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@cooljbad.bsky.social

IT Infrastructure and Question Asker for non-profits. StartingBloc Fellow. Husband to the best wife ever! #adhd #cats #plants #chemexican☕ #hashtag 🇲🇽🇺🇸 My opinions are my own.

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@cooljbad.bsky.social

More and more recently, I've been wanting to say to colleagues "I wasn't asking Claude, I was asking you. I respect you, which is why I asked for thoughts, opinions, and insights. If you feel a chatbot can give good enough or better responses to my questions, then why are you here?"

Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter is for people who are tempted to use LLMs to do their writing. Please enjoy. I wrote every word. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

buttondown.comHow to write it like you told itWhat do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?

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Crystal Lewis
@cghlewis.bsky.social

I rarely advertise my business. I've been fortunate to receive most of my work through referrals. But I do currently have space for a short-term project! If you need help setting up data collection systems, wrangling a dataset for analysis, or documenting data for sharing, reach out! cghlewis.com

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@cooljbad.bsky.social

This is such an interesting read! On a personal anecdote: I've been trying to understand how olfaction and apnea/dyspnea lead to physiological and psychological responses and how these responses seem to be at the root of my migraines.

Anna Ciaunica PhD@annaciaunica.bsky.social

Beyond breathing: multimodal pathways connecting olfaction to autonomic nervous system modulation: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

cell.comBeyond breathing: multimodal pathways connecting olfaction to autonomic nervous system modulationThe interaction between olfaction and respiration has recently emerged as a central aspect of brain–body interactions. To date, most studies in this context, both in rodents and humans, have focused on how respiratory airflow rhythmically drives brain activity. In this review, we shift the focus to the modulatory effects of odorant molecules, which engage chemical, affective, and trigeminal pathways to elicit integrated sensory experiences and robust autonomic responses. We synthesize recent findings showing that the olfactory system, through its unique connectivity with limbic and autonomic networks, operates at the interface between exteroception and interoception. By modulating respiratory dynamics, and more generally autonomic nervous system activity, odors emerge as a multimodal signal capable of influencing brain–body interactions and supporting well-being.

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Felienne Hermans
@felienne.bsky.social

Finally the video of the @dddeu.bsky.social talk I did in June is online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...

youtube.comAI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026YouTube video by Domain-Driven Design Europe
Felienne Hermans@felienne.bsky.social

The reception of my talk at DDD Europe yesterday, critical of DDD and of the field of software development in general, was truly magical and heartwarming! Hope there will be a recording online soon!!

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Erika Hall
@erikahall.bsky.social

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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@cooljbad.bsky.social

It's almost like Microsoft keeps designing for Managers who have no idea what they are doing, but everything will be fine as long as they get their dashboard.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social

Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

techcommunity.microsoft.comExcel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community HubLists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing...

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Jess Rose
@jesslynnrose.bsky.social

Everything is stressful and a lot of you are looking for work, so I found some open remote tech roles where your work would make the world better (or hopefully just not make things worse?) threaded here!

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Crystal Lewis
@cghlewis.bsky.social

Do you want to collect higher quality, more usable research data from your survey and other assessment tools? Then you need to build your tools and workflows with quality assurance and control practices in mind. Get tips here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/collect#coll...

datamgmtinedresearch.comChapter 11 Data Collection | Data Management in Large-Scale Education ResearchFigure 11.1: Data collection in the research project life cycle. When collecting original data as part of your study (i.e., you are administering a survey or assessment as opposed to using an...
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@cooljbad.bsky.social

If we're just making things up now, can finally go for that Ph.D in Horribleness??

The Associated Press@apnews.com

Digital media and people who star in it have been cultural mainstays for teens’ entire lives. Now they can earn a college degree in that very field. Arizona State University recently launched a new bachelor’s degree in content creation. The announcement was met with swift criticism from many sides.

bit.lyAn 'influencer' degree? Colleges bet on content creator major as critics question its valueArizona State University has launched a new bachelor's degree in content creation. The new major has sparked considerable interest and scrutiny.

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Retraction Watch
@retractionwatch.com

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

science.orgScienceAdviser Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winners of the Ctrl Z AwardToday in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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jessamyn
@librarian.bsky.social

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Iris van Rooij 💭
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

"Across democracies, the central dynamic is not two poles drifting apart but the transformation of the political right into authoritarianism, norm breaking, and openness to political violence." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgIt’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge CoreIt’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right

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tante
@tante.cc

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

tante.cc"Useful" is not sufficientSo Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]

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M.J. Crockett
@mjcrockett.bsky.social

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

blnreview.deLily Hu · Un-Doing PhilosophyAnalytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...
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@cooljbad.bsky.social

Digital Third Spaces are important for teens! Taking them away does not help anyone!

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

go.ted.comWhat we're getting wrong about teens and techFor years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁
@djdynamic.ca

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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Julia Métraux
@juliametraux.bsky.social

Looking to connect with people with post-polio syndrome who are connected with politics. For a story I'm going to write but not yet. Email is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Appreciate this being shared with folks IRL if you know those impacted.

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@cooljbad.bsky.social

I keep hearing people say we need to re-design our website for AI. I keep pushing back saying we need to design for people, not machines and we need to center on accessibility. It's bringing up a question I thought I understood: what is the purpose of a company website?

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Bookshop.org
@bookshop.org

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.