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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1h

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 8h

Always count on the absolute dumbest man among us to just say the thing out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Niina @thriftyfinn.bsky.social · 12h

Halp!

Minulla pitäisi saada Jaakko-niminen seniorikissa Rovaniemeltä tänne Ouluun. Edellisiltä omistajilta ei onnistu tuonti ja minä en pysty junalla hakemaan.

Jos jollain olisi kulkua Rollosta Ouluun pe tai la ja voisi ottaa Jaakon kyytiin, niin ois ihana!

Please uudelleenbluuttaa! #Oulu

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 17h

Questionnaire responses have today introduced me to the gay RPG Robin Morningwood, and I am intrigued.

NSFW, depending on where you work obvs.

Robin Morningwood Adventure - Gay Bara RPG (18+) by Grizzly Gamer Studio

Gay Bara RPG

grizzly-gamer-studio.itch.io

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 1d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

For good measure, call her Lewoman Russ going forward.

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

Aina voi toivoa!

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

Team day of the dead

tharook @tharook.bsky.social · 20h

28 business days later

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 20h

the human resources centipede

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Reetta Humalajoki @reettaeh.bsky.social · 21h

Etsimme tutkijatohtoria hankkeeseemme 'Omia, lainata, varastaa? Alkuperäiskansakulttuurien käyttö Suomessa läpi 1900-luvun'! Hanketta rahoittaa @koneensaatio.fi ja luvassa olisi 16 kuukauden työskentelyapuraha. Hakuilmoitusta saa jakaa ja minulta saa lisätietoja.

agricolaverkko.fi/ilmoitukset/...

agricolaverkko.fi

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a white cup .

Alt: a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a white cup .

media.tenor.com

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

I saw this at the cinema with my mum as a very small kid, and had to leave crying because that scene was too scary 😭

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

Etätyöpäivästäni puolet menee itseruoskintaan ja toinen puoli häpeään siitä, että en käy Helsingin keskustan lounasravintoloissa.

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 20h

Virkistävä tämä kuva tulevaisuuden Suomesta, jossa peruspalvelut, kulttuuri ja koulutus on leikattu maan tasalle, puolustusbudjetti on massiivinen, töitä - jos niitä sattuu olemaan - on tehtävä 70-vuotiaaksi ja kurjistuspolitiikkaa on luvassa hamaan ikuisuuteen.

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 2d

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 1d

"Cultstuds" sounds either like

1) a sexy queer RPG
2) a religion-themed porn site

Love it!

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 1d

Another day of reading qualitative survey responses. One of my favourite response types is

"I don't have much to say about manhood or masculinity, it's not really visible in my life"

(goes on to write a page of insightful reflection on what it is like being a man)

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 1d

That's funny because 'mediocre' is a word that describes most of his own movies. (He also has two or three very good movies and several awful ones.)

deadline.com/2025/10/ridl...

Ridley Scott Says Hollywood Is So “Drowning In Mediocrity” He’s Been Forced To Watch His Old Films

Ridley Scott has claimed that Hollywood is so "drowning in mediocrity" he's returned to his old films, including 'Black Hawk Down.'

deadline.com

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · 1d

Game Studies Day is here again! (In a month)

Join us in Helsinki on November 7 for excellent talks on games and gaming - follow the link for registration.

Valitse kieli

link.webropolsurveys.com

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

#CFP www.digraconference2026.com Intersectional Pleasures Maynooth Ireland 14-18 June 2026. Abstracts due 1 Dec.

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 1d

I 100% agree, they shouldn't. That is how it has (unfortunately) been in practice, and it's work that isn't acknowledged enough.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

“California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required."

Read @clarajeffery.bsky.social on how powerful states can fight back against Trumpism. After all, California has the 4th largest economy in the world.

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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