Bridget Copley PhD

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Almost 5k 🚀 let’s get there today - tell your friends!

🇫🇷 On passe les 5,000 aujourd’hui? Parlez d’Eurosky à vos amis!

🇪🇸 ¿Llegamos a 5,000 hoy? ¡Cuéntaselo a tus amigos!

🇩🇪 Schaffen wir heute 5,000? Erzählt euren Freunden von Eurosky!

🇳🇱 Halen we vandaag de 5,000? Vertel je vrienden over Eurosky!

2026 F1 opening titles Watch the all-new 2026 opening titles featuring all 22 drivers.

Kimi Antonelli hanging loose 🤙 #F1 and I'm going to sleep, let me know how FP1 goes

www.formula1.com/en/video/202...

Ok, 🧵: This ain't it, folks (the quoted text, not Prof. Carrillo).

The "students with anxiety/social barriers so they don't want to talk in class" is a thing, undoubtedly. You don't help them by giving them a robot to talk to; you help them by giving them better paths to speak for themselves. 1/x

pinging @moppety.bsky.social

Switzerland decided not to fund humanities and social sciences in their new national research funding...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba... 🐦🐦

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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I mean, they have to, right? Or else they would have to admit that their gains truly are ill-gotten and they are bad people

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline Recommended soundtrack for this post

"Here is the sad truth: baking potatoes in the microwave is an NP-hard problem."

malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey...

Don't access this site, for any reason.
Signed, a former intel girlie

Two stick figures in a version of xkcd's "Average familiarity" comic: Woman: "Compositionality is second nature to us formal semanticists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Functional Application." Man: "And Schoenfinkelization, of course." Woman: "Of course." Caption: "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field."

The world needed this. marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen... Thanks, @lensdeer www.tumblr.com/lensdeer!

In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:

How dumplings spread around the world

(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)

...and Universal Basic Income works, and ME/CFS and Long Covid are physical diseases that really exist, and ...

🐦🐦

i need an emotional support perogi

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Beautiful.

(Also, that riderless horse is most amazing way to handle the "political statement." --> www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... )

a man holding his head with the words one does not simply walk into mordor Alt: a man holding his head with the words one does not simply walk into mordor

frogging back to a cable row to fix a missed cable, then realizing anew that, no, one does not simply frog back to a cable row

Honda reveals new F1 engine with a key part hidden Honda has revealed its new 2026 Formula 1 engine at an event in Tokyo with part of the design kept hidden for now

-You get that photo of the new Honda engine for Aston Martin?

-Sure did boss, real sexy just like you asked, with the naughty bits blurred out www.the-race.com/formula-1/ho...

#F1

<husband, listening to the top ten bass tracks of 19xx> "You were born in the funkiest year!"

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Sometimes I have to remember to bring my professional self to the doctor's appointment and to never let my guard down. It's sad.

Oh right and then they say yes but can't really handle it. Or one doctor put in the letter that it was a complicated interview because we were speaking English and French (in the end I like the doctor a lot, but that was not what I wanted in to see in the letter...!)

this is the hardest. hugs.

They really need us to not blame them for a goddamn thing, don't they.

Je suis en train d'étudier pour l'examen civile, et apparemment, mes collègues philosophes au CNRS ont un gros problème : « Les personnes qui travaillent dans les services publics ... ne peuvent pas exprimer ou montrer leurs convictions (religieuses, politiques ou philosophiques). » oups

this is a reasonable theory

This could get you some real quality karma

Same, my friend, same