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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“We’ve all heard “They’re going to have to learn to use AI.” But I think that slogan applies to how students will use AI at home and in the workforce, where the product is the thing. For students, learning is the thing.”

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The Economist @economist.com · 19/08/2026

Homework scores once predicted exam performance; now a new study shows those who score highest are, perversely, more likely to do worse in exams. Our charts explain the trend

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Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A difficult blog post to write, because mental health matters. But so does asking uncomfortable questions. A new review looks at whether universal mental health programmes at school can sometimes have unwanted effects. wp.me/p2nWPo-673

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“That is not just abuse from other young people. The students I spoke to in London were getting quite a bit of abuse from adults as well,” Sir David told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.“

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“A carefully chosen screenshot that you later retrieve, study, annotate, compare, discuss, or use for retrieval practice can obviously be useful.“ “External memory aids work when they are actually used as memory aids.”

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Schools can make sure students have the skills they need to thrive in a modern economy, but the economy has to be set up to take advantage of those skills.” - @daisychristo.bsky.social

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Steplab @steplab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads - Giveaway #4 Win: 📖 The Scaffolding Effect by Rachel Ball and Alex Fairlamb 📚 Steplab whitepapers 🎁 Steplab insulated water bottle, notepad and pen To enter: 1️⃣ Follow us 2️⃣ Like this post 3️⃣ Repost Enter by 9:00am Friday 14 August. Winner announced the same day. Good luck!

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Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New essay: I argue that political differences often reside not primarily in different factual beliefs, values, or high-level ideologies, but in the competing systems of interpretation and misinterpretation through which we select, ignore, frame, narrate, and explain political reality.

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How Tribes Construct Rival Realities

Henry Nowak, George Floyd, and the hidden interpretive machinery that drives political conflict.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22/06/2026

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

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Opinion | The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)

It’s all about them.

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Greg Ashman @gregashman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

NEW FREE POST Can Rosenshine’s Principles mean anything to anyone? No, but it’s interesting to examine this claim Comments OPEN fillingthepail.substack.com/p/can-rosens...

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Can Rosenshine’s Principles mean anything to anyone?

No, but it’s interesting to examine this claim

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“... I think teaching becomes mentoring. I think most of the teaching will be done by agents most of the scoring of papers will be done by agents. I think the human relationship between a teacher and a pupil will get enriched possibly so will the job…” @kteare.bsky.social on AI and #education.

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

a frequently interrupted, nonetheless interesting conversation between @jonrauch.bsky.social and @kteare.bsky.social

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“Meta may be dying, but rest assured it won’t go gently into that good night. Maybe that could be a good thing. The more users quit, and the more corroded Meta’s apps grow, the faster we can all log off and close this chapter of the social-media revolution forever.“

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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A widely cited ChatGPT meta-analysis has been retracted. Not because AI doesn’t work, but because the evidence base is still thin. Hundreds of studies, very little strong causal evidence. The field is growing faster than its evidence quality. theeconomyofmeaning.com/2026/05/04/e...

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

In praise of unintended consequences and hope!! “Thanks to Trump's stupid, bloody, unforgivable war of choice in the Gulf, the world is going to install unimaginable amounts of cleantech.”

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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 25/04/2026

'Judgment: of all the traits that go into making a successful life, it must be the least understood, and so the most overlooked,' writes Janan Ganesh. Tap here to read his latest column: ft.trib.al/g3RpNc0

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

When middle powers work together, we can do even more than protect ourselves and our sovereignty — we can build something better, more prosperous, and more just than what came before.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Trainees need to learn how to identify a paper’s major takeaways and integrate them into their understanding. In her essay, @norabradford.bsky.social argues that this skill doesn’t come from outsourcing the work to large language models. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

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Students should read primary literature, not AI summaries

Trainees need to learn how to identify and understand a neuroscience paper’s major takeaways without outsourcing the work to large language models.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook. It hasn’t fully hit BlueSky yet, but LinkedIn and X are just meaning-shaped comments by LLMs

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“Handwriting is to typing like reading a book is to listening to an audiobook while simultaneously cooking dinner, watching the tv on silent, and texting with a friend. By virtue of what it is, it requires conscious effort in a way typing does not.“ — @mkonnikova.bsky.social

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Well worth listening to. Will AI crush higher education? Jimmy Alfonso Licon / The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast @anecdotal.bsky.social & @bryan_caplan substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Will AI crush higher education?

Hollis Robbins, Bryan Caplan, and I discuss AI, higher education, and the future

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

“Students’ reluctance to perform controversial viewpoints in public settings may reflect a paradigm shift that meaningful engagement with controversial ideas requires privacy and reflection. AI may deliver all this far more fruitfully than the performative classroom discussions that FIRE champions”

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The exact wording of the prompt is not that important, it is the idea that you can use modern web-connected LLMs as solid first-pass fact checkers that is useful. As an author, I can choose to take or leave their advice, but it is helpful to have it.

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The definition of insanity? “…pivot back towards fossil fuels in a bid to revive its share price.”

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“The objective world no doubt exists, but the world we experience is always an active construction, a kind of “controlled hallucination” in which the brain uses sensory signals to update and calibrate its best interpretation of what’s going on.” - @anilseth.bsky.social

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“…three things happens when people use a machine to automate a task they would otherwise have done themselves: - Their skill in the activity grows. - Their skill in the activity atrophies. - Their skill in the activity never develops” - Nicholas Carr www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...

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The Myth of Automated Learning

AI's real threat to education.

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change “Methane traps about 80 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide over 20 years. And methane emissions, which are driving an estimated 45 percent of human-caused warming, are rising rapidly.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

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Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“All I’m asking is this: those in the media who have the reach and resources to find the qualified skeptics out there should do much more to highlight those voices and make them more prominent in public discourse about AI. “ - Freddie deBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/no-i-mean-...

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No, I Mean It - AI Maximalists in the Media Should Really, Actually Take the Shitting-in-the-Yard Challenge

think of the #content potential guys

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“ #ChatGPT and #Claude have got really quite good at writing. As they improve, will they make human writers, even highly skilled ones, as obsolete as typists?” A conversation between @ianleslie.bsky.social and @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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NEW POD: James Marriott on whether AI will make writers redundant

Podcast Episode · The Ruffian · 2025-06-15 · 50m

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

“According to one, Kate Conroy, even the "smartest kids insist that ChatGPT is good 'when used correctly,'" but they "can’t answer the question [when asked] 'How does one use it correctly then?'" - @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Unlicensed law clerk fired after ChatGPT hallucinations found in filing

Law school grad’s firing is a bad omen for college kids overly reliant on ChatGPT.

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls?

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“Instead of a story about human-machine substitution, we’re witnessing the emergence of a new form of human-machine collaboration that’s slower, more complex, and ultimately more dependent on human judgment than anyone predicted.” - @samirvarma.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Great AI Jobs Disconnect

Reality vs. Predictions in Workplace Transformation

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Very good interview with our Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social starts at 16:20🇨🇦

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“To have a brain that is flexible, that tries to resist ideologies, is a brain that’s constantly hard at work—at balancing...being receptive to evidence, thinking about all those identity categories that we often put us in…” @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

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Episode 2501: Leor Zmigrod on how radical ideology is infecting our brains

The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“..if we imagine a spectrum from the very extreme left to the very extreme right, we see that the most cognitively flexible people are generally in the center-left and are the least likely to latch onto pre-established group identities.” - @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

These weekly tech( not only) discussions are excellent! @ajkeen.bsky.social and @kteare.bsky.social thank you.

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