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Antoine @a-berut.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

C'est de l'eau qui est utilisée pour le refroidissement des serveurs non ? Donc je suppose que c'est de l'eau du robinet et qu'une grande partie se vaporise ?

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Melanie I Stefan @melanieistefan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hello hive mind, based on my post yesterday about LLMs, what do we all know about the statement « AI consumes 1.5L of water for a simple yes or no »? Where does the water come from and where does it go?

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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Ah yes the woke agenda *checks notes* inviting women to review because they're experts in their field.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

write them like the guy that always get the funding!

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I am looking for ethical alternatives including environmentally. And also starting research on the use of water for servers! I really believe that when it comes to grant writing for example, LLM are helping leveling the playing field (of course not writing your grant for you but helping you

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Yes I am too far along and actually a decent LLM users that this is past my thinking. I also believe that the way it is enhancing my work- ie helping me to get quicker where I want to be could eventually being beneficial for the environment. I also still use my brains for sure. But it is also why

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Ok specialists what is the best alternative to chatGPT-and name your criteria!

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Universities must cut ties with OpenAI. And no, "cocaine is available on the streets, there's no reason we shouldn't dispense it in the dorms" is not a good argument. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

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Opinion | I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica.’

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

And this is also why (with the means and access they have) IF we needed metrics and as you say more than one would be helpful then we should be consulted.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I agree 💯 with all the things you are saying here. I have a Google scholar account although now I am revisiting (thank you for calling me out!) and yes if it is for you to use absolutely ok. I am just worried for institutions taking short cut and people bullying their way into positions.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

when it comes to publications unintended consequences are always mentioned even when stuff is evidence based but we will let Google impose metrics on us?

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Except as @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social pointed out this really depends on discipline culture which also then messes up with interdisciplinary work. My question is who asked for a new metric? Who was consulted? We know now that it is here it will be used. When we want to make meaningful change

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I think we can safely refer to it as 💩 index.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Who was consulted for Google to do that? There is no existing universal rules across disciplines on ordered names on paper. Who asked Google to meddle with this? The violence of this is unique. What it means is that bad actors will be retroactively rewarded for bullying their place on papers

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

www.nature.com/articles/d41... look at the subtitle: which researchers welcome the effort?? Let’s just kill collaboration shall we? Let’s just make sure every paper is a battle. This is not going on the right direction

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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

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Sylvain GRANDSERRE @sylvaingrandserre.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Soupçonnée d’avoir menti sous serment sur ses liens avec une lobbyiste des crèches privées, Aurore Bergé à été placée sous le statut de témoin assisté. C'était prévisible mais ça n'a pas empêché qu'elle soit renommée ministre, comme Dati. La macronie, ça ose tout. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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Crèches privées : Aurore Bergé à nouveau entendue par les juges pour faux témoignage

La ministre avait déjà été entendue en juin, après avoir récusé, devant une commission d’enquête parlementaire en avril 2024, tout lien personnel avec une lobbyiste du secteur. Après cette nouvelle au...

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 24/10/2025

Preliminary findings: 🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data. 🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions. This is a duty, not a choice. link.europa.eu/JYQrBX

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK, so please afford me this statement: It’s apparently unprofessional to not wear *smart* clothes to a conference…but it’s completely professional to use the word “coloured” when referring to Black and brown people…

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Je regarde la carte et jaune veut dire “Au moins un polluant quantifié sans dépassement des limites de qualité” alors que vert veut dire aucun polluant quantifié. Vert ne veut pas dire qu’ils ne sont pas là mais

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

qu’ils ne sont soit pas là soit sous la limite de détection de la méthode de mesure(plus probable). Il ne faudrait donc pas séparer les deux. C’est exactement pour ça que la communication de tels chiffres est compliquée.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A little busy tonight 😊. Will get back to the chat tomorrow

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Which is why I am saying what we submit almost doesn’t matter (because I think most of us can tell a 2* from a 3/4*). Maybe AI could help more for submission selection in that sense-

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I think panels do what they are asked- and work really hard the problem is what I have experienced during selection especially in “General Engineering” where submissions as so broad that reverting to JIFs to decide what is 3* and 4*

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Very important and uplifting perspective on REF

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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

There's been lots on this already. I think it would work in some circumstances but the submitting units that would be most disadvantaged would be the smaller, generally less well-funded. Panel members can spot hidden gems in a way AI wouldn't, I suspect. Might as well go back to JIFs!

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Btw this was never a criticism of the panels who I know work really hard along with everyone who tries to deliver REF. It was really in the context of a struggling sector and where efforts should be concentrated

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Hi Cathy, thanks. You are right my perspective was entirely on big submitting units. From a positive angle, how can we use AI so it saves the sector some of the money spent on REF for outcomes that are predictable to focus on the unpredictable?

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I have been thinking that a AI model should be able to predict REF outcomes and I believe that whatever papers are chosen for a submission outcomes won’t change much… anyone prepared to run an experiment?

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

If these headlines don’t reek of personality cult and dictatorship I don’t know what does. Didn’t realise he was 79, are the US going to get a big Jubilee next year?

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/10/2025

💯 Academic social media was a game changer for scholars from traditionally less well-connected places.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

👋🏻👋🏻 I am going to try and convert useless scrolling time on instagram to some time on here then!

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Glad to hear it! Motivating me to visit more often!

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Martin Stoermer @martinstoermer.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Pretty happy in terms of the #chemsky content. Sure there’s heaps less signal than #chemtwitter at its peak but also vastly less noise. And people don’t shout at me for my non-chem opinions and musical tastes so that’s pretty nice.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I haven’t posted here in many months but LinkedIn is so depressing. Elon truly won, we had a space where we could talk without “keeping up appearances” now academics migrated to LinkedIn and it’s all polished edulcorated saccharine. Everyone back in the box. How is everyone getting on here?

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Anna DNP, FNP, BC@ AccessToCareAdvocate @anna1900.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

At least 798 people have died while seeking food at distribution points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation simce late May, according to the UN. The GHF has faced criticism for breaching humanitarian impartiality and possible involvement in war crimes. #DontForgetGaza

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Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Too much international women in engineering day on LinkedIn so here I am. I applaud my (often junior) colleagues in engineering who patiently fill out form with their profile for their institution to boast about them on #IWED and then deny the existence of their struggles the rest of the year.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

That’s interesting. But there is more to you than the things you do, and we all have the potentials to have many different lives anyway and enjoyment of life can take many forms. But ultimately yes I believe that to continue living or not is your choice.

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I mean it is really useful because it gives you a good idea of the panel conversation and I am grateful- but just feel a bit jaded that the think that tanked us had been addressed by reviewers has having been addressed. Reviewers reviewed and I spent days on the response and it seems neither really

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Indeed- I also meant it gets worse as you get yourself in more senior rooms

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Yes I got that, and it really genuinely made me think on whether then such a law would be better than not.

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