www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima... Wir haben noch MAXIMAL vier Jahre, bis die #Klimakatadtrophe irreversibel ist. Irreversibel bedeutet auf gut Deutsch: UN-fucking-UMKEHRBAR 💀☠️ Aber hey: Lasst uns schnell noch ein Rekord-Feuerwerk abbrennen. Leute, ihr brennt doch 😡🤬

„Sprachlos über eure Solidarität“: Berliner Stadtmission erfährt nach Brandanschlag auf Kältebus breite Unterstützung Nachdem zwei Kältebusse in Brand gesetzt wurden, konnte der Verein nach nicht mal einem Tag genug Spenden sammeln, um die Fahrzeuge zu ersetzen. dokmz.com/2025/12/29/s...

Nice to see this, instead of more rolling back in the name of "the economy". "If goods come from countries with weaker climate rules, then the charge will be higher. To sell to the EU, producers will effectively need to show their goods aren’t too carbon-intensive."

AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT: ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!! Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text. Translators translate, of course. But!

...und in der Fluten, Ernteausfälle, Waldsterben, etcetc ja quasi schon dazugehören... Wir können es uns nicht leisten, das Klima nicht zu schützen. Das ist keine Ideologie, das ist Mathe

These motherfuckers who shill AI keep saying 'the genie is out of the bottle'. You realise that stories are full of ways to trick the fucking genie back into the bottle, right? You keep using that metaphor but I do not think it means what you think it means.

Da ab morgen wieder Böller verkauft werden, teile ich mal wieder meinen inzwischen 3 Jahre alten wissenschaftlichen Artikel zu den Gefahren des Feuerwerks und wie die Böllerindustrie sie mit Rechenfehlern und latentem Ableismus verharmlost. Lasst es einfach… wochenendrebell.de/silvester-bo...

-ai bei der Suche eingeben, Freunde.

Finally out: a really cool paper led by Abdel Elouatiq @mpi-nl.bsky.social on what parents do when they have to teach their infants a language that doesn't need vowels to form words (Tashlhiyt Berber, spoken in Morocco) doi.org/10.1177/0142... Invite Abdel for a talk, he's got so much more data!

Psycholinguists know that negations are easy to drop and the best example is Google going from "Don't be evil" to ... this

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Finally out: a really cool paper led by Abdel Elouatiq @mpi-nl.bsky.social on what parents do when they have to teach their infants a language that doesn't need vowels to form words (Tashlhiyt Berber, spoken in Morocco) doi.org/10.1177/0142... Invite Abdel for a talk, he's got so much more data!

Was Thomas sagt. Alles ist Politik, auch und gerade der Versuch, diese Tatsache zu bestreiten.

Prompto ergo sum.

somebody is doing a public service here github.com/zoicware/Rem...

Happy Kwanzaa to all who celebrate! May the celebration bring you joy and connection.

I hope the discussion mentions the extra time and energy women put into preparing feedback as we brace for being challenged. I started teaching as an adjunct in the wilds of community college night classes, which meant I was very much alone without backup or mentors. Lots of crazy grade challenges

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

And even then we need to be ready for pandemics, sudden funding cuts , and generally institutions protecting those who make our lives hell...

Dieses Verhalten etwas zu Teilen, was man mag oder woran man sich gerade so erfreut oder anderen ein kurzes “Hey, coole Sache!” (gern auch etwas eloquenter) rüberzureplyen – Es könnte uns guttun.

Ich wünsch euch ganz wundervolle Feiertage 🎄. Besondere Liebe geht an alle raus, die sich gerade einsam fühlen, sich kein tolles Festtagsessen oder einen Weihnachtsmarktbesuch leisten können oder gerade mit Depression kämpfen. I see you 💜. 1/2

Ein Dankeschön an alle, die an #Weihnachten arbeiten: In Krankenhäusern In Altenheimen In Elektrizitätswerken Bei der Polizei Bei der Feuerwehr In der Seelsorge An den Tankstellen In den Hotels und Restaurants In den Redaktionsstuben Beim Militär In Rechenzentren Uvm

Breaking temperature records is becoming routine. The consequences of doing so are not. They become more evident with every passing year and we have another 30 years of this getting worse already baked in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy kiddo is hyper because there will be presents tomorrow day to those who celebrate

📢 PsyArXiv 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🧑‍🎄 🎁 PsyArXiv moderators will be taking a holiday break from Dec 24 to Jan 4. Please avoid uploading work to the archive during this time to prevent a backlog, and expect some delays in moderation. We aim to clear any holiday backlog by Jan 16. Happy Holidays!

News! #PsyTeachR is now on Bluesky. Find us for links to our Open Educational Resources, software and news about what we're up to. @psyteachr.bsky.social

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:

And that's just one of the reasons we came up with the idea of community augmented meta-analyses (cama): The absurd amount of work should not have to be done twice when new evidence emerges or new questions can be answered with the same dataset. metalab.stanford.edu is one instance of a cama

if we are being real, THIS is thr worst output of AI that I can think of.

Happy winter solstice to those who celebrate

Amazing how many of these papers are about “ethical use of AI in education.” It’s harsh, I know, but I do think if you incorporate a hallucinated reference it should be incredibly damning for you. There should be professional penalties.

Just two words: tenure statistics

Shout out to all the institutions which quietly delete your email and don't even send out error messages And cheers to the systems or people that don't process any of those messages (as recently seen with an auto reply I have on one of my accounts) Again, I present the idea of an ORCID-Email

Ever since becoming a parent this whole graphene nobel prize thing seems much less impressive... Need the thinnest possible slice of any material? Just ask my kid to sample it.

Da glaubt jemand, er (bewusst so) könne mir sagen, was wissenschaftlich richtig ist... Da hatter aber nicht mit Doktorin Bergmann gerechnet, die in 5 Minuten mehrere systematische Reviews zum Thema recherchieren kann... Tja, diese Superpower bleibt. Auch wenn der Job nicht mehr in der Forschung ist

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)

Join us TODAY 16:00-17:30 CET for a special hybrid ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas session on research integrity and #reproducibility in the age of #GenAI with guest speaker @dingemansemark. The recommended (but optional!) preparatory reading is […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

#3Grad2050 worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit GOES-19. Credit: NOAA

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Is there any university that has made a thoughtful, ethical and critical approach to AI one of their core values? That is deliberately not falling for the hype, and instead placing a premium on human creativity and thought? I feel like this could be a real USP these days, and also please hire me!

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

important on LLMs for academics: 1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems 2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism 3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills 4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution 5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI 6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”

So much statistics discourse orbits around Bayes verses frequentist debates, but in practice Bayes verses frequentist is often a false dichotomy. Just as important as the inferential strategy is the underlying model, and how that model is specified. 🧵

Reminder that we ALL need to learn what good #OpenScience looks like and majority worlds folks have a lot to share, so let's sit down and listen

Not so hot take: if you care about diversity in science (mostly thinking of #openscience and #metasci), it makes no sense to think you/your group should be the only one doing the work. If you assume only your approach or resource is the right one, you're already missing the point.

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.