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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Please share the adverts for my 2 postdoc positions with anyone you think may be interested. Applications close on Monday 8 Dec. See details below. Thanks!

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Closing date: Monday 8 December at 11:00 pm AEST. ✅ Work in wonderful Brisbane—unbeatable lifestyle ✅ Collaborate on cross-disciplinary AI projects with industry partners ✅ Be part of an exciting and unique set of projects tackling the foundations of real-world problems

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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School of Computer Science, University of Sydney @sydneycompsci.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd is hiring! Multiple continuing (≡ tenure-track) positions in all areas, with particular focus on the ones listed below. Women and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. ⏰ Apply by Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

The School of Computer Science at The University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) invites applications for several academic positions at all levels with demonstrable strong research experience in, but not limited to, the following areas, with particular focus on science, medical and societal applications:

- Computer Systems and Computing Infrastructures
- Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Digital Systems
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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UQ Research Computing Centre @uq-rcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

#JOB: We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer! Design, develop & maintain innovative web applications that empower UQ’s research community. Join a collaborative team. Apply by COB 9 October. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare... #UQ

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The deadline for my postdoc on scalable clinical decision support is closing in 1 week: 4 October (Australian Eastern standard Time). Please share with anyone that you think would be interested

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 25/09/2025

Official petition to the 🇦🇺 govt: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax-exempt! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

They should've hired @markriedl.bsky.social and his consultancy "That Won't Work" before they got this far

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Yep, I agree on evaluation. Also, execution. Ideas are cheap, testing them is not.

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

But if everyone starts using these tools to brainstorm ideas, studies will all start focussing on the same problems and we lose diversity. To be honest, I don't find that coming up with ideas is the bottleneck in research.

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I am a senior PC. I found them so detailed and focused on technical content to be not at all helpful. The ones I could understand found some real technical issues that could be helpful for authors. My suggestion to AAAI was to have an earlier pre-deadline to provide this feedback before submission

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Joaquín Herrero :wiki: @joakinen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment. Bristol band uses live facial recognition on concertgoers to create uncomfortable art about surveillance culture. www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack…

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大规模攻击将音乐会变成面部识别监控实验

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment (www.gadgetreview.com) 05:51 ↑ 104 HN Points

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

✅ Work in wonderful Brisbane—unbeatable lifestyle ✅ Collaborate on cross-disciplinary AI projects ✅ Be part of an exciting and unique set of projects tackling the foundations of real-world problems ✅ Visa sponsorship & relocation support available Apply here: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human-centered AI

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Full-time (100%), fixed-term position for up to 3 years Base salary will be in the range $82,057.75 - $109,246.18 + 17% Superannuation (Academic L...

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm hiring again! Please share. I'm recruiting a postdoc research fellow in human-centred AI for scalable decision support. Join us to investigate how to balance scalability and human control in medical decision support. Closing date: 4 October (AEST). uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

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Magical Thinking on AI

A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times

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Peter Vamplew @amp1874.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Anyone who plans to submit for an ARC grant should be giving feedback via this survey.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment": www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL

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https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st) You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty. Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

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Application

Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 05/09/2025

45 signatures on the official government petition already! We need at least 50: let's make it happen! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... #Australia #PhD #HigherEducation

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Signed! Thanks for your leadership on this

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 03/09/2025

My petition to the 🇦🇺 Australian government: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax exempt! 📋 Read and sign here: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... ⏰ Deadline: October 1

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I could have confused that post for a headline from The Onion. This is insanity....

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It supports researchers who have been displaced, or are at risk of displacement, due to war or natural disasters, and who currently have limited access to resources and institutional support. Apply here: www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply The deadline to apply is September 15.

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

If you know a 🚨 Scholar at Risk 🚨 please share! I am delighted to share that applications are now open for the MAXMINDS mentoring program.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

ARC says they’ll announced Discovery Indigenous outcomes tomorrow. Recently, announcements have been made around 11am (Canberra time). But even more recently ARC’s comms have been at weird hours, so we’ll see what happens.

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC stating that they’ll announce Discovery Indigenous outcomes tomorrow.

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

My latest newsletter is about the excesses of big tech, why Europe should declare war on Silicon Valley, and how it can win. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...

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How Europe Can Win The War On Big Tech

Someone light me a cigar, I'm going all Churchill on big tech.

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Good point - highly interdependent.

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New post on Optimally Irrational: Everything you ever wanted to know about friendship: why it feels good, has its rituals, and sometimes brings anxiety. The puzzles of friendship make sense once we unpack its strategic layers. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/friendship...

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Friendship politics

Everything you have always wanted to know on friendship

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Antibiotics and the tech used to mass produce them. Then the internet. Public keys and Smartphones are not very useful without the internet. Agree that AI is well down the list

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

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Toby Murray @tobycmurray.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thoughtful reflections on how universities can and must adapt to the rise of generative AI, including by returning to ancient practices. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o... Left unaddressed is how scalable online education will survive the rise of AI without sacrificing academic integrity

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Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

OOo... yes like every LLM instance is an innie! (Severance reference)

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

UX researchers are not ok, according to this post. They’re asked often to find some data that affirms users want more AI but when they don’t find that, they worry about losing their jobs quantuxblog.com/things-im-he...

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Things I'm Hearing about UX Research

In the past few months, I’ve had many conversations with senior folks across a variety of MAMANG and similar companies. These are all UXR managers or senior ICs (L5 and up, largely L6-L8 if you’re familiar with those levels). I expected to hear a var...

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Christian Muise @cjmuise.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Some stellar news out of the School of Computing this week -- we're hiring two new tenure-track positions in AI!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 1/3

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

These councillors are delusional. "Christianity built democracy". This guy needs some history lessons.

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The pelicans out in force at UQ St Lucia Campus this week.

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Looking up information = thinking

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I don't so much. Look at Robert Shiller's work. Govts are often complicit in driving bubbles. Investors don't care about narratives once they realise the tech doesn't work like they thought & their investments won't pay. Agree on timing: markets can stay irrational longer then you can stay solvent.

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Platforms want to keep you online for as long as possible but rainbows & unicorns dont keep people engaged. Outrageous, toxic content does. Demonetization is not solving the problem. Platforms breed toxicity bc of the business model My interview @wired.com @laurahday.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jmfjmn7

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‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube

WIRED found over 100 YouTube channels using AI to create lazy fan-fiction-style videos. Despite being obviously fake, there’s a psychological reason people are falling for them.

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