Very useful: a form to help you build an AI disclosure statement. Developed by Kari Weaver. aidframework.org

PKP released the Publication Facts Label for OJS 3.3–3.5, a transparency tool to strengthen journal integrity and reader trust. Built as a plugin, it helps journals demonstrate their quality and accountability. Learn more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/31/p... #OpenAccess #OJS #MediaLiteracy #ScholarlyComms

Thanks to the 200+ people who signed up for my session this morning at Open Education 2025! My talk is about the sociopolitical and critical dimensions of openness. You can find a copy of the slides (CC BY) at.. opened25.sched.com/event/270La/...

Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉 Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20... Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social

The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size #ai www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

Parliament is debating whether equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) should shape $3.6B in research grants. Supporters say it drives innovation; critics call it politicized. How should Canada balance equity and excellence? 🔗 http://bit.ly/43dhcZc #EDI #Research #Policy

A lesson I had to learn in the last couple years is that as long as the tech industry has thrown all its money behind something then laws like copyright don’t matter.

He's right.

#OpenScience Statement from UN's Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board. "this Scientific Advisory Board calls for urgent cooperation to advance science as a global public good – and we stress that doing so requires accelerated transformation to open science." www.un.org/scientific-a...

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

⬇️ This is the first time a British politician will be found guilty under the UK Bribery Act.

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Strategy: wait until Palestine is destroyed, then recognise it

Britain’s zombie universities should put Schumpeter on the syllabus on.ft.com/46tIQC1 | opinion

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

We were delighted to join you for #OpenFest25! Thanks so much for making us so welcome at this fantastic event 😀 @rfarrow.bsky.social @beckpitt.bsky.social

Up bright and early to head to University of Oxford for the 1st AIEOU Collaborator Conference @ai-e-ou.bsky.social

As we continue to recreate BNU, we’re now recruiting for a Director of Brand, Communications and Marketing. Crucial senior leadership role for shaping our future. Reshares appreciated. jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/dire...

“The truth is that artificial intelligence, no matter how sophisticated it may appear, is still massively dependent on the most precarious human labor on the planet. An untold number of digital workers, estimated by the World Bank to be well over one hundred million globally.”

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal & logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the J of the American Philosophical Assoc. They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity & open-mindedness theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philsky

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

While other journals deal with the pressure to publish more and more articles, the Journal of Philosophy accepted just one paper out of 403 submissions in the first half of 2025.

In the third of our awesome #GO_GN #OER25 scholarship blogs, check out @brandoncarson.bsky.social's awesome post "Energized by Connection: Reflections on OER25 and the GO-GN Community" go-gn.net/gogn/energiz... #OER #OEP #opened @altuk.bsky.social

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. 1/n

Keep an eye out for collaborative online sessions between @knowledgeen.bsky.social and GO-GN, September-October time @beckpitt.bsky.social @rfarrow.bsky.social #OpenFest25

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...

Political attacks, natural risks, computer obsolescence... 🙊🌊 Scientific data is under threat. We provide details of a struggle for its preservation and for #OpenScience with Jürgen Enge, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @rrrrrok.bsky.social und Frank Oliver Glöckner.

New Blog Post When AI Overrules You: How being outvoted by AI teammates impacts human-AI collaboration. www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/in-o...

About how AI-generated videos about history steal content from humans and "threaten to literally rewrite history—or people’s understanding of it—with all of the biases imbued into AI by its training material and, increasingly, by the willful manipulation of the companies that own these tools."

“The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves.”

If you're at UNESCO hearing and thinking about #AI, I strongly urge you to take your guidance from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social rather than the people trying to marketise these chatbot technologies. Avoid solutionism. Reality is messy. Don't believe the hype. Remain critical.

If you're at the @unesco.bsky.social Digital Learning Week, you'll perhaps be interested in the recent special collection of JIME - Metaphors of #AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices, featuring an interview with keynote @emilymbender.bsky.social jime.open.ac.uk/collections/...

Things are now kicking off for UNESCO Digital Learning Week in earnest... schedule and live feed at www.unesco.org/en/weeks/dig...

The clearest case of genocide to come to the Court. Prof. William Schabas, on the US, Germany, Canada, and others: “To the extent that they are providing material assistance of a significant nature, they can be held responsible as accomplices to genocide.” www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

I was happy to contribute to 'AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions', a publication by UNESCO aligned with Digital Learning Week. Check it out for an overview of thoughts from education experts and leaders on the #ai zeitgeist! #aied doi.org/10.54675/KEC...

This looks extremely good by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social So important to recognise differences in what 'open' means in #openscience. She shows for Bergson it's to cultivate meaningful social relationships, for Popper it's to exchange ideas and materials. The two can come apart! #philsci #metascience

Hot off the press! It's the JIME Special Collection, Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices edited by myself, @eam0.bsky.social, Giselle Ferreira and Kyungmee Lee Check it out if interested in #AI in #Education (or metaphors generally) jime.open.ac.uk/collections/...

Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.

Third AI Winter incoming?

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Analytic Philosophy: I read this book and it doesn't make sense. There's something wrong with it. Continental Philosophy: I read this book and it doesn't make sense. There's something wrong with me.

So. It turns out the "Childrens" Online Safety Act in the UK was not actually about the, you know....the children. t.co/TAkm74iX6l

A Universal Basic Income that help the poor and generate economic growth from the ground up? We’ve no way of knowing that’ll work! Better we invest in artificial intelligence that is currently consuming all our power to create a John Cena lookalike that tells pornographic stories to children.