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Profesor de Ciencias de la Computación en Universidad de Chile · Autor de la novela «Lloré sin consuelo sobre tu cuerpo eléctrico» · Editor en trazosdeaves.cl · Autista y amante · datagramas.cl · Posts mainly in Spanish, some in English

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · Jan 4

I self-published a book titled BECOMING AN AUTISTIC SCHOLAR about my journey as a PhD student 🧪

The book is freely available in PDF format! Download it here: datagramas.cl/narrativa/be...

Feel free to comment in Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Made with LaTeX, Python and pandoc 🐦

Cover of BECOMING AN AUTISTIC SCHOLAR.

How does the experience of pursuing a doctorate abroad intertwine with the discovery of one’s own neurodivergence? Through a series of interconnected stories, this book narrates the journey of a Chilean student and his wife to Barcelona, where he pursues a doctorate in Computer Science while she seeks her own path.

Like in the Japanese role-playing video games that the protagonist loves so much, the adventure begins in an unknown city, without possessions and with the challenge of learning the rules of a new world. Between algorithms and code, between tango and Street Fighter, between academic life and personal loss, the narrative explores universal themes such as identity, love, friendship, and grief.

A decade after these events, the author receives a diagnosis that gives new meaning to his entire experience: he is autistic. This revelation transforms the book into something more than academic memoirs - it is the testimony of how neurodivergence shapes our way of perceiving the world and relating to others.

Written with the precision of a scientist and the sensitivity of an attentive observer, this book is an invitation to reflect on how our cognitive differences enrich the human experience.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Jo Piquer @jpiquer.bsky.social · 10h

Hola! Salí en el programa "escucho voces" en una larga entrevista bien entretenida sobre chatGPT y su impacto en los seres humanos:

youtu.be/iwRZOd2vbNE?...

Si prefieren el audio no más:

open.spotify.com/episode/5tFj...

ESCUCHO VOCES EP 05 - Inteligencia Artificial - José Miguel Piquer

YouTube video by Escucho Voces

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 17h

In the newest Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com talks about the worst time in every book lover's life: moving.

reactormag.com/there-comes-...

There Comes a Time in Every Reader's Life When You Have to Move the Books - Reactor

A lot of books have come in and out of my front door. But now they all have to go out, because I’m moving.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17h

I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 1d

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊

Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on.

4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%.

The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart diseases 29%
Cancer 26%
Accidents 9.5%
Stroke 6.9%
Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Suicide (2.1%)
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%)
Drug overdose (1.8%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
New York Times
Heart disease (2.8%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Homicide (42%)
Terrorism (18%)

Washington Post
Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (12%)

Fox News
Heart disease (2.3%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Suicide (4.1%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Homicide (52%)
Terrorism (11%)

Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 1d

Gracias 🐦

Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 1d

Nuevo post con la adaptación de la charla "Neurodivergencia y DCC" que di para estudiantes del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile. Desde qué significa ser autista hasta consejos prácticos para la vida. zorzalmecanico.substack.com/p/soy-autist...

Soy autista y mi vida es computacional

Versión escrita de una charla para estudiantes de computación

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Becca Williams @beccasue99.bsky.social · 1d

It's terrifying out here in #AcademicSky... and yet I'm still willing to give it a whirl. At least for now.

Join me for my latest blog as I share some reflections on the uncertainty (and maybe thrill??) of careers in the academic sector 🤔

#neuroskyence #WomeninSTEM

Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 1d

“It feels at times that the only certainty is rejection.” Rebecca Williams @beccasue99.bsky.social shares her reflections on life towards the end of a PhD and at the edge of the academic map.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-uncerta...

Rebecca Williams - Blog – Uncertainty: Academia’s Drive & Downfall

Rebecca Williams explores how uncertainty drives science but also threatens careers, reflecting on her PhD journey, stability, and the thrill of the unknown.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 2d

We flirted with a billion birds again tonight, not quite reaching it, but still a bunch of birds on the move as that front with favorable north winds drew east.
#birds #fall #migration

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

BirdCast map showing 919.9 million birds headed south at 2 AM EDT on October 8, 2025, mostly concentrated in the central flyway.

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 2d

How to get addicted to TikTok - a cautionary tale told in #dataviz

Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 2d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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Tab Combs @drtcombs.bsky.social · 2d

I am increasingly baffled...and alarmed.

What is the value of citations--one of the primary ways academics are judged--if they are generated through #AI #slop?

#AcademicSky #Academia

screenshot of the paragraph in which my research on traffic impact assessment is cited. The text reads: "Adaptation is an effort to modify movement patterns to suit specific requirements, such as adjusting, changing, rearranging, revising, and adding variations. Meanwhile, origination is creating new movement patterns to suit certain situations or problems, such as designing, composing, building, creating, constructing, and creating something new (Combs, McDonald, and Leimenstoll 2023)."

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 3d

A crt TV photo of Earthion's intro running on our Mega Drive, with an anime style cutscene of the protag in a red helmeted flight suit in the cockpit of her scifi space fighter

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 3d

Se pasó pa' emotivo. Precioso.

Isabel🍃🍂🍁🌧️🌱🍉 @otonista.bsky.social · 3d

Nunca he visto un tiny desk.
Es buen momento para empezar.

youtu.be/UEqTIwRrWvA?...

31 Minutos: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 3d

Ilustración titulada «Celebración de Sofía», por @sebazebes. Son algunos personajes de mi novela: Sofía (bailando), Estela (con alas), el ciber-chucao, Aurora (trolléandome con la máscara) y Orión (el robot). Celebran que «Lloré sin consuelo sobre tu cuerpo eléctrico» se publicará en México 🐦

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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 3d

🪰 Meet our #BirdoftheWeek: the Black Phoebe
This tail-bobbing flycatcher hangs near water, snapping insects midair.
🌎 Range: western U.S. to South America (~5M & rising).
🎵 Listen for their “tee-hee, tee-hoo”!

abcbirds.org/bird/black-p...

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 3d

Hola, no, lo borré porque ya lo leíste.

Si quieres puedo escribir de nuevo lo que te aconsejé: que cerraras el trato y autopublicaras.

Y reitero que te deseo éxito con el proyecto.

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Mobility Behaviour👨‍🎓 @davidloisuned.bsky.social · 3d

Por cada 1% de crecimiento en carreteras, estacionamientos y otras superficies no permeables las inundaciones aumentan un 3,5%. hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/05/u...

More pavement, more problems

Study finds that for every percentage point increase in pavement and impervious surfaces, annual floods increase by 3.3%

hub.jhu.edu

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 6d

We're up to 70 submissions so far!! Keep em comin 💖

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 9d

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉

(general submission window 15-31 October)

Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives:

💙 500 - 2,500 words
💚 £0.02 per word, min £20
💛 Sim subs welcome!
🧡 Reprints welcome!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

#SubmissionCall

Post text overlaid on a photo of a low, wide corridor or tunnel with red lighting.

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 4d

Cositas desde la Primavera.

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Eduardo Díaz @lnds.net · 4d

Periscopio Semanal #131
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Periscopio Semanal #131

En mar calmado todos somos capitanes.

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 4d

Hoy en La Primavera del Libro firmaré ejemplares de «GAME OVER» y «Lloré sin consuelo sobre tu cuerpo eléctrico» a las 5PM, en el stand 92, de Trazos de Aves 🐦

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Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 4d

¡Muchas gracias! La portada de «GAME OVER» es obra de @zebes.bsky.social. En la imagen también está «Funerales», cuya portada es obra de @onreivni.bsky.social 🐦

Zorzal 🐦 @zorzal.datagramas.cl · 4d

Hoy en La Primavera del Libro firmaré ejemplares de «GAME OVER» y «Lloré sin consuelo sobre tu cuerpo eléctrico» a las 5PM, en el stand 92, de Trazos de Aves 🐦

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 6d

A thread of some design/code highlights for me from our 'How Bangalore Uses the Metro' 📊 project.

1. The header sign is fully HTML/CSS. 'Go Down Take Up For Toilet' is real signage at one of our biggest stations (pic below) :P

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