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Dr. Stuart J. Taylor

@stuartjtaylor.bsky.social

PhD (EngLit), SFHEA. Lecturer, DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University. #ECR Ed. Dev., contemp. #literature & #maths📐🔬#litsci 🔭he/him.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

> “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Human communication involves not only internal coherence but also reference to shared reality, and communicated words, thus, carry extensions, relations to the actual nature of things in the world, which calculated words do not (Bunz, 2026). Two terms may share the adjacent intension in a high-dimensional vector space while differing radically in extension, a phenomenon impossible in communicated language, but routine in calculation. The result is writing that is relevant without being reliable; contextually proximate, but not anchored to the things those words ostensibly name. “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. When users treat LLM outputs as communications of “meaning” rather than calculations of form, they engage in “human hallucination”, anthropomorphizing generated writing by conceptualizing it in the image of human expression (Bunz, 2026), producing a systematic over-attribution of understanding to systems where none exists. Training critical thinkers to recognize the mode of production underlying a text, rather than reasoning solely from its surface fluency, thus becomes a pedagogical obligation. Of note, this argument does not claim that LLMs are useless.‡
Göktuğ Kayaalp@igoktugk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is why I like saying "all LLM output is 'hallucination'"; don't remember where I picked it up from but it's brief but says so much. Tho AFAIU a lot of the effect is also coming from a lot of tricky heuristic scripting around the models that second guess the users.

Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025. The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.
WHO@who.int · last yr.

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza.
Dr Louise Creechan@louisecreechan.bsky.social · last yr.

HUGE DAY My editor copies of 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' arrived!! I'm so excited for this to be out in the world (officially 7th Aug) The volume asks 'what would a neurodivergent framework for literary studies look like'?

Three copies of Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Louise Creechan, and Anna Stenning with a colourful abstract cover
Dr. Stuart J. Taylor@stuartjtaylor.bsky.social · last yr.

Many thanks to @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social for such an attentive review of my book for @thebsls.bsky.social . Don’t miss out 😉: If it’s not already in your libraries, go ahead and ask your lovely librarians.

Anatolii Kozlov@anatoliikozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

"The urge to use more of something if it seems good is a form of linear thinking; the appeal of mathematics as clear and defined all the way through conceives it as a totalised system of knowledge. Neither of these two things is unproblematic" My review of @stuartjtaylor.bsky.social's book is out

Karen Costa (she/her)@karencosta.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks @thetattooedprof.bsky.social foe the shout out to my scope of practice model. Check it out y’all! #HigherEd #FacDev

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2y ago

My latest for the Chronicle of Higher Education is out today. "Tips and tricks" are nice (and useful!) but what will help us most are larger habits of care, solidarity, and generosity. Wishing everyone a great start to the academic year. ✊ www.chronicle.com/article/a-fa...