Causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs unassisted performance across math reasoning and reading comprehension tasks.

I’m currently pulling together a bunch of sources – that are mostly recent – on the topic of LLMs and their use in software development. Some are peer-reviewed studies. Some are i…

What happened this week? A shorter note this week due to time constraints. My planned sprint to half-term felt like a slow crawl. Some highlights: * A high-energy kick-off meeting with the newly-re...

Researchers Giorgia Tolfo and Laura Robson-Mainwaring reflect on the usefulness of the Hospital Records database and how we are making it more accessible.

Documenting the crowdsourced ‘Language of Accidents’ dataset created by the Living with Machines project in collaboration with Zooniverse [...]

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Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.

Where exactly was a museum specimen collected? A new Zooniverse project invites volunteers to help turn location information from museum records into points on a map, making biodiversity data easier for researchers to use. The project also introduces new mapping tools that will eventually support many different kinds of research on Zooniverse. Yesterday, we launched a brand-new project: Notes from Nature - Putting Biodiversity on the Map…

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

What comes to mind when you encounter the term ‘Talking Objects’? If we challenged you to let your imagination run free and restrict every impulse to limit your thoughts and ideas, what do you picture...

The workshop explores how the war in Ukraine can be documented and represented in ways that adequately reflect the complexity of wartime experiences in the respective medium. The workshop will kick of...

Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

Productivity gains in analysis are getting stuck in physical-world bottlenecks

Create a London Underground style roundel with your own text. The red ring, blue bar, and white lettering keep the measured proportions of the original sign, and each color can be changed so you can put your own spin on it.

This Call for Evidence, published alongside the National Heat Risk Commission’s framing report, A Heat Circuit Breaker for the UK, marks the...

The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU

By Alice Millard, archivist October is Black History Month (BHM) across the UK. This year, the theme is ”Honouring Our Communities’. The archive is full of documented communities from a…

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