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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14/04/2026

👏 every 👏 endnote 👏 should 👏 also 👏 be 👏 an 👏 anchor 👏 tag 👏 so 👏 you 👏 can 👏 navigate 👏 the 👏 pdf 👏 quickly 👏

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 26/02/2026

My university might be OK with it de-skilling students but I am certainly not going to let it de-skill me

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"AI is inevitable and we'll never get rid of it" - mate, they said the same thing about smallpox, absolute monarchy, and Mr Blobby.

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#Caturday 🐱: Min Zhen 閔貞 (China, 1730–after 1791) Black #Cat (n.d.; Qing dynasty, 18th c.) Hanging scroll; ink on paper Painting: 78.5 x 38.5 cm. (30 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.) Princeton University Art Museum y1947-65 artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti... #CatsInArt #ChineseArt

hanging scroll with ink painting of a CHONKY tuxedo cat, tail up and looking towards viewer smiling

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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

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i-330.bsky.social @i-330.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

..But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff."

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i-330.bsky.social @i-330.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

"As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications...

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 12/12/2025

how much water does it take to disrupt the careers of millions of people? how much water does it take to make deepfakes of underage kids? how much water does it take to exacerbate people's mental health crises? is there a good number? is there an acceptable number?

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corgibutt79.bsky.social @corgibutt79.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I have yet to see a single explanation of how AI provides any tangible benefit to anyone. It’s Crypto part 2 where only the people who create it see any value in it.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A day in the library saves a week in the lab, and that is the hill I will die on!!

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Medical University of South Carolina Research Integrity Officer and Committee concluded that "human error in regards to organization and record keeping of original images was the cause for this mistake." How the heck can this be caused by a mistake? #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics

Figure from a scientific paper showing three Western blots, each with five lanes. The bottom one (labeled b-actin) has three dientical lanes, which I marked with red boxes.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2021.11.005.

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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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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14/12/2025

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

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BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

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🤍 @persiimmons.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

it’s almost like….. people have been saying this would happen……. the entire time…….

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Useful reminder here from historian of medicine Fay Bound-Alberti that assumptions that the human body can be repaired like a machine as long as spare parts can be sourced, are misguided. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is really concerning. The Junta in Myanmar will arrest, conscript or kill many of those the US may return. We honestly cannot understand how the US admin can say the situation in Myanmar is improving when ALL EVIDENCE IS TO THE CONTRARY.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

If you enjoyed the below article, may I offer up the (in)famous Shugar Kane medicine cabinets study. We withdrew the submission when it was accepted and the (predatory) journal wanted $$$. 🧪https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qM0mQDNmYbhbZSobESSTo81ihV2yguFNMNZb13C91V4/edit?usp=sharing

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Shugar Kane

A Big Data multi-continent comparison of medicine cabinets stuff Shugar, D.H.1, Kane, I.2 1Research Chair, Department of Bottle Statistics (Dept of BS), University of Calgary, Canada 2Head, Instit...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 02/11/2025

A Comment article in Nature Reviews Nephrology discusses how little attention has been given to how the termination of 2,100 NIH grants effect people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: patients, care partners and community leaders. go.nature.com/47nCWmG #medsky 🧪

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