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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Working too much with text embeddings.

Boyfriend "STS" is distracted from "science and technology studies" by "semantic text similarity".

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/11/2025

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

chronicle.com

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Loved debating whether ecologists should fly across the world to the big conferences where the powerful meet? You'll love: Can we use LLMs to critique LLMs at scale?

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"For 67% of real fact-checks, top AI models don't agree on the answer." "34% of claims involve ... substantive disagreement on the answer, not just a calibration shift." lenz.io/research/llm...

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Beyond Benchmarks: Frontier LLM Disagreement on Fact-Checks

67% of real-world claims expose disagreement among the five top frontier LLMs. Methodology, breakdowns, and data CSV.

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I see academics disclosing their use of generative AI in their papers. They may do it willingly or just as a requirement in the publication process, I don't know. I can see why you would want to know that, but it still strikes me as odd.

AI Statement:
During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT-5.4 to support literature research, improve the readability of selected passages, and format references. The authors reviewed and edited all AI-assisted output as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.

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Kenneth Enevoldsen @kennethenevoldsen.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

We are very happy to introduce AfriMTEB to #MTEB 🌍 If you are looking to evaluate an embedding model for African languages, you can now do so directly with MTEB! Big thanks for Kosei Uemura and @dadelani.bsky.social for the PR! #retrieval, #evaluation, #nlp

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Inverse Laws of Robotics: * Humans must not anthropomorphise AI systems. * Humans must not blindly trust the output of AI systems. * Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems. susam.net/inverse-laws...

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Three Inverse Laws of AI - Susam Pal

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/04/2026

This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Bullshit Benchmark Explorer - models calling out ridiculous requests. Go Claudes! petergpt.github.io/bullshit-ben...

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Clément Levallois @seinecle.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

✨ Extract a social graph from any pdf document -> example from my PhD thesis: nocodefunctions.com/user_created... -> multilingual, -> takes webpages as input as well -> different ties possible (family, pro, etc.) 🔗 available at nocodefunctions.com/nergraph/ner...

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Hey les Parisiens, I will be in Paris throughout February. I'm visiting the Institute for Advanced Study to work on AI-augmented mapping and notably within RAG systems for computational SSH, along with @akmunk.bsky.social. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Let's get in touch!

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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Just published open access, a playful exercise I developed and ran with students: "The Cringe Test: student evaluations of intelligence with LLMs in a Turing Test adapted for classroom use" www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

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Frontiers | GIFT-AI: The Cringe Test: student evaluations of intelligence with LLMs in a Turing Test adapted for classroom use

This article presents “The Cringe Test,” a classroom adaptation of the Turing Test (or imitation game) that stages dialogue with large language models (LLMs)...

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Since the hegemon's eye is now focussing on Greenland, I recommend revisting our research note in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power elite in Greenland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🇫🇷 Vidéos Gephi en Français : J'ai extrait les passages les plus intéressants de notre dernier stream OnlyFA (Only Force Atlas) avec Nicolas "Datalgo" Bouchaïb. Ça donne 12 vidéos de 1 à 20 minutes, centrées sur différents points, souvent assez avancés. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MrW...

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Importer un réseau en 2 listes (nœuds et liens) dans Gephi desktop

YouTube video by Mathieu Jacomy

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 18/12/2025

📕 Review of “Seeing like a Platform” “What makes this book essential reading is its recognition that digital technology’s democratic potential and authoritarian dangers are not separate phenomena but two faces of the same coin.” albertoblumenscheincruz.substack.com/p/review-see...

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Review: “Seeing Like a Platform”

Digital Modernity’s New Forms of Power -- By Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark -- Routledge, 2025

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Mathieu Jacomy @jacomyma.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Congrats to @dariorodighiero.bsky.social for beating me to the best short paper award at #CHR2025 ! And to Carlo and Davide, although I don't know them personally. I only got an honorable mention, which I am still very proud of 😂 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...

Screenshot of the CHR2025 Best Paper Awards (long and short)

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