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Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 8h

You narna...

Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 13h

End of Level Cross(ing)

Two geese crossing the road. At a human person crossing point!

Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 13h

End of Level Boss?

@vimtotime.bsky.social

Two geese strutting around on the pavement.

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Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a very bad idea, unfortunately from my field. It might be a 'conference' but I don't think this is good science.

Surely this means there will be hallucinations in both the production and reviewing of the papers? Bonkers.

Nature @nature.com · 2d

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

This looks against every conceivable code of research integrity worthy of the name... what are they thinking?? New depths reached

Nature @nature.com · 2d

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

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Stephen Maurice Graham @smgdraws.bsky.social · 2d

A belated #portfolioday post! I'm Steve and I'm an illustrator and the Art Director at @lostincult.co.uk, I love making these book covers for our series of History / Archives books.

I'm always looking for artists and love looking through your work so please follow me / show me stuff!

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 3d

I'm working on a lab values statement for my new (baby) lab! Does anyone have good examples I can look at or advice they'd be curious to share? I have most of mine written but I want to make sure im not missing important concepts.

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Rebecca McCarthy - 🔜MCM London / EGX @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Giving this a little boost to make it clear I am also looking for freelance work. I've already spoken to some great peeps!

Happy to work with indies any size! Need help with some theming? Can't face writing any more barks? Need a little a bit of lore?

I write and narrative design, what a bargain.

Rebecca McCarthy - 🔜MCM London / EGX @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · May 27

Unfortunately, my role as Senior Narrative Designer at Playtonic has been made redundant. I'm now open to Senior/principal writing & Narrative Design roles UK - Remote/Hybrid.

You can find my portfolio at www.gameswriting.coffee #gamedevjobs #gamedev #indiedev

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Rebecca McCarthy - 🔜MCM London / EGX @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 4d

I have a big backlog project written in Ink, which stalled a while back as I couldn't quite get everything I wanted working. I was looking through the InkJam resources list and this web template was listed.

Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template

Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim

A free template for Ink stories

remy-vim.itch.io

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7d

I'm quitting being the French Prime Minister. For an hour.

Steve Coogan announces he is closing the bureau de change. for an hour.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 7d

from law making to law capitulating

Sunak goes from occupying the highest office in the UK government to advising the wealthiest and most powerful industry

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

www.bbc.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 7d

bleak. $150/hr to feed a shredder. on the plus side, i really do think stochastic modelling will never produce a good story, ever, no matter how many good stories you throw at it, so if you need the money you should take it. But also -- make sure you put the word aubergine in every story. Teach that

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 7d

Today is World Mental Health Day. Mental Health affects everyone, all of the time.

Today and everyday it is important to look out for our own and our loved ones mental wellbeing.

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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 7d

📢 New Episode Alert!

This week, I chatted to Dr. Ali K. Hoshiar from @universityofessex.bsky.social‬ about how microrobots move and work together. 🤖

Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/10/10/e... #Robots #Robotics #Microbot #Medical #Healthcare

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Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 7d

Please report back on experimental results. 😁

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Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 7d

Having never watched the show, I have also internalised it as 'Werewolf on TV' (or Wink Murder, for a more old school twist).

'Love Island uses Scrum' almost makes me want to watch an episode to see...almost. 😅

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 7d

📢 Don't miss our upcoming webinar for primary schools!

We'll be joined by our Writer in Residence Matt Goodfellow and #OURfP expert Debbie Thomas to explore the importance of book choice for children.

Find out more and book your free spot here:

https://bit.ly/48fqgQO

An illustration by Sandhya Prabhat of a group of children reading with a teacher on the floor of a school library. Plus the words: "Webinar: Developing a culture of reading for pleasure. Why book choice matters for children. 4pm, Thursday 20 November." And the logos for BookTrust, and The Open University Reading for Pleasure

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Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 10d

Phew!
That makes more sense. 😁

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Matt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 10d

Wait...the kid dated your Grandma or Bond dated your Grandma? 😅

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arxiv cs.RO @arxiv-cs-ro.bsky.social · 21d

Atef Azaiez, David A. Anisi, Marie Farrell, Matt Luckcuck
Revisiting Formal Methods for Autonomous Robots: A Structured Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20488

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arXiv cs.RO Robotics @csro-bot.bsky.social · 21d

Atef Azaiez, David A. Anisi, Marie Farrell, Matt Luckcuck: Revisiting Formal Methods for Autonomous Robots: A Structured Survey https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20488 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20488 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.20488

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arXiv cs.LO Logic in Computer Science @cslo-bot.bsky.social · Jun 18

Matt Luckcuck, Angelo Ferrando, Fatma Faruq: Varanus: Runtime Verification for CSP https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14426 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14426 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.14426

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arXiv cs.SE Software Engineering @csse-bot.bsky.social · Apr 1

Marie Farrell, Matt Luckcuck, Rosemary Monahan, Conor Reynolds, Ois\'in Sheridan: Adventures in FRET and Specification https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24040 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.24040 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.24040

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