I see academics disclosing their use of generative AI in their papers. They may do it willingly or just as a requirement in the publication process, I don't know. I can see why you would want to know that, but it still strikes me as odd.

We are very happy to introduce AfriMTEB to #MTEB 🌍 If you are looking to evaluate an embedding model for African languages, you can now do so directly with MTEB! Big thanks for Kosei Uemura and @dadelani.bsky.social for the PR! #retrieval, #evaluation, #nlp

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Inverse Laws of Robotics: * Humans must not anthropomorphise AI systems. * Humans must not blindly trust the output of AI systems. * Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems. susam.net/inverse-laws...

📣 Gephi 0.11 is coming soon: starting now, you can download the beta version and send your feedback! gephi.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/g...

This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei has a degree in literature and thinks AI will mean we need more people with humanities degrees. fortune.com/2026/02/07/a...

The Bullshit Benchmark Explorer - models calling out ridiculous requests. Go Claudes! petergpt.github.io/bullshit-ben...

✨ Extract a social graph from any pdf document -> example from my PhD thesis: nocodefunctions.com/user_created... -> multilingual, -> takes webpages as input as well -> different ties possible (family, pro, etc.) 🔗 available at nocodefunctions.com/nergraph/ner...

Hey les Parisiens, I will be in Paris throughout February. I'm visiting the Institute for Advanced Study to work on AI-augmented mapping and notably within RAG systems for computational SSH, along with @akmunk.bsky.social. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Let's get in touch!

Just published open access, a playful exercise I developed and ran with students: "The Cringe Test: student evaluations of intelligence with LLMs in a Turing Test adapted for classroom use" www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

Since the hegemon's eye is now focussing on Greenland, I recommend revisting our research note in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power elite in Greenland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🇫🇷 Vidéos Gephi en Français : J'ai extrait les passages les plus intéressants de notre dernier stream OnlyFA (Only Force Atlas) avec Nicolas "Datalgo" Bouchaïb. Ça donne 12 vidéos de 1 à 20 minutes, centrées sur différents points, souvent assez avancés. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MrW...

📕 Review of “Seeing like a Platform” “What makes this book essential reading is its recognition that digital technology’s democratic potential and authoritarian dangers are not separate phenomena but two faces of the same coin.” albertoblumenscheincruz.substack.com/p/review-see...

Congrats to @dariorodighiero.bsky.social for beating me to the best short paper award at #CHR2025 ! And to Carlo and Davide, although I don't know them personally. I only got an honorable mention, which I am still very proud of 😂 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...