Warning for anyone considering @sunoai.bsky.social: I signed up out of curiosity and was unexpectedly charged for a full-year subscription. I immediately requested cancellation and a refund but received no response. Disappointing handling of customers. Engage at your own risk. ☠️ ⚠️

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

“As true believers are playing at their game of appearing serious, the real harms of generative AI continue to grow.” disconnect.blog/generative-a... Thanks to @garymarcus.bsky.social

My paper, with Kareem Khalifa, "Does Functional Connectivity Explain?" is accepted for publication in Synthese! @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social @danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

And now the plenary I have been really looking forward to: @dagmardivjak.bsky.social and @petarmilin.bsky.social on "Top-down wisdom vs. bottom-up noise: Can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?" A collaborative keynote from the heads of outofourminds.bham.ac.uk/about/ #SLE2025

This Friday (02 May), 5-7 PM (Hong Kong time), I'll be giving a talk 'Do Functional Connectivity Models Explain?' in the Philosophy of Science Lecture Series at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This is a joint work with Kareem Khalifa: www.shanyafeng.com/hkust-psl#ga...

Despite all opinions to the contrary and disagreements with his views, his lucidity is something I dearly miss in today's neuro/cognitive scientists.

Good news @dagmardivjak.bsky.social! Our article received enough citations to be a Top Cited Article in #LanguageLearning @wiley.com :https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12569 #TopCitedArticle

🎓 Want to level up? Join Mike Croucher from MathWorks for an in-person workshop: - When: Tuesday 11 February (13:00-16:00) - Where: Murray Learning Centre, UoB - What: Master MATLAB's parallel superpowers, CPU & GPU optimization - Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-perfo...

Between a rock and a hard place

Fellow academics, share your thoughts — I’d love to hear how you'd navigate an odd editorial saga. #PeerReview

Work with @petarmilin.bsky.social and @huisunsh.bsky.social, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social, carried out @lcuob.bsky.social @artsatbham.bsky.social with OA provided by the UoB library

If you’re looking for a great linguistics read I recommend Communicative Efficiency by Natalia Levshina (CUP 2022). Seriously folks this is so good. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Busy PG Open Day @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @artsatbham.bsky.social

The past few days have been heavy. Following the tragic events in Spain, I learned yesterday that a roof collapse at the train station in Novi Sad, Serbia, claimed 14 lives. Heartbreaking news for so many communities. 💔 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Special Issue of Language Teaching Research Quarterly in Honour of Brian MacWhinney now out. Tribute to Brian's profoundly inspiring influence not just on lang dev research in general but on so many of us personally. Thanks to Ed Wen & Hassan Mohebbi for editorial effort. eurokd.com/journal/jdwo...

I like this one so much. Not sure what cheers me up more, the title (The Cow With The Subtle Nose) or the painting itself, by Jean Dubuffet www.wikiart.org/en/jean-dubu...

The Economist: “[…] many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics”, and “for some, it is almost “a badge of honour’.” apple.news/AOGiOKTRuSVS...

Ready to demystify the magic behind GenAI? 🌟 Let me break down what LLMs are and how they power up your favourite AI tool in simple, snackable bits! #AIexplained #Simple

We are running out of theorists and science poetry. 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

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