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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS: Why the energy transition is disruptive, non-linear, hard to predict and often faster than expected.

Our paper in Nature Reviews Clean Technology shows how feedback loops create virtuous and vicious cycles that can accelerate or block change. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I did my first 5k! and it was a hill run! I did end up jogging + walking and was really slow, but happy to reach the finish line 💪 and excited to do more now!!

Happy to say that exam season concluded successfully with good grades!
Unfortunately the late night snacking, coffee & decline in the no of runs over the last month or so wasn't the best wrt fitness, so i have jumped headlong into a virtual 10k and a 5k (hill run😅), my calves complain lol

#phdlife

This idea of "thin empathy" and "thick empathy" from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is lighting up my brain this morning. It's an intriguing model. We've built a world where chances for thin empathy abound, but thick empathy remains hard to come by.

I need to read that preprint today.

Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about the decline of democracy and implications for marine fisheries

#Fisheries are a key contributor to global food security. @brianpentz.bsky.social & @philiploring.com ask what are the impacts of democratic decline on marine fisheries, eg, on governance, & policy & suggest democratic decline is a major challenge to fisheries #sustainability doi.org/10.1111/faf....

as exam season nears its end, i glance at the calluses (literally, literally) on my fingers from answering 3 hour papers and replenish my pen set for the final stretch, i began with 6, used up 2 and lost 2, so par for the course lol.

ATmosphereConf 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open

Get your typing fingers nimble, the #ATmosphereConf call for proposals is open!

our adorable dog, a golden retriever, sitting on the grass and enjoying the sun in the park.

The grass is always greener on his side :D
#dogs

very interesting!

A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas As LLMs (large language models) are increasingly used to generate synthetic personas particularly in data-limited domains such as health, privacy, and HCI, it becomes necessary to understand how these...

"A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas" is accepted to AAAI-26! @aaai.org
@shomir.bsky.social

We show LLMs demonstrate "algorithmic othering"--e.g., disproportionately foreground racial markers, overproduce culturally coded language.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.07850

Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about co-creation of a sustainability index for small-scale fisheries

In small-scale #fisheries it is "crucial" to develop participatory approaches to inform management. Ayarza et al. describe a process with Spanish fishing guilds to co-create a sustainability index & note the importance of #trust, knowledge integration, & collective reflection doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Multidecadal Management Ensures High Sustainability and Low Risk in a Global Shark Biodiversity Hotspot doi.org/10.1111/faf....
"The current fishing sustainability risk for most species is low, with previously overfished stocks recovered or recovering to sustainable levels "

Announcing ATmosphereConf Vancouver 2026 - ATmosphereConf News The next ATProto Community Conference is coming to Vancouver, Canada, in March 26th to 29th 2026

Announcing ATmosphereConf 2026, coming to Vancouver March 26th to 29th.

We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j

The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%.

And the gap is growing.

Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.

🌿 Discover how the new Programme of Work on Article 8(j), adopted at #COP16, supports the implementation of the #KMGBF, with indigenous peoples and local communities playing a central role.

Learn more: www.cbd.int/traditional/...

#SB8J_1 #SB8J

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Building a research project is a lot like assembling furniture without all the instructions—you lean on method, peer advice, and a bit of improvisation. Patience and collaboration keep the pieces together. 🔧🤔 #PhDLife #ItzikThoughtLoop

You’re not doing this alone.
Even if it feels like it. There’s a whole quiet army of #PhD students out there — just like you.

#AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky #PhDDailyThought

quite an apt word of the day, scrolled upon it as soon as i visited the blue skies today :D

💯, after uninstalling and reinstalling the MS word plugin for Mendeley more times than a person should have to, at an hour past midnight, Zotero was my knight in shining armor 😂

Future changes in severe hail across Europe, including regional emergence of warm-type thunderstorms - Nature Communications This study finds a decrease in severe hail across Europe under a high emissions scenario using km-scale climate model projections. However, very large hail remains a threat, particularly due to the emergence of tropical-like thunderstorms around the Mediterranean coasts.

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. Read 'Future changes in severe hail across Europe, including regional emergence of warm-type thunderstorms' here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#earthscience #geoscience ⚒️

Table 1 Core reasoning issues (first column), which we name after the relevant numbered section, are characterised using a plausible quote. In the second column are responses per row; also see the named section for further reading, context, and explanations. See paper for full details: ** 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 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:

📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Dynamic measurement: A theoretical–psychometric paradigm for modern educational psychology Scholars have lamented that current methods of assessing student performance do not align with contemporary views of learning as situated within students, contexts, and time. Here, we introduce and...

🧠 What if we measured learning as a process, not a snapshot? Dynamic Measurement Models show how students grow — and what schools can do better. A smarter way to see learning in motion. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity Numerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite ...

i personally prefer not to marinate in bot driven hate speech & science denial journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and i hope bsky does not succumb to the forces that degraded most maybe all other social networks

Done with exams! Back to entangling with citation managers :D
#phdsky #phdlife

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

Comparing landslide patterns and failure mechanisms in restored and native forest ecosystems: Insights from geomorphology, lithology and vegetation Climate change has led to an increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events, intensifying the group-occurring landslides on a global scale. However, …

Landslide risks aren’t one-size-fits-all. In restored forests, failures spread wide; in native forests, slides run long and may turn to debris flows. Geology, soils, and vegetation together dictate hazards and prevention. 🌐🧪

Signed up for a 5k run in November... gotta up my game in october 💪
(its a hill run at that :D but the route is going to be very scenic, with lots of nature + historical monuments on the way)

i kinda like #examseason ... as it's a period of time when priorities focus around revising the syllabus and giving those exams, so its peaceful in its own way :D