My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

The clock is ticking and the end of the 72h is drawing ever closer 😱 While ideas take shape, models evolve, and final presentations come together, here’s a glimpse of each team as they race towards the finish line 👥🧠🏭📚🗳️🤖🏀

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia

Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

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Physics Paths xkcd.com/3155/

8. This has been a short and honestly rather peevish thread, so if you want read more that has been written in a more equanimous tone, here's a short piece that I coauthored a few years ago, precisely about how we deal with this kind of duplicity.

To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic

Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods

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So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S. We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…

With mechanisms like these, who needs behaviors? My commentary on the latest by Thomas Robiglio, friends, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

With Behaviors Like These in Complex Systems, Who Needs Mechanisms?

A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.

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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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New blog post 🚨 A gentle dive into the mereology of complex systems, Möbius inversion, and a new way to think about higher-order interactions—no prior knowledge needed! abeljansma.nl/2025/01/28/m...

Niels Van Santen wrote a guide to the use of information theoretical measures in psychology/psychometrics. Any feedback is most welcome!

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

A hitchhiker's guide to information theoretical measures in psychology: http://osf.io/vb5s6/

Simultaneous attacks to research funding and information ecosystems. I discuss on #ComplexityThoughts about the potential consequences. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... Short 🧵 1/

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications

"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"

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❄️ Only 10 days to go! ❄️ The 10th edition of the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems is almost here! We're so excited to spend a week full of inspiring science in the beautiful mountains of Lombardy. This year, it's truly a Winter Workshop—snow and all! 🌨️✨ #WWCS25

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

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"Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act." 👏👏👏

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Scientists as political advocates" | Must-read commentary in Science Magazine mentions my #ScienceUnderSiege co-author Dr. Peter Hotez and me in the context of the dual assault by the right on both climate and public health science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

⁉️ DAG Quiz of the Day ⁉️ Find all conditional independencies between nodes implied by the following directed acyclic graph. (Hint: there is an easy way to rule out many potential dependencies.)

Let's see if we can hold two ideas simultaneously: 1. Science is of course "neither red nor blue." It's about understanding nature, not partisan agendas. 2. Science is of course "political." Politics is how we make collective decisions, including concerning science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science is neither red nor blue

Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This i...

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New feed on complexity and network science, featuring a host of amazing folks.

Manlio De Domenico@manlius.bsky.social · 2y ago

The BlueSky team created a great tool to help newcomers: starter packs. Here a quick starter pack for #complexity and network scientists + feeds to quickly join the community! #NetSky Please, help to share (and if you are not in the list, get in touch and I will add you) go.bsky.app/KMfiTU2