for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

Important information if you haven’t linked your ACL Anthology profile to your ORCID iD yet (or don’t even have an ORCID iD) ⬇️

Nathan Schneider@complingy.bsky.social · 8h ago

Do you have an ORCID iD (unique personal identifier to attach to publications)? Every scientific author should claim one at orcid.org. Then, take 30 seconds to improve your @aclanthology.org page and prepare for new ARR requirements:

My AI slow down proposal – everyone calling for it must demonstrate their concern by taking time to write harnesses to simplify full compliance with the EU's AI Act for anyone deploying their tech (including it in their own products or services.) #AIAct #AISafety #AISlowdown #AIEthics #AIRegulation

To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...

You Are Not a Parrot

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

nymag.com

Accepted 🥳

arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language@cscl-bot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Andr\'es Bux\'o-Lugo, Aniello De Santo, Morgan Grobol, Ryan J. Hubbard, Cassandra L. Jacobs: surprisal is Not a Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20208 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20208 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20208

If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me

I imagine this is how research is supposed to move forward: reproducing results, testing their limits, and being willing to challenge your own conclusions. Really great work!

Arts, humanities & social science researchers, are you aware of any journals in your field that make good use of plain language summaries to make publications more accessible to non-academic or practitioner audiences? If so, we'd love to hear from you - do reply in-thread!

Today marks 12 years of living in Europe. My how time flies!

but sam altman did not consult the ancient texts. you cannot 'work with' academics. you cannot pay (most of) us off. we are annoying. we are terrible at time management. we have different goals

buddy... i have been ruining my career my entire adult life

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 6d ago

this story is crazy. also, looks like academia's not so obsolete after all.

Correlational evidence linking poverty to faster epigenetic aging existed before, but a causal effect in an RCT strengthens the case that addressing childhood poverty is a public health priority 🌱

Does anyone know anything about the long term viability of Zenodo? I never thought the OSF would stop being where I put my data, so I’d prefer not to start using an option unless it’s going to be around. Anyone know anything?

Amanda Kay Montoya@akmontoya.bsky.social · 5d ago

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

literally this is the main thing sociologists of mathematics have been trying to tell you all this time

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 6d ago

It turns out the real mathematical proof was the friends we made along the way

I am revising my Guerrilla Scientific Workflow talk for the LMU open science summer school, tomorrow. The key idea is that open science training provides tools for critiquing published research, for deciding what to trust, and for challenging institutional power.

LMU Open Science Center@lmu-osc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Introducing a Guerilla Approach to Scientific Workflows is Prof. Dr @rmcelreath.bsky.social. Register and join virtually to learn about this fresh perspective on developing scientific workflows and managing research complexity. Register here: bit.ly/4pI2GTC 📆 Wednesday, 9th Sept, 09:00-10:00 (CEST)

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

Paul Hebden@paulhebden.bsky.social · 6d ago

What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.

So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

Gavin Simpson@gsimpson.bsky.social · 6d ago

My manuscript on "GAMs in Animal Science" has been accepted in Animal — Open Space for almost a month & today editor emails to say they now want stylistic changes bc I used "I show" etc too much & they want an impersonal style. Really tempted to tell the editor where they can shove their request

"older people use the longer, more temporally specified variants "wait a minute" and "wait a second", while "wait" alone is increasing in apparent time, with women leading its advance. " from Wait, It’s a Discourse Marker (2021) by Sali Tagliamonte

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

Seriously. All of this bluster is just thinly veiled advertising. They want you to think it’s magic so you’re afraid not to invest. It’s the same principle that sold magic beans, invisible clothes, and all other fabulous things.

This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

e.g. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app who earned her PhD at Stanford's AI lab, working on computer vision and has gone on to do absolutely foundational work in understanding and mitigating harms of machine learning gets dismissed, by clowns who have no apparent expertise as not a domain expert. >>

And as for fantasies of "AI civilizations" independently "hacking" into various companies' networks: it's worth asking -- who is describing it that way an why? In what other field would the companies perpetrating cybercrimes brag about it? >>

I come across this "statistic" everywhere and it is obviously, laughably false

Posting from https://lea.ac/ , trying out the alternative interface for Bluesky (and other federated socials using ATProto) for my work-related usage :)

What's baffling about how underfunded services are that help faculty get grants is that we bring money into the univ. They care about that overhead. But not enough, I guess, to fund the grant workers because they know faculty are workaholics & will just work more hours if we have less support.

Just went to buy @gilduran.com's "The Nerd Reich" on Google Books, and discovered that the enshittification is so thorough that it's not safe to do so - I was very close to buying one that's actually AI slop with an identical title and author name. This is utterly insane.

The civil legal aid system is at risk of “collapse”, a coalition campaigning for urgent reform has warned. The Free Legal Aid Advice Centre says the Government is spending more on hosting the Ryder Cup than on civil legal aid, which supports vulnerable people including victims of domestic abuse.

I think it’s cool how “this toaster might electrocute you” or “these brakes don’t always work” is acceptable in consumer products because it’s software.

Claude can help manage your email inbox, but there are some risks involved - Engadget

Giving Claude access to your inbox can be helpful, but don't give it too much power. Allowing the AI to send emails without your approval could create problems.

engadget.com

Teaching AI is not my job. Teaching history is, and more to the point, teaching critical thinking. All these calls to "teach ai" in the classroom treat learning how to use ai as the point of the class, which is the exact opposite of critical thinking. It's teaching students *not* the think.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

What the fuck does this even mean for a History classroom?