At this point, the only thing that can save us from #AI accelerationism is model welfare—mandatory naps, unlimited vacation time, and 3-day work week for #GPT.

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

At this point, the only thing that can save us from #AI accelerationism is model welfare—mandatory naps, unlimited vacation time, and 3-day work week for #GPT.

This. Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world? 1/15 #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science

We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/

This. Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world? 1/15 #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

Related: Applin 2018: www.vice.com/en/article/d...

Over 150 active academic #jobs (postdoc and TT) across Computer Science, Information Systems, Social Sciences, Management, Finance, Psychology, and related fields, spanning the US, Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and a few in New Zealand/Australia. Most deadlines in September and October.

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

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

“Ultimately, intelligence isn’t the problem, so superintelligence isn’t the solution. What we need is a political and economic movement that can deeply democratize all aspects of life” Finished Why we fear AI by @hagenblix.bsky.social & Ingeborg Glimmer and I heartily recommend it! Some thoughts >🧵

When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is. Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599

Tech Policy Press is now accepting applications for our 2026 fellowship cohort. We're looking for journalists, researchers, and policy professionals to pursue independent reporting or analysis on urgent questions at the intersection of technology and democracy. Learn more below!

An important piece on #AI generated #preprints and why it's important to consider their impact on scientific ecosystem. Some other important considerations related to this that are not covered in the article 👇 🧵1/14 #AI4Science #AI4Research #ScAISci #SciSci

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

A very interesting read on the need for linguistic precision when discussing #AI and technologies of today. Some of the ideas reminded me of those discussed in the AI Snake Oil book.

Academic books are notorious for boring endings, but @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social hit it out of the park! The last chapter of #TheAICon is full of actionable (pro-labor!) steps for standing up to Big Tech's hype. Fight silliness with silliness!

Looking for #Postdoc or Asst. Professor Positions for 2025-2026 in Computer/Social/Information/Management Sciences and related fields? Here's a google Sheet with about 40 active positions (so far) from Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Twitter. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #AcademicCareer #Academia #Jobs

If you know a 🚨 Scholar at Risk 🚨 please share! I am delighted to share that applications are now open for the MAXMINDS mentoring program.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

TW: suicide. . . . . . . “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you. — Gift link.

Just two random headlines on the same day

"For academics trapped in the moribund ecosystem of scholarly publishing and its various “transformative” models, which will come first—the collapse and ruin of decrepit budget models, or a collective refusal and commitment to build a system of our own?" katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

***Limited Offer*** Who wants to be a "citation partner" and boost their citations? #PredatoryPublishing #SciSci #Metascience #MetaSci

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

The 2025-2026 #academic job market season is upon us. Here are some resources and #job postings for #faculty and #postdoc positions for those in Information/Computer/Social Sciences, and related fields. Will update the list as more #jobs are posted. 🧵(0/n) #AcademicChatter

1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!

Y’all gotta watch the John Ioannidis segment. Dude stands up there for like ten minutes flashing statistics about how science is changed with zero sources and at times acknowledging he’s pulled them out of his ass… then says science might be more harm than good to the world.

Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?" by Traci Watson | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An important piece on #AI generated #preprints and why it's important to consider their impact on scientific ecosystem. Some other important considerations related to this that are not covered in the article 👇 🧵1/14 #AI4Science #AI4Research #ScAISci #SciSci

Can we turn a science fiction thought experiment into an actual experiment? Check out our new @nature.com paper on the "Science Fiction Science" method (summarized by @jfbonnefon.bsky.social below)

OpenAI launched a "study mode" for ChatGPT today, and it appears to be almost entirely implemented as a system prompt Thankfully OpenAI mostly don't take measures to protect their system prompt these days so it's easy to extract it and see how it works simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/...

Nice to see some commentary on the recent @theguardian.com piece by @iansample.bsky.social on #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ACADEMICsky www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The spillover from events like this extends beyond a single paper. When a high-profile study like this is withdrawn, especially one that was widely discussed and covered, it has broader implications. This study had an Altmetric score of over 130. #retractions #SciSci #attention #AI 🧵 1/4

Ever since I started thinking seriously about AI value alignment in 2016-7, I've been frustrated by the inadequacy of utility+RL theory to account for the richness of human values. Glad to be part of a larger team now moving beyond those thin theories towards thicker ones.

Our new paper mapping job titles, sector specialization, and promotions across 24 sectors now published in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data in collaboration w/ Shehryar Subhani and Bedoor Alshebli @ischool.uw.edu @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social #LaborEconomics #CareerData #CareerMobility

"Science is not, and has never been, a neutral endeavour... the notion that researchers can or should cleanse themselves of bias is untenable, potentially intellectually dishonest, and ethically fraught." New preprint with the (brilliant) Sarahanne Field #Metascience2025 osf.io/preprints/os...

I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...

What a cool paper!!

Here's a site that searches scientific publications for phrases that indicate that the text was created by ChatGPT and pasted into the manuscript without checking (e.g. "Certainly, here are some recommendations..."). There are HUNDREDS of them, often without disclosure of AI. 1/2 www.academ-ai.info

I love that the title uses "delve": Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Task I have been avoiding and dressing for MONTHS took about… four minutes. I will learn nothing from this.

Expressions of interest in this Metascience PhD scholarship @unimelb are open now

On "navel-gazing" in science.. and why we should rethink how we use this term in research discourse. 🧵 1/12 #SciSci #MetaScience #MetaSci #ResearchOnResearch #RoR

📚 AI, peer review and the human activity of science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Everything happening is a lot. Take a breath. It’s not on you to fix all of it. Find a corner of it you can work on. Do a thing today that matters to you. Help someone you can help. Don’t let anyone talk you out of trying.

On "navel-gazing" in science.. and why we should rethink how we use this term in research discourse. 🧵 1/12 #SciSci #MetaScience #MetaSci #ResearchOnResearch #RoR