Keep pushing Norm.

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

@sigdoc-acm.bsky.social folx, be sure to check out this petition and sign it if you're opposed to this paywall.

Friends, at a time when science is under attack & people are economically hurting, the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, is introducing paywalls that didn't exist. If you're opposed to this measure, join me in signing this petition asking the ACM to stop. www.ipetitions.com/petition/res...

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

I see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

i have updated my anti-ai resource list to include a tab full of memes and social posts people can share (including ai fails, posts with analysis and framing) as well as a tab about taking action. i'm open to suggestions if people have ideas for things i should add: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A short blogpost detailing my experience of censorship at the AI for Good Summit with links to both original and censored versions of slides and links to my talk aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

A 14% ⬆️ in applications of Americans seeking education abroad, with record numbers of US students turning to UK universities. Meanwhile, international students are avoiding the US due hostility + uncertainty. The current administration's policies are systematically eroding our knowledge ecosystem.

The denouement is incredible

ICYMI: Trump’s budget (aka the Big Ugly Bill) passed the Senate yesterday, but now it’s back to the House. House Democrats are holding the line and voting NO – but we need 4 Republicans to join us to tank this bill. Stay tuned – we’re doing everything we can to stop this.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

This is a concentration camp

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered. I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

Judd Legum explains 7 of the things in Trump's megabill: 1. Cuts $930B from Medicaid 2. 16M lose health ins 3. Slashes food asst for poor families by $186B 4. Lower incomes for bottom 40% of families 5. Increases deficit by $3.3T 6. $45B for new immigration jails 7. Billions for defense contractors

"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns." www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.

BREAKING: if the Supreme Court wants a class action to hold Trump's birthright citizenship unconstitutional nationwide, we will give them one! We @democracydefendersaction.org just filed with our wonderful partners @aclu.org, NAACP LDF, LULAC & more assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

The takeaway is not that electoral politics will fix everything. We know it won’t. Obviously. The takeaway is that people will show up if you give them hope & a way forward. And that, my friends, can & must look like a lot of things right now.

Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California. ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.

"In 2020, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said the company "is fiercely committed to diversity and inclusion across all spectrums because it makes us and the world better." (That statement has been erased from Verizon's corporate website.)"

Our data show that systems designed for specific tasks do better at those tasks than ones designed for all tasks. They also show that smaller systems are more fine-tunable. This implies that if the goal really is bespoke and individualized AI, small is the way. ai.jmir.org/2024/1/e5209...

Dear gods. Please call the Heritage Foundation and thank them for allowing this level of corruption in our Supreme Court all to allow the theft of our most personal data.

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

There are literally no words for how incredibly devastating this is and it’s only been 5 months.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

reason 5327 jersey is better than new york: eric adams, andrew cuomo, bill de blasio, rudy fucking guiliani could never. this is also the guy who told a bunch of other democrats “you talk a weak game *and* when it counts you don’t even come through for trans people.”

Remember when I discussed the idea for a new data visualization framework for Svelte? It is time to get excited! I’ve been secretly working on making SveltePlot possible and will finally share the current state next week at @svelte.dev Summit 2025!!! Stay tuned... www.vis4.net/blog/2024/01...

May 15 deadline for the forthcoming _Debates in US Latinx DH_ volume from @uminnpress.bsky.social, part of the Debates in DH series -- please check it out and consider proposing a chapter. @apprecovery.bsky.social @gbaezaventura.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social

Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman gave an inspiring lecture about the need for lawyers to protect democracy. I was honored that he noted the attacks and threats aimed at me. His words serve to steel my spine and make me more committed than ever to fighting for democracy. Thank you professor.🙏

I started to put my promotion and tenure materials together, so I downloaded my university's dossier checklist. Someone made *a* choice with the font. Albertus, there you are in all your majestic glory.

I'm super honored to deliver the 2025 Thomas Huckin Distinguished Lecture at the University of Utah this afternoon, and even better, it's with @rcmeg.bsky.social g.bsky.social and @nobugsnous.bsky.social writing.utah.edu/news/2025/20...

I just think the term "AI literacy" is cooked when it's being used by tech bros and their government surrogates alike.

New article with my REMA team Reimagining Archives in the Age of Automation: A Decolonial and Relational Approach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... In the context of community archiving, we describe how data are relationships + provide a framework to respect those relationships. #techcomm #IDSov

Someone grab the A1! The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/

Hey #4C25! The business meeting is waiting for *you* to join and reach quorum in Hall G - please attend!

Time for the #4C25 Business Meeting! Come join us in Hall G (where the opening and keynote were) and vote (WE NEED 75 PEOPLE) and there is popcorn!