I emerge, out of nowhere, to tell all my (currently 0) followers that I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK! It's beautiful, it's amazing, and I love it! It's called Abnormal Peripheries and it's about performance in the former Czechoslovakia that emerged under political pressures. GO READ IT and share this post
The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.
2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.
Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.
My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
I think about this a lot... funding applications take more time than the article you would write from the research
And this:
Online Studies Psychological Science requires that authors who use samples from online data collection include a statement in the Method section explicitly addressing their approach to preventing and detecting automated or AI-generated responses. Rationale As large language models and other generative AI tools become more accessible, the risk of data contamination by non-human respondents has increased dramatically in research. Psychological science (and the social sciences generally) is particularly susceptible to this issue given its growing reliance on online data collection. Preventing automated responses during data collection and detecting them afterward often involve methodological trade-offs. For instance, technical barriers that aim to prevent LLM use (e.g., blocking copy-pasting functionalities) may eliminate behavioral indicators needed for detection (e.g., pasting rather than typing). This policy aims to enhance transparency and reproducibility of reported results by requiring authors to articulate their approach across both prevention and detection dimensions, enabling readers and reviewers to assess the likelihood of reported data being influenced by automated responses. Scope This policy applies to any submission with at least one study that includes data collected online without direct human supervision (e.g., via crowdsourcing platforms, student participants who complete the study online, online recruitment ads, or remote survey distribution tools). Required Reporting Authors must include in the Methods section either: A statement confirming that procedures were in place to prevent and/or detect and exclude automated or AI-generated responses, including a description of those procedures (e.g., explicit participant instructions against LLM use, disabled copy–paste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable …
Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
I really appreciated this breakdown and the way it structured the reviews I've been hearing from kinksters.
"You don’t have to agree with the other group. But if you can’t even recognize its reasons to exist, you’re not debating. You’re policing"
mstrq.substack.com/p/pillion-th...
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
🧪Same-sex sexual behavior provides an evolutionary advantage, according to a new study across 59 primate species🐒🦍🦧
www.lbscience.org/en/2026/02/1...
@mayasaar.bsky.social @lbscience.org
Indeed.
Haha! "A good movie but *interesting* kink representations" - how's that?
The reason I let students choose their research topics is because I end up learning something - it's been a fun morning learning about Lesbian Sheep Syndrome
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
Very excited for this news - looking forward taking over as Editor in Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Lots of developments to come, and prep work between now and March.
link.springer.com/journal/1211...
Quoted in this BBC article on Pillion - www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
"New research published in the International Journal of Sexual Health suggests that the reasons why individuals watch pornography are more predictive of their sexual health than how often they watch it." via @psypost.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/01/20/w...
I'm enjoying seeing the influx of new people to bluesky - I'm just going to have to post more now...
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
I can still hear the noise it made calling people
Registering for something online - part of the sign up process was asking my 'Skype Username' - that was a throwback
Weed companies are using Dry January to market their gummies and drinks, Yasmin Tayag reports—but does taking the edge off sobriety with THC really count as “dry”?
#72: Shag a massive apple
It seems everybody and their friends/family decided to do legs today at the gym. While I'm also trying to do legs. It's very inconvenient.
A screenshot from the Traitors with Stephen in the confessional wearing a shirt with a distinctive red, white, and blue angular pattern
A photo of an Avanti West Coast Class 805 with a similar red, white, and blue angular design
#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries.
Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805
Beyond Monogamy: What Sociology Reveals About How We Really Relate by @ryanscoatsphd.bsky.social.
www.bcu.ac.uk/research/blo...
Hello! Hopefully some stuff will be coming out later this year :)
Ahh thank you! :)
