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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 1h

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 1h

Actually, AI output is to human work as a bland who-knows-what's-in-it burger is to delicious spicy Creole food.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 16h

The Muse ads I've seen promise that Muse will "take things off my hands" so that I can save time. For example, it can save me time by turning my profile photo into a crayon drawing. Really important stuff that will help me with my many responsibilities.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20h

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very cute* that Big Tech's attack on mathematics comes at the same time when women are starting to win Fields Medals on a regular basis. * not cute at all.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Surprising to find this intuition in myself (I never would have predicted I thought this), but the major discovery of the AI era for me is there's a huge group of things (art, scholarship, etc) that I literally only care about if a human being makes it

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

again, really hope working mathematicians put the pieces together and realize the fundamental threat from ai companies has little to do with transforming practices or modes of mentorship. they want a death grip on funding and employment in the discipline. it's what they want with everything

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It feels like journals are only a filter for baseline quality, there really is a niche out there for people to personally curate reading lists for others. There is a cottage industry for this in other content like movies, so it would be cool for an academic to get paid to specialize in this way

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The flyers are made by a US based Neo-Nazi group. The US exports hate. @gdlexposed.bsky.social

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ricardo asked about the Alberta referendum on if we should have a referendum, and I tried to answer what's actually going on here over the course of a bunch of non-caffeine fueled posts. For anyone who is confused!

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She was a treasure. RIP Andrea. Fly high.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has been maybe the most wholesome story on Bluesky in the last month or so 😻

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is not an acceptable prize to pay for a bunch of math theorems.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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hagwil hayetsk @charlesmenzies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Standing with Tk̓emlúps .

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll run my 2006 Civic into the ground before I buy a car with a screen.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am bringing this into my classroom practice. Student: “Professor R, can you explains 95% confidence intervals again?” Me: “I fully support the Dean’s efforts to bring better educational experiences into the classroom.”

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you use AI to do your research, you really cannot complain when reviewers use AI to review your papers, imo. The processes you use to expedite your workflow create more work for the rest of us, who are under the same constraints to maximize our own output. Plus, peer review is invisible labor.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone has once tried to tell me that the US presidential election is not gerrymandered. Yeah, lol.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lot of people forget that when the Nazis conquered Poland in WW2, they went after the university professors (both Jewish and goy) before they even started to put the Final Solution together.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We need to do some soul-searching to figure out how to make that adjustment in mathematics. But it needs to be done.

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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some days when I think how all of what we are going through could have been avoided if people just listened to the brilliance of women among us, it's just painful.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do y'all feel about refereeing AI-assisted papers? I understand the need to check for correctness. I also have a lot of trouble seeing why I should spend my limited human time working with the authors to improve the paper, the way I would if it were entirely human work.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, we've basically swapped remembering important addresses and phone numbers for remembering PINs and passwords.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 24/09/2026

Well, just recommended a yearlong ban for someone due to a math.KT AI slop submission. Don't do that, kids.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please cancel the Broadway Plan then. #vanpoli

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Plus the municipal elections a week earlier.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But they solved some math problems, so I'm sure it's all good 🤡

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As various AIs are trying to displace us as mathematicians, this is a great thought on the essence of creativity, in music and otherwise.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm a grown-up 5'3" woman and many of these abominations have hoods higher than that. This has to stop. (Plus, damage to roads, taking up 2 or 3 parking spaces instead of 1, and so on.)

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Because blackboards in math classrooms are not made for 5'3" women. (I'm fine with not using the entire height of the board. The problem is pulling it down after it's been pushed all the way up.)

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If your dog bites a person, you don't get to say "oh whatever, the dog just did it on its own". You are responsible.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At the risk of sounding like a hose drinker, I don’t want a washing machine that requires connection to WiFi. I want one of those workhorses that keep going for like 30 years that I can fix myself.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Holy shit I just saw a post about a company that is making washers and dryers with knobs and buttons. No screens, no shitzillion settings, no annoying little electronic song when it’s done. Could it be? They’re realizing we don’t need our laundry machines to post to Twitter or send faxes?

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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Academia in the unregulated AI era. We need boilerplate language specifying draft manuscripts cannot be uploaded into an LLM @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social Adding to list..

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just learned a new word here today on Bluesky. Things you don't know you don't know 😂😂😂

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And if math AI wants to make further progress beyond earlier AI output, then that's what it will have to feed on. And that's when we will likely be in hallucination territory, with AI's high speed and large volume output getting in their own way.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So what happens when math AI starts feeding on other math AI writings? That are extremely difficult to decipher even for experts and make no sense to someone without knowledge of context? What's a very common reason for errors and mistakes in published literature? Yeah.

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's at least one inflection point coming up. Companies are already looking for old paper books to scan and feed to AI b/c they want their AI to be trained on human writing. Not on the AI slop that's been flooding the internet in the last couple of years. (Recent story about Amazon iirc.)

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