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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
💡SPSP Member Resource Spotlight: How can researchers engage in effective international collaborations? Check out our practical guide for equitable collaborations, developed by SPSP members. Learn more: ow.ly/o0e350Zzph1
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"These 'AI' products are materially and psychologically detrimental to our students' ability to write and think for themselves, existing instead for the benefit of investors and multinational companies." If you want to support this open letter, you can still sign! 🖋️ bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Misreadings are frustrating. I can't speak for Polybius but I can speak for my A Paradise Built in Hell: this Le Monde version misrepresents what it documents and concludes. It does document constructive pro-social civil society responses to disaster. it also documents elite panic and crackdowns...
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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thank goodness for people like @olivia.science and her ability to see the breadth and depth of how things are. For me, this is a piece about how HE is entirely about states of mind and relationships. Both of which are damaged by AI.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"
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Simon Truwant @simontruwant.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Mensen lief! 📖 Vanaf nù kunnen jullie 𝘿𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙖𝙧𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙚𝙯𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙣. 𝙃𝙤𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙠 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩 𝙠𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣 (Houtekiet) kopen in de dan per definitie betere boekhandel. 📖 1/3
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“When the political production of meanings, narratives, or identities is bracketed in the name of neutrality, social and behavioral science risks rendering unintelligible the very forces that generate the attitudes and conflicts it seeks to explain.” #SocialPsyc polisky polipsy
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Ouch, Mary Henle, ouch! But also very true, still today in 2026! … Yes looking at you behaviorist-LLM enthusiasts in cognitive science 👀 11/🧵 Screenshot from: 📖 Henle, M. (1976). Why study the history of psychology? nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
My first example represented a very old tradition in 1726, where I shall begin the story. 1 do not understand how anyone who has read Gulliver’s Travels can seriously hold an associationistic theory of creativity. Gulliver, it will be recalled, encountered a professor whose ambition it was to create a complete body of knowledge by the random combination of all the words of his language. And yet just this conception of the chance combination of elements, which Swift makes so patently ridiculous, constitutes the foundation of contemporary associationistic and behavioristic the- ories of creativity. I think it is no exaggeration to say that this kind of thinking is the mainstream of academic thought about creativity today. And yet nobody in the eighteenth century, except perhaps Helvetius, could take it seriously after reading Swift.4 We would not need to trivialize so important a subject matter if we had learned the lesson that history presented so palatably in Gulliver’s Travels.
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Tokyoscarab, professional miracle worker™ 🙏📿⚡ @tokyoscarab.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The thing is that this mostly became an issue in the US because companies pushing it knew the dangers and didn't care; there was money to be made. All of these companies know what they are doing and don't give a shit because irrevocable impacts on society are just the cost of doing business.
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Marcela Suarez @marentierra.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Thanks to you @olivia.science for leading this great and so needed project: Against the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia. Read the preprint here: zenodo.org/records/1706...
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
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Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"But other scientists were less impressed. @olivia.science, a computational cognitive scientist … argued that because the scientists hadn’t used a theory about cognition in building Centaur, its prediction didn’t have much to reveal about how the mind works." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
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Scientists Use A.I. to Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/10/2024
‼️ new preprint out with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social on connectionism: the framework that uses artificial neural networks to model human cognition: we split it into Modern and Classical (see figure) to show how the (meta)theoretical commitments (see table) changed after 2010. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
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Isadora Campregher Paiva @campaiva.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Glad to see my colleagues in Dutch academia standing up against the uncritical embrace of AI from administrators. The fact that so many signatories come from AI studies shows this is not about being a luddite, it's a matter of protecting education itself. Read the letter and sign if you agree!
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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ДАЙТЕ ЕЙ ГОТОВИТЬ ☭☭🍰🌸🥧 @sovietcakelady.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
the most insidious aspect of neoliberalism is it's ability to conceal capitalism's ruthlessness and cruelty behind a polite, civil veneer.
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2) dafnee.isem-evolution.fr 🧪 #science
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DAFNEE, a Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Many "artifacts" result from researchers' violations of the conversational logic of everyday communication. Here's a review of examples: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Judgment in a Social Context: Biases, Shortcomings, and the Logic of Conversation
The chapter focuses on the contribution of conversational processes to the emergence of biases and shortcomings in human judgment, drawing on research…
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management 🧪🦑🐠
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Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management
Indigenous Peoples have developed knowledge systems that foster respectful and reciprocal relations between humans and other-than-human beings, supporting resilient ecosystems and societies. Despite ...
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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 26/05/2025
Calling all scientists in our sciencesky community and beyond. A shoutout to @standupforscience.bsky.social for quickly put together an open letter calling out the bogus Restoring Gold Science Executive Order. Take every opportunity to share this forward after signing your name on the bottom line. 🧪
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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 23/05/2025
@anandwrites.bsky.social, I just wanted to bring your attention to this talk shaping up to be the sequel to “Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World”, AI edition. Incredibly, succinctly put, @abeba.bsky.social!!!
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 21/05/2025
📰📉 Headlines are getting longer – and more like clickbait A new study of 40 million online news headlines finds news has shifted online with longer, more negative, curiosity-driven language. This trend cuts across quality and politics. 🔗 doi.org/10.1057/s415... #SciComm #DigitalMedia 🧪
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The evolution of online news headlines - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The evolution of online news headlines
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025
It's not regulators curving tech in a less harmful/damaging direction or big tech prioritising conscientiousness over profit that'll shape the technological future of society but rather it's public backlash that's going to be key. the tides are turning www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.

The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a “digital curfew” that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"90% of medieval English altars contained hidden stone phalluses" factoid actually just statistical error. Most medieval English altars were destroyed in 1552. Phalloi Georg, who lives in a cave and has an altar with over 100,000 stone phalluses, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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Arno Laeven @eudecentralisation.org · 10/05/2025
Great conversation with @abeba.bsky.social on AI. Is it a threat? No. Is it fantastic? No. Is it overhyped? Unfortunately yes. open.spotify.com/episode/5w6D...
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Artificial Intelligence Ethicology (WILL A.I. CRASH OUT?) with Abeba Birhane
Ologies with Alie Ward · Episode
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!
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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🏺🧪🦣 The Neanderthal Museum is KILLING IT with their social media responses to complaints because we created a feminist exhibition centering #Neanderthal women... Well +55,000 people have already visited & it's now extended to 2nd November! www.instagram.com/neanderthalm...
Screenshot of Instagram post, showing exhibition extension poster, with fuschia pink background, yellow writing "Stereotypes: Neanderthalerin", small yellow line drawn simple images of four female Neanderthals of different ages. A blue sticker across the poster saying it's been extended in date. Text for post:
"Over 55,000 guests in the first months - and most
importantly: so much great feedback. That's why our
special exhibition Stereotypes Neanderthalerin will
remain until the 2nd. Opening November 2025!


We say thank you from the bottom of our hearts
for your visits
for open conversations and discussions
for the wonderful feedback we have received so
far!


The exhibition hits a nerve - because it manages to
make a relationship between current issues and our
history. We look forward to many more meetings and
inspiring conversations with you! "
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Tomorrow, David Adler will join Michael Hudson for our Youtube-Live event about Debt and the work of David Graeber. It is at 5pm London time. Here is the link to the stream: youtu.be/JU_uPaxsGbE
"Like labor, debt is a fictitious 
commodity that is controlled by 
the very few and against the 
best interest of the very many. 
And like labor, debt is ultimately 
owned by the debtor, who  in 
association with fellow debtors, 
can go on strike to reclaim 
control of their conditions."
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  - David Adler
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Framasoft @framasoft.org · 01/05/2025
Pour simplifier le travail précieux de notre collègue dédié au support, nous avons mis en place une liste des questions fréquemment posées (la très célèbre F.A.Q). Pour y accéder, vous trouverez un bouton « Entraide » en bas de page de la majorité de nos services !
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/04/2025
Six months after deadly floods devastated Valencia, bureaucrats and local residents are pioneering a new form of participatory urbanism, empowering residents to reshape the city.
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Inside the grassroots movement rebuilding flood-ravaged Valencia
Residents are demanding a role in the reconstruction of their cities.
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crouz.bsky.social @crouz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Arresteer Netanyahu nu. Teken onze petitie. www.groen.be/arresteer-ne...
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Petitie Arresteer Netanyahu
Netanyahu is een oorlogsmisdadiger. Oorlogsmisdadigers geef je geen millimeter marge. Nul. Groen roept op om Netanyahu wel te arresteren. Teken de petitie.
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I signed this letter Affirming the Scientific Consensus on Bias and Discrimination in AI, because I think it is critical for researchers to bring policymakers' attention to this issue more. www.aibiasconsensus.org This is important, please share. #MLSky 🧪
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Scientific Consensus on AI Bias
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 21/03/2025
🌍 Do climate sceptics change their minds? Climate advocates underestimate how much sceptics shift after reading climate news - while sceptics expect to resist more. In reality, concern increases, showing need for sustained climate communication. 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad... #SciComm 🧪
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Divergence between predicted and actual perception of climate information
Abstract. Despite strong scientific consensus on the severe risks posed by climate change, a substantial segment of the population remains unconvinced, lim
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Jarvist Moore Frost @jarvist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🧪 I use open-source Zulip for my research group 'text chat' rather than Slack / Discord, to try and reduce stress and FOMO from the fire-hydrant of text chat. There's just been a big new release of the software blog.zulip.com/2025/03/20/z... Why Zulip for research? scverse.zulip.com/for/research/
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Zulip 10.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 10.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid wo...
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 20/03/2025
🌍 Happy #Equinox! On 20 March 2025 at 09:01 GMT/10:01 CET, just a few moments ago, the Sun appeared directly above Earth's equator - with our planet neither tilting towards nor away from the Sun! (pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud) See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu
At the equinox of 20 March 2025, our planet is neither tilted towards nor away from the Sun, creating nearly equal day/night. This stunning Meteosat-12 image taken earlier this morning showcases the boundary between day and night running straight through the poles.
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Framasoft @framasoft.org · 20/03/2025
Autrefois nommée #Framabook, notre maison d'édition expérimentale, entièrement gérée par nos bénévoles, s'est transformée en Des Livres en Communs ! deslivresencommuns.org #DesLivresEnCommuns
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Des livres en communs
Pourquoi « libérer le livre » ? Voir notre présentation Comment proposer votre projet ? Lire le règlement Qu’est-ce qu’on publie ? Découvrir comment ça marche Des Livres en Communs, un nouveau modèle de l’édition Des Livres en Communs chamboule les codes de l’édition en proposant une bourse aux autrices et auteurs en amont de l’écriture, ainsi qu’une publication de l’ouvrage sous licence libre. Nous inventons une alternative au modèle d’édition classique, en proposant un revenu de « travail de création » aux auteurs et autrices, dès la signature de la convention, au début du projet de rédaction. Ainsi, Framasoft s’engage à mobiliser une somme comprise entre 2000 et 3000 euros par projet sélectionné et à fournir un accompagnement éditorial aux auteurs et autrices.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Harding very much influenced how I think and understand the world, and I met her once and she was great. RIP to a real one.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“We believe that healthy universities are a backbone of a thriving democracy. They promote critical thinking, independent research & informed debates. The planned cuts threaten academic freedom, innovation and equal access to education. A weakened university system means a weakened democracy.” 5/n
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Jelmer Evers @jelmerevers.com · 15/03/2025
There is a global attack on education, research, academic freedom and professional autonomy going on. On democracy and our core values. This requires a collective response, and we are responding. JOIN A UNION
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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 04/03/2025
I don't necessarily endorse the specific suggestions for alternatives but this is something I am thinking about increasingly as US infrastructure seems less trustworthy. Many companies seem unconcerned about their global reputation, just going along the regime (or worse)...
The image suggests potential replacements (too many to list here) for US based/closed source software and cloud based services. I don't necessarily endorse the specific suggestions. Posted in r/BuyFromEu by u/lukakopajtic on Reddit.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/03/2025
"Fostering a Federated AI Commons ecosystem" codingrights.org/docs/Federat... this policy briefing by Joana Varon, @schock.cc & @timnitgebru.bsky.social is a must read 🔥
Abstract
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently spearheaded by a handful of Big
Tech firms based in the global minority, racing to outpace each other and turbocharging
surveillance capitalism, digital colonialism, and a monoculture of thought. As a result, most
AI systems are being developed and deployed with a "one-model-for-everything" approach
that increases inequities, automates oppression, and exacerbates the climate catastrophe.
This is counter to the Agenda 2030 goals of “promoting the social, economic and political
inclusion of all,” and in direct opposition to the three pillars of sustainable development –
social, economic and environmental - as defined in Rio-92 and reaffirmed at Rio+20. If the
development of AI systems fails to acknowledge and redress structural inequities, these
systems will continue to cause more harm to marginalized communities and territories.
However, the centralization of power through AI is not inevitable. For example, there are
initiatives aiming to build federations of small organizations that can become part of a
broader AI Commons ecosystem. This policy paper provides actionable recommendations
for the G20 to foster decentralized AI development. We urge support for an alternative AI
ecosystem characterized by community and public control of consensual data;
decentralized, local, and federated development of small, task-specific AI models; worker
cooperatives for appropriately compensated and dignified data labeling and content
moderation work, and ongoing attention to minimizing the ecological footprint and the
social-economic-environmental harms of AI systems. We call on the G20 to center bienes
comunes (the commons), human rights, and the public’s interest in AI development.
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Who knew? It's only been 113 years.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 02/03/2025
🧪⚕️ Do Chemicals Affect MS? Researchers found that some industrial chemicals may raise the risk of multiple sclerosis, while others are linked to slower disability progression. What does this mean for health? 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MultipleSclerosis #PFAS #SciComm 🧪
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Associations of PFAS and OH-PCBs with risk of multiple sclerosis onset and disability worsening - Nature Communications
PFAS and OH-PCBs are associated with health effects. Here, the authors present an association between OH-PCB exposure and increased risk of multiple sclerosis, while increased PFAS levels were associa...
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
LLMs don't even model language, via @abeba.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2024/08/30/a...
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Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?
Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Reflecting on her participation in the Paris AI Summit, @abeba.bsky.social pushes back on the “deeply mistaken assumption that AI technologies are inherently good and that mass adoption inevitably leads to public benefits” — and outlines a clear vision for public interest AI. aial.ie/pages/aiparis/
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Bending the arc of AI towards the public interest
By Abeba Birhane, 18/02/2025 Following the first in Bletchley Park in 2023 and the second in Seoul in 2024, the third AI Action Summit took place in February 2025 in Paris. In the context of previous ...
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