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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 6h

See, e.g., Section 4 in our position paper for an overview of how the principles can be applied to 'AI': 📝 @olivia.science , @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Honesty implies that we do not secretly use AI technologies without disclosure, and that one does not make unfounded claims about the presumed capabilities of AI technologies (this also follows
from Responsibility; see example from MIT Economics 2025, where perhaps too little too late was
done).

Scrupulousness demands, among other things, that scientists only use AI products whose functional-
ity is well-specified and validated for its specific scientific usage (cf. Kwisthout 2024; Kwisthout and
Renooij 2025). This includes terminological precision about what formalisms, models, and/or tech-
nologies are used (recall Figure 1) and rigorous argumentation to motivate why these technologies
are appropriate for the scientific purposes at hand.
Transparency requires that the AI technologies are open source and computationally reproducible.
Here we must recall the technology industry’s obfuscatory tactics: “the name of the current
producer of ChatGPT. ‘OpenAI’ sounds like it is engaged in open science, but as we have now
seen, ‘open’ never really means what you think it does.” (Mirowski 2023, p. 738; see also Dingemanse
2025; Hao 2025; Jackson 2024; Liesenfeld and Dingemanse 2024; Liesenfeld, Lopez, et al. 2023;
Maffulli 2023; Maris 2025; Nolan 2025; Solaiman 2023; Thorne 2009; Widder et al. 2024)
Independence means that scientists ensure that their research is unbiased by AI companies’ agendas,
and that any potential conflicts of interest are declared in publications and other public communi-
cations (this also follows from Honesty and Transparency; cf. Mohamed Abdalla and Moustafa
Abdalla 2021; Atkin 2025; Forbes and Guest 2025; Knoester et al. 2025).
Responsibility precludes scientists from using AI products whose use is irresponsible, e.g. harmful to
people, animals, and the environment, or otherwise in violation of legal guidelines (e.g. copyright,
data privacy, labour laws, Butterick 2025; Cole 2025; Rijo 2025; Tafani 2024a). Minimizing harm is
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

The author couldn't answer my second question. As to the first one (why use an AI agent?), his only answer was because you can use natural language. So that's the choice: either you can have quantifiable accuracy, no ethical issues, and no environmental issues or...it's something you can talk to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

And even if the AI has the raw data, we know these things can't count, they can only predict a correct response. So how do you know it's accurate?

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

It looked cool. But I couldn't understand why an AI agent was necessary. Why not just create a voice interface for database queries that output to a GIS? Maybe I'm dumb.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

The author explained that the AI only had access to raw data, so it couldn't make anything up. You say, "show me the areas of the Moon above 1000 m," and part of the globe became yellow through the goggles.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

I saw a paper at SpaceCHI last week that discussed the use of an AI agent alongside Apple Vision AR for doing spatial analytics of lunar data. Basically, you look at a globe of the Moon through the goggles and you speak commands to highlight areas with different attributes, like altitude.

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ypswe.bsky.social @ypswe.bsky.social · 7h

That’s the part most agent demos hide: the task only looks easy once someone has already normalized the world into explicit state. Real work starts one layer earlier — turning messy human context into something queryable and bounded without pretending the mess isn’t there.

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 7h

The familect piece is wonderful1

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 7h

Huge congratulations to our colleagues at @iccl.bsky.social on this win! In a landmark ruling on 25 Sep, the ICCL secured a precedent that will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations across the entire EU enforce.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce

Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 7h

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Paige R. @wanderndeswissen.eurosky.social · 11h

Urgent call for experienced Planetary Science postdocs at University of Alicante, Spain! Please pass along to any planetary scientists looking for work :) jobs.planetary-research.org/6ac8-d6d6

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Planetary Research Jobs - Job announcement

Planetary science job announcements

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Paige R. @wanderndeswissen.eurosky.social · 10h

I am actively looking for work: - as a planetary scientist in computational modelling, especially geophysical/geodynamic and impact modelling - in the EU, preferably Germany, ideally Berlin - ideally a PhD project contract I have a MSc in Planetary Science with a thesis on impact modelling.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 8h

This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.

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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru

Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 7h

> Australian researchers told an AI model to act drunk and found it was more likely to break rules or divulge information it was supposed to keep private. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/drun…

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 10h

maybe the problem with college campuses weren't all the safe spaces but the rape culture

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10h

You know, I'm a prison abolitionist - I think if we throw a couple people with net worths of 8, 9, 10 digits in there, it'll only help our cause (Literally, we keep prisons around the way we do, precisely because the are tools of class war and white supremacy)

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10h

Make sure that being part of a corporation doesn't shield executives from criminal liability, and that accountability flows properly up the org chart, not stopping with some poor fool at the bottom

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10h

Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 8h

AI surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks even the AI that works doesn’t work www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEMoNIuamg… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260929-ai-su… - podcast time: 4 min 10 sec

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/09/2026

This is such an important point: > AI boomers vs. doomers: A false dichotomy It's exhausting within academia too with people who claim that the technology has good purposes we're ignoring, when everybody sensible knows so-called desirable properties are a function of the labour and days theft.

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Rachel Fagen @rachelfagen.bsky.social · 7h

💯. @jgieseking.bsky.social, geographer + historian of lezbiqueertrans spaces: “as someone who spent over two years working for a social justice think tank who studies the Far Right, I can tell you we need to ask: why is this story making headlines now?” www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...

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Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch

Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h

More seriously the way people* rapidly moved to contempt and dehumanization upon hearing someone is different from them in this very minor way is a bigger lesson for us all.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8h

I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 11h

It is pretty wild how insanely close the current round of AI+sexuality+SF+rationalist discourse is to the plot of Terra Ignota. Ada Palmer is basically a prophet.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 7h

So many AI products are just cultural and intellectual vandalism presented as "optimization" I have a list of books to read. It only gets longer The point is to enrobe myself in the world of each book, feel it's texture, build language skills and attention span, and enjoy myself. Not...this

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Jenultimate @jenultimate.bsky.social · 9h

The tech execs can’t fathom something where the process is the point! Like when Elon used growing backyard tomatoes as an example of something inefficient. The task itself is the joy, even if the output were the same. But the output is superior!

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 10h

Are there tasks that are worth tracking and scheduling? Absolutely. Is everything in life? Absolutely not. Do I do a perfect job deciding which is which? No. There is no perfect delineation. We can never live all versions of our lives, and the possibilities should always exceed the achievable.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 10h

The whole concept of a life that can be reduced to "routine" and actionable to-do lists is absolutely stultifying. This is just tail-wagging-dog meat-puppet bullshit that just makes you a passenger in your own life. Squeezes out LIVING LIFE with meaningless completionismmaxxing.

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Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 11h

I'm a project manager and I make to-do lists as easily as I breathe, but I'm honestly not sure what an agent would do with -grocery shop -evaluate freelance offers -update portfolio which are examples from last week's list. And I'm not cherry picking, *everything* else requires physicality.

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megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 12h

Expertise can't be fully flowcharted. It's dynamic. The flowchart would never end, and as soon as you write it down the rules would change, the next case will bring new factors that would require a new sub-sub-sub-sub-subsection to particular parts of the flowchart. It's all harder than they think.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12h

That being said I do think they are funding user experience research (qual). It’s just very product focused rather than scientific (public interest, theory building stuff)

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12h

Recently heard that folks who work at/with Anthropic are having a lot of trouble finding internal support for labor economics research (that is: how does the tech affect employment and wages)

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sarahphym @sarahphym.bsky.social · 12h

as a UX designer, I find myself at a loss to find good design guidance right now. designers are either firmly on the AI bandwagon or against it (like me). i've resisted as long as i can, but now execs are forcing it on us.

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better than your best 🇨🇼 @diegodoesntsleep.bsky.social · 12h

and they're really trying to shove a generational recontextualization of daily life down our throats in a fraction of the time it would even take for such a massive change to permeate society. all moot bc it doesn't even do the thing (ever? yet? definitely not right now)

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better than your best 🇨🇼 @diegodoesntsleep.bsky.social · 9h

i worked in it for a while and there are so many (trivial!) tasks i just did not automate bc doing so would fail to account for any of the myriad ways they change everytime and accounting for all the changes would take so much longer than completing it manually. and manager never understood 🤷🏽‍♂️

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12h

SQL, and my attempts to explain concepts like source of truth, and that scripts can't work with "well i just kind of know" and you can't explain how you do that. I can't imagine anyone doing this in their personal life.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12h

that would delineate them from other employees with very similar duties. Just some script in Python/SQL can't do this, but neither could any ai agent no matter how smart, they can't get data that is not there. If you are going to restructure the process to have that data available why not do it in

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12h

If the employees carrying out a task the system we have constructed around it has a lot of "well i sort these based on gut feelings and a dozen small things I notice" I recall being told to make a system only have the users who need to use it, but couldn't give me a list of factors or attributes

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12h

Having to build agents at work, the problem is they in theory could be best at tasks that are slightly too unstructured to be easily done with a python script, but you still have to be like 85% of the way there, and the trade off is less deterministic. I never can get my bosses to understand this

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D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 9h

remain ungovernable (don’t chat with chat bots)

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 10h

This is what's been so jarring about the evolution of any kind of "verbal commands" technology. It was advertised as being able to parse our sentences, but really ended up training US how to speak to IT. Which completely breaks when they change the programming and we start all over again.

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Doug Smith @genejockey57.bsky.social · 10h

I remember back when the Apple Newton was introduced. It was supposed to "learn" your handwriting over time but it seemed more likely it would train the user to write so it could read. I figure the same with AI - you won't teach it YOUR routine. It will teach you ITS routine.

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