iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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There are no responsible uses of AI in evaluating research funding applications. Just calling it ‘responsible’ doesn’t make it so. #EthicsWashing #GenAI

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 20h

When you apply to academic posts in Germany you have to attest to which rigorously specified social categories you belong to under German law and these happen to be (purely coincidentally) the worst names German rappers will call one another on diss tracks.

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University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy @ucphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re hiring for two positions! One is TT in Ancient, the other an open-rank TT position in mind, science, or ethics. Please share widely! See more on PhilJobs: TT Ancient: philjobs.org/job/show/32273 Open-rank Mind, Science, or Ethics: philjobs.org/job/show/32265

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Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hill I'm ready to die on: whether for grants or articles, review by AI is not *peer review*. Review based on a 1st scan by AI without actual reading of the grant or manuscript is not peer review either.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

so we just nearly started a war with china (a nuclear state) because of genAI use

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode.
According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

First submit of the term, let me know if you want to talk data models (or read a draft!).

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Who wants to see the new Love Island?” Quiet babe my favorite show is on:

Discovering Hidden Relationships of Alloy
Properties with Manifold Learning
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Illinois, United States.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

……In perfectly unrelated news, have an advert…….

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Do I have any friends out there in forensic accounting?

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The use of major open problems in mathematics as AI benchmarks mistakes the nature and aims of mathematics: “solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.”

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You can now read this invaluable book on methods in philosophy of science open-access. Find me in Chapter 16!

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

direct.mit.edu

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide

A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple

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Melissa Jacquart @mjacquart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very excited that *Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide* is now available open access! Lucas and I have a chapter in it on "Doing Public Engagement with Science as a Philosopher of Science" #philsci #scicomm. In our chapter we ...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Expanded these comments into a blog post. These warnings from the A.I. industry are an opportunity, but the opportunity is wasted if we focus only on the solutions they have in mind. The A.I. Industry will never rein itself in davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-a-i-in...

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

The A.I. Industry will never rein itself in

On the latest AI-doom discourse.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Three notes: (1) this is not *just* marketing. These guys really do mean it. They are convinced they’ve built a vengeful digital god. (2) but also they’re a cult. They are not impartial scientific experts. (3) and one of the byproduct of their endless confidence is marketing hype.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Possibly a significant addendum to the LLM advancements on Navier-Stokes. The problem is not restricted to the model’s potential reproduction of training data, either. A team at OpenAI was prompting their models with the mathematicians’ unpublished work without their knowledge.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The oldest natural history museum in the nation, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, will cease to exist by the end of the month. The museum’s operating costs are half of 1% of Drexel’s budget. Drexel’s president pockets 2.8 million annually. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

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A Nearly 200-Year-Old Museum Known for Its T. Rex Faces Extinction

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which is affiliated with Drexel University, cited attendance struggles and higher costs in its decision to close.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great passage esp.: "As scientists, our responsibility is to produce knowledge. There is no knowledge without knowers who exist in community with one another. We are committed to contributing to our communities of knowers so that the practice of science can live on."

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

It’s actually ok to be a person who does not enjoy doing research but then you should not be doing research for pay

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Who knew that all along the secret of how to teach the kids lay in merely teaching the kids

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)

Cover of Logical Positivism: An American History

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Using research as an opportunity for learning-by-doing may produce seeming ‘inefficiencies,’ but that’s a feature, not a bug…the process of education is necessarily a productive struggle, and that the most important product of their education is not a GPA or a diploma but themselves“

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I, too, have been experiencing a sense of alienation from my discipline. Not because I don’t believe that philosophy strives for truth and objectivity, but because believing that the sort of pseudo-reasoning LLMs engage in can achieve these epistemic goods requires having a bad epistemology.

Thread from Megan Fritts reading “For me, the biggest source of grief arising from the AI crisis hasn’t even been in the realm of teaching. It has been the realization that a non-trivial number of my disciplinary peers see philosophy in a way that is wholly different from—even antithetical to—the way I see it.”

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A lesson in how to take education seriously.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026

what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception

A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

At times I feel that the issue is more that the reactionary right often adequately diagnoses the failures of neoliberalism and then proffers a more extremified neoliberalism as antidote.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Spoiler: the reason scientists were hesitant to speak out about issues of scientific soundness and the reason scientific soundness was historically low were not unrelated.

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Leni @leni.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Warum Linkssein und die Nutzung generativer KI unvereinbar ist, habe ich für’s @ndaktuell aufgeschrieben. Danke an @raulzelik.bsky.social für die Anregung zum Text! www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1201...

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Claude ist keine Genossin

Wer mit ChatGPT oder Claude Zeit für Kopfarbeiten einsparen will, verrät Kolleginnen und sich selbst ans Monopolkapital. Ein Gastbeitrag

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

« I have been told by naïve philosophers that, unlike science, philosophy does not appeal to billionaires. Yet philosophers have been just as instrumental to the eugenics movement as scientists, from colonial times to the present. » 1/2

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How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Substack: do you want to use an AI tool for writing to check your writings about not writing with AI for AI-written writing?

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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Powerful piece. “Here is a thing about being good at thinking. Being good at thinking involves the ability not only to recognize your own stupidity but the ability to be patient with it, to stay the course and thereby navigate yourself out of the nomansland of confusion.“

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

"...knowing when to stop banging one’s head against those internal cranial walls and ask a stupid question of one who knows more than you. Figuring out how to present a stupid question to someone you do not want to think you stupid is also a necessary component of thinking and learning."

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Edgy update of Waiting for Godot: Vladimir and Estragon are NeurIPS authors waiting for any reviewer to respond to their rebuttals.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You cannot produce knowledge while outsourcing your thinking to software. thecybernetician.substack.com/p/being-in-t...

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Being in the business of thinking

Software cannot think for you.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Does anyone happen to have a text-searchable PDF of Android Epistemology (1995) lying around?

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I do believe that any scientific publisher residing anywhere may be legally exposed under these amendments unless they can guarantee that their editorial and peer reviewing processes were carried out by humans—not LLMs. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eu...

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EU AI Act — Transparency Obligations for AI-Generated Content (Article 50) | JD Supra

Below, we map the transparency obligations applicable to AI-generated or manipulated content under Article 50 of the AI Act (Regulation (EU)...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Um – sounds great except the "plausibly accessed" part. IMO governments should govern within their agreed borders. I *might* be happier with "actively sold" than "plausibly accessed" but I'd be happier still if it were "work was funded by EU or EU member public funding."

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

help my phone keeps correcting @princeton.edu to princedom

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 17/08/2026

“[O]ur advice is that you should write your own work and then have it edited by a human professional, ideally a researcher who is au fait with the technicalities of your discipline. That this needs to be said at all, particularly in the context of #academia, will be shocking to some…” #genAI

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...

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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I imagine that in recent years leadership at top ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) have had to think long & deep about the function of peer review & the possible future incarnations it could take. Who has been present for such discussions, what are the big open questions, lessons?

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