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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

maybe this is because i'm the kind of goody-goody who gets a PhD but I find it shocking that they don't even try to lie that there's some justifiable use case for this. it's just a tacit "we all know you don't want to learn anything, and now you don't need to"

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Have we considered that learning and doing things is good for us, actually?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We tripled the funding for this . Nuremberg should look like the FACT FINDING stage There are ANCIENT GODS who have more mercy than I do

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Christine Slaughter @cslaughter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Okay I was feeling really bad for Malinin and then he comes out with “if they’d sent me to Beijing I wouldn’t have skated like that” in the kiss and cry, sympathy evaporated

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Universities really hate unionized academic labour.

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Silvio Marcacci @silviomarcacci.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan. And here we are. heated.world/p/this-is-ex...

heated.world

This is exactly what Project 2025 proposed

Analysts called it "extreme" and "unlikely." Now, it's almost reality.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Reminding myself tonight to focus on what we can do rather than anger at what others won't. @standhighered.bsky.social has created a toolkit that can help faculty + staff organize on every kind of campus in every part of the country. Join us, spread the word, and let's build our own strength.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

we need Brad Lander to primary Schumer while teaming up with progressive challengers for Jeffries and Pelosi and they travel around doing events together to boost other progressives in primaries that cross-endorsement camaraderie really appeals to people. let us imagine a better leadership team!

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 27/06/2025

The article describes Trump's birtherism as racist too. We're finally using the correct words for things!

There is no credible evidence to suggest Mr. Mamdani is not, or shouldn’t be, a U.S. citizen. But his shock win put him on the national radar, and some Republicans in Congress are now seeking to undermine him using a strategy similar to the racist one that Donald J. Trump employed against former President Barack Obama by questioning whether he was born in the United States.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We are discovering what happens when a society decides to give the absolute dumbest people imaginable way too much power.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is a watershed moment. Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned. Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education. He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 08/05/2025

Hey, friends and comrades, I want to draw your attention to something important. My friend Alaa is trapped with her family in Gaza and needs assistance. Here's her daughters. Here's the link, but I'm going to talk a little about what happened. (Please boost!) chuffed.org/project/1252...

Two young twin girls with a pair of cats

One of the girls looking at the kitties with an expression of beatific fondness

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

3pm at the Rotunda is still on.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

anyway as an afropessimist aside, I think today it is fair to say that in response to the election of a Black president, a bunch of white and aspirationally white Americans have—in part by accident, carried along by forces they cannot name—abolished the presidency and replaced it with a sovereign.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Yeah this is the goal and they’ve been pretty clear about it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

trump launched a politically motivated investigation into UVA's decision to admit nonwhite student and jim ryan folded in an immense disservice to the university

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

why can’t you fight for what matters you goddamn coward

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Not unlike free speech conservatives think religious freedom is when they can believe what they want and when you can believe what they want.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The end-result of this will be a religious minority demanding an injunction against a christian display of some kind, and the supreme court ruling that christianity has privileges other faiths don't bsky.app/profile/reic...

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We need fewer career politicians beholden to legal precedents that the right is gleefully setting aflame and more trickster demons eager to take advantage of loopholes in these shoddily reasoned Supreme Court decisions

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cpcville @cpcville.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Re-upping this. There are some excellent people on the board of this organization. Sign the petition in support of Jim Ryan and pass it on. www.wahoos4uva.com/take-action Please use the hashtag #wahoos4uva

wahoos4uva.com

Take Action with Wahoos4UVA: Support UVA’s Progress and Leadership

Sign the letter, join our email list, and share our message to support President Ryan’s leadership and UVA’s progress. Follow Wahoos4UVA on social media and help expand our reach!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Undoubtedly a huge winner tonight. Got mayoral wins in NYC, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse. Got their allies reelected in NYC’s council, and likely brought new ones in (we’ll see all results next week with RCV).

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025

I’m so fucking serious about this you guys

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

That sound you hear is every columnist at The Atlantic screaming into a pillow

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This could really put New York on the map

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Mamdani was the ONLY dem candidate who opposed mask bans. Which says all you need to know about the “left” in the United States. He will now face Adams, who has said at least three separate times that he wants a city wide mask ban. Mask bans are discriminatory ugly laws that put lives at risk.

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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

general election preview: zohran: freeze the rent and make buses fast and free cuomo: new york city is a hellhole eric adams: we hustle and grind at the hotel of wisdom, god is my DJ when I’m on the dance floor of success, new york is the home of pizza and 9/11

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

you know some folks are seething tonight about this part specifically they do NOT want her to be the new kingmaker because they’re scared shitless of the people she would pick

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Christine Slaughter @cslaughter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

First time ever the collective effervescing got close to what Twitter could do

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