Chatbots in voice mode seem to be a good way to start learning a language, but does it mean you’ll speak with an “AI accent” ?

Ouch 😅 I’m saving this here for re-reading every time I feel like complaining about my job

How can we collectively contain the threat of dishonest delegation to AI? Our paper "Whistleblowers can contain the unethical externalities of human–AI delegation" is out in PNAS, with @nckobis.bsky.social , Andrew Samuel, and @jfbonnefon.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m in the weights :)

Leah Berman Williams@leahwrenn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So this is interesting -- there's a website where you can check whether you're in the weights of the various LLMs. Note "MODELS MAY HALLUCINATE BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OR EVENTS THAT NEVER HAPPENED" intheweights.com

Hmm how long before we get this on overleaf

This AI tool adds typos into your emails — to make it look like you didn't use AI

"Sinceerly" is a Chrome plugin that can make your emails sound like they're not AI-written. It adds typos, or goes full "CEO mode."

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I don't need AI to write my papers, but I desperately need it to submit them to manuscript central

@nature.com is expanding Registered Reports - an article type where the research plan is reviewed prior to conducting the study, and, if it passes peer review, we promise to publish it regardless of the results - to all fields we publish + a broader range of research: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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Did I just go to a coauthor’s google scholar profile and sort their publications by year, because I was not sure whether they were alive or dead? Yes I did and I’m happy to report they live.

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

Just saw someone calling Bujold’s Vorkosigan books a cozy series about toxic masculinity. these books are many many things, but this is a truly mind boggling description.

Still time to apply!! Come & work with me at the Hasso Plattner Institute & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk If you care about ethical, legal, and social aspects of AI, generative AI and other emerging technologies and EU tech laws, then apply now! tinyurl.com/556jty8t

Kicking off the Machine+Behavior conference in Berlin today with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social , @azimshariff.bsky.social and 225 participants. Check out the program: machinebehavior.science

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

There is a German SF series which has been published weekly for 65 years, with more than 3,000 stories so far, and 3,000 years of internal chronology 😱

Perry Rhodan

Perry Rhodan is a weekly German Science Fiction Pulp Magazine series that has run uninterrupted since 1961, with over three thousand one hundred issues released so far not counting reprints, books, an...

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ah yes, i have this problem all the time too

One productive use of AI to review papers: asking the chatbot to scour through the 100-page supplementary materials to find places where my criticisms might in fact be partially or fully addressed, before submitting the review (assuming I'm allowed to do this per journal policies)

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets

A WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings.

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Georgette Heyer describing Sir Waldo’s hand in The Nonesuch : « a shapely member, bare of rings » 👀

‼️Conference Norms in Language-based Human-AI Interaction 📆 5th of June📍Bracka 12, Kraków ☑️preliminary program: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @talkingtobots.bsky.social @edouardmachery.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @monasimion.bsky.social

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

The Wikipedia article “Meaning of life” has been edited 10,713 times in its 25 year existence, and 23% of those edits have been reverted as vandalism. One common pattern is for vandals to delete the entire article and replace it with a single line. I collected some examples from the old days:

it just struck me that in French the word for an adult woman is "wife" and the word for a young girl is "daughter", whereas we have different words for men, husbands, boys, and sons. Now I'm curious to know if other languages show the same pattern

Every PI

I don't understand why reviewers can send confidential comments to the editor about a paper, but authors cannot send confidential comments to the editor about the reviews. As in "look we did our best but this review reads like an entry in the dream diary of Samuel Beckett with a bad case of flu"

As a companion piece to our 'Science Fiction Science Method' article, we explore in Nautilus how we could turn a Ted Chiang story into a behavioral experiment @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

How Science Fiction Can Save Us: Three scientists share their bold vision for turning stories into testable experiments

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I just confirmed my participation to a conference and meant to write "looking forward to!" but typed instead "looking forward yo!" I have turned into the academic version of Jesse Pinkman

a man says i 'm a criminal yo in a netflix ad

ALT: a man says i 'm a criminal yo in a netflix ad

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I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways

The canvas() function from the ggview R package is very useful for previewing/tweaking a ggplot into publication-ready format: it renders a plot "as it would appear if saved to a file with the specified dimensions". cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #RStats #ggplot #ggview

[user] analyze and summarize the attached document [French LLM] *Bonjour*

My zombie Prof would complain bitterly about \textit vs \emph and the use of raw text in math mode latex instead of using \text or proper operator commands. 💀💀💀

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.