Miranda Heath
@mirandaheath.website
Psychology (& covert philosophy) PhD student at Uni of Edinburgh exploring ideology in altruism research. Loves spoonbills 🥄
mirandaheath.website
Co-organiser, Ideology Research Group: ideology.group
Member, Altruistic Minds Lab: mattiwilks.com/lab
mirandaheath.website
Co-organiser, Ideology Research Group: ideology.group
Member, Altruistic Minds Lab: mattiwilks.com/lab
Reposted by Miranda Heath
Absolutely this @sianberry.bsky.social
Don’t let the lights go out on our digital infrastructure. We need open source, interoperable systems that are in our control.
Tell your MP to support the early day motion ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
Don’t let the lights go out on our digital infrastructure. We need open source, interoperable systems that are in our control.
Tell your MP to support the early day motion ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Absolutely this @sianberry.bsky.social
Don’t let the lights go out on our digital infrastructure. We need open source, interoperable systems that are in our control.
Tell your MP to support the early day motion ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
Don’t let the lights go out on our digital infrastructure. We need open source, interoperable systems that are in our control.
Tell your MP to support the early day motion ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
Super interesting research on the effect of different approaches to AI use during learning: worse understanding when relying on Claude to tell us what to do than when making and solving our own mistakes.
Anthropic, makers of Claude, have published a report saying that “AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average”; for Claude Code specifically, they expect even “more pronounced” impacts on learning
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Super interesting research on the effect of different approaches to AI use during learning: worse understanding when relying on Claude to tell us what to do than when making and solving our own mistakes.
Can you help me make a list of people/orgs working on problems that cause burnout in OSS to share at FOSDEM?
Looking for work on: OSS advocacy, OSS value metrics, payment and governance models, dependencies research, community events/spaces, mentor schemes, codes of conduct, AI attestation & more!
Looking for work on: OSS advocacy, OSS value metrics, payment and governance models, dependencies research, community events/spaces, mentor schemes, codes of conduct, AI attestation & more!
January 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Can you help me make a list of people/orgs working on problems that cause burnout in OSS to share at FOSDEM?
Looking for work on: OSS advocacy, OSS value metrics, payment and governance models, dependencies research, community events/spaces, mentor schemes, codes of conduct, AI attestation & more!
Looking for work on: OSS advocacy, OSS value metrics, payment and governance models, dependencies research, community events/spaces, mentor schemes, codes of conduct, AI attestation & more!
Stoked to learn as a bird fan and ideology researcher that female birdsong is widespread, this was overlooked for centuries as most research happened in the Northern hemisphere + work on female birdsong is more likely to be done by women! Researcher diversity -> richer, less biased bird knowledge! 🦜
Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show how diversity can improve all fields of science
For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Stoked to learn as a bird fan and ideology researcher that female birdsong is widespread, this was overlooked for centuries as most research happened in the Northern hemisphere + work on female birdsong is more likely to be done by women! Researcher diversity -> richer, less biased bird knowledge! 🦜
Found this helpful! ✨
We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events.
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
Open Source Organizations
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Found this helpful! ✨
What it felt like learning about our dependence on open source software for the first time 🤣
I tried to go for a full day without using Open Source software. It didn't go well.
A Day Without Open Source
YouTube video by clumsy computer
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What it felt like learning about our dependence on open source software for the first time 🤣
I've finished my report on burnout in OSS and how to reduce it! Read more (and find the link to the full report) on the Open Source Pledge blog!
Huge thanks to all the OSS devs who shared their perspectives 💜 Let's keep shining a light on this under-recognised issue!
Huge thanks to all the OSS devs who shared their perspectives 💜 Let's keep shining a light on this under-recognised issue!
Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together | Open Source Pledge
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
opensourcepledge.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I've finished my report on burnout in OSS and how to reduce it! Read more (and find the link to the full report) on the Open Source Pledge blog!
Huge thanks to all the OSS devs who shared their perspectives 💜 Let's keep shining a light on this under-recognised issue!
Huge thanks to all the OSS devs who shared their perspectives 💜 Let's keep shining a light on this under-recognised issue!
I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
Report on Burnout in Open Source Software
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!
mirandaheath.website
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...