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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

imagine you are Google circa 2002. users enter a search query and you return 10 relevant HTML links to specific, real web pages, with no commentary or any extra guff. you must literally only return a list of links. if you do anything apart from that you've got it wrong and need to try again. my query is: cool facts about whales

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We need guides through the inevitable bout of AI psychosis that affects professionals after they finally “get” AI. They often engage in intense, sleepless & impossibly complex projects in their area of expertise, with only the AI for company. At least it is usually temporary & often productive.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The peeragogy community trained a chatbot on the peeragogy handbook. Now the peeragogy community has trained it to turn drafts into prompts and prompts into peeragogical exercises. (peeragogy is collective learning without a teacher): www.patreon.com/posts/latest...

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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun: Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work. Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

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Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If you are inclined to think chatbots can only be detrimental to information literacy or are skeptical there can be value in AI for research assistance, I wonder if you will try @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's prompt. Copy it into Claude from checkplease.neocities.org/contact and give it any claim.

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SIFT Toolbox Research Site

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Showed SIFT Toolkit to a bunch of educators earlier tonight, along with my pitch or a better conception of AI. I think they dug it. checkplease.neocities.org

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#CHI2025 As we rely on AI for decision-making support, how will our independent decision-making skills be affected? Prior work shows people’s decision-making skills often fail to improve or may even erode when they rely on AI for decision-support, even when the AI provides informative explanations.

Screenshot of a paper on Contrasive Explanations That Anticipate Human Misconceptions Can Improve Human Decision-Making skills.

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James Bedford @jamesbedford.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The last thing I want is for us all to get stuck in an endless generative AI loop where AI does everything. This is not what I mean when I talk about using generative AI for research and writing. This is lowest common denominator stuff "AI Wheel of Death" by James Bedford (2025)

A circular infographic titled "The AI Wheel of Death" shows a repeating cycle in academic publishing involving heavy reliance on AI. The cycle includes six stages:

"Author uses AI to do research" (orange section)

"Author gets AI to write paper" (red section)

"Reviewer reviews the work using AI" (purple section)

"Author responds to reviewers’ AI feedback by asking AI to adjust paper" (blue section)

"Journal publishes the paper" (teal section)

"LLM scrapes internet during training (which includes this paper)" — leading back to the beginning

In the center is a black skull, emphasizing the critical tone of the loop. A smaller skull is at the bottom of the image. The graphic critiques the recursive and ethically questionable overuse of AI in scholarly research and publishing.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/03/2025

🐘⛰️ Elephants avoid steep climbs! A new study found that African elephants prefer routes with low movement costs & lush vegetation, confirming that energy landscapes shape their paths more than elevation or water alone 🔗 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Elephants #SciComm 🧪

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Energy landscapes direct the movement preferences of elephants

Energy landscapes explain the movement behaviour of elephants in Northern Kenya: they avoid energetically costly areas and preferred highly productive habitats. This highlights the importance of the ...

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Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Excellent paper that surveyed 319 knowledge workers and also analyzed 936 instances of their AI integrated workflows. They found that "higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking!" Really good research design too: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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House Have🦋 @pfhave.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Word of the day….

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 07/12/2024

📱 Emoji Use = Emotional Insight? A @plos.bsky.social study explores how emoji use relates to attachment styles and emotional intelligence. It found that frequent emoji users tend to express emotions more openly, reflecting higher emotional awareness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm 🧪

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Beyond words: Relationships between emoji use, attachment style, and emotional intelligence

Assessing the relationships between emoji use and traits related to communication and interpersonal skills can provide insights into who employs emojis and the psychological mechanisms underlying comp...

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

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Aras Bozkurt @arasbozkurt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future 🤖 GenAI is revolutionizing education—but at what cost? Read more: openpraxis.org/articles/10....

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