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Daniel Wisneski
@danwisneski.bsky.social
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Associate professor of psychology at Saint Peter's University. Studying moral and political psych. Living in Jersey City.

https://danwisneski.wordpress.com/
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olivia.science
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.
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Abstract: 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 collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.

This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

DEFIANCE. 👏

#NoKings #50501Movement

(📸 Daviss)
Thousands of people and placards are seen in front of the state capitol. This photo is a credit to Minneapolis photojournalist that goes by the handle Daviss on X Thousands of people and placards are seen in front of the state capitol. This photo is a credit to Minneapolis photojournalist that goes by the handle Daviss on X A woman protestor holds up a sign that reads “In honor of our beloved Melissa”
June 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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booker.senate.gov
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jvl.bsky.social
He's not a "kid." He's an adult, with an important govt job.

The posts weren't "stupid." They were hatefully racist.

His life isn't "ruined." He lost a job.

Holding a govt employee accountable is not a "reward" for a journalist. The reporter doesn't get a cookie.
February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Forthcoming AJPS: "Dobbs produced a sizable dent in institutional support, perhaps an unprecedented dent, in part because abortion attitudes for many are infused with moral content and in part owing to the Court’s substantial tilt to the right since 2020" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 15, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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gscottmorgan.bsky.social
LAST CALL! We are raising money to honor @lindaskitka.bsky.social on the SPSP heritage wall. She has had a career and impact worth celebrating. We’re close to the SPSP fundraising threshold. Help us tip over the edge today!

my.spsp.org/About/Donate...

#socialpsyc #psychscisky
December 4, 2023 at 6:46 PM
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gscottmorgan.bsky.social
Let's celebrate @lindaskitka.bsky.social!

We are raising money to recognize the amazing career & contributions of Linda Skitka, and to honor her as part of SPSP's Heritage Wall. You can make make a donation to the Heritage Initiative here: my.spsp.org/About/Donate...

#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
Society for Personality and Social Psychology > About > Donate > Heritage Initiative
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October 20, 2023 at 7:13 PM
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mjbsp.bsky.social
Analia Albuja just won SPSPs Emerging Scholar award!

In recent work, she finds that Black people empathize least with Black/White Biracial people who White identify who have faced discrimination

www.analiaalbuja.com/_files/ugd/4...
October 19, 2023 at 7:27 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
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September 28, 2023 at 7:18 AM