Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding." 312027636
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Last night I met a guy who said everyone in his office uses ChatGPT "because you just type in two lines and it generates a whole email for you!" And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you" 23904194
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms. 327788
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDStar Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025 20762161
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDgavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025It matters for all of us scientists, but particularly for ECRs, because developing good writing (and thus good thinking and reflecting) is hard. It takes time, and it is supposed to be filled with friction. Generative AI takes away the friction, and thus the opportunity to learn 1162
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDgavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me 713534
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDgavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Writing is hard, and it’s supposed to be. Hard is good. Hard is the point. Don’t let gen AI take that from you. Don’t let the tech bros make you less human and take away your chance to learn through struggle and failure. 1205
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/12/2025"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."news.chanda.scienceKnowledge Is Worth Your TimeA few thoughts about why we must embrace the hard work of learning. 1542188
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...currentaffairs.orgAI is Destroying the University and Learning ItselfStudents use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. 7499228
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDNora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Locally, there are private schools wholesale adopting AI. Can't wait for my dentist to be a fraud cause he used AI for everything in school. 0275
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/11/2025I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting. 211122901999
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDStar Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025 131855381
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Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDEmily Hunt @emily.space · 23/11/2025PLEASE this. And also to scientists writing press releases, too - calling something "AI" when it was actually your student spending 12 months fitting and validating a model is disingenuous 231571
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDStar Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It's the weekend, baby 11695132
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/11/2025People learn through practice and challenge; not by receiving answers. But a deeper problem is that an essential aspect of teaching is helping someone organize their thinking in new ways. LLMs — systems which cannot think or appreciate thinking — are incapable of doing this in a meaningful way. 312533
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq 7732721244
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it. 8755871573
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025can’t say what’s going through my head right now But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis 8343117
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDSarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Key Findings: Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion. 423149
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDColin Moore @colinmoore.bsky.social · 12/11/2025New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas. 1339791077
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDJanice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 12/11/2025No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next? 801796556
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDJK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025"knowledge is humanity's spiritual birthright. Making it, playing with it, revising it, sifting through it, making sense of it -- it is baked into who we are as a species. [...] Every generation is responsible for protecting this legacy for the next generation." Printing this to hand to my 13yo: 0226
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDMelissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This week's Citified features a guest post from Ray Angod where he shares concerns about losing natural spaces in the city, especially wetland areas in and around the Huron Natural Area.buff.lyKeeping the “Natural” in Huron Natural AreaGuest post by Ray Angod 152
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDAdam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 02/10/2025I don't know how many times this needs to be posted, but clearly it is MANY TIMES. Sigh. 81080370
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDStuart Chambers, PhD @progstu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025We need professors to point out that dipshits like this are clueless about what goes on in a university: www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...forbes.comWhen Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do 1138
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one 20599173
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 14/10/2025futurism.comThe More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust ItA preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year. 03326
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDClaire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores” Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT 6949126
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDglenwillgo.bsky.social @glenwillgo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"... which isn't even particularily excessive" It's 34% over the speed limit. It's the difference between 6/10 pedestrians surviving a collision vs 1-2/10. Car brain is a hell of a thing. 0392
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDDarryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 15/08/2025Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph. 19945318
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2025Abandoning the vision of liberal arts education is at the heart of how fascism has come knocking. Scientists speaking of abandoning humanities have not learned the core lessons of our history - and by our history I even mean THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Science is never separated from society. 4374115
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2025Academia has now spent several decades trying to drape itself in capitalism - focusing on "job-oriented" majors, talking big about connections to industry, and conversion of student loan $s to income down the lane. 112917
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/08/2025I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions. 22628194
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o... 141204412
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDJohn E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Using AI is bad scholarship; passing it off as your own work is academic misconduct. 0134
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 01/07/2025Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands 31009209
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism. 512667546
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect. 352759769
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025A very cool model for developing a standard data management policy for an entire department, team, or organization! geo-data-support.sites.uu.nl/faculty-rdm-...geo-data-support.sites.uu.nlFaculty Research Data Management PolicyOn this page, you can find the current and past versions of the Faculty of Geosciences Research Data Management Policy. [button target= 0176
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.fortune.comStudy looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss. 14318126
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 13/12/2024More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through. 6529701228
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I would love to see more research teams employ data managers. While roles like data scientists and research analysts are crucial for analyzing data, those roles often don't have the time to develop standardized and documented processes that lead to better data. #databs cghlewis.com/blog/hire_da... 1478
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025VERY valuable thread for geoscientists, and all scientists who are looking for the right questions to ask their professional societies. Even after they walked back some of the advance compliance, it was still extremely troubling to see AGU damage the trust they'd built with their diverse membership. 1269
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDJulie Libarkin @holdingupthesky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/ 313262
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDNora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025It's the eighth anniversary of the shooting attack inside the Great Mosque in Quebec City. We will never forget Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzedine Soufiane and Aboubaker Thabti. Here's a video of the commemoration, held on Saturday. 19146
Reposted by Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhDEric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity. It can't not. 141279215