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Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen

People without experience of PTSD don't realise this is pretty core to how the system "works" ☹️ The purpose of a system is what it does 💔 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

"no employee should even be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values" MFW she has more backbone than centuries old universities

I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

yes, and this is also an especially Global North/Western perspective to people's hearts: their pets — which they care about much MUCH more than they care about other humans who happen to e.g. not be USAmerican or white

Jtbc they hate each other too for sure

"While corporations urge us to embrace their supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics must take a principled stand and defend universities by barring toxic, addictive techn from classrooms." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Tide is def shifting: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 9/n

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is very important too bsky.app/profile/oliv...

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

BREAKING: Trump administration vows to put stop to sexual deviancy and trans agenda in organic macromolecules.

quick, someone help, we've got a vegetable situation

signed!

Tech bros 🤝 eugenists 🤝 white supremacists

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

The centerpiece of the teaching evaluations I give when it eventually becomes part of my job to evaluate teaching computing ethics will surely be something along the lines of "stop teaching them the fucking trolley problem, a system you designed literally killed people this month, talk about that"

For folks asking for a source on the claim: finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-... For folks who want to see the original IG post I screenshotted and read more: www.instagram.com/quitgpt/p/DU...

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

This is absolutely widespread and academics are doing this too. Degrading debasing and damaging our ability to award degrees that have any meaning. Sadly, students are graduating who abuse staff, plagiarise, and know they got away with it, and more. Shameful.

TED is one of the biggest enablers of this "AGI" scam, and one of the biggest ways to circle more money amongst more white dudes. Period. Why not do an "interview" with the myriads of traumatized, exploited workers and those protesting genocide enabled by so-called AI to discuss "safety"?

JTBC not a psychosis because they are getting away with it and the culture then and now allows it pretty much; it's attached to reality they could abuse like this, it really happened, sadly; and we must contend with this

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

Every time I hear some genius bragging about how fast they are learning to code/write/make art by using AI instead of their own brain, I think of Jenko in 21 Jump Street on the drug that makes him think he’s figured out all of chemistry but the whiteboard is just a whole bunch of 4s

I was recently a victim of DARVO and the perpetrator was assisted by the leadership of a professional society (which I have since left). So academic leaders really need to be familiar with this tactic and make sure that their policies are not easy to abuse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

"Learn like a human" if a human had the need to learn by destroying every book they touched, culture wouldn't have advanced in the first place. AI companies merely seize and destroy human culture, regurgitating it in pieces as something "novel", but it's just a cheap imitation of true creativity

If you, as a scientist, cannot be bothered to engage in the intellectual work of science, please quit your job and leave it to someone with skill and integrity.

was very cool concert!

I spent the whole day to read 'What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?' titled paper by @olivia.science. I sincerely think that it is the best paper I've ever read. Worth of time and highly recommended!

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

"Unlike Wikipedia, it does not allow direct human editing, instead an AI model writes content and responds to requests for changes."

​Chatbots have been an incredible loss for scientists and an incredible win for the people who send scientists 5,000 word emails about anti-gravity engines and CIA microchips.

"However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind." Erm, no. We already knew that. It is a hyped black box built on plagiarised content + labour exploitation. The arrogance & lack of reflection 🙄

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

signed!

Apparently certain AI boosters get really upset (not have deep counterarguments) about this thread... 😌

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden. www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...

☀️ Summer School 📚 “Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming" Organisers and teachers: 👉 @marentierra.bsky.social 👉 @olivia.science 👉 myself Deadline for application: 🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee) 1/🧵 www.ru.nl/en/education...

NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...

San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event "Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show" This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

So depressing when the discourse of science as pure, separable from, and not related to, real world actions is being perpetuate by those with the power to change this... www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

This is why I keep rolling my eyes at people who insist my profession will be obsolete in (insert number of choice) years. All that information doesn't ingest itself, you know.

📰 Unlocked article if needed: archive.is/EvNvP ✍🏼 Sign AI open letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-... 🤔 Resources on my perspective here: olivia.science/ai 📚 Read position piece below: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

Ramsey: “I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. … My picture of the world is drawn in perspective, and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as threepenny bits.”

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

"As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff." www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

heartbreaking case that exemplifies all that is wrong with silly half-measures and nonsense about AI use ("it was allowed to ask ChatGPT questions so that students could develop ideas as a result") & how people who don't need visas to live/study here bully those who do www.utoday.nl/spotlight/74...