FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

It's exam season, which means it is time to revise. Can AI help your revision process? Possibly. But definitely not if you let it do the important work for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQS...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Evergreen

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Tomorrow is the deadline for registering to vote. Voting is the single best way to drive change and create the Wales you want. Register now or let other people decide your future.

It’s not an advert. It’s a threat.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

One of the many things I love is the #Artemis2 crew celebrating one another's wins- they constantly are praising their crew member's efforts, getting excited about their excitement, sharing time equally on camera, being sensitive to needs... it's a PhD in how to be a good team member.

if you don’t know now you know

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

Call for Applications: ESCoP Travel Grants for the 2026 Joint ESCoP-CoPM Meeting ESCoP invites applications for Travel Funding Grants for active participation in The Joint ESCoP-CoPM Meeting 2026 in Hangzhou, China.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

good news the dogs are still good

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

Remember: Academia is a crap shoot. In applying for my job, I beat out a guy who became the most productive scholar in my field in at least a generation. Two of the best scholars I know in my field - people who have clearly outclassed me in many ways - never got tenure track jobs. Just sayin'

A lot of the people now telling you that generative AI is the future whether you like it or not and you'd better get onboard or be left behind said the exact same shit about the Metaverse

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

We believe visual neuroscience is undergoing a paradigm shift — and the Beyond Binding exchange in @TrendsCogSci makes it visible. Five papers, excellent critics, and a discussion that sharpened and nuanced our argument. Thread 👇

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Matt Goodwin has been sent back to Substack. The Conservatives have lost their deposit. Keir Starmer has been told left wing voters are not a guarantee for Labour. Overall, British politics could do worse than follow Gorton and Denton.

Q&A after Dan Simon's @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social One World Seminar- Must attention capture be visual to miss the gorilla? I doubt it. Dan mentioned research about verbal memory impairing visual change detection. Sounds like my first work with @ncowan51.bsky.social! References in the thread🤓:

Exciting that Simons showcased Ding et al’s @jcgntn.bsky.social paper showing theoretically interesting null effects of familiarity on inattentional blindness in his @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social OneWorld seminar. Some null effects matter! Paper here: journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

Attended a Cardiff Uni “wellbeing” event for @cardiffucu.bsky.social today. Argued that the best way to improve staff wellbeing is to save jobs, improve pay & conditions, join a union, and become an active member. Recruited well, had lots of great conversations, & actually listened to colleagues. 🩷✊

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable Ys a way to trick you

Poor political decisions, a broken funding model, managerial leadership, and metric‑driven governance, which together are transforming the sector into something barely recognisable as a public university system by Constantinos Alexiou and George Saridakis blogs.lse.ac.uk/impa... ​

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

AI does not magically infuse knowledge into people. "We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand"

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Utterly wild behaviour from management. Cutting hard earned pensions based on ‘vibes’ is as terrifying as it is absurd.

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Call each other out, even if someone tells you it's not polite or respectful.

🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there. ✍🏼 Dear cabinet....

Right let's breakdown this new poll for Wales because there is a lot going on below the headline figures. [Thread]

🔊 Cardiff UCU members: remember to post your ballot today! You're voting to demand: 1. Removal of all staff from scope 2. No compulsory redundancies 3. To stop the dangerous workloads 4. To commit to staff H&S

This entire weekend

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

🔊 Calling all Cardiff UCU members: get your vote in by next Monday! ⏰ The countdown is on: www.cardiffucu.org.uk