My German speaking first grader said "six seven" at the dinner table and I think we are officially f#&€(+ed

Language is witchcraft: Say it three times and it is a word

If we let the paid employees of a small number of ethics-free AI companies dictate the directions in which our scholarship should develop and the ways in which researchers must go about their work now, we are indeed fucking ourselves over.

In Deutschland versorgen Ärzte die gesamte Bevölkerung, nicht nur Menschen ihrer Herkunft. Bitte rechnen: 400.000 Ärzte geteilt durch 85 Mio. Patienten, 1 Mio. zusätzliche Patienten macht viel weniger Unterschied als der reale Entlastungseffekt durch migrantische Fachkräfte.

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

I am... Remembering that I have a child who doesn't care about clocks Nothing like parenthood/caregiving to really appreciate that it's all relative etcetc

> Among the signatories is Luc Steels, "the father of AI in Belgium." And he's not the only Belgian scientist supporting the resistance to "so-called 'AI' technologies." Apache spoke with Steels and co. "Universities encouraging students to use ChatGPT? I'm stunned" apache.be/2025/10/23/a...

The German Academic system mentioned as a bad example in this Nature Editorial: "In the United Kingdom and Germany, for example, 61% and 60% of respondents, respectively, see their supervisors for less than one hour a week" cc @amreibahr.bsky.social @drkeichhorn.bsky.social

Lese- und Denkempfehlung! 👇 Vielen Dank für den Hinweis!

thx to @nature.com @helenpearson.bsky.social for including our words & letter‼️ > unis are allowing or even encouraging the use of AI tools — many of which are controlled by companies, have unknown cognitive impacts and are dogged by ethical and environmental concerns. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pretends to be shocked www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

What if we did a single run and declared victory

100 Million DataCite DOIs: More than Just a Number

Real scientists also know the point of the lit review is — now bear with me here — *reviewing the literature* not making a list. Finding out that a set of papers ultimately isn’t relevant isn’t wasted time because it can help sharpen your understanding of.

🕯️ Berlin, werde bitte still. Am 18. Oktober 1941 begann die systematische Massendeportation der jüdischen Bevölkerung aus der damaligen Reichshauptstadt unter dem Naziterror. #onthisday Blicke auf das "Mahnmal Gleis 17" am Bahnhof Grunewald, also am historischen Ort.

“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 20/🧵

Dass wir im heutigen Stadtbild so viele Stolpersteine haben, liegt übrigens daran, dass sich mal eine Regierung an bestimmten Menschen im deutschen Stadtbild störte.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

Check out our new preprint on "How to Develop and Use Open Educational Resources" 📖✨ This iteration will later be published in a new book "Teaching Open Science" edited by @drcpennington.bsky.social and @maddipow.bsky.social. Watch this space! 👀 osf.io/preprints/ed...

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Öffentliche Richtigstellung: Wenn ich in der Vergangenheit irgendwo geschrieben habe, es ginge jetzt „um die Wurst“, meinte ich immer wichtige politische Fragen des aktuellen Zeitgeschehens & kein Fleischerzeugnis!

Got invited to give a keynote talk after calling out an all male panel...

Kiddo: Mom, tell me a scary story! Me: How about the storybooks of my own childhood?

When we do big team science, we want to be open and inclusive. Do we succeed? Only if those with funding and in charge have a humble mindset and are wary of the pitfalls, articulated in 2 important papers: 1) Remote-Control Science in Ecology (that metaphor!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

In den Kommentaren schreiben mir Frauen, dass ich da ja nicht hingehen muss. Ich will ÜBERALL hingehen. Nie aufs Oktoberfest - aber ansonsten soll das f*cking Patriarchat sich in den Griff bekommen. Nicht ICH meine Wege ändern müssen. Gilt auch für Onlinehass btw. Gibt auch da keine "Teilschuld".

Nobelpreisgewinnerinnen, wie sind genau so wie wir...

This weekend I gave another workshop on #ShamelessSelfPromotion and now you all can apply what I am preaching by self-nominating as new Max Planck Director, for example in psycholinguistics Go for it, especially if you think you aren't 'good enough' www.mpg.de/directors www.mpi.nl/news/help-sh...

Kiddo making sure I start my week right with the first question after waking up: How did the sun come to be? #YayScience #ParentProblems #YesWeGotABookForThat

The myth of meritocracy inspires the implicit assumption that someone’s degree of success reflects their level of competence and skill. I think that this is one of the most toxic myths of our time.

Someone could make a fortune founding something called the Dumb Store. Flip phones, non-smart TVs, refrigerators, irrigation systems, vacuums, etc

Friends, it happened, after 3.5 years in the new job a colleague was shocked (!!) I work full-time... As a MOM #CantMakeThisUp #ParentProblems

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social made this due to my final metaphor in doi.org/10.5281/zeno... AI is like a ouija board: promoting & enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, & pseudo-intellectualism; hiding the human-in-the-loop, the user & the creators of the data, who do the intelligence & provide the inputs.

Does anyone use #RedCap for child participant database management? If so, would you be willing to share screenshots etc. of what your user interface looks like or share the template, whichever is easier. #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky #cogsci

Simon's ability to communicate nuance in a clear, approachable way strikes again

Sunday morning conversations with kiddo (6) Pikachu can't have fur because of the whole electricity power thingy. Excellent reasoning. Husband counters with Detective Pikachu images. But now I wonder whether the tail smells like burnt hair and this is why it has black spots

ah the irony of adobe not allowing me to hide the ‘ai assistant’ banners while reading this paper

It's Sunday and I just discovered that there is a new audio drama / pod thingy (haven't grasped the categories yet) by Lauren Shippen so it's recommendation time: Listen to Two Thousand and Late! The first ep is called "How to procrastinate the end of the world" and it's just delightful

Heute erst gesehen, aber das verdient besondere Erwähnung: Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP) in Niedersachsen äußerst stabil! #Polizeiproblem #Ostermann

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Exactly, remember that all those AI companies like to put in small print "AI may be inaccurate" "may violate copyright" or "we will use all your data to improve our AI" A product so unsafe, inaccurate, and designed to ignore prior laws and rights should not even have a place in the society

"[T]hese systems don’t create; they plagiarize. Unlike a human artist, they can’t develop a new artistic style or literary genre."

Aktuelle Ausschreibung der Daimler und Benz Stiftung für ein Verbundprojekt: „Die Rolle und Bedeutung von Erfahrungswissen in Zeiten von künstlicher Intelligenz“, Fördersumme 1,5 Mio. Euro ... weiterlesen

ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.

#IchBinHanna hat viel seltener Kinder als Vergleichsgruppen: 👨‍👦 unter 35 befristete Wissenschaftler_innen: 6,5% andere Hochschulabsolvent_innen: 21% 👨‍👦 unter 40 befristete Wissenschaftler_innen: 36% andere Promovierte: 46% Gründe (v.a. für Frauen): mangelnde Vereinbarkeit, berufliche Unsicherheit!

Linguistic structure as a guiding principle for human neuroscience. New paper by @annamai.bsky.social & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106322

Sunday is fancy snack day. Today extra fun with a home grown strawberry