Robin T.
@drrobinthomas.bsky.social
Professor, mathematical psychologist, guitarist and singer
Reposted by Robin T.
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
Reposted by Robin T.
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Reposted by Robin T.
What a pretty tree, and I'm sure Jinx is a bit mesmerized by it.
I found this the other day, and it fits your picture. ❤️
I found this the other day, and it fits your picture. ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What a pretty tree, and I'm sure Jinx is a bit mesmerized by it.
I found this the other day, and it fits your picture. ❤️
I found this the other day, and it fits your picture. ❤️
Reposted by Robin T.
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Reposted by Robin T.
How do I join
"Runaway nuns can stay in Alpine convent if they leave social media"
Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media
The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
How do I join
Reposted by Robin T.
Curious if anyone out there has written a draft letter expressing resistance to AI in schools (grade and post-sec) for public use. If not, I might be up for the job in drafting a template letter that points to facts and examples, verified by actual experts in the field. Something needs to be done.
These videos need to be sent to the administration of every school espousing "AI is the future" to remind them of the kind of future they are helping to solidify where violence, racism, and misogyny are enacted under a veil of fantasy.
The purpose of a system of is what it does.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Curious if anyone out there has written a draft letter expressing resistance to AI in schools (grade and post-sec) for public use. If not, I might be up for the job in drafting a template letter that points to facts and examples, verified by actual experts in the field. Something needs to be done.
Reposted by Robin T.
📢📬 Take a sec during Small Business Saturday shopping to speak up for your right to use the entire election season timeline to cast your vote.
Act now: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-sb-293-protect-ohio-voters-0
Act now: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-sb-293-protect-ohio-voters-0
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📢📬 Take a sec during Small Business Saturday shopping to speak up for your right to use the entire election season timeline to cast your vote.
Act now: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-sb-293-protect-ohio-voters-0
Act now: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-sb-293-protect-ohio-voters-0
Reposted by Robin T.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
omg in one of the Nature journals. Really? Look at this horrible AI generated figure.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
omg in one of the Nature journals. Really? Look at this horrible AI generated figure.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Robin T.
Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience
www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience
www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
Reposted by Robin T.
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
Reposted by Robin T.
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
Reposted by Robin T.
There is so much violence in their rhetoric, generally; the explicit non-consensual ‘gAI is here, you need to use it whether you want to or not,’ and then this kind of abusers’ logic ‘you have to use our tech but we aren’t responsible for anything that our tech does to you’
"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
There is so much violence in their rhetoric, generally; the explicit non-consensual ‘gAI is here, you need to use it whether you want to or not,’ and then this kind of abusers’ logic ‘you have to use our tech but we aren’t responsible for anything that our tech does to you’
Reposted by Robin T.
NEW - OpenAI has responded to the lawsuit from the family of Adam Raine, the teen who committed suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
NEW - OpenAI has responded to the lawsuit from the family of Adam Raine, the teen who committed suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT.
Reposted by Robin T.
I used to pride myself on my Google-fu. There wasn't anything I felt I couldn't research or find. And in the last few years, I can't even get decent results for basic searches. There's so much AI bullshit, unrelated results, etc. It's shocking how quickly and severely the quality has worsened.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I used to pride myself on my Google-fu. There wasn't anything I felt I couldn't research or find. And in the last few years, I can't even get decent results for basic searches. There's so much AI bullshit, unrelated results, etc. It's shocking how quickly and severely the quality has worsened.
Reposted by Robin T.
Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.
I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.
I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”
3/🧵
3/🧵
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
doi.org
September 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.
I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.
I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
Reposted by Robin T.
Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Reposted by Robin T.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Reposted by Robin T.
Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Reposted by Robin T.
This is coming up and I thought I'd boost it again with the little test tube icon: 🧪
As autocratization proceeds in the U.S. and elsewhere, it's time for a stock-take. Where are we, where are we going? What works? What might work better? Nearly 6 months after we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy the SciBeh team is hosting its next big event ....
1/6
1/6
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is coming up and I thought I'd boost it again with the little test tube icon: 🧪
Reposted by Robin T.
The surprise factor should have died a while back.
Kill it in the crib Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business share.google/yHvW345Glzsk...
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
share.google
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The surprise factor should have died a while back.
Reposted by Robin T.
“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.”
zenodo.org/records/1706...
20/🧵
zenodo.org/records/1706...
20/🧵
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.”
zenodo.org/records/1706...
20/🧵
zenodo.org/records/1706...
20/🧵
"... students do not know what they do not know" and they never will if we bring this into the classroom. There is no positive use case for using genAI to teach writing in the classroom www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"... students do not know what they do not know" and they never will if we bring this into the classroom. There is no positive use case for using genAI to teach writing in the classroom www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Reposted by Robin T.
AI … is a crisis… History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation.“
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
AI … is a crisis… History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation.“
Reposted by Robin T.
See also for instance: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
See also for instance: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...