[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing. Marcela Suárez et al. (2025, par. 7)."

5/ The most socially effective measures are those that apply regardless of income, car ownership, and place of residence: free or heavily subsidized public transportation, profit caps for corporations, and targeted subsidies for low-income groups.

Email from a large academic publisher (huge profit margins, no payment for authors or reviewers) helping me increase my chances to be selected as a reviewer... I said we are skipping April Fools! #NotFunny

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Oh, by the way, we're skipping April Fools this year because we are already living in the Black Mirror timeline. Thanks.

I'll only join virtually and miss out on beautiful Leiden, but if you're at @ehbea2026.bsky.social do join our symposium on Thursday afternoon and chat about big data and big team science. Looking forward to it and to representing @manybabies.org

Wenn alle Frauen, die schon einmal Opfer von Gewalt ihre Partners geworden sind, aufschreien würden, gäbe es ohrenbetäubenden Lärm. Wenn sie nicht arbeiten würden, stünde die Welt still. Nicht nur die Scham muss die Seite wechseln, auch die Wut.

Warum sind diese Beträge sowie z.B. BAföG nicht aneinander gekoppelt?

Nicht alle Männer sind harmlos, also muss frau erstmal allen misstrauen. Wenn ich möchte, dass man mir vertraut, bin zuerst ich dran und muss dafür sorgen, dass man mir vertrauen kann. Ich habe keinen Anspruch darauf, dass jemand in Vorleistung geht, die das Risiko tragen muss, ... 2/4

Science has never been neutral. That's clear from its history. Institutions, patrons, & practitioners of science had agendas and prejudices that shaped what they studied, how, and how they interpreted their findings. Those legacies persist, especially when denied. That's History of Science 101. 🗃 1/

Kiddo decided that we should already change the clocks and started getting up 1 hour early. Send coffee.

Went back to Sec 6 of Stochastic Parrots today (in the context of answering a query from a journalist) and was reminded how thoroughly we grounded that part in a discussion of language use -- y'know as communication between people.

Mehr als 1.100 Wissenschaftler:innen und Künstler:innen warnen in einem offenen Brief vor wachsendem politischem Druck auf Hochschulen und Kultureinrichtungen in Deutschland. Auch HRK-Präsident Walter Rosenthal mahnt zur Zurückhaltung der Politik. Die Hintergründe: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/03...

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

also if expertise makes someone more confident, conclusive, and dogmatic in their views rather than more aware of the uncertainties, unknowns, and limitations of their knowledge, idk whether they're on the right path.

Rezepte auf der Krankenkassenkarte. Der Turnbeutel der Erwachsenen.

Also, you don't want a recording device that sends off data to who knows where in your child's room

Morgen müsst ihr leider Bücher shoppen, gern auch in kleinen Buchhandlungen. Eure Empfehlungen und Tipps sind willkommen! Was soll ich morgen shoppen? Für die Elternbubble: Bücher vom Zuckersüß Verlag sind der Hammer

KI-Porträts sollen vergessene Wissenschaftlerinnen sichtbar machen. Stattdessen gibt es Kritik. Mehr zur Debatte um die „Versäumten Bilder“ im neuen #Wisskomm - Update 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/ki-portraets...

Jetzt anmelden: Digitale Spring School „Wissenschaft kommunizieren!“ (20.–23.4.2026)! Du suchst einen Einstieg in die #Wisskomm? In unserer Spring School mit @con-gressa.de lernst du, deine Forschung klar und wirksam zu vermitteln – praxisnah, kompakt, interaktiv. 👉 www.wissenschaftkommunizieren.de

On how it's dehumanizing: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape... Or if you prefer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-...

REMINDER: The US changes its clocks this weekend!! If you're scheduled to meet with a US-ian next week, check with them to confirm meeting times! www.timeanddate.com will help you coordinate!

There is no punk rock AI. To be into AI is to wed yourself to the worst billionaires in the world. And I think this makes the AI people crazy. You just can’t be into it and not be a shill for a corporation. You can’t be into AI and be cool. And it makes them all bitter weirdos.

Wahrheit zum internationalen #Frauentag 2026.

Der Amazonas-Regenwald wird zerstört – doch von seinem Überleben hängt auch unsere Zukunft ab! Jetzt ist die vielleicht letzte Chance, ihn zu retten. Fordern Sie mit uns die Regierungen auf, den Amazonas zu schützen. act.greenpeace.de/amazonas-sch...

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Big Team Science projects like ManyBabies work best if many people contribute, you can get involved here: manybabies.org/get_involved/ or reach out to @hbaum.bsky.social

Happening online today at 2:30 Berlin time: Learn more about what meta-analyses and large scale replications can tell us, at the #LoveReplicationsWeek forrt.org/LoveReplicat... Thanks, @forrt.bsky.social

Not just lit reviews. I get an email like this every few weeks. They are selling hard to academics to offload the analysis to make space for other work But analysis & writing IS the work that honors the voices of intellectual ancestors, centers the participants & connects the two to to build theory

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Gibt es eine goldene Himbeere der #WissKomm? Ein Zertifikat für garantiert uninformative Arbeit? Ein Badge für halluzinierte Fakten? Wenn nein, könnten wir das einrichten? @nawik.de @wisskomm.de @w-i-d.de

Gibt es eine goldene Himbeere der #WissKomm? Ein Zertifikat für garantiert uninformative Arbeit? Ein Badge für halluzinierte Fakten? Wenn nein, könnten wir das einrichten? @nawik.de @wisskomm.de @w-i-d.de

how LLMs change incentives for research - a great talk by @carlbergstrom.com , had to watch in parts, a lot to digest. #institutional_epistemology at its best! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mj3... #philsci

Fontana thinking his 6000+ experiments may not have been enough to feel confident in his conclusions in the 18th century while we expect our singular experiments and their standalone replications to do wonders some 250 years later... (excerpt from the intro of Jutta Schickore's About Experiment)

Can we get certificates? Academia likes certificates

Nearing 1,000 users on @eurosky.social!! Anyone can join. You get the exact same features as Bluesky, login the same way, etc. And see all the same posts. So why move to Eurosky? It’s run by a European non-profit, on European servers and bound by European laws (eg GDPR).

Lasst uns mal kompetente Speaker*innen sammeln, die das Thema KI ohne Quatsch (aber gern mit Humor) vermitteln können.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—> What is a “good day” in the lab? I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day. Ping me if you have examples to share! Re-posts appreciated!

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

Only two days left to submit your abstract for this year's @mathpsych.org meeting. Some things to consider: 1. The conference is in Canada. 2. If you cannot attend in person, there is a virtual track. Consider submitting there! You can pick the track during the submission process. See you there!

Es gibt KI #WissKomm Speaker, die hauen mehr Falschinformationen raus als ein LLM. Also falls ihr je an euch zweifeln solltet, denkt dran dass solche Leute gebucht und bezahlt werden

"Endlich Licht am Ende des Tunnels" "Das ist die Aurora Borealis, Christina" "...zu dieser Jahreszeit?"

Können wir mal drüber reden, wie viel dieses akademische Nomadentum eigentlich so kostet? Also hartes Geld, von den anderen Kosten ganz zu schweigen. Ich habe Kolleg*innen, die einfach schon 10 Jahre in ihrer Wohnung wohnen und pro Monat 100e € weniger zahlen. #IchbinHanna #ArmeAkademie

Aarhus University is hiring: Associate Professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology #associateprofessorposition

Außerdem die Energie die man auf wendet ständig Bewerbungen zu schreiben, anstatt die Forschung gerade im Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften sinnvoll in die Gesellschaft einzubringen 🤷