Kurt Gödel’s ideas about mathematical truth muddy the waters between where objective truth ends and invented math begins. A century later, the implications of his work have touched every corner of mathematics. www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-gode...

I keep saying: doing AI-science is like peeing in one's pants. It may warm you up for a while, but soon you'll be freezing. "[T]he adoption of AI seems to 'induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones'."

For those of you keeping score, Harvard faculty voted in favor of implementing the 20% cap on A's. Could be the start of a big change in GPAs in higher education in coming years.

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Saw this and was curious enough to dig into it. As much as I think there’s some excellent points (I think philosophy is one of the most valuable minors or 2nd major), this is actually a perfect example of How to Mislead with Stats. Be extremely skeptical of any chart that only shows % change. 1/?

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Five major publishing houses and the bestselling author are suing Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly training its Llama generative AI models on millions of copyrighted materials. n.pr/42OZBGt

Just to point out, he is not talking about the United States blowing up dozens of Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean Sea. I know it can be confusing.

SHOCKING stories of data fabrication Tim Errington shares a never-before-told story of data fabrication in cancer biology. Scientists go to extreme measures, even engaging in data fabrication, to secure a publication in prestigious journals. #science #truth #medicine #stem #shorts

Chuffed to finally punblish this with @awaisaftab.bsky.social et al Attitudes towards conceptual and philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychiatric education: A survey of US and UK trainees journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The US is cutting its head off.

"people consistently preferred and chose to interact w/ sycophantic AI models over disagreeable chatbots that challenged their beliefs... conversations w/sycophantic chatbots [also] increased attitude extremity & certainty." @jayvanbavel.bsky.social @steverathje.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

'Study shows the human cost of pub closures' | Morning Advertiser on @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social @robertdeakin.bsky.social After Last Orders project www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2026...

AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake

Our current academic system is on the verge of collapse. Anybody got any ideas? This piece suggests at least some worth considering.

An underdiscussed aspect of AI is its power to assist and empower. Over the years I've seen many papers by non-native English speakers that contained excellent ideas but were let down (and sometimes mocked) for their poor English. It is OK for a non-native speaker to use AI to polish their English?

So it looks like the thing that critics said might happen, but were told would never happen, has in fact happened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our new article on Trump’s mental health and whether doctors should comment on it. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

AI is going to make everything so efficient! Oh wait.. I have not seen any public discussion on what we'll do when - not if - the building blocks of democratic societies drown in AI junk. One scenario: we will need to get back to a system based on in-person interaction. The paradox of AI-efficiency.

Planning a Dioscuri application (≤15 yrs post-PhD)? https://ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/ We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw). €300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy. If you want to build something real — let’s talk.

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

I managed to have a look at this Nature piece now. The bit below made me pause. I'm not sure what's going on here, but this sounds like precisely the sort of work that we should *not delegate to our magnificent AI-overlords. bsky.app/profile/natu...

Major thing here is that AI provides a very attractive *illusion of knowledge and confidence. When Google lists the most relevant/popular websites, you are forced to use some independent (maybe even "critical") thinking when browsing through them. (But I admit: I tend to trust Wikipedia too easily.)

"Not the AI we were promised" Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize Lecture 2025 winner Prof Michael Wooldridge.

I really don't get how it is so difficult for us to make this (academic publishing) work. This is central, of course: "Cancer Research UK are working to widen the way we evaluate research in order to mitigate the heavy focus on publication outputs." AO/archive publishing is part of this.

"Believers can be divided into two groups, Lewis said. Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort." I definitely identify as a Woo-Woo. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The idea that the universe is fundamentally mathematical is one of the leading frameworks in modern thought. | https://bit.ly/4tkz3Iw But Martín López Corredoira invites us to reconsider, questioning whether mathematics describes the world as it is, or as we are able to conceive it. #philsci ⚛️

"There should be public transparency about the person or the foundation, the amount and what the donor restrictions or intent were". Weird that this is not the case. What are the downsides? I'd say it's important that the audience (public & academic) is made aware of the source of funding.

Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years. Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many (speculative) things here. But this I firmly believe: Machine learning (ML) can be a useful *aid/tool* in innovation/production of novelty. But whether ML can automate (all of) scientific discovery - I doubt it. Why? Because ML does not have understanding & goals required for model selection.

Loistava vieraskynä, kiitos Kaarlo Hildén! Kirjoituksen pointti pätee korkeakoulutuksen lisäksi sellaisenaan myös myös tieteeseen: Tieteen tavoitteen rajaaminen pelkkään kilpailukykyyn sivuuttaa inhimilliset haasteet ja sivistykselliset päämäärät – vaikka juuri niiden varaan kaikki muu rakentuu.

This feels like a helpful primer for understanding AI in general. It makes programmers more efficient on the front end because they can generate more code. But it makes them less efficient afterwards because it vastly increases the amount of time they spend tweaking and fixing bugs.

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"PRC model is a return to the roots of scholarly communication. This model will allow all actors involved to take greater responsibility for their work: authors for their articles, reviewers for their assessments, and editors for supporting the process of scholarly communication." Yes.

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

Minnesota should leave the US. And join Canada. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Terveisiä Saksasta. Aseveljeysaate on täällä edelleen voimissaan.

You thought research ethics wasn't sexy, didn't you? Well, check this saga out; it has it all: conspiracy, cash-cash from the adult entertainment industry, murder attempts, $20 million settlements, and, of course, porn. Can't wait to see the movie!

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

"The third support act after a sitar player and John Peel reading his letters was David Bowie doing a strange Marcel Marceau-type mime act to recorded sound effects. It was pretty rubbish and I knew he’d never make it." Does anybody know what happened to this guy?

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Hei kaikki psykiatrit ja psykiatrinmieliset! Psykiatripäivät tulee taas (11.03.-13.13., Paasitorni). Myös yours-truly on luennoimassa otsikolla: Onko näyttöön perustuva psykiatria mahdollista? Erityisesti tutkijan kevätkouluun kutsutaan mukaan osallistujia. Tavoitteena on monitieteinen tilaisuus.

Rich Ruohonen, from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. I wonder how well he speaks Finnish. Who will find out? Lots of descendants of Finns in Minnesota - children of immigrants. bsky.app/profile/fact...

Watch a Man Get Launched Off a Truck at 50 MPH, for Science gizmodo.com/watch-a-man-...

In case you missed it, the idea--widely repeated in the medical literature--that Henry Beecher was the first to substitute saline for morphine while treating soldiers in WWII keeps hitting a wall. We now know a Jesuit nightwatchman witnessed this... in WWI. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

"We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average." It's been clear from the start that the most significant outcome of the use of LLMs is that it erodes the basic intellectual skills.