"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3d ago

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Now that’s how you run a newspaper advert.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Couldn't agree more with @thinkorswim.bsky.social. This is the conduct of the government to that of an authoritarian state, a complete denial of science, and an outrageous attack on civil society.

Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects

Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.

thejournal.ie

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

Astonishing attack on civil society and environmental justice by a government lacking either vision or basic competence. www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...

Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects

Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.

thejournal.ie

Happy to have participated (if only remotely) in this great initiative on (Neuro)science in resistance! Thank you @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social and @clarekelly.bsky.social for the invitation.

OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action SIG (SEA-SIG)@ohbmenvironment.bsky.social · last mo.

We also held our own roundtable "Neuro(science) in Resistance"! We had a number ofstimulating discussions on this topic, spearheaded by talks from @clarekelly.bsky.social, Maximilien Chaumon, and Fernando Racimo! We were so happy with the attendance and engagement we got for this session 💗

Data centres use a lot of water, but they use even more during hot periods. While the government is set on growing the number of water-intensive data centres without any understanding of the implications, the media tells us to stop watering plants 1/3 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

New heat warning as people urged to conserve water

Met Éireann has issued a new high temperature warning for 10 counties, while people have been urged to conserve water.

rte.ie

Thanks only to EU reporting requirements, we know that 18 data centres in Ireland used 627 megalitres of water in 2024. But there are 123 data centres operating here now, and just one data centre, Meta's Clonee facility, used 659 megalitres in 2023. 2/3 www.dublininquirer.com/does-irish-w...

Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?

Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.

dublininquirer.com

We're in a culture that seems to value production of pseudotechnology and pseudoscience. I think not doing this, stopping industry from continuing all their evil, requires us to acknowledge that.

Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Automated emotion detection based on speech is wildly unreliable, and also, this is just evil. ““The AI assistant may listen to a user(s) at predefined times to hear various types of communication, such as sighs, laughter, and/or the tone(s) of a voice(s)”. www.404media.co/meta-patents...

Excellent op-ed by @clarekelly.bsky.social @aideenod.bsky.social and Orla Kelleher - there are times in anyone's life when you need to call stop - #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it

The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren

irishtimes.com

IT op-ed by @aideenod.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social & myself arguing that President Catherine Connolly should refer bills that undermine the Climate Act & flout childrens rights to Supreme Court @maynoothlaw.bsky.social @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @clmirl.bsky.social

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 4w ago

Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it

> “when men use AI, we question their effort; when women use AI, we question their integrity” [...] (Pringle, 2026). What is framed as a literacy deficit is [actually] a form of rational refusal [&] within that frame, the only direction of travel is toward more adoption. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last mo.

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Access to justice must be “fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive” But new cost rules breach Constitution, Aarhus Convention & EU law by putting public & civil society organisations under financial constraints that don’t apply to State or others www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...

An Taisce has launched a challenge in the court against the government's new legal cost rules

Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...

antaisce.org

We also held our own roundtable "Neuro(science) in Resistance"! We had a number ofstimulating discussions on this topic, spearheaded by talks from @clarekelly.bsky.social, Maximilien Chaumon, and Fernando Racimo! We were so happy with the attendance and engagement we got for this session 💗

Come work at Ouroboros University! Where our students submit work produced by AI to be graded by profs using AI. And check out our metrics!! We are highly ranked by AI for all the incredible research papers our profs churn out using AI! H/T @wiringthebrain.bsky.social #IWantNoneOfThis #ResistAI

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last mo.

"the first validated, large-scale framework for judging the quality of life science papers independently of venue, identity, and prestige...Blinded domain-expert professors sided with score three times more often than with journal rank" the-one-percent.qedscience.com 1/n

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

politico.eu

"Psychological scientists predominantly prefer to ignore such real-world harms and instead ask: “How can AI benefit us?” This is understandable. After all, hyped AI promises to deliver candidate theories and statistical inferences through automated processes, also known as “machine learning." 2/🧵

Combining Psychology With Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Iris van Rooij, Olivia Guest, 2026

The current AI hype cycle combined with psychology’s various crises make for a perfect storm. Psychology, on the one hand, has a history of weak theoretical fou...

journals.sagepub.com

for every skeet i post here showing ai systems catastrophically failing to do what they are supposed to do, i have dudes replying with “but humans are also bad at x" just don't. it's ignorant and unhelpful

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Yes! bsky.app/profile/comm...

Commie Machinist@commiemachinist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/i...

Climate anxiety and despair freeze us—but appropriate anger makes us move. @fisherdanar.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social discuss how it's time to stop looking for comfort, embrace the indignation, and channel that energy into real action. Go watch the full episode! 💥

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

This was a fun discussion!

Two Psychologists Four Beers@fourbeerspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New episode! Cognitive scientist and reputed "AI skeptic" @mjcrockett.bsky.social joins us to talk about AI. We talk about where Molly is actually skeptical, but also what she thinks that label gets wrong. Plus a bunch of other stuff too! www.fourbeers.com/131

Calling all our DUBLIN friends! Join @abeba.blacksky.app and @elaineburke.bsky.social @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social for a live post-screening Q&A! DUBLIN SAT JUNE 6th 4:10 PM with "Essential viewing" - @forbes.com Tickets: ifi.ie/film/ghost-i...

How your email finds me.

Ida Olson 🌱 Little Eden Pottery@idaolson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

According to science, four-day weeks after a holiday are the longest weeks on earth. 🫠

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

When does “scientific neutrality” shade into complicity? A burning question, given that the current disinformation tactic (cultivated by Pielke Jr) is to claim that “scientific integrity” means you must say climate change isn’t dangerous any more. Everyone listen to this brilliant research asap 👇

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's it like to know the #climate crisis better than anyone? I interviewed climate scientists about the weight of knowing, and how they navigate the gap between understanding and action. 🎥 New talk presented at @gsiexeter.bsky.social last week. Kindly hosted by @jamesgdyke.info.

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

science.org

The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.