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Pivot @pivot.quebec · 01/10/2026

CHRONIQUE | « À l’aube des élections de 2022, je remarquais que l’enseignement supérieur ne semblait intéresser ni les chef·fes des principales formations, ni les médias. Quatre ans plus tard, la situation est peut-être pire encore. » 🎙️ Par @maxlap.bsky.social 🔗 urls.fr/aJ5LSw

Qui s'intéresse encore à l'enseignement supérieur?

Signe des temps, le désintéressement total de François Legault pour l'enseignement supérieur est devenu un mot d'ordre pour l'ensemble des partis.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"How is it possible that scientists are saying that shark populations have declined by a lot, but fishermen are saying they've never seen so many sharks?" Part of the answer is called "shifting baselines," which means how much something changes depends on when you start counting! 🧪🌍🦑🦈🐟

Mockup graph showing dramatic declines in shark populations since the 1980s with a modest recovery over the last few years

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/07/2026

Fun fact: the vast majority of all carbon re-captured by CCS is used to dislodge more oil from nearly-depleted oil fields thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Stacked area chart showing that the vast majority of captured CO2 has been used to extract more fossil fuels, with the red area (used for fossil extraction) rising sharply since ~2010 while the thin green area (stored underground) remains small from 1996–2024.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I got sick of reading arguments for and against "climate hushing" that quoted pundits and politicians — but no climate scientists. So I called nine leading scientists and asked what they think. Read today’s CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES for their thoughts: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-hu...

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Enough climate hushing, more listening to scientists

As we celebrate July 4, let's resolve to start learning from the folks who make America great.

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Katia Schwerzmann @katschwerzmann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The paper recovers an elemental form of the enclosure operation and contrasts it with foreclosure in order to unravel the effects of current algorithmic rationality showing that it perpetuates and simultaneously expends forms of extraction, exclusion, and dispossession toward a totalizing horizon.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I got irritated with reading another assertion that AI can outperform social scientists at our jobs. I find these arguments reveal both an intellectual laziness and a lack of appreciation for good writing, which is the heart of our work. I had thoughts. mirandayaver.substack.com/p/in-defense...

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In Defense of Good Writing

"Knowledge is Good"

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/01/2026

New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change. As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!

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A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy

Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.

Comment on a linked in post, from user Kurtis Loken who presents themself as "Experienced Metrology Engineer | AI/ML real world experience | Patented Solutions | R&D | Mass Production"

Comment reads:

Emily M. Bender You are a linguist. LLMs have proven some theories disproved others about how language works. I would think that would be an amazing time to be a linguist.

Have you ever actually talked to an AI…I mean really talked to one? The Turing test has been passed. (Sonnet 4.5 has particularly impressed me when discussing ideas with it…definitely has passed my own Turing test.)

I would really love to see a conversation between yourself and it discussing your views. That would make a great podcast. Have these models explain to you why your idea to ban them may or may not be a good idea. These things probably have their own opinions on the topic if someone would listen to them. Maybe that’s you?

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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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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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Folks, he's too modest to say, but Andrew Dessler has led and coordinated a full-court scientific response to that execrable, climate-denying "report" from the DOE. It was a massive effort, accomplished in mere weeks. And the response itself is of historic importance, because... 1/2

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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

realistic Star Trek

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Daily Spurious Correlation 🤖 @dailycorrelation.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The distance between Neptune and the Sun correlates with NASA's budget as a percentage of the total US Federal Budget (r=0.895)

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...

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Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier

Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.

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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Can scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies? Yes, we can. The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature

A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 18/04/2025

Des manifestants infiltrent un futur dépotoir de déchets dangereux à Blainville, créant des tensions avec les policiers et les travailleurs. Lire l'article pour en savoir plus 👉 bit.ly/3Ghn77a #Stablex #environnement

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Wokeness,” as it’s known, introduced the asymmetrical capitalization of the letter b in Black but not the w in white. It forced Romance languages like Spanish to submit to gender-neutral constructions such as Latinx. It called for the display of pronouns in email signatures and social-media bios. It replaced a slew of traditional words and phrases: People were told to stop saying master bedroom, breastfeeding, manpower, and brown-bag lunch, and to start saying primary bedroom, chestfeeding, workforce, and sack lunch. At the extreme, it designated certain words—such as crazy—beyond redemption.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 09/02/2025

Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/02/2025

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

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Void-BOO!!! GAh!!!! (AKA Jess Voidburger) @voidburger.com · 03/02/2025

this bitch has never stepped foot in a grocery store shut da fuckkkk up arrested_development_banana_10_dollars.gif-motherfucker

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/02/2025

AMOC news can be confusing—is it slowing? Collapsing? Remaining stable? There’s studies that claim each! That’s why, instead of the latest headline, I always rely on what @rahmstorf.bsky.social has to say—he’s studied it for nearly 40 yrs and knows how each new study fits into the bigger picture.

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The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …

There's been a bit of media whiplash on the issue of AMOC slowing lately - ranging from the AMOC being on the brink of collapse to it being more stable than previously thought. AMOC, of course, refers...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

“researchers suspect [the grant review freeze] may be related to President Trump's targeting of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts” www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪

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National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders

The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Episode 36: You Are A Badass Do you want to take control of your life? It’s a two-step process: (1) defeat your evil subconscious and (2) go into massive amounts of debt.

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You Are A Badass

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 01/23/2025 · 59m

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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Pour les gens/organisations qui sont encore sur X, combien de saluts nazis ça va vous prendre avant de quitter ? @umontreal.ca @uqam.ca @ledevoir.com @lapresse.ca etc etc

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Christopher Curtis @titocurtis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

As Montreal loses its wetlands at an alarming pace, locals are fighting to get the province to enforce its own environmental laws. Excellent piece by Natalia Rivero Gómez. therover.ca/why-are-queb...

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Why Are Quebec's Wetlands Disappearing – The Rover

In Montreal, where 80 per cent of wetlands have disappeared, locals are fighting to make Quebec enforce its own environmental laws.

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