Joanna Bryson

thread. correct numbers and data backing them come later, but this is the thrust.

A major factor in Rome adopting Christianity was that women ran household decisions/budgets there (like Japan now) including choice of religion, and they liked one dedicated to public goods for women and orphans. Apparently we learn this from Constantine’s letters to his favourite pagan priests.

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation 2024/2847) is the first EU-wide law imposing binding product security requirements on software and connected hardware, regardless of where the manufacturer is based.

I was astounded when, for the first time, I saw a speaker do this — use math to communicate, not just to signal. Flasbulb moment: 8th floor playroom, tech square. Vast minority of speakers really do this. Never seen it in a paper!

Yeah, you can, format is "from:@handle.bsky.social searchterm"

@support.bsky.team congrats on getting your search to be really outstanding; if a term is unique I can find it from years ago. But what I still can't do here that I could on twitter is put in the handles of the people who were discussing a term, for when a term is not that uniq but conversation is?

I'm at #COLM2026, with the paper "𝐌³: 𝐀 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬" to be presented at the AdvMLxCOTMA workshop. I'm also covering #COLM through the @wiair.bsky.social - stay tuned on youtube and don't miss any updates 🎙️ #WiAIRpodcast

The 2 women PhD students I've had have been perhaps my best-publishing supervisees, but both also went into industry after prestigious postdocs. I promised Jekaterina if she came & posted on bsky, more people would see her post than X was reporting. Turns out she was already here. Anyway, follow!

🙂 New paper from our lab on why some men choose to counter patriarchal norms in Tanzania. We used a mixed-methods "positive deviance" approach, interviewing outliers to explore why some become exceptionally supportive of women while most don't. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/gsc/view...

Good news of the day🎆

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I wonder how much they used AI for planning and logistics?

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting in today’s presidential runoff, moving the close of polls from 5pm to 7 pm Brasília time.

True, but a friend's partner was just hospitalised in ICU by a cyclist running a red light. Everyone needs to be careful, no one should run red lights at speed. A few years ago I crashed into another cyclist who turned left illegally right in front of me shortly after we'd both run a yellow light.

How could anyone NOT want to be covered by the #DSA? Great to see the mention in this context www.blogger.com/content-policy

Wow, Palantir & Google sharing talking points this via @rebeccasear.bsky.social 1/2

Neo-Patrimonialism: modern political science uses Weber’s term to describe hybrid regimes that maintain the facade of a modern, rational-legal state (elections, constitutions, ministries), while real power, resources, and decisions operate through informal, personal, and clientelist networks.–KIsum

Okay, I had not seen the impact of the “big beautiful bill” on non data centre construction before.

Exciting EPSRC-funded PhD opportunity to develop tech and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. Based @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall. Supervisors: Alex Thornton (@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social), @kjhockings.bsky.social & Monica Craciun Apply: tinyurl.com/v79p8en8

Read the whole story: Not just corruption, but also treasonous attempts to get sanctioned Russian Novatek into Alaska There is no bottom with this admin in undermining US national interests

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

More tech workers moving US to Europe than the other way around, but overall reducing mobility www.reveliolabs.com/news/tech/fr...

Anthropologists have often assumed hunting was a male activity for hominin relatives. New research adds strong statistical support to the data for female hunting dominance in bonobos. Is this a better model than the male-dominated chimpanzees for ancient hominins? www.johnhawks.net/p/woman-the-...

Monarch-butterfly populations in North America have long been decreasing—but there’s “reason to hope that there may still be a pathway left for saving the monarchs and their migration,” Vann R. Newkirk II reports. theatln.tc/BKqg2d3w 📸: Ana Hop for The Atlantic

So public shaming @nature.com can't make some people shut up shop – these guys just asked me to give a seminar this coming Wednesday! #EuropeanAcademyofEngineering www.nature.com/articles/d41... TBF I'd also expected #effectiveAltruism to shut up shop after some of those exposés, but no.

EHBEA 2027 is on the horizon! 🌅 👀 Abstract submission opens on November 1st! 😉 Don’t miss more news and updates by following @ehbea2027.bsky.social

@bsky.app finally supports ipad!!!

Gary King (for those who don't know) has done as much for quality social science as anyone. I do think reviewing is a plausible task for doing with AI, as well as #marking. But as much as marking/evaluation is truly the main academic task I'd retire to avoid, I've learnt so much by it & reviewing.