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.

The behavior of AI scraping bots - some of them from multi-billion$ companies - and the enormous costs they impose on small scale infrastructure & end users are an underreported scandal. This is my personal Luddite trigger.

Makers van de RUG | Hartschade vroeg opsporen of de gevolgen van aangeboren hartproblemen in kaart brengen: wiskundige Cristóbal Bertoglio maakt gepersonaliseerde computermodellen van het menselijk hart die hierbij helpen ❤️👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

🔭 The Conjunction of Comet R3 PanSTARRS and the Orion Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Julien De Winter, Sascha Ebeler Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260512

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

#coffee addicted ants are slowly conquering all the coffee machines in one of our @rug.nl buildings 🐜🤯☕🐜

Call! Are you a scientist? And would you like to share your science with the broader public? Sign up for the Eureka! Science Festival at Forum Groningen on 25 September 2026 👩‍🔬 🎪 You can join with an experiment, mini-lecture, installation, workshop and much more 👇 www.rug.nl/aletta/nieuw...

Now reading 📖 Cruz, Nicole (2026). Illusions of Understanding from Outsourcing Thinking to LLMs. Computational Brain & Behavior doi.org/10.1007/s421... 1/🧵

(And if you want to try this yourself - and I know you do! - here’s some bad instructions) bsky.app/profile/seam...

"According to critics, it benefits AI companies to keep you fixated on apocalypse because it distracts from the very real damage they're already doing to the world."

Used to be that top scientists from other countries would get poached by top US unis. Now China is doing that. www.wionews.com/trending/mat...

🔭 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr ap260427

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

🔭 The Persistence of Sunlight Image Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Busilacchi ap260425

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

‘They think I'm an elevator mechanic.'🧰 Thanks to Profs. Jan C. Willems & Ruth Curtain, the @rug.nl is among the world leaders in the field of Systems and Control. 👇Learn about the mathematical tricks behind a range of applications, like a knee prosthesis.🦿 🔗 www.rug.nl/fse/news/sci... 🧪 #SciComm

This will be amazing. And free!!

I'm really looking forward to this meeting on Failure in Science at Imperial College tomorrow. It's a topic we don't talk about enough. www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20415...

After a long and complex coordination work, the EWM-NL website has finally moved to its new home and its new look: www.ewmnetherlands.nl Great job! They do lots of great work, consider registering: it is free and the newsletter is very informative. #mathSky

“By treating the internet as a short-term problem-solver, we created for ourselves some new, very big problems; by allowing the internet to compel us to attend to a constant stream of different, trivial things, we have become unable to focus on the monolithically important thing that it is.”

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

If you're European, you now have a great and well-funded PDS in EU soil, governed by EU laws, run by awesome folks. Moving your account to Eurosky is easy, and you won't notice the difference afterwards. Please take a few minutes and do the jump 🇪🇺

What does it take to become a math teacher in school? We sat down with math teacher trainers and coordinators to find out. We talk about the rewards and challenges of being teachers, and discuss creative ways to inspire students. Join us at creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #mathSky #eduSky

A good day for Dutch mathematicians. 1. bsky.app/profile/rmat... 2.

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections! www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

New blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on. www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/...

🔭 Exploring the Antennae Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition - Mike Selby Processing - Roberto Colombari ap260410

Are you curious about @sciencefaction.nl work at the council or you are thinking of joining for next year's elections? Then come to our afternoon drinks! Wednesday 15 April, 17.00-19.00 Vin Natuur, Groningen We hope to see you there!

Jullie mogen doodstil blijven, Odido, maar de hackers die mijn gegevens nu hebben helaas niet. Ik word dankzij jullie shitbeveiliging nu met mijn naam en adres telkens benaderd door oplichters. #Odido

I could not agree more and share the worry. It feels to me that this applies pretty much verbatim to mathematics as well ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... #mathSky #eduSky

I really hope we won’t back down and let them in www.politico.eu/article/fata...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Studium Generale Groningen organizes many inspiring public lectures and debates. This should be quite exceptional: Be Kind - Alette Smeulers in conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi Monday 11 May, 19.30 - 21.00 Academy Building, Groningen All the details at sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Are you curious about @sciencefaction.nl work at the council or you are thinking of joining for next year's elections? Then come to our afternoon drinks! Wednesday 15 April, 17.00-19.00 Vin Natuur, Groningen We hope to see you there!

The more fascist underfunded and limited our basic science becomes the fewer divergent or dissenting voices will exist or will be heard. That's something to consider as we're quite obviously in those times. 5/

🚨 80% of Nobel Prizes go to folx in 5 countries. Why? We analyzed 75 years of prize committees, nominators, nominees, and laureates... a network of 500k edges. Turns out nominators choose compatriots at 5x the expected rate — amplifying geographic bias. Read: osf.io/preprints/so... #AcademicSky