Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026. 🧶 1/20

When I started building this site some months back we had 200 actions logged. I’d no idea it would grow this fast. So much so I might have to rework it again to cope! Worth every keystroke to document this mess he’s creating. Hats off to @chrischirp.bsky.social for all she’s doing, proud to help

Questions about how we relate to the natural world, to nature, to landscapes and to ourselves and each other are some of the most critical questions of our time. Earthbound is a rare opportunity to connect, reflect, share. It's happening soon; www.secrethotel.dk/earthbound-25

Vibeke Brix, børnelæge på Riget, blev i 2022 æresalumne på @au.dk og holdt ved den lejlighed en tale som fik hele aulaen til at græde. Hun har været alle steder hvor børn sulter i stor stil. Her forklarer hun hvorfor (i min fortolkning) alle børn i Gaza nok kommer til at dø www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

Seriøst: det er uncool at stadig være på Twitter. Sig det videre (igen).

Given the need for more interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research, we are offering up to £200k awards for research on the boundary between social science/humanities and science or engineering www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/apex...

In the context of epistemic iteration, I have been thinking about the metaphor of cartography: diverse maps, often "wrong", but useful to start exploring, leading to new maps embedded in the practice of use (and often still "wrong" post hoc). Is there any good reading on the hist and philo of maps?

👋 Welcome to the official Bluesky account of Mind & Life Europe! We explore the intersection of science, contemplative wisdom, and human flourishing. Follow us for research, reflections, and events bridging mind and life. 🌱🧠🌍

Apparently, the mail below got Col Meyers relieved of her duties at Pituffik Space Base, located in Greenland, thus part of Denmark. To me, this reads like an appreciation and indeed an example of collaboration and good neighborship...

Give @textculture.bsky.social a follow. It is a new research centre dedicated to understand the impact of AI on text culture. With a great diverse team, funded by the Danish National Research Foundation until 2031 and located at Aarhus University, Denmark. Learn more about us at arts.au.dk/en/text.

Next up: Denmark will merge with Canada. We'll call it "Canmark" www.ft.com/content/cb46...

Quite the power move by #Denmark 👇👇

On today of all days, with Princeton now in the Trump administration's crosshairs, I taught my undergraduates about standpoint epistemology, strong objectivity, and communities of knowledge. On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.

mMeeting in "Academy of the Restless Ones"Bologna, we explored "The Actual Role of (Scientific) Academies in a changing World" set in a beautiful medieval palace site.unibo.it/accademiasci.... Reports of activities and strategies, discussions of values and purpose, of Europe @fusaroli.bsky.social

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

European states should be rolling out the red carpet for all the brilliant medical and scientific researchers that Trump and Musk are making unemployed. If the US is intent on such self harm, Europe should take advantage. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🦠Is life always biosocial, so organisms are socially connected in ways that influence their situated biologies? AIAS Fellow Jens Seeberg presents research on how factory work environments influence the development and spread of antibiotics resistance. 📆24 March at 11:00 aias.au.dk/events/show/...

What if LLM hallucinations are an inherent feature of their training material, cultural texts? Joe Dumit, @ucdavis.bsky.social and I scratch the surface in letter to editor @nature.com, www.nature.com/articles/d41..., @tedunderwood.me

Correspondence to Nature: "LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre … audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence in one [context] might be … nonsensical in another." Excellent. We're getting there!

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Follow @aiasdk.bsky.social for updates on interdisciplinary research @au.dk and insights into some amazing projects....

What’s the opposite of woke? Sleepwalking into brutal dictatorship.

For nylig læste vi i vores forskningsgruppe en tekst af Ute Frevert om hvordan følelser som stolthed og ydmygelse var med til at forme opløbet til og oplevelsen af Første Verdenskrig. Det er urovækkende som nogle af de aktuelle udviklinger ræsonnerer med ganske mørke kapitler i Europas historie

Fellowship opportunity at AIAS. The Artist-in-Residence Tandem Fellowship invites an artist from any discipline to team up with an @au.dk researcher on a research project. 📆APPLY by: 18 March 2025 at 12.00 (noon) CET. 🔗https://aias.au.dk/opportunities-at-aias/artist-in-residence-tandem-fellowship

🎓 Come join us for a special lecture on Wed Feb 5th, 10-11am, with the one and only, Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social! We're really excited to hear Marieke's talk, “Mind-wandering: when is it helpful, when is it not?” 🧠 All are welcome - spread the word! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...

Paris Sciences et Lettres has created a new masters' degree in "Artificial Intelligence and Society" that combines hands-on technical expertise with impact analysis & discussion of policy. No affiliation with PSL; just a spectator who thinks this is an interesting direction. #MLSky

Still trying to get your head around #DeepSeek, and why it #matters for matters from #TechIndustry and #LocalLLM to #KnowledgeEconomy and #GeoPolitics? Following @garymarcus.bsky.social is a good start...

Gary has been speaking the truth on this for ages and you wouldn’t believe the grief he gets on it.

Follow @interacting-minds.bsky.social for a view into an interdisciplinary research environment on - surprise - interacting minds and bodies. It brings in researchers from humanities and health research, from social and natural sciences. And listen to the podcasts, interactingminds.au.dk/podcast!

Congrats Lauren! Looking forward to reading. #philsci #hpbio

If you haven't read "What Makes Us Social " already, now may be the time...Congrats @utafrith.bsky.social and Chris Frith!

In the days of the Data Oligarchs and Tech Giants, it is easy to oversee that so much digital creativity and development happens in what the software licenses call "The Rest of the World'. To hear more, join us @aiasdk.bsky.social for the workshop ijust about to begin: aias.au.dk/events/netia...

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible observatory.wiki/How_Human_Ex...

🌊 How will climate change impact waves in the Gulf of Mexico? 🌍 Our study shows rising wave heights and more intense extremes ahead, impacting coastal infrastructure, shipping, and fisheries. Explore the details and wave projections here: Interactive tool: shorturl.at/B9FIt shorturl.at/q4Rkf

Resharing this because I really think AI makes reasoning about culture more necessary and more powerful. And if you believe that in your gut, there's no reason to react defensively when people like Arpit Gupta say ill-informed things about the humanities.

While we’re all thinking about Denmark and USA: here’s a fact little known except by global health nerds. For a while life expectancy in Denmark was as poor as USA. Investigations showed excess deaths, related to lifestyle, of people in 40s and 50s. Public health measures led to improvements.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

I give a monthly donation to Wikipedia. One of the few things left on the internet not ruined by Musk, or, as far as I know, polluted by AI. When tech bros talk about ‘existential risk’ they are themselves the hazard, of course.

For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the Kingdom of Denmark feels that the ownership and control of Ny Hjørring (New York) and the rest of Vinland is an absolute necessity.

We'd all be better off if in addition to Darwin we were also taught Kropotkin. Darwin talked a lot about evolutionary pressures selecting for certain traits. Kropokin talked about how animals acting cooperatively allowed for survival.

Sammen med 33 kolleger står jeg bag dagens kronik i Jyllands-Posten, hvor vi argumenterer for, at et forbud mod sociale medier for unge under 18 risikerer at gøre mere skade end gavn. Forslaget om forbuddet lanceres i et borgerforslag, der skal behandles i Folketinget, formentlig en gang til foråret

New Starter Pack: Pioneer Centre for AI researchers

petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations' A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences! It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation

Here is a good beginning to a Contemplative Research Starter Pack. Suggestions welcome. I'll try to keep it updated as more people migrate over to the blue sky 🙏 #contemplativeresearch #contemplativescience #mindfulness #meditation #yoga #breathwork #psychedelics go.bsky.app/StDaiA6

Follow @fusaroli.bsky.social for everything interesting about cognition, interaction and modeling...

Our new paper in @science.org shows that misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, and when it does it’s shared more & read less. bsky.app/profile/will...

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

I'm in Brisbane for the OzCHi’24 conference, @ozchi-conf.bsky.social, to present the paper “Exploring the Impact of AI Features on Collaborative Creativity”, co-authored with @jonasfrich.bsky.social, Jens Emil Grønbæk & Marcel Borowski from @aarhusuni.bsky.social. Summary + Key points: >

Useful to generate ideas fast, none of which makes it into the final solution.... The suggestion @peterdalsgaard.bsky.social and colleagues certainly resonates with my own experience. I would not be surprised if it becomes a common finding. Read more below, www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...