Komende zondag: het jaarlijkse nieuwjaarsfeest van het Nijmeegse straatorkest Kladderadatsch! Met een gastoptreden van de Bossche dub-band 'Dub-A-Riddim'. Kom een dansje wagen! Zondag 4 januari, 14:00-18:00, Plan A (vlietstraat 22, Nijmegen).

Two recent blogs on The Ideophone, prompted by a fun #ReproducibiliTea session in Cologne: 1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ... On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI” 1/n

Two recent blogs on The Ideophone, prompted by a fun #ReproducibiliTea session in Cologne: 1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ... On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI” 1/n

Cristina Zaga bracht wetenschappers, experts en belanghebbenden tezamen om een monter en helder alternatief te formuleren voor winstgedreven "AI"-plannen: Zorgvuldig & Zorgzaam Digitaal. Verkies je ook gezond verstand boven geautomatiseerde gedachteloosheid? 📄___🖋️ openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...

📝 OPEN BRIEF 📝 Wil jij dat onze regering zorgvuldig en zorgzaam vorm geeft aan onze digitale toekomst, met oog voor mens en natuur? Teken dan 🖊️ deze open brief, gericht aan de formerende partijen in de Eerste en Tweede Kamer en aan de demissionaire regering. 📝 openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...

If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co: "Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a... Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social

Het gaat helemaal los dit jaar op 4 januari - straatorkest Kladderadatsch luidt traditiegetrouw het nieuwe jaar in met dit jaar als gastact onvervalste Bossche dub door Dub-a-Riddim. Kladderadatsch Nieuwjaarsfeest, 4 januari, 14:00-18:00, Plan A (vlietstraat 22), Nijmegen. Entree gratis!

Excellent initiative from our French colleagues

see English spelling is very simple: in recur, 'c' occurs once, and in occur, 'c' recurs HTH!

As I wrote in 2020... "The web makes up a large chunk of the data feeding GPT3 and kin. Posting the output of large language models online builds a feedback loop that cannot improve quality. All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."

Ik werd geinterviewd in een stuk over het Rijmwoordenboek en leverde een lofzang op het handgemaakte Sinterklaasgedicht www.bd.nl/heusden/daar...

The European Review of Books is at a critical juncture. Its reputation booming, it still needs to cover costs. So if you can subscribe or give a subscription as a gift, please do! europeanreviewofbooks.com/ten-issues-in/

I feel so lucky to be joining such a cool team and contributing to such an important project 🙌 💫

Morgen: 'Terug naar het ambacht!', Letterenhuis Antwerpen. Ik doe mee aan een panelgesprek over organische taal temidden van een opkomend tij van synthetische tekst auteursvereniging.be/vav-werkcong...

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Incredibly happy to welcome @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social and Átila Vital to the Futures of Language team! markdingemanse.net/futures/news... This concludes the hiring process we conducted over Jul-Sept, with >450 applications. Samira just started, Átila arrives in January — good times!

the whack-a-mole problem: every few months we see a new creative bypass of this kind (that will be half-patched by ad hoc metaprompts & later by finetuning) when will it dawn that LLMs are fundamentally vulnerable to endless new attacks like this, and therefore fundamentally unsafe?

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.

I'm seeing quite some citations of our 2021 paper doi.org/10.1177/0023830920914339 that seem to have somehow missed not just the evidence and arguments from the body of the paper not just the abstract but the subtitle 🫠

Taking notes as I'm reading a draft policy piece that ominously lauds AI's possibilities to make processes more efficient 👀

Language as Particle, Wave and Field, Pike 1959

Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving doi.org/10.1075/nb.0... Met voorzitters van Stutterheim tot Leufkens, sprekers van Jakobson tot Nissim, en onderwerpen van fonologie tot AI: de AVT heeft een roerige geschiedenis en een mooie toekomst — als we "nutteloze beschaving" op waarde blijven schatten

One year ago, with Stella Punselie and Bonnie McLean: The Anatomy of Iconicity, in Open Mind doi.org/10.1162/opmi... In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words #iconicity #cognitivescience

As I was saying, if you give up thinking for yourself, the singularity is already here ideophone.org/bringing-abo... (re FT story with "AI pioneers" claiming "human-level intelligence is already here" www.ft.com/content/5f2f... )

Climbing the scaffolds and replastering this earthen building together is a beautiful sight, and a powerful metaphor for language, as I wrote in @annualreviews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu... (h/t @maartenkossmann.bsky.social)

Two bits of music as the weekend nears: 1. Jacob Collier's solo (but not quite solo) show at North Sea Jazz, with special guest Julian Lage around the 40m mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCS... 2. New Netherlands Bach Society recording just dropped, w/ Maude Gratton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTz...

The learned helplessness that many academics display when it comes to connecting their devices to projectors and displaying slides is a form of negligence Knowing your tools is part of the job

The latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social is so gorgeous and interesting

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

ACL terminology: "Paper" = anything with lots of tables with numbers. "Position paper" = anything critical or just deeper. I propose: "Paper" = intellectual contribution. "Engineering paper" = anything purely technocratic.

quelle surprise that the same shitty company is now taking all rights to turn your academic content and likeness into AI sludge in your name, unless you opt out

This is a fantastic document I can honestly say that LLMs have made me a better writer, because I see its dreck and write better out of spite For that reason I think they can be handy in a fear of a blank page way, in that I see the output and the impostor syndrome is gone! I can do better than that

happy to be a lazy luddite if it means I don't have to listen to fake conversations no actual human could be bothered to have

The unis that insulate students from bad AI will outperform those that embed AI in curricula; the unis that go full luddite, invest in depts that do One Thing Well and hire the world's best scholars of that Thing will outperform this sort of MBA-fueled garbage thinking

Incredible to see that universities using Elsevier's Pure all obediently link to Pure profiles for "research output" but Pure never links back, making the uni's own profile pages useless and unfindable and Pure profiles the premier web presence of their researchers 1/2

About that... we audited the open source status of Lumo and found it came in rock bottom in the EU Open Source AI Index osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr... — consider sharing more details to rise through the openness ranks, @proton.me 🫣 #OpenSource #OpenWashing #lumo

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Great essay from @frank.computer! "A chair orders you to sit and sit in a particular way, by its design. Your being is intended through the tool: you are intended to sit still, face forward, and behave. Artificial intelligence works in exactly the same way."

Prachtig stuk in de @volkskrant.nl van @laurensvhg.bsky.social over “Grote AI-denker Margaret Boden (1936-2025) ...” Echt het lezen waard! www.volkskrant.nl/tech/grote-a...

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #emca #linguistics #sts

bare minimum for holding a conversation #emca

fascinating write-up by @edzitron.com suggests the #GPT5 router can cause massive infrastructural load. Almost as if cognitive science work on decision problems and computational complexity is relevant if you try to mimic metacognition 🫠 www.wheresyoured.at/how-does-gpt... 1/2

Beautiful interview with visual artist Zach Lieberman about practice, generosity & weirdness layer.com/artists/zach... On his serendipitous career: 'I have this model of sailing. You can’t always go in the direction you want to go, so you wind up tacking in different directions.'

"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )

In 2014 thecostofknowledge.com was launched, amassing nearly 30k signatures of folks opposing the shameless profiteering of Elsevier. Journals began to flip to OA and many boycotted Elsevier. But: Is there a rise in new Lingua and Language Sciences pubs unaware of this history? #linguistics

Very thoughtful, well-informed and clearly motivated stance

Excellent. More 'unworkable requirements' for Big Tech please EU, they work as intended

Fellow EU OSAI Index researcher Nityaa Kalra has added ten new music models to our index along with a blog post about the MusGO project osai-index.eu/news/musgo-f... All audio models here: osai-index.eu/the-index?ty... Full index with >150 models: osai-index.eu/the-index #GenAI #OpenSource

Is it possible to use AI well and ethically in academia? I don't know but these amazing resources - via @dingemansemark.bsky.social - may help you make an informed decision 1/