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Jane A.
@jane-in-progress.bsky.social
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Feminist, atheist, immigrant, European, graphic designer, content creator, well-informed, mostly harmless. Pro-equality, pro-facts, pro-compassion. Anti-fascist, anti-extinction. Woke AF.

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Jane A. @jane-in-progress.bsky.social · Oct 15
My Bluesky Rules

I don't follow back if (any of the following):

• You haven't posted anything yet
• You haven't written a profile
• The only thing you've posted is selfies
• You're pushing bitcoin or similar bollox
• Your profile is solely about how much you love (any) god

If that's you, jog on 😘
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Narrator: Some people want to solve this issue by not expecting basic scholarly standards from students anymore either

/s

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olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
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
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

👀

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...
Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune
The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.
fortune.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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bambooshooti.bsky.social
#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1989: The U.S. invades Panama to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega, who had been indicted in the U.S. for drug trafficking and money laundering. “Operation Just Cause” has been cited as a potential model for dealing with the Maduro regime in Venezuela. /1
U.S. Marines in the Panama Canal Zone in October 1989, shortly before the U.S. invasion of Panama.
December 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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freeprincessluigi.bsky.social
oh I'm sure there's an explanation, they just haven't pulled it out of their ass yet. they'll give it to us the next press conference and everyone will move on like they aren't lying to our faces lol.
December 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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mheb.bsky.social
When the GOP wasn't evil.
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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olivia.science
Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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horseshoepartyuk.bsky.social
It's that time of year again!
I wish I knew who to credit this to:

🎶 Elon the thin-skinned snowflake 🎵
A Christmas Carol to be sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Elon the thin skinned snowflake, Had a very white skinned chest, And if you want him angry, You can track his private jet. All of the liberal Tweeters, Used to laugh and call him names, They wouldn't let poor Elon, Join in any hashtag games. Then one cold Ukrainian Eve, Putin came to say, Elon with your chest so white, Won't you block Ukraine tonight. Now all the despots love him, As they shout it out with glee, Elon the thin skinned snowflake, You're our bitch for treachery.
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Is there not one person in the DoJ with a conscience and a burner email account?
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
One of my favourites 😎☺️💙
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
"On top of which the house isn’t even in Clacton. Just goes to show how little he knows about his constituency…"
via The Daily Scar
December 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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leonsimons.com
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"

Hear, hear!
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
This is really worrying. Also - how anyone could read Mein Kampf and "understand where he was coming from" is just plain nuts.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)

Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
"Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler? Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values. Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that. Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany."
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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paddyopatrick.bsky.social
👇🏼2 days ago Farage played victim yet again sitting in gallery at #PMQs alleging it’s rigged so he can’t ask one

Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’

He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼‍♂️
Post from Wednesday by Farage on X, saying “PMQs today will be raped again by the Labour Party. I will sit in the gallery.” Picture of the question order for yesterday Thursday, for the secretary of role affairs, where he was due to ask his question as number six out of eleven. But he couldn’t be bothered to turn up, that’s how much the farmers really mean to him.
December 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
The single most important scientific advancement for the future of our species and planet. #ClimateCrisis
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 3d
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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petergleick.bsky.social
This.

Thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...
For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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mbolotnikova.bsky.social
pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
screenshotted text: We’ll need to build out renewables at breakneck speed and electrify everything we can, of course. But some of the most powerful levers we have to decouple economic growth from environmental impact challenge us to do something even harder — to begin outgrowing two central fixtures of American life that are as taken-for-granted as they are supremely inefficient: our extreme dependence on meat and cars. Changing those realities is so culturally and politically heretical in America that this case is almost never made in climate politics, but it deserves to be made nonetheless. And doing so will require examining the trade-offs that we too often treat as defaults.
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”

* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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goodlawproject.org
The tragic reality about violence against women and girls: unless it's an issue which can be weaponised to bash trans people or migrants no one gives a fuck.
Amnesty Feminists Instagram post showing an empty house of Commons listening to the Government's new violence against women and girls strategy
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
kilomonster.art Ash G. @kilomonster.art · 2d
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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william-in-nv.bsky.social
From Morten Morland at The Times of London. He's captured the ramblings of every speech the man's ever given.
A political cartoon showing Pres. Trump speaking into a microphone leading a Christmas pageant. He is saying, "At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus! Great guy… He did a lot of good things, some not so good, but a lot of good things, and a lot of people love him… A lot of people love me and celebrate my birth. Maybe even more people… You go online and you see tremendous numbers, incredible numbers… And I get presents! People give me things, beautiful things, better than myrrh, but never from Santa Claus! Never from Santa… I call him "Struggling Santa" because of his crippling Trump Derangement Syndrome! A bad case. He sees a list. He goes "NO, NO, NO!" Totally rigged! Naughty list? It's a Democrat hoax! Like the lying BBC… And by the way, nobody has ever seen his birth certificate. But crooked Biden let him bring things in by the sleighload! No tariffs! Santa Claus has been terrible for this country, but we're looking into it, and we're going to do something about the North Pole very soon!
December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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interfluidity.com
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM