I have some bad news for you about scores & scores of esteemed Harvard professors…

Summaring the problems in every maths department.

Teaching friends, advice please? I have this calculus student who fancies himself a hotshot. During group work at whiteboards he often takes charge, assumes a teacher role, and lectures other students. Other students have told me that they find this condescending and don't want to work with him. 1/

I really think the appropriate response here is not "bullshit, its not intelligent nor conscious" (because the answer will simply and boringly depend on your definition of "intelligent" and "conscious") but rather "we're wasting our time arguing about this"

I have studied enough philosophy to know that we simply don't have to care about whether AI is ""conscious"". This whole argument is so much more about the definition of "consciousness" than about AI and, no offense to philosophers,

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

TIL stimulants like Adderall reduces risk of dementia in people with ADHD to neurotypical levels. So gimme those drugs.

A little piece of good news ♥️

I mean, do we count the reporting on trans issues over the past 5-10 years already as part of this fasho sympathizer era of the NYT?

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Enough. Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver. Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

Haven't read the whole thing yet but my advice to our PhD/masters students regarding statistical robustness has always been "okay but do your results ~make sense~ given ~everything~"

Any Open Science Foundation users know what "Date Modified" in the meta data refers to? osf.io/xcaq3/files/... Reviewer pointed out that it was Sept 25th this year (way after data collection ended), but I don't recall updating it, and there is also nothing in the "Revisions" tab. @cos.io ?

Hive mind, could you point me to any papers that report pursuit gains for fast-ish target speeds (30 - 45°/s)? A reviewer admonishes that our gains are unheard-of-ly close to 1 and I want to check how unheard of they are exactly 😊 (feel free to nominate your own or your friends' papers!)

Just added a new small Unity scene to the collection of currently seven virtual environments I created over the years. They are all free to reuse under Creative Commons and are all optimized for standalone VR. Here's the repository tinyurl.com/OpenEnvironm... #VRresearch

If we had actual places to party past 2.30am, that would already go a long way to discourage that 🫣

Doesn't sound like this is gonna have any teeth but good direction!

Rare relatable Holyday moment, don't we all wish proposals at City Hall were better

It never ceases to amaze me how business owners are often so caught up in their class identity that they're willing to cut into their own profits

Glad we're fighting the good fight, lol

you tell'em, Olivia!

This is great! As a sidenote, a 46% ~return on investment~ is actually not even that impressive when it comes to stuff governments can spend money on. Public transport projects tend to have extremely high RoIs, for example. Government spending is good, actually!

Not holding my breath for universities, especially Ivy League suckers, to do the right thing

Please join us. A @connectedminds.bsky.social Conference at the York University Student Centre. October 6th, at 3 PM. Opening keynote address by Dr. Michael Inzlicht from University of Toronto. #neuroscience @jdcrawford.bsky.social @bjorges.bsky.social

Estamos adoptando la ia en nuestras universidades sin un análisis serio al respecto? Corremos detrás del hype sin pensar en sus consecuencias y siendo víctimas de la estrategia comercial de grandes empresas? @olivia.science et al. plantean distintos puntos 👇 zenodo.org/records/1706...

lol okay apparently these stickers are a consequence of participatory budgeting and not Moise's idea 😂 (as I found out in the ever-engaging City Hall Watcher by @graphicmatt.com newsletter!)

and tbh I should be in hell for my data management skills, this folder is a fucking mess

writing letters of recommendation is a special kind of hell

Even if anyone wanted this feature (I don't) I can't imagine an LLM would be the best tool for it???

How strange that LLMs can't do a thing they were never even designed to do in the first place

Was this not… what critical AI researchers have been saying this entire time?

Check out our review paper published at PSPR! 🙂

Opp, can't believe I hadn't signed yet!

I mourn a communal ideology of vaccination that promoted universal vaccine uptake as a way to offer protection to everyone, including those who can’t get vaccinated. It really feels like the anti-vaxxers won with their focus on individual choice with no regard for the harm it would cause others.

Not to commit the sin of earnest posting, but what if the real political violence were the people we lost along the way (to racism, transphobia, ~capitalism~, colonialism, et al.)

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The thing is that police are both inefficient at solving crimes AND bad people so its honestly really hard to tell

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Cars really kill us in so many different ways 🙃

Please join us this Friday, September 5th, for a CIAN seminar. Dr. Intzandt will talk about her exciting work on sex-specific differences in aging and physical activity. @jdcrawford.bsky.social @bjorges.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social

Congrats to this bunch of devs! 🥰

Diablo devs unionize following layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI, pay aftermath.site/diablo-union...

not this line of code in my friend's program 😂

did a task that I forgot to put on my to do list what the hell

It's somehow comforting that even a bumbling idiot like Doug Ford can do good policy once in a while www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

This is the paper: www.pisavisionlab.org/wp-content/u... (Audiovisual continuous psychophysics! Very cool!) ((My own study is in VR and also records eye movements, so there is still new stuff in there)) (((I just wanted to be the multisensory continuous psychophysics guy!!! oh well!!!)))

SCOOPED! by the Italians