This is absolutely wild, and super important. There are zillions of studies claiming that fMRI signals indicate increased brain activity, and it looks like that's often just wrong. If confirmed, this means we've misinterpreted a lot of research.

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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

What am I missing here? How can you review a manuscript by first askiing AI to summarize it? That’s called malpractice. Just. Don’t.

First they cut arts in schools to make way for standards and efficiency. And now we hear we need machines to come up with new ideas for us because we can’t do it. Just say No to these people. It’s dangerous nonsense. And should be disregarded and treated only with scorn.

I call this "The Lying Screen"

Dumping Calibri for Times New Roman is a reform I can get behind.

With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%. It's the guns!!! :(

Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)

Excited for my new oped on the complexities of the screen time debate. Huge thanks to my mentor @micheleweldon.bsky.social and @medpagetoday.com editor @gfriedman.bsky.social

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Interesting and well written experiences of an English professor updating their curriculum to be AI resistant. Recommended reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

If LLMs can write dissertations, why can’t my iPhone properly correct my spelling in a message?

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

The illiterate and innumerate generation is here. How do we address it? (The Atlantic)

I do like the Penguin Books vending machine at Exeter train station but I won't be truly happy until there's another one next to it solely selling rare freakbeat 45s made between 1965 and 1967.

But he wasn’t deeply ashamed when he openly questioned if women were bad at math?

Stuff I don’t want to know about.

He’s just, like, the former president of Harvard. No big deal.

It was time but I’m already feeling nostalgic.

Happy Halloween

“I do believe that we should have the right to refuse AI in our education now”

is assigning traditional essays now tantamount to malfeasance? www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

1/ I spoke with a long time insurance entrepreneur yesterday. He said AI is turning insurance on its head and maybe 260% of facing and data entry jobs are likely to disappear. But, he was optimistic other types of jobs would also appear.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

You’ve heard that the Economist accidentally published misinformation about the prevalence of Holocaust denial, but did you know the underlying methodological problem is super common and decades-old? Learn more on Nov. 13: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t... Free for students & AAPOR, $5 for others

1/ Most First Ladies Remain Mu m on the Demolished East Wing open.substack.com/pub/eastwing...

And then they start falling like dominoes.

The most French thing I’ve read this year.

This matches with what most of my contacts in the tech industry report. “ AI is a normal technology.” Via @anildash.com www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

The Louvre thieves should just say they're using the pieces to train their AI algorithm and it should all be good

This is what my lit review mind map looked like as I wrote my dissertation.

I was doing a search on YouTube for content for an upcoming class session. The results were riddled with AI garbage. We need an “authentic human” filter now on any search screen.

But it’s fast.

Own goal.

honestly this could be a good thing

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

So, if you have new lines of work that are not exactly your "main line" that you're known for, how might you get opportunities to give talks about it and get feedback (besides publishing and hoping people see it, which can be slow)?

A thoughtful piece comparing the current AI wave to previous EdTech waves such as the internet and cellphones. tl;dr we all need some humility as the answers to all our questions are likely 10 years away. theconversation.com/what-past-ed...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Think of the economy as like baking a cake. H‑1B visas supply missing ingredients -- high skill STEM workers. If Trump cuts off access: fewer projects get baked, worse recipes get used, or we import the cake. None of those make Americans better off. #TheProfessorIsIn #TeachEcon

Are journals deciding now that it's just not feasible to keep AI assistance out of research because of "shifts in research practices?"

young people today will never know what it was like when computers just… did what you told them to do. never randomly changed shit without permission. never locked you out of your game console for updates. fuckin sucks.

$100k to bring in each new H-1B PER YEAR. Clearly, the administration did not coordinate with the tech bros on this one. (Via NYT)

An interesting perspective, arguing that reliance is a better way to think about science than trust.