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UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 5h

📣 There's just one week to go until our introduction to social network analysis workshop!

This free workshop is suitable for absolute beginners with no coding skills required. Please book your place at the link below.

📅 15 October 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:30
📍 Online
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An introduction to Social Network Analysis - UK Data Service

15 Oct 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am - Social Network Analysis is an exciting computational method that allows us to study social systems by visualising and interrogating the relationships among…

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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science:

1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior
2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior

We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Expressing intentions is not climate action letter published in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512457122

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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14h

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 17h

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 15h

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 7h

Super cool science: Parachutes are expensive and delicate to manufacture, which limits their use for humanitarian airdrops or drone delivery. Laser cutting a closed-loop kirigami pattern in a disc induces porosity and flexibility into an easily fabricated parachute. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration - Nature

A thin planar disc designed with appropriately patterned cuts transforms itself, due to air flow effects, into an effective parachute exhibiting good positional stability, regardless of its initial orientation.

www.nature.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 9h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 1d

Yongxi Long and colleagues have written an excellent post about when and when not to worry about the proportional odds assumption: discourse.datamethods.org/t/when-and-w... #StatsSky #EpiSky #Statistics #RStats

When and why (not) to worry about the PO assumption

Aim We wrote an article (Long, Wiegers, Jacobs, Steyerberg, & Van Zwet, 2025) about the proportional odds (PO) assumption in the analysis of ordinal outcomes. we use various examples from neurological...

discourse.datamethods.org

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 23h

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀

If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!

If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!

DEADLINE: 16/12/2026

HERE IS THE FORM 👇

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc

EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...

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Thomas Pollet @tvpollet.bsky.social · 23h

With the help of some silicon friends, I built an open science escape room (works best on desktop) using Shiny and Shinylive in R. This is for a guest lecture to some 3rd years embarking on their thesis project. Give it a go if that's the sort of thing you like, tvpollet.github.io/shiny_live_o...

a kitten is sleeping in a cage .

ALT: a kitten is sleeping in a cage .

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

🐶Now out at JNB🐶

We examine the prevalence and psychological correlates of lay beliefs in physiognomy - the idea that a person's character is reflected in their facial appearance.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Beautiful Public Data @beautifulpublicdata.com · 1d

✨📊 Cold War Military Slides

A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars…

🔗

https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides

Text "MISSION AND ORGANIZATION" is overlaid on a fragmented map with a blue grid and multicolored sections.

A dynamic painting depicting U.S. Air Force and Navy missiles and aircraft in flight against a colorful sky background.

A pie chart from the 323D Flying Training Wing displays FY 1979 graduate assignments, with SAC at 46%, TAC at 36%, MAC at 15%, and other at 3%.

A pie chart from AFSC FY 80 showing the distribution of total funds managed, totaling $17.4 billion, with sections for procurement (43%), RDT&E (25%), foreign military sales (21%), and other (11%).

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, that time of year again, when the leaves are changing, the nights are drawing in, and the only thing I'm interested in is how many hours until I can have another Lemsip.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Guillaume Noblet @gnoblet.bsky.social · 2d

#TidyTuesday a week late on Crane Observations at Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden (1994–2024).

🗓️ Used a heatmap to look at the repeated yearly spring observations
🎷 `ggbranding` to add personal branding github.com/gnoblet/ggbr...
👽 Code: gnoblet.github.io/TidyTuesday/

#rstats #ggplot2 #heatmap #dataviz

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

"INSPIRE"

My husband has cheated on me at least three times, but he earns so much I won’t ever leave him
Daily Mail 6 Oct 2025

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Mar 16

When I posted this many folks said this likely isn't an injury, it's just something they do to stay warm, and OMG today over 100 sanderlings flew in right next to me and almost all of them were hopping on one foot. See thread for more 😭🪶

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2d

Someone sent this to me and I want to hug, um, share it with all of you (src @theunderfold.bsky.social )

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

- ‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

#climatechange
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

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