On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
Today in thesis writing motivation:
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily
You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
It takes up SO much time and energy too! And yet it's just seemingly the norm
Doesn't help that the rational brain is also now arguing with the "well there's more proof that you were never cut out for academia" thoughts 🫠
Can't figure out if I'm more frustrated or humiliated by the fact that I can't seem to make sense of all the author guidelines when trying to prepare a manuscript. It feels like such a ridiculous thing to find difficult, but there's just so much information...
#PhDSky #AcademicSky any advice?
A dumpster-style bin with the words "Wes Streeting's House" written on it.
Enjoy this photo from today's #transrights march in London I wasn't going to post pics, but this made me giggle.
Happy weekend of bingeing, #stats!
I say this on a regular basis, but I think if you are thinking about #statistics and how to communicate about statistics in one way or another most days (like many academics do), it is always striking to see graphs like that, which show just how little "normal" people relate to it.
I was trying to remember if I'd walked the dog tonight because I had no memory of it and then I remembered that I'd put my watch on to go out so I MUST have walked the dog.
I love finding out what silly little details my brain picked up
A reminder to my disabled friends.
Your value is not based on your productivity. Your bodies & minds are valid, beautiful & important just as they are.
You are worthy of love, deserve comfort, joy and safety.
We will fight ableist narratives about our lives. You're not alone #DisabilityJustice
Some people can work. Some can, but not right now. Some never will. All are equal.
I do not deserve more state support just because I’ve been able to work at times. Disabled people shouldn’t be ranked by ‘productivity.’ We deserve dignity, full stop.
#DisabilityBenefits
People aren’t out of work because their ‘aspirations are low,’ MP Jo White. They’re out of work because they’re disabled. Because their communities have been starved of opportunity. Because vital resources like the NHS and social support have been gutted cementing disability.
Honoured to add a lived experience perspective to this article. I can get nervous sharing my own experiences as stigma and discrimination are out there but I decided to be brave. It’s been so worth it.
Your perspective is so valuable in contextualising this work - and grounding it in reality. It's also just so important to see that researchers can and do bring their lived experience into their work, and it's not adding some sort of bias but it's enriching!
It'd also be much easier to post on LinkedIn if you're not also nauseous when doing so
Wanna say one more thing.
Nobody is going to assign you the task of doing something like this. You have to assign yourself this task. Just do it. It's cheap, it's easy, it helps your neighbors help local insects, it's fun, it staves off the crushing anxiety of being alive in 2025.
G'head. Do it.
I would LOVE it if my nervous system could stop freaking out every time I think about anything annual review/thesis/PhD admin related. It's just a little inconvenient is all.
I’m really sorry to the person whose email I have been meaning to respond to since September.
You can find an archived version using the wayback machine - I spent a few hours saving it all for future reference, might be handy to do the same web.archive.org/web/20250201...
My dog is so nice :)
Personally I think the issue is if you were selling AI photos for money, but it's completely fine imo to share funny photos! Now I've gotta hop to the bird place to see the cat photos
True - I was more getting at the fact that it's dismissive of the very real struggles and concerns of disabled/mad/marginalised folk. I get that "normal" isn't something you can/should aspire to fit yourself into, I'm just saying that feeling not "normal" can be a common way of articulating things
Yes! Really relate to that - what drove me to think about an ADHD diagnosis a few years ago was looking at my peers and thinking "is it really this hard for everyone? Why am *I* finding this so hard then?". When in reality being Mad/Disabled is an extra full-time job on top of daily existence.
It's hard to articulate the feelings of otherness and alienation, so often as a teen I'd only be able to say "I wish I was normal". When that's met with "there's no such thing", all it does is reinforce that actually, the reason you can't cope is that you're defective in some way instead. #MadSky
Because there IS such thing as normal when you're #ActuallyAutistic. When you're #Neurodivergent. When society isn't built for you and your early memories are just trying to fit in and cope in painful situations, while seeing how it's easy for everyone else. They're normal, and you're not.
Got so many things I want to do, and so little time and so few spoons!!
Really want to write/create something on the whole "there's no such thing as normal' comment which has always bugged me in ways I couldn't explain until recently.
I even dabbled in R shiny which is still baffling to me, but a doable amount of baffling