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Petar Milin

@petarmilin.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning @artsatbham / @unibirmingham. #OOOMinder with @ooominds. Quantophiliac and worryingly OCD.

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Petar Milin@petarmilin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Warning for anyone considering @sunoai.bsky.social: I signed up out of curiosity and was unexpectedly charged for a full-year subscription. I immediately requested cancellation and a refund but received no response. Disappointing handling of customers. Engage at your own risk. ☠️ ⚠️

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

project-syndicate.org

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

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Petar Milin@petarmilin.bsky.social · 2y ago

The past few days have been heavy. Following the tragic events in Spain, I learned yesterday that a roof collapse at the train station in Novi Sad, Serbia, claimed 14 lives. Heartbreaking news for so many communities. 💔 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Serbian railway station roof collapse in Novi Sad leaves 14 dead

Rescue workers scoured piles of concrete and twisted metal for survivors on Friday after a roof collapsed at the entrance of a railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, killing 14 people.

reuters.com