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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

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

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

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)."

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

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

Se pasó pa' emotivo. Precioso.

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 🐦

🪰 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...

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.

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

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...

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

Cositas desde la Primavera.

Periscopio Semanal #131 En mar calmado todos somos capitanes.

Periscopio Semanal #131
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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 🐦

¡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 🐦

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 🐦

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

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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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

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Your Code Will Be Dead in Ten Years But Your Ideas (Hopefully) Won’t Be

Sorry to say it, but if you're a Ph.D. student, chances are that your code will not live long past your degree. Instead, you should strive for separating your research contribution from their implementation (which counts as validation). Read more:
niklaselmqvist.medium.com/your-code-wi...

Hi! What you did was also important and there is still people building on your work :)

Look at this cover!!! LOOK AT IT 👀😍

🏆 ¡Investigadores del DCC reciben el Best Paper Award en #SPIRE2025! Gonzalo Navarro, Cristián Urbina (PhD DCC) y Giuseppe Romana (U. Palermo) fueron premiados por su avance en compresión de datos y búsqueda eficiente.

🔗 Noticia en: comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/1044-in...

I love how Blue Velvet becomes David Lynch's version of a "coming of age" story. You imagine that you're all grown up and then you go on a joyride with Frank Booth and learn that adulthood is a parade of countless unknowable and bizarre cruelties. Your childhood hometown is full of severed ears.

Mira esto: bsky.app/profile/zorz...

Ojo con las nuevas estafas usando IA e ingeniería social. En este caso, contra autores y autoras de libros.

Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks? Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. So which one should you choose, and when?

Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. So which one should you choose, and when?

Suena a mal negocio, pero basta que una persona caiga/compre para que sea rentable. La inversión en hacer algo así es mínima. Y si tienes la maquinaria para hacerlo en un sitio, lo puedes hacer en muchos más.

No lo sé, porque si le van a pedir dinero a escritores/as, claramente erraron en el punto de partida.

Quizás es hacerse un perfil y hacerlo popular para después venderlo o cambiarle el nombre, como que eso es algo típico en otras redes sociales.

Hay una plaga de bots que se pone nombres y foto de autores/as de renombre. Ese perfil en particular también le ha escrito a otras personas (incluyéndome).