"we must not allow AI, neither as bully nor so-called tool, to redefine our roles as educators or researchers. It is not our job to chase hype. What this means is by all means educators should feel empowered and inspired by the urgency to uplift students, but not to use AI to do so."

As @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social have said - guardrails, what guardrails?!

IMP!!! Understanding Ai from an historical, conceptual, & critical point of view for the Humanities & Social Sciences, with citations, in clear language for scholars and use in the classroom from Computer Science expert Olivia Guest. For your MUST DO LIST & Syllabus. youtu.be/pi85dy4LIL0?...

How does the #brain adapt when goals change? This study shows that coordinated neural rhythms between medial #OrbitofrontalCortex & #hippocampus underlie flexible #navigation, allowing animals to rapidly update internal maps & switch between target locations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4x5yN2M

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Steve Jobs: “Computers are a bicycle for your mind.” Satya Nadella: “Computers are heroin for your mind.”

I love that tech companies literally had ads like, “Fire unreliable humans! Use AI, the employee that’s always working for YOU,” and it turns out AI is basically your laziest, dumbest co-worker who says “yeah, I took care of it” whether they did or not

The essay lays out in readable language and arguments why "the ethical use and further expansion of GenAI in its current form is not possible." IMO it's a great course reading.

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).

Opus 4.8 (the very latest LLM from Anthropic) responds to a particularly tricky question, "How many days in the week have the letter "d" in them?" AI is going to change EVERYTHING!

Loryn Brantz created “The Good Advice Cupcake” for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent. www.wired.com/story/story/...

This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Leftists don’t hate technology, actually. About that silly article...

Really pissed off to see an email from the VSB saying they’re implementing Copilot in schools for students. They say it “reflects the reality that generative AI tools are increasingly present in students’ lives”. They are not planning on teaching kids how to use it or think critically about its use…

If this were a human imitating Dr. Fitzharris, it would be fraud, identity theft, and blackmail. But because an AI company has stolen her likeness and public health work, there is unlikely to be much recourse. This is why they use the language of non-consent. Because this is a violation.

In the space below, please list the ways in which you have found that Pepsi is the taste of a new generation. Examples include Pepsi being refreshing, delicious, invigorating, and/or awesome

I’ll never get used to watching privacy disasters unfold in real time.

US Science RIP 😔

and utterly disgusting. I hate this timeline

Once again, @dereklowe.bsky.social is not holding back and I am here for it. www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2

this screenshot is also the partial answer to ‘why are people so anti-AI/angry about gAI’ whine I see about this place. You don’t get to say this and then expect the people potentially impacted by your sweeping and callous claims of redundancy to keep calm and carry on. There will be anger. Lots.

This is a great study and (one of?) the first of its kind! A note of caution from a human contributor though: given the slow academic publishing process, the findings should primarily be interpreted as a snapshot of AI capabilities (and the capabilities of researchers using AI) in 2024. (1/4)

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

" I thought the AI revolution demanded that I become a different kind of professional — faster, savvier, more cutting edge. Now I think it demands something simpler: that I know who I am. " (I personally think: it's also completely fine to mostly ignore it...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

JFC new IEA report shows: orders for fossil methane plants for data centres are bigger in the US than they for *any other country for any other reason* (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) "if data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

Prediction: Universities will continue to pay exorbitant amounts for AI even as the prices continue to rise and it's abandoned by businesses.

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism.

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀> pubpeer.com/publications...

What a breath of fresh air. Good to see at least one university being clear and granting students exactly the space they need to hone their skills. "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit.”

More of this, please. Thinking also remains sine qua non of good {sociologizing, coding, software engineering, ...}

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I was asked to list any international people I would collaborate with in the next two years. I don’t even know where our science will go next month. Do these people have any fucking clue about how science works??!!

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

Over 500 people have signed our petition to get AI out of schools! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

Neurofriends: has anyone used the 14 channel wireless EEG headset from Emotive Epoch X for research? If so, what was your experience? #neuroscience #eeg #cognitiveneuroscience

A few weeks ago, I started a "degoogle" process. Time to speed it up

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

Finding productive uses for LLMs while at the same time doing nothing to mitigate the numerous harms makes things WORSE not better. Responding to “AI” critique by saying that they have their uses and with work we can make them genuinely productive is not a rational response. It’s accelerationism

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data. www.wired.com/story/data-b...

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...