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

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

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...

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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/

International Resistance To AI In Education Marked In Open Letter’ — by Peter Greene. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Hey EditorialManager. I just want to file my review. You want me to fill out my profile in excruciating detail before I even get there. #EditorialManager continues to excel in the mud run approach to user interface design. Finding reviewers is hard these days. Why not make it harder?

I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

Nimma! Morgen na het vuurwerk 🎇 speelt @kladderadatsch.bsky.social de sterren van de hemel bij podium Kaaij Hoog. Kom langs en waag een dansje! zo 13 jul 23:00 - 00:30 Onderdeel van de #vierdaagsefeesten  #Nijmegen  #4daagse #4df www.vierdaagsefeesten.nl/programma/kl...

Language is a wonder. As in: We wonder what makes it all work. So we're talking to linguistic lion Stephen Levinson of ‪@mpi-nl.bsky.social about his new book The Interaction Engine. (The book is open source, by the way!) Episode coming soon.

Sho presents his work validating dynamic time warping to a rapt #ISGS2025 audience. Lots of engagement afterwards #ProudSupervisor

Are you at #ISGS2025 today? Come see my talk in the kinematics session! I'll present my PhD work validating dynamic time warping (DTW) as a measure of gesture form similarity with manual ratings. We show that DTW can be an efficient, useful proxy for gesture form similarity!

Nick Enfield, author of 'What Is Truth For?', is speaking at #HowTheLightGetsIn this September. Find Nick's book: buff.ly/znpugeD Find out more about the event: buff.ly/QO8oDjm

🚨 Almost 800 signatures! Help us get to the 1000!

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Op zondag 13 juli spelen we met @kladderadatsch.bsky.social op de Nijmeegse zomerfeesten bij De Kaaij (23:00-00:30, direct na het vuurwerk dus). Kom een dansje wagen! www.vierdaagsefeesten.nl/programma/kl...

Het bizarre is dat de bonden met deze AI-prietpraat de bal voor open doel neerleggen. Meer AI = minder werk, de bonden zeggen het zelf. Moet ik de volgende stap nog uittekenen? ideophone.org/waarom-ik-ni...

what a sweet way to game engagement metrics and take the narcissism up a few notches. Entirely in character for academia:edu

Wel heb ik ooit @aob.nl hoe komt die AI-prietpraat in het onderhandelingsakkoord, en hoe krijgen we die er zo snel mogelijk uit? #cao #universiteiten ideophone.org/waarom-ik-ni... (ht @irisvanrooij.bsky.social)

Most humanist critique of #genAI falls into the ideological trap of treating machine learning systems as less perfect quasi-human subjects, by claiming that human «creativity» or «intelligence» will always surpass machinic ones. That’s not the point, the comparison is flawed from the beginning 1/

was mooi om afgelopen vrijdag met @kladderadatsch.bsky.social de Nijmeegse Heksennacht te ondersteunen #ReclaimTheStreets meer info over de nacht op www.nijmeegseheksennacht.nl

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Benioff says "50% of work now done by AI", and most media lap it up instead of realising what it means: that he understands neither "work", "AI", nor "%". If the singularity is near, it's not because machine intelligence surges but because we're giving up on thinking ideophone.org/bringing-abo...

quelle surprise that academia dot edu now offers AI slopcasts they were a garbage flattery service ten years ago, and they have turned up the enshittification a few notches ideophone.org/academia-edu...

one year ago, with Andreas Liesenfeld: Rethinking open source generative AI: Open-washing and the EU AI Act dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... apparently in the top 8 most downloaded #FAccT papers of all time we've tripled model coverage since then in the EU Open Source AI Index osai-index.eu

Straight to the top of my reading pile: Some of my favourite linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social, Hildebrandt & @suzyjstyles.bsky.social with a new paper on spontaneous multimodal iconicity in earthquake narratives doi.org/10.1080/0726... #iconicity #ideophones

Morgen #Klokhuis vragendag in science museum Nemo! Ik ben erg benieuwd. Hier een paar van de vragen die ik als taalwetenschapper mag gaan beantwoorden (met de leeftijd van de vrager tussen haakjes)

The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all): "Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas." rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...

Gonna set this as my out of office in August

Our EU Open Source AI Index keeps growing and now includes >170 models. Sometimes, we find models that don't quite live up to the the openness claim. Blog post about OpenGPT-X by Dick Blankvoort and Jenia Jitsev: osai-index.eu/news/opengpt...

At our faculty we have guidelines on Generative AI and research integrity: osf.io/preprints/os... . Another example: ERA Living Guidelines european-research-area.ec.europa.eu/news/living-... I'm looking for other examples of guidelines like that, aimed at researchers. Hit me!

In praise of niche papers www.superlinguo.com/post/7845555... A blog post inspired by @dingemansemark.bsky.social I really enjoyed this exercise, please share those papers which are close to your heart and you're always surprised they don't get much attention!

The best LLM for education? Widely advertised "open" solutions like Llama are open in weights only, providing no access to training code or to the all-important instruction-tuning data. What to use instead? https://osai-index.eu/guides/open-llms-education

Ga toch weg met je door AI geschreven teksten — uitstekend stuk van Johannes Visser op De Correspondent decorrespondent.nl/16094/ga-toc...