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"Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to a new study that suggests a link between social media use and poorer cognition in teens" in JAMA.
Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.
www.npr.org
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libraryfutures.bsky.social
We're thrilled to welcome @nickgarcia.bsky.social arcia.bsky.social, @merbroussard.bsky.social, and @bb.usefairuse.com to the next in our fall webinar series!

Register today for Legal and Ethical Issues in AI on 10/30!

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Legal and Ethical Issues in AI Thursday, October 30, 1 pm ET/10 am PT / Library Futures logo
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📢 Grant Opportunity for Investigative Journalists

Stringer Journalism is offering support for investigative reporting.

🗓️ Deadline: Dec. 31, 2025
Apply here: https://twp.ai/9PXNRS
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Woodrow Hartzog

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This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...
Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business
OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...
www.cnn.com
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Norbert Schwarz, Juliet B. Schor , and 3 more

hypervisible.blacksky.app
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Christian E. Weller

design-law.bsky.social
If a bunch of smart, financially-disinterested experts take a look at something and they all come away with concerns, that's not "bias." It's data.
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🚨Less Than a Week Left to Apply!🚨

If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort!

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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Ben H. Ansell, Suresh Venkatasubramanian , and 23 more

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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson , and 38 more

carlzimmer.com
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Giovanna Mascheroni, Woodrow Hartzog

hypervisible.blacksky.app
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Martin Paul Eve

laurenfklein.bsky.social
The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...
GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
github.com
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

datasociety.bsky.social
“Privacy-preserving” isn’t as private as you might think. Our new brief, published in collab w @powerswitchaction.org & Coworker, exposes how so-called “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable *more* worker surveillance — and what we can do about it. datasociety.net/library/the-...
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller , and 2 more

hypervisible.blacksky.app
Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
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merbroussard.bsky.social
Genius.
The Oatmeal: “Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam.” The Oatmeal:”AI art is an interesting technology because despite its growing popularity, nobody seems to want it.”
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by Richard Fletcher — Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Scott L. Althaus

richardfletcher.bsky.social
A thread on how people's use of generative AI has changed in the last year - based on survey data from 6 countries (🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇰🇯🇵🇦🇷 ).

First, gen AI use has grown rapidly.

Most people have tried out gen AI at least once (61%), and 34% now use it on a weekly basis - roughly doubling from 18% a year ago.
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Timnit Gebru

hypervisible.blacksky.app
“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
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merbroussard.bsky.social
This is the first year I have seen multiple students taking notes by hand because they have a deeper understanding of how information is most effectively encoded in their brains. It’s exciting to see!
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Ty!
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I definitely thought about getting printed coursepacks for this semester, but I don’t know where to order them!
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Erich Fromm, Cathy N. Davidson , and 3 more

tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
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merbroussard.bsky.social
Shoutout to all the first-year students who left home, grew tiny mustaches, and are debuting them in-person at parents' weekend.
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libraryfutures.bsky.social
And don't forget to register for the next webinar in our AI series! We'll be talking legal and ethical issues in AI with @merbroussard.bsky.social and @nickgarcia.bsky.social!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Legal and Ethical Issues in AI. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join Meredith Broussard and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries. Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Jour...
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Fabián Muniesa, Peter Campbell , and 1 more

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King Chunk
explore.org
explore.org @explore.org · 15d
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Joanna Bryson, Ingo Rohlfing , and 9 more

dingdingpeng.the100.ci
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
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explore.org
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑
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merbroussard.bsky.social
It is... 3d now? Why?

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merbroussard.bsky.social
AI: even more energy-hungry than you imagined. futurism.com/future-socie...
Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage
The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
futurism.com
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Bessma Momani, Mark Rice , and 1 more

alondra.bsky.social
"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Jennifer A. Richeson, Aaron Sojourner , and 8 more

jasonkoebler.bsky.social
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
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