Great day to be in Vienna, proud to be part of the record breaking effort
Ryan Carpenter
@rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame in clinical psychology.
Going to go out on a limb here and say I rather liked the Odyssey
I've been a professor longer than I care to think about at this point, but I'm still not sure how to explain to people that I do not, in fact, get "summers off"
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
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“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
theverge.com
New out in Addiction, we wrote an editorial about negative affect and drinking in daily life. It talks a lot about ice cream. @sammeisel.bsky.social @samuelacuff.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ugh, can't believe I'm going to have to put *another* Watts paper on the syllabus for my fall psychopathology class
Ashley Watts@ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 4w agoExcited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?
New out in Addiction, we wrote an editorial about negative affect and drinking in daily life. It talks a lot about ice cream. @sammeisel.bsky.social @samuelacuff.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Getting word that Belgium is planning to bring in a ringer
Hercule Poirot's Charming Hello and Hat Tip
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Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Whatever else happens, ref just singlehandedly set back US soccer decades
Folks have heard me complain vociferously about the fact that there is a lack of programmatic federal funding to study this stuff, and even though I’ve had a few grants on the topic scored, I still haven’t had any that have funded But did you know sportsbooks lobby to prevent that funding?
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · last mo.NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!
Exciting day. My set-theoretic reconceptualization of the DSM (w/ MDD, GAD, and PTSD as empirical examples) is out today in JPCS, along with four invited commentaries and my response. I'm biased, but I recommend all six papers. I was really jazzed by all four commentaries. 1/25
“You’re one of one. You’re unprecedented in the entire line of human history. Only you have your brain. Only you can think of what you can think of. Only you can tell a story in a particular way. Why would you cede that to a machine?” —Dave Eggers
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’
Just inadvertently discovered that a whole bunch of research on AI responses may be invalid. Apparently, even with memory off, ChatGPT is still giving contextual information, including the name of the user! It used my full name casually in conversation; which means that data is in the model.
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Re-upping this as a sit in an RSA symposium (Tbc, I don't think most talks are using AI. Some very obviously are)
Ryan Carpenter@rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm sitting in a CPDD symposium right now Please do not use AI to make your talk. It's pretty obvious and it does not weigh in your favor
#RSA2026 folks! Come to our fabulous symposium on pain and alcohol use tomorrow (Monday) morning! I'll be talking last and to answer your questions: Will I be talking about pizza? Yes Will I have cat-related content? Also yes Will I be extensively quoting from a book published in 1821? Hell yes
Just today I was in a talk where the speaker extolled the potential research benefits of feeding patient records into an LLM. Why are we so credulous about AI?
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
I'm sitting in a CPDD symposium right now Please do not use AI to make your talk. It's pretty obvious and it does not weigh in your favor
Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo agoI just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
People are really out there telling me that LLMs are inevitable as if the Metaverse didn't just collapse in on itself.
“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”
