aug 14

Curious about how to study forage fishes (in Canada)? 🐟
Our new paper reviews current approaches, identifies key knowledge gaps, and offers advice on methods to address them.
Read it here 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tracking the schools: a review of approaches to address knowledge gaps in the migratory ecology and habitat use of Canadian forage fishes - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Forage fishes play a vital role to marine ecosystems by linking lower trophic levels to top predators and serving as key economic and food resources for commercial and subsistence fisheries. Despite t...

link.springer.com

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 13d

My comment was more tongue in cheek, stirring a litte 👍. I too like Norway very much and of course science! No opting out here!

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 13d

Sunshine and smiles...isn't that England? A foreigner would definitely get that impression after a visit atm right 😅😋

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 13d

I think (not 100% sure...might be mixing with Swedish experience a bit here) but generally in the cities you have private off street parking if you live in an apartment. And you pay an extra fee for the parking.

Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 13d

Where do private apartment dwellers park in this scenario? On the street?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 21d

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🔬💧 Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its water pollution rules.

📢 Freshwater ecosystems are collapsing - and outdated policies aren't keeping up.

Full statement ➡️ www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc...

#HandsOffNature

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 22d

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Consider the implications if ChatGPT started saying "I don't know" to even 30% of queries
- a conservative estimate based on the paper's analysis of factual uncertainty in training data. Users accustomed to receiving confident answers to virtually any question would likely abandon such systems rapidly.

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · Aug 28

I bet there are lots of new Nordic researchers who aren't in this starter pack. Send me a ping
go.bsky.app/V9URRDU

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SharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · Aug 23

An ecological risk assessment for the impacts of offshore wind farms on sharks and rays in Australia 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An ecological risk assessment for the impacts of offshore wind farms on sharks and rays in Australia

Sharks and rays play pivotal ecological roles in marine ecosystems, and globally, 32.6% of shark, ray and chimera species are considered to be threate…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr Helen Scales @helenscales.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's thrilling to see an angelshark swim past a camera in Cardigan Bay, Wales. First sighting in years!

As I wrote in What the Wild Sea Can Be, angelsharks are critically endangered but they are certainly not gone. There's so much to fight for in our ocean 💙🌊🦑🦈
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Critically endangered angel shark filmed off Welsh coast

First sighting in Cardigan Bay since 2021 of the species, which is under threat from human activities

www.theguardian.com

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