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Kerry McCullough
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Assoc Prof, Finance (PhD). Three fur-kids & a flerken. Drinker of copious amounts of tea. Would rather be reading. Her/she. 🌈. ⚛️. 🌍.
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raulpachecovega.bsky.social
“What’s your contribution?” isn’t answered only by spotting gaps in the literature. It can also mean troubling assumptions, reframing questions, or carving a niche.

My post expands on these thoughts: www.raulpacheco.org/2025/06/gap-...

#RPVSky
Gap-spotting, problematization, finding a niche: How can researchers develop their contribution to the literature?
Three of my PhD students are close to finishing their doctoral dissertations over the course
www.raulpacheco.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
sinboy.bsky.social Sinboy [He/His] @sinboy.bsky.social · Sep 4
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.

Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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luckytran.com
“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
I mean this is not a big deal in the scope of things but the US produces less than 1% of the coffee it consumes and there's no room to chance that because there's nowhere to grow it.

What kind of utter dumbass puts a protective tariff on coffee under those circumstances?
April 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study
Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infecti...
www.thelancet.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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risu.bsky.social
I am begging you all to stop creating new podcasts and please just go volunteer your free time somewhere like a school board, library , food bank, puppy shelter. Please.
March 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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luckytran.com
Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
Chart: U.S. adults reporting a disability The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog.” Source: Census Here, adults refer to people older than 16.
March 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Five years on and we’re still going round and round with whether Covid is airborne. There’s no scientific doubt. Denial broke us.
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
healthydebate.ca
March 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is!
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
March 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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longcovidadvoc.com
🌟We've made one more Starter Pack focusing on #LongCovid & #MECFS researchers
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🌟We will add as more people come over. If we've missed anyone let us know!
November 18, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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isabelrb.bsky.social
The individual costs of #chronicillness like #mecfs and #LongCovid are profound. This is why it baffles me when critics think that people prefer to sit at home and do nothing. even people who opt out of the workforce do so for a purpose. 1/8
December 2, 2023 at 4:30 PM
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castltrastondrs.bsky.social
Microclots could point the way to treatment
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2...

www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2020/hy....
Treatment of Long COVID symptoms with triple anticoagulant therapy
Background: Fibrin(ogen) amyloid microclots and platelet hyperactivation are key pathological findings in patients with acute COVID-19 infection and also in those with Long COVID/Post-Acute Sequelae o...
www.researchsquare.com
September 21, 2023 at 1:44 AM
kerrymccullough.bsky.social
It's true, plane boarding is the worst air quality. Stays high for ages and levelled out at about 1200 the entire flight. My N95 (the only one) felt entirely inadequate 😭✈️.
CO2 monitor at plane boarding showing 2517ppm
October 30, 2023 at 4:44 AM
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dhmontgomery.com
This is a fun one. I asked 29,000 Americans how they primarily organize their books.

- 29% don't organize their books
- 22% sort by genre
- 19% alphabetize
- 3% sort by color

But it turns out this depends HEAVILY on how many books you own. My story: today.yougov.com/society/arti...
A line chart showing the primary way people organize their physical books, by the number of books they own. As the number of books owned rises, the share who don't organize their books falls and the share who sort by subject rises. Almost no one sorts by color.
October 26, 2023 at 8:59 PM
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paulrk.bsky.social
Assessment in higher education is an emotional subject, as these drawings reveal. ‘Revealing assessment through drawing.’ wp.me/p47zDC-AQ
#EduSky
Revealing assessment through drawing
When leading workshops on assessment I often start with a ’warm-up’ exercise in which the participants, supplied with sheets of paper and plenty of coloured pens, are asked to draw/make marks on p...
wp.me
October 26, 2023 at 9:19 AM
kerrymccullough.bsky.social
Checking fit and comfort for a longer wear of my Flomask. It handled a very sweaty morning of gardening, before a tea break with the best void in the universe. Taking some trial and error to decide on the best strap placement.
October 23, 2023 at 9:11 AM
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katie.bzky.team
managers in offices will just say anything. "We need you in the office instead of remote". No you don't. That isn't true.
October 18, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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caitesq.bsky.social
If you do enter a sheep phase: There is a strange, lovely little book called Three Bags Full about a flock of sheep who try to solve their shepherd’s murder. I apologize for the unsolicited recommendation; it’s just a book I have to recommend whenever anyone mentions sheep.
October 16, 2023 at 12:36 AM
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gaborbekes.bsky.social
Did you know...

Our R vs Python vs Stata video has already had 2.2K views on YouTube?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-z67...

@koren.mk @ariedamuco.bsky.social
Stata vs R vs Python - What Should I Master to Analyze Data?
Α hybrid event, organized in partnership with the Vienna Data Science Group and the Vienna Applied Micro Economics Network.The core of the event was a discus...
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October 15, 2023 at 1:26 PM
kerrymccullough.bsky.social
Attended a gluten free baking course last week with 2 of the amazing people I did my PhD with. Was so wonderful to meet up over food and learning again 💛. Plus, there was tea and cake (and baby chicks and ducks).
October 16, 2023 at 6:49 AM
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astrokatie.com
Wearing a mask these days sure gets me a lot of people asking “are you sick?”

I wish there were a succinct (and non-argumentative) way of saying, “no, I’m just unusually dedicated to, you know… the opposite of that”
October 12, 2023 at 3:23 PM