Aus gegebenem Anlass mal wieder dieser Postillon Klassiker www.der-postillon.com/2012/06/mann...

This attitude is not restricted to the administrative class. It can also be found among those who think teaching is something that has to be endured to do research

We’re gonna bring back punching dweebs with glasses on, but only this kind

Brilliant stuff

Keine Kürzungen bei der Eingliederungshilfe- Teilhabe ist Menschenrecht! Leute, noch 5 Tage zum Mitzeichnen der Petition. Die steht bei 99.252! Lasst uns die 100.000 knacken. Bitte 🙏🏻 epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

On the other hand, the UK wasn’t built for the climate that existed before, either

This isn’t a new observation, but I think there really is a massive referential calibration problem in public discourse about ‘AI’ and its capabilities. There are at least two sides to this.

Many of the problems in academia emerging in my lifetime have a single root cause: the identification of research with publication which is then taken as virtually the sole measure of individual performance and contribution.

Exactly. Who will believe that it's possible to write a 400pp book every few years with a 30pp bibliography and have read even a fraction of that? (of course while publishing articles, teaching, etc. at the same time)

People are impressed by crispr cas’ micro-scale cutting, but they haven’t seen my daughter eat the asparagus I told her she had to eat.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Die Bildungsrepublik investiert in ihre wichtigste Ressource

LLMs make people feel smart and accomplished when they are not. Helpfully for AI, being confronted by that makes people angry & defensive. The selling point of LLMs is largely psychological not technological.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Dishwasher installation guy asks me where I'm from. I say 'Germany'. He - 'Well I suppose we all have to come from somewhere'

Professoratsverweser! Das will ich auch noch werden! Klingt jedenfalls nicht nach Nachwuchs..

Außer das hier

Bis jetzt war ich eigentlich ziemlich relaxed

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Vielleicht können wir das ja in üblicher Weise als Wettspiel organisieren: jede Uni gibt einen Tip ab und setzt ihr gesamtes Renovierungsbudget. Wer gewinnt, kriegt den ganzen Topf und kann sich einen Palast bauen.

"Die TU ist jetzt nicht nur pleite, sondern obdachlos" Nach der Vollsperrung des Hauptgebäudes der TU Berlin streiten Senat und Hochschulen über Schuld, Geld und Bauorganisation. Und die Hochschulen im Rest des Landes schauen gebannt zu. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/05...

Finde den Fehler in der Prioritätensetzung der Berliner Landespolitik #ExzellenzinBruchbuden #berlin #SaveBrainCity #Insolvenzantrag @regberlin.bsky.social @tagesspiegel.de @tuberlin.bsky.social

Bildungsrepublik Deutschland

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

higher-order probabilities in the wild

I remember when academics were worried that one couldn't anymore read everything on a given topic. Now in some cases one cannot read everything an individual academic has written on a given topic.

Some funny stuff on philosophers today in my timeline. What other similar things can we add? 🧵

AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo, wearing a new mask. Tell the nephew to do smth else. Anything. It won't save him either, but at least he won't have to pretend the thing destroying his life is a robot.

Teddy träumt

LLM Verbot ab Boomer aufwärts

HPLA is always welcoming submissions on any period of the history of philosophy. Submit via Editorial Manager: www.editorialmanager.com/hpla/default...

CfP for new HPLA special issue: From ex nihilo nihil fit to the Principle of the Sufficient Reason: On the Metaphysics of Ground in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period Guest editors: Clara Carus (Universität Heidelberg) and Stephan Schmid (Universität Hamburg) brill.com/view/journal...

CfP for new HPLA special issue: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today? Guest editors: Laura Georgescu (University of Groningen) and Martin Lenz (FernUniversität in Hagen) @goingloopy.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...

You wake up in Britain. Take 1d12 psychic damage.

Imagine pretending to be your mom to get out of fighting Mark fucking Zuckerberg.

SA Authorities are involved in contact tracing after woman suspected to be infected with Hantavirus collapses *at the airport* ffs what is this, some b-rated pandemic movie? 🙈 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Prof Peterson "The idea that graduations should be apolitical is ridiculous. Michigan is not a finishing school for polite young men and women. Our students are not wilting flowers. They have just finished their degrees at the foremost public university in the country. They can handle controversy."

"It is worth acknowledging that previous tools attracted similar alarms. Calculators, spell-checkers …: each was accused of producing cognitive atrophy … But those earlier tools offloaded specific … tasks: arithmetic, spelling …. What LLMs offload is the generative reasoning process itself."

The next time you find someone pretending to explain quantum mechanics, quantum computers and quantum artificial intelligence like a guru, keep in mind this short introduction to the field given by Prof. Shankar at Yale University. After it, you can start spreading ignorance too. Simply brilliant.

The sorrows of the editor, number 94091534: not getting any response for a review invitation from young, very well-published scholars is somehow especially disturbing to me

paul noth does it again

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

Deutschland: Geburtenrate fällt auf neues Tief. Auch Deutschland: Kinder müssen in der Mittagspause der Kita zw. 12-14 Uhr von den Eltern betreut werden. www.ft.com/content/0fc7... www.spiegel.de/panorama/bil...

There's a kind of academic who infers from the fact that you hold a canonical philosopher in high regard that you embrace that philosopher's views