Fascinating, not just for what it reveals about AI use but also for what it (potentially) reveals about the impact of AI use on learning. The final scores weren't just way below the midterm scores but also way below the historical average.

this explains so much tbh lol

FT: Joe Biden “made 13 transactions over four years.” In 2025 alone, “Trump made more than 22,000.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9067...

ChatControl is silently back on the table. No matter how many times the parliament rejects it, the commission (especially a part of it) keeps trying to push it back in 🤬 www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-th...

Goede genade @rug.nl . Die hele nietszeggende schuingedrukte prietpraat had achterwege kunnen blijven - dan was die advertentie een stuk goedkoper geweest en had ik me niet zo plaatsvervangend hoeven schamen voor mijn werkgever.

After one year of experiments, readings and discussions, I tried to crystallise my current point of view on generative AI and education. It has a wolves a lot through the past two years but it is getting more and more stable lately: www.mseri.me/generative-a...

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

This is terrible and enraging. I have heard nothing in London about welfare checks and efforts to get the elderly and vulnerable into cooling centers. We need to do better. Googling to figure out how I can volunteer....

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My new book! Written w my pal Alex Townsend, it's about the math behind enormous systems (medical scans, AI, etc.) and what happens when they outgrow our ability to understand them. Pre-order at @barnesandnoble.com for 25% off -> www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-math-s... @littlebrown.bsky.social

Same company that created an AI bot of me "for educational purposes" without my consent. These people don't give a flying fuck about education.

"In some cases, the very same companies selling detection tools are also making apps that allow students to cheat, including by writing papers for them or rephrasing text written by others." Sylvester McMonkey McBean approves.

If you would like ideas for public engagement with graphs, have a look at what our colleagues did at "Science is Wonderful" Their recollection of the day is a pleasure to read and full of awesome ideas: www.networkpages.nl/networks-and... #mathSky #eduSky

"Day 127, orbit 1968 — That aurora was absolutely spectacular… shimmering and dancing beneath us, stretching as far as the eye could see, and so intense it lit up the Station in shades of green 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot.   📸 ESA/NASA – S. Adenot #εpsilon

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Of course! This should have been obvious! Cheating on assignments makes students learn less from the assignments! That’s why we try to prevent cheating at all in the first place! If it didn’t matter, we’d just have everyone cheat and hand out degrees after like a week of schooling!

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

brb pitching a major new project on "technological fixes and why they make problems worse, not better" to AHRC, Wellcome etc because apparently none of them recognise one when they see it.

"The mathematics community is right to call for transparency, integrity and fairness to be protected when AI tools are used [https://leidendeclaration.ai/]. Researchers in other disciplines could learn from this approach" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

HISTORY OF PHYSICS LSD and Quantum Mechanics In the 1960s and 70s, mainstream physics embraced a "shut up and calculate" pragmatism, ignoring the philosophical mysteries of Quantum Mechanics. This had the effect that John S. Bell’s 1964 theorem, proving quantum nonlocality (entanglement) 1/

Can you solve this puzzle? Robin McLean explores the algebra of constructing puzzles like this in a new #openaccess article in The Mathematical Gazette. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/7 Proud to share our paper, accepted as an oral at ICML '26! We highlight how Big Tech’s influence on AI R&D drives damaging outcomes, and what we as researchers can do about it. We also discuss underlying economic causes. See link for paper, and below for a brief summary arxiv.org/abs/2512.03077

Last week, with the good excuse of a 15 min lecture, I have discovered taxicab geometry. Very fun and surprising to say the least! So I took my chance to type down the lecture in my blog. I hope you enjoy www.mseri.me/the-geometry... #mathSky #eduSky

Saw this on LinkedIn. I come not (only) to praise Philosophy but to note that there’s very little exposure to AI in Civil Engineering, if I’m reading correctly. What? No one is using Grok to build bridges? Why ever not?

Or…AI is letting the philosophy majors to code… www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-...

Great news for Prof. of Astronomy @amina-helmi.bsky.social: she has wont the very prestigious 2026 @kavliprize.bsky.social in astrophysics along with two of her colleagues 🏆 They fundamentally changed the view that the milky way is a relatively unchanging spiral galaxy 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

How Canadian rock duo Angine de Poitrine play with neurobiology and physics to make viral music www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

Onze faculteit (Science and Engineering) is op zoek naar een nieuwe decaan: werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/dec... Laat het hier vallen voor de geïnteresseerde kandidaten, voel je vrij om te delen

People create a community online. They encourage alt text, to create accessibility for all members; they write explainers for newcomers. It's good. It's what the internet can excel at. Finding your people. Now AI bots can manipulate and pump misinformation into it, to goose AI search summaries.

A group of colleagues has released a declaration for steering the relation between Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics as a community. I happily signed it, and would recommend a read even if you disagree or don't intend to sign it: leidendeclaration.ai #mathSky #ai #academicSky

Don't miss the last YAG PUB Lectures of this academic year! Wednesday June 3 at Vin Natuur, Groningen, 17.00 Ayushi Rastogi – Code, Chaos, and Compromises: Behind the Scenes of the Apps We Use Every Day Nynke Velinga – Giving the green light? Liability for AI in traffic

Do you understand how serious it is that in Hacker News right now a violent issue against the rsync author is on the home page, full of normies commenting and upvoting it?

The largest study of AI use by undergrads is in, revealing disparities in access — and in cheating news.berkeley.edu/2026/05/21/t...

Het besluit over een fusie van RUG-faculteiten (van elf naar zeven) wordt een jaar uitgesteld, aldus het college van bestuur donderdag tijdens een vergadering van de universiteitsraad. Er is nu onvoldoend draagvlak, aldus het cvb. ukrant.nl/rug-stelt-be...

🚨 Breaking: Board of the uni just retracted the proposal to merge faculties! Faced with the certainty of a NO from the Uni Council, they took the high road. A victory for democracy at our institution.

🆕Algorithmics and Programming Watch the lectures of Jean Krivine, Marine Minier, Yann Rotella, André Schrottenloher & Emeric Tourniaire in the Audiovisual Mathematics Library @cirm-math.bsky.social & carmin.tv #Maths #conference #computer library.cirm-math.fr/ListRecord.h... www.carmin.tv/fr/c/1787

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

A single result presented, no account of how many attempts External experts paraded, no disclosure of internal checking Two paper-shaped objects, no notes on authorship, contributions, quality control A 'rewritten chain of thought', no access to the original and no disclosure of how, why, by whom

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

> You're probably wondering if there are truly neutral AI features that don't move the needle in one way or another. My gut response is to say "well, considering the amount of unethical data harvesting and electricity that goes into creating the feature in the first place, no."

New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

Adding backdoors into security products is never a good solution. I hope Europe and its countries start understanding this. Both as a warning to avoid making the mistake to force backdoors by law and as a reminder that we need to become independent from foreign tech www.techspot.com/news/112410-...

It's interesting to compare the "Lesson Intro" with the AI-generated summary. The intro is communicating much more than the summary—namely, the instructor is setting a very specific tone with their students, helping show what kind of instructor they are and what kind of students they should be.

In the US, Terry Tao seems to have become the de facto spokesperson for the state of AI and mathematics. Michael Harris (in a substack post, unfortunately) asks why, and highlights the perspectives of some German mathematicians that differ from Tao’s. siliconreckoner.substack.com/p/who-speaks...

🚨 Today is the deadline to put in your application to attend! It’s a super quick one, just a little info about yourself and your work. events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2128/

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Thank you for your contributions. Here is an accompanying visualization that allows you to see projective plane curves in (the disk model of) ℝℙ² instead of via affine charts: kyleormsby.github.io/plane-curves/ 🧮

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.