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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

You don't need to (and should not) engage in self-exoneration on behalf of ultranationalists.

Repercussions? Ultranationalism doesn't meaningfully allow for that sort of accountability in the institutions it seeps into.

It happens often with neuro-myths; that is, there will be some kernel of truth or some actual scientific work that it gestures at, but it gets distorted beyond recognition as it's applied to argue claims that the actual work can't support or doesn't even speak to.

And that's as it should be.

"Fighting" Republicans by emulating their policy and rhetoric. Genius! That could never backfire.

the mind of someone who considers Mamdani to be more of a threat to NYC than Trump to DC. what a fascinatingly brain-cooked person.

Someone encouraging the party to do better, to not go in a "MAGA" direction, and you're calling her a MAGA bot?

Reading this from over a decade ago and wondering who he'd be calling a "compliant Quisling" today and why (web.archive.org/web/20130930...).

I think Paul was running to be the GOP nominee for president in 2007–2008? It feels so weird looking back on that period and seeing where some of Paul's supporters (e.g., Alex Jones) ended up.

I've mostly seen Jellyfin discussed in the context of movies and TV shows, but it can work for streaming music as well? If so, I might try it.

peacefully protesting Gaza or climate change: fuck you, go to jail

threatening to burn down hotels because there might be a foreign person temporarily housed there: hey guys, we hear you 😔

it's morally bankrupt, but on the other hand it's also politically suicidal so needs must I guess

It's also hard to determine whether it's worthwhile at the outset. Seems to require reappraisal at various points as the discussion proceeds. And that reappraisal might also lead to a change in approach too.

The Left Isn’t the Right. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for the Left

By A. Centrist

The only people working with child abusers are the Labour cabinet.

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It's a matter of Justice and Principle, but also it's obvious how this facilitates abuse. Keeping children and teenagers socially isolated, without access to knowledge and important resources, without the ability to reach out to anyone, is not safeguarding. It's nightmarish, suffocating oppression.

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."

Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

I don't want to overshare. I just want to say I'm so tired.

You can't repeatedly reference my having OCD, have it feature in your descriptions of my "way of talking" and as an explanation of behaviour, and then insist that you never regarded it as relevant to how you see me, how you treat me.

It's strange reading others' comments about me once they know I have OCD. It becomes the lens through which they interpret everything else about me: "Obsessional way of talking," "OCD traits coming through."

But then they'll insist that's not what they're doing. It's in writing! You wrote it down!

I'm sure the UK government has been informed of this. They're proceeding regardless. Because they are led largely by callous fools.

Whether intentional or not, the enforced isolation makes it so much harder to find the right words, to find community, love, solidarity. It really does bring about conditions that immiserate those subjected to it, cutting them off from sources of support and growth, and things they need to flourish.

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Hard to overstate to non-Brits just how conservative UK society really is, especially English society.

Angela Collier — vibe physics AI and it's use in hobby physics

New Angela Coliier video about vibes physics
@acollierastro.bsky.social

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It's more that it wasn't (and isn't) the only definition or conception we use.

one of 1995's best albums.

That depends on individual need. It's not a "one size fits all" approach where everything is predetermined.

You don't seem to understand what affirming care is or why it's important.

If the concern is profiteering, then there are sensible answers to be had that don't involve curtailing access to care.