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Nadia Corral Frias @nscorralfrias.bsky.social · 3d

Join us at the Big Team Science Conference, live via Zoom on Wednesday, October 8 from 15:00-15:55 UTC, for our panel: "Majority world leadership in Big Team Science: Barriers, opportunities and ways forward". @iriszez.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social @btscon.bsky.social

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Raimundo Aguayo @raguayo.bsky.social · 9d

¿Tus hipótesis son falsables?compruebalo con este checklist:
Evaluate What Is Claimed to Be Confirmed: Initial Version of a Falsification Assessment Form (FAF) | Methodology doi.org/10.5964/meth...

Evaluate What Is Claimed to Be Confirmed: Initial Version of a Falsification Assessment Form (FAF)| Methodology

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 5d

I was taught in allyship training that “did you really just say that” and “dude, not cool” can be really powerful disruptors in conversation with people you know in real life.

I’ve used them (and seen them used) quite successfully

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 5d

...and that's a wrap for week 1 of our strike.
Thanks to all the students and colleagues who came to the pickets to support us, we will see you all next week!

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Bird @hatulimyafim.bsky.social · 5d

Jews should not have been attacked in our places of worship on our holidays. Muslims should not collectively be blamed for it and face crackdowns on their civil liberties for it.

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Bird @hatulimyafim.bsky.social · 5d

Human rights are for everyone; those of us in minority ethnic and religious groups must stand together in solidarity and not tolerate narratives that advocate for the erosion of rights and safety for any one of us.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

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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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 6d

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late

An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed. Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 5d

Twice, workers in Italy went on strike against the genocide. Twice, our department suspended its lectures. Not because professors joined the strike — most didn’t — but because the administrative staff did. A reminder: neither power nor morality are the prerogative of the elites. Quite the contrary.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 8d

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9d

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 17d

'centrists', liberals, whatever you want to call them who think that facts will beat out fascism and that science will win the day should be reminded of things like this

they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

The first ethical principle in AAA's Principles of Professional Responsibility is to "Do no harm." The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline, framed in ways that do harm to vulnerable members of our community. It commits one of the cardinal sins of scholarship-it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, namely, that sex and gender are simplistically binary, and that this is a fact with meaningful implications for the discipline.

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Such efforts contradict scientific evidence, including the wealth of anthropological scholarship on gender and sex. Forensic anthropologists talk about using bones for "sex estimation," not "sex identification," a process that is probabilistic rather than clearly determinative, and that is easily influenced by cognitive bias on the part of the researcher. Around the world and throughout human history, there have always been people whose gender roles do not align neatly with their reproductive anatomy. There is no single biological standard by which all humans can be reliably sorted into a binary male/female sex classification. On the contrary, anthropologists and others have long shown sex and gender to be

American Association of Biological Anthropologists

AABA Statement in Support of Trans Lives
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, the Dental Anthropology Association, the Paleopathology Association, The PaleoAnthropology Society, the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association, and the Human Biology Association stand together against the escalating legislation and governance in the United States and across the globe that attacks the existence of transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse peoples. We affirm the power of all persons to make the ultimate decisions over what happens to our/their own bodies. We oppose legislation that is rooted in and maintains rigid binary conceptions of sex and gender which impact reproductive justice and access to care for everyone. We condemn the biological essentialism driving much of this legislation. As biological anthropologists, we condemn the historical role of our discipline in producing binaries of sex, gender, and sexuality and are committed to work that enacts a more livable world. We condemn discrimination and denial of healthcare for youth and adults, including care that is gender and life affirming. We stand for the lives of transgender, non-binary, gender and sex diverse, and queer communities.
This statement was authored by Samantha Archer, Zachary DuBois, Alexandra Kralick, and Rick Smith; was unanimously accepted by the AABA Executive Committee; and was concurrently approved by the Executive Committees of the AAAG, DAA, PPA, PAS, AAA BAS, and HBA in November, 2023.

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Bridget 🦋 🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 9d

This is what a real leader and Nobel prize winner sounds like!

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9d

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Bridget 🦋 🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 9d

This! 🥰⬇️💯

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 9d

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 9d

Picket lines are stronger when students walk with us - thank you for your solidarity!

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James Chapman @jamesmchapman.bsky.social · 9d

Andy Burnham has called for the UK to rejoin the EU at the Labour Party conference. Now things are getting interesting.

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 9d

My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all.

When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 9d

Pickets in full force on the first day of strike - see you all tomorrow!

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O. Rose Broderick @rosebroderick.bsky.social · 13d

Mothers regularly shoulder the "blame" for having a child with autism. So when autistic moms watched Trump insist — despite little scientific evidence — that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism, it felt like a return to a dark era. #disability #autism

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Autistic moms feel shamed and stigmatized by Trump’s Tylenol warning

Trump's remarks linking Tylenol to autism are a return to an era when mothers were blamed for children developing the disorder.

www.statnews.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15d

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

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Lisa Walsh @lisawalsh.bsky.social · 10d

Excited to report: Academic Twitter didn’t die, it just replicated itself on Bluesky

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 10d

“To be Black, autistic, and a woman is to walk through a world shaped by the constant weight of racism, ableism, and misogyny , not separately, but all at once. all at fucking once”

phenomenallyautistic.substack.com/p/why-we-mus...

Why We Must Amplify the Voices of Black Autistic Women

"We’ve Always Been Here": Why Amplifying the Voices of Black Autistic Women Is Essential

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11d

Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism.

Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have.

Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare.

People are trapped, so we must fight for them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com

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