I am hesitant to participate in the Tylenol discourse, even to say that there is no truth to the claim, because I fear that by repeatedly using both words in a sentence, the only thing most people will remember is that there was some kind of connection.

Die Trump-Regierung hat also einen neuen Schuldigen für Autismus gefunden: Paracetamol in der Schwangerschaft. Das ist wissenschaftlich nicht haltbar. Aber es passt perfekt ins Konzept: Autismus ist ein Fehler der Frauen. Die sollen gefälligst Schmerzen erdulden, statt Schmerzmittel zu nehmen.

Super excited to be at the @fraunhofer.bsky.social Summer School on Rethinking Immunity and Disease in the Face of Gender Data Gaps. #gendermedicine #summerschool #proflife

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

So, meine Lieben, hilft ja nix: ich werd in einigen Tagen 50 (genau genommen am 10.10.). Vor 10 Jahren waren wir weit, sehr weit unter der Armutsgrenze. Und ich wäre es auch heute noch, hätten 2017 nicbt manche Menschen begonnen, mich zu bestärken. Mir den Glauben an meine Fähigkeiten wieder zu 1/3

I am not against translation software but I‘m against 1. it being uncritically used to just translate public facing websites instead of just paying translators cause the results are horseshit 2. AI based tools being shoved at me without alternative when are the best examples of enshittification

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Im Prinzip weiß man ja immer vorher dass Warntag ist, und dann ist man doch jedes Mal überrascht

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

„Ooooh, I love Austria! It’s like Germany, but with irony.”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Yes, hello, I am a cis white suburban mom, and I am a single-issue voter. That issue: EVERYONE IS PEOPLE, STOP FUCKING TRYING TO UNPEOPLE PEOPLE

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Ein Horror, dass es nötig war. Gut, dass es funktioniert hat.

Look, it’s not that I am /against/ teleportation. It’s just, where and when would I prepare my presentations if not on the train ride to the event?

My postdoc needed a second pair of eyes to look at some calculations, and I suggested we schedule an afternoon where we lock ourselves in a room with a whiteboard and figure it out, and now she calls it “‘math prison”.

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

If you are really bad, not only will you go to hell, you’ll have to go there on the number 24 bus.

Am I a ginormous nerd? No, of course not. Am I just listening to and really enjoying a three-part podcast on dictionary editing? Yes. Why do you ask? (Thank you @merriam-webster.com for bringing back Word Matters 🥰)

Me: How are you doing ahead of your viva? PhD student: Fine, until further notice.

Tom Lehrer brought so much joy into my life. My condolences to all who loved him.

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

I saw my first raccoon today, please congratulate me.

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

Air France cabin announcer not waiting for the mic to be off before he says “ça m’énerve, ça” is a whole mood today

„We‘ve sent you a Security Code“ [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - Code! „Your code has expired.”

Many students realize that “AI” use in academia leads to deskilling. Here is some of what they say themselves: www.voxweb.nl/en/they-are-...

Frittenwerk Codename quasi Horoskop

Yup! "I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

More power to the Great Republic of Ice Cream!

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Seiten und Apps, die mir einen Bestätigungscode schicken: Schickt in gleich. Sonst warte ich ein paar Minuten und mache dann was anderes, und denke erst morgen wieder dran, und dann ist der Code mittlerweile da, aber fix abgelaufen. Und dann gehts wieder los.

Das ist übrigens genau das was ich meine, wenn ich bei Vorträgen frage was man glaubt wer zwischen einem selbst und einem Unrechtsstaat stehen wird? Es sind die Leute um einen herum: die Nachbar_innen, die Freund_innen, die Gemeinschaft. Das ist die Quelle des Widerstands.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

My brain is upside down today

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Are you a US-based scientist and thinking of moving abroad? Talk to potential host unis - there are a number of attractive measures in place, eg the ERC advance grants that offer 2.5 mio € for 5 years, plus 2 mio € if you are coming from outwith the EU. erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...

typical corrupt science

Wir haben den Scheiss schon wieder gewonnen.

Thank you Sweden 🥰 #esc25

Habt Ihr auch sie ersten 15 Jahre Eures Lebens gedacht, es heißt „Songcongtest“ oder war das nur ich? #esc

okay, if you think gAI is a positive, that its "here to stay", and you're so proud of using gAI to write create art, claim it. Disclose when you use it to read, write, think, create. Have the integrity to publicly declare that you used gAI--its all the silence and secrecy that is so interesting.

Deutsche, die sich gegen Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit einsetzen wollen, bitte hört um Himmels Willen damit auf, das Wort „bunt“ zu verwenden.

Wollte einer Kollegin schreiben, dass ich nächste Woche sehr eingespannt bin, habe versehentlich „angespannt“ geschrieben, und where is the lie?