Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦

A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good question. I think it's a combination of status signaling and honest disliking of things that are "too popular to be liked". Art, almost be definition, must violate your expectations in a unique way, at least somewhat. And an artwork/genre that is everywhere just can't do it.

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

It's one of the examples, not the title slide (I think, it was automatically chosen by YouTube)

I was kindly invited to talk about my research at @cudanlab.bsky.social, and here's a video of that talk. And no, it's not about Steve Jobs 😄, but about evolution of the arts – 🎸📚🎨

I'm a big fan of these workshops organized by Dariia. They offer a chance 1️⃣ to learn useful skills fast (usually, practical & hands-on) & 2️⃣ to help Ukraine (all the payments, at least 20 eur/person, go to well-established charities). I attended many times, planning to attend this one too.

Owww 💛 It's heartwarming to hear this!

Congrats Dr Ben! 🥳

They are used in the function of em dashes, but styled a bit differently (since I come from Ukraine, that's how we do it). Functionally they are equivalent to em dashes

Is this a pre or a post photo? Can we congratulate you now?

Here is the first page of my PhD thesis published in 2018. There's eight. And I'm not alone in writing like this. Styles are different, you know

Who's there to decide what is an "over-use"? And do we now call ppl who "over-use" them AI? 😅

But... why? Because somebody who's ill-informed thinks that this is a mark of LLM style?

I think em-dashes are just a mark of good writing style. If this makes human style more similar to that of LLM, so be it. Also, I don't understand this obsession w/ detecting AI-generated text. Who cares? What matters is whether the text makes sense & whether there's a human who takes responsibility

Thanks! Other ppl recommended these exact two feeds: and they improved my bsky experience greatly

Picture of front cover of Theme Issue entitled "Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures." The image on the front cover is of a Yao honey hunter in Mozambique holding retrieved honeycomb.

Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

More images in a scientific paper that can be described as low quality, of questionable accuracy, environmentally damaging, job stealing and copyright infringing.

Hey, maybe it's time for scientific journals to just stop accepting AI-generated images?

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social
for a lecture and discussion

feat. Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social,
of @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

on "Evolution of Literature and the Arts"

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2)
i.e. 60 minutes from this post.

Details & zoom:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

Check this @artjomshl.bsky.social

Ups, my awkward phrasing! I meant this bsky.app/profile/did:...

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I see your point, but I doubt that YouTube or TikTok are good for having discussions. And I do think (hope?) that ppl would want to have that. But maybe not...

I think you are onto something here. I don't understand the point of # tags on bsky. Not convenient to use. Which limits connectivity and searchability

True. I'm not tied to bsky or any other platform, I just want to have a good tool for showing me cool new paper & interesting academic conversations online. And I don't have this tool since the decline of twitter 🥲

I got recommended For You instead of Discover feed in this thread. From one day of browsing, it does seem to capture what's falling between the cracks better

Apparently, about a half of ppl on bsky are from the US, and not just any ppl, but those who were actively willing to leave Twitter. Which explains the abundance of political talk. Personally, I also want to shield myself from *that* amount of political news and opinions

Yikes!

Very interesting observation! Not enough superstars on bsky? Or inflation of "followership" due to starter packs, etc.?

Fake Steven Pinker, drawn by an unknown AI model

AI was so close to getting it right...

Maybe that's what bsky is missing: well read teenagers? :)

I now checked bsky demographics: turns out, there's many young ppl. But: almost every second person is from the US. Hence, not much cultural diversity and abundance of daunting US politics