I’d hate to be a granta editor right now

Stairs. Defeating robots for decades.

economics prof on the other site absolutely telling on himself oh my god people just copy citations they've not read to look credible? citations are absolutely central the to the whole purpose of scholarship, which is informed and critical conversation with others

suddenly reminded of this paper for some reason: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Friction is not just a necessary part of life but arguably of cognition itself.

I use duckduckgo but I gotta say that google is still superior, especially for academics. Awful development.

The definition of damning by faint praise must be my toddler saying that ‘This Woman’s Work’ by Kate Bush ‘sounds like Elsa’

There's great potential here for another referendum between Remain Out and Rejoin and I wouldn't bet against Rejoin

Many of the problems in academia emerging in my lifetime have a single root cause: the identification of research with publication which is then taken as virtually the sole measure of individual performance and contribution.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Honestly, when I was young I was prepared to believe a lot of things about the future, but I never expected it to be so stupid.

Extremely sad that this is still relevant

Labour today:

Rare bright spot in these bleak times is the ongoing revelation of n*ck c*ve as the shallow loser and general piece of shit I always imagined him to be.

The whole metascience movement really is quite problematic for qualitative researchers

‘… funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and the German government.’

This is quite a review. lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

"If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two." Holy shit Noah Hawley is good (and this very clearly demonstrates that he understands the Alien assignment).

"when you opine on matters of theology [...] you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth" is certainly a thing to say, even if intellectual rigour is not really fashionable these days

This should be (but probably won't be) a good chance for many people to seriously reconsider their use of Furedi's various concepts and analyses

Between the Danish media being filled with awful discourse about ‘Danishness’ and Arsenal losing, I’d formally like to restart this Saturday

Time for this again

It's troubling to reflect that Habermas is ancestor to not one, but two lineages, on the techno-reactionary right.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/habermass-...

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

Just seen the blurb on k*thleen stock's assisted dying book and I have some VERY bad news for 45-year old fans of cod-mystical, mid-tempo piano schlock.

Just gonna mute the words project, hail and mary

just physically winced as I read a student draft stating that 1986 is 40 years ago

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

A small thing here: his remarks about social scientists and evolution are just straightforwardly incorrect. There is a *ton* of nuanced and measured discussion about evolution and psychology!

Very stark results, but important to keep in mind that the risk increases from (approx) 2% to 4%

Remember how hard tech bros marketed this as being the “inevitable future” (see: @tressiemcphd.bsky.social) that we all HAD to get onboard with and would make trillions of dollars and disrupt life as we know it? Hmm.

Ban Polymarket

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Andreesen in that clip is obviously referring to therapy culture, i.e. the influence of Freud. It's possible he's watched Adam Curtis's Century of the Self or possibly read Christopher Lasch. The guy is a menace, but 100 dunk QTs correcting him on the history of humanities is not going to help.

Students when they first read any critical psychology:

Conventional systematic reviews can become outdated before they're even published. In our new @nathumbehav.nature.com piece, we discuss how living systematic reviews can help keep evidence current by continuously integrating new evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

This is still very anecdotal, but integrating this tech into schools and higher ed might be catastrophically bad

“Our instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because there’s [a good chance] that AI was deeply involved…”

Some thoughts on the current AI discourse. pardoguerra.org/2026/03/13/a...

Forget the reproducibility crisis, there is no stronger indictment of the state of much social science when ‘AI surrogates’ and synthetic survey responders are becoming popular.

I read these things and I clearly recall being throughly attacked in an interview for a new America fellowship for having used intersectionality in another project, unrelated to my proposal under review. And it makes everything clearer. This was already underway www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

is there a way to mute the 'ai discourse'? asking for a friend

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Jeg er rørt over den omsorg, som medierne viser for virksomhedsejeres følelser når det handler om formueskat. Hvorfor hører vi aldrig om hvordan specialarbejdere føler sig bekymrede over at de skal betale 50% i indkomsskat eller skolelæreres følelser om moms på deres indkøb.