Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky

Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky

@adakepinska.bsky.social

"Gothy geneticist" in psychiatry, PhD • Cardiff University • they/she

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Dan Quintana
@dsquintana.bsky.social

New preprint! Universities increasingly expect academics to practise open science. But is it rewarded when hiring? We analysed 1,356 academic job ads from Norwegian institutions and found that <5% of ads mentioned open science as a required or desired qualification osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Emily Herring
@emilyherring.bsky.social

Parisian cops started tear gassing and using water canons before the protest had even properly started. Had never seen anything like it. This was us trying to get to the authorized starting point of the protest and we could hear the explosions of tear gas in the distance

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James McLeod
@jamespmcleod.ca

Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...

apnews.comCanadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literatureAnne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...

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derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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MIT Press
@mitpress.bsky.social

The Tetris Company says it owns the pieces in Tetris, but there’s one problem: Those geometric forms were described decades before Tetris existed. Julien Mailland details the game’s Kafkaesque journey from Soviet labs to “capitalist copywrongs.”

thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born TetrisBehind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.
Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky
@adakepinska.bsky.social

Reading papers on polygenic scores to criticise my polygenic scores (I am great at playing the academic game) bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/...

bmjmedicine.bmj.comEffects of polygenic risk score communication on short term health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysisObjective To summarise the evidence so far from all randomised controlled trials on the efficacy of communication of polygenic risk scores in changing health outcomes.Design Systematic review and meta...
Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky
@adakepinska.bsky.social

Supposed to finish a paper today. I have just finished editing the intro, which means that I still have to edit methods and results, the two most difficult sections (my methods have a statistics supplement going on for 15 pages...), and write the discussion. Big L, dear chat, also brain not detected

Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky
@adakepinska.bsky.social

It's one of those levels of unfairness that are truly unimportant in the grand scheme of fascism, but, like, non-men are constantly pushed, emotionally and financially, to look "polished" and all these politicians get to look like... this, just because? It upsets me every time, as tiny as it is

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky
@adakepinska.bsky.social

The main discussion should be that the sanctions are much too little, too late, and this is just low (and I am saying this as a person born in the area of Poland heavily impacted by the Holocaust, and the Milibands were Polish Jews)

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social

Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to

Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky
@adakepinska.bsky.social

Both Cisco, that I need to connect to the HPC, and my Word have just crashed. We all live in this vibe of "I will never finish this paper" sometimes, but I am trying to finish three, I have rewritten each of these at least once, and just, help me, gods of academia

Ada Kępińska is a bit spooky
@adakepinska.bsky.social

The joke itself is funny but the fact that about half of the mocking British English jokes underneath is conversations I have with my American wife is giving me pause (I am an Eastern European with a weird accent, no posh British, I promise)

ceej@ceej.online

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced today that the AI firm’s previously-unannounced flagship model “was British this time.” Amodei went on to say “this one turned out British this time”, explaining: “It just got more British during training. So watch out for that.”

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Max Kozlov
@maxkozlov.bsky.social

🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comRevealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIHAn agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕